Sol 6.1

  1. أَيا مَن راحَ عَن حالي

    يُسائِلُ مُشفِقاً حَدِبا

    O you who went asking about my condition,

    compassionate and tenderly concerned;

  2. وَمَن أَضحى أَخاً لي في ال

    وِدادِ وَفي الحُنُوِّ أَبا

    And you who became a brother to me in

    affection, and in tenderness a father:

  3. وَحَقِّكَ لَو نَظَرتَ إِلَ

    يَّ كُنتَ تُشاهِدُ العَجَبا

    And by your worth, were you to look

    at me, you would behold a marvel:

  4. جُفونٌ تَشتَكي غَرَقاً

    وَقَلبٌ يَشتَكي لَهَبا

    Eyelids complaining of drowning,

    and a heart complaining of flame;

  5. وَجِسمٌ جالَتِ الأَسقا

    مُ فيهِ فَراحَ مُنتَهَبا

    And a body—illnesses have roamed

    within it, leaving it ravaged.

  6. تُسائِلُ أَعيُنُ الواشي

    نَ عَنّي أَعيُنَ الرُقَبا

    The slanderers’ eyes question

    the watchers’ eyes about me;

  7. فَتَذكُرُ أَنَّها لَمَحَت

    خَيالاً في خِلالِ هَبا

    And they report that they glimpsed

    a phantom amid fine dust.

  8. فَيا حَرباً وَهَل يَشفي

    أَديباً قَولُ واحَربا

    Alas! But can it console

    a man of letters to cry, ‘Alas!’?

  9. فَبِالوُدِّ الَّذي أَمسى

    وَأَصبَحَ بَينَنا نَسَبا

    So by the affection that has become

    and remains a bond of kinship between us:

  10. إِذا ما مُتُّ فَاِندُبني

    فَرُبَّ أَخٍ أَخاً نَدَبا

    When I die, then mourn me,

    for many a brother has mourned a brother.

  11. وَقُل ماتَ الغَريبُ فَأَي

    نَ مَن يَبكي عَلى الغُرَبا

    And say: The stranger has died—so where

    is anyone to weep for strangers?

  12. قَضى أَسَفاً كَما شاءَ ال

    غَرامُ وَما قَضى أَرَبا

    He died of sorrow, as was willed by

    passion, without attaining his desire.