Sol 6.1

  1. فَخَرتُم بِاللِواءِ وَشَرُّ فَخرٍ

    لِواءٌ حينَ رُدَّ إِلى صُؤابِ

    You boasted of the banner—and the worst of boasts

    is a banner when handed over to Ṣuʾāb.

  2. جَعَلتُم فَخرَكُم فيهِ لِعَبدٍ

    مِنَ اِلاْءَمِ مَنْ يَطا عَفَرَ التُرابِ

    You made your pride in it belong to a slave,

    one of the basest who tread the dust of the earth.

  3. حَسِبتُم وَالسَفيهُ أَخو ظُنونٍ

    وَذَلِكَ لَيسَ مِن أَمرِ الصَوابِ

    You thought—and the fool is a brother to fancies,

    and that is not sound judgment—

  4. بِأَنَّ لِقاءَنا إِذ حانَ يَومٌ

    بِمَكَّةَ بَيعُكُم حُمرَ العيابِ

    that meeting us, when the day came,

    was like your selling red leather bags in Mecca.

  5. أَقَرَّ العَينَ أَن عُصِبَت يَداهُ

    وَما إِن تُعصَبانِ عَلى خِضابِ

    It gladdened the eye that his hands were bound,

    and they were certainly not bound over henna.