Sol 6.1

  1. لا أَسأَلُ الركبانَ عَنكِ تَوَقُّعاً

    حَسبي وحَسبُكِ ظبيُ ذاكِ المضمَرِ

    I do not ask the riders about you in anticipation.

    Enough for me and you is the gazelle of that concealed thing.

  2. وَلَقَد أَحيدُ عَنِ السُرور وربما

    وقفَ البشيرُ به وُقوفَ المُنذِرِ

    Indeed, I turn aside from joy, and sometimes

    Its bearer of glad tidings stands as a warner stands.

  3. لَم يلقَ لي أمنٌ فقد غادرتنِي

    أرتابُ من حذرٍ بما لم أحذَر

    No security has found me, for you have left me

    Doubting, in my dread, what I had never feared.

  4. يا نبأة وَلَجَت عليَّ مسامِعي

    رُفِعَ الحَجابُ وإذنُهُ فَتَسوَّري

    O report that has entered my ears,

    The veil is lifted, and his leave is yours: scale the wall.

  5. سِيَّان أنتِ لدى الفؤادِ وطعنةٌ

    خلصت إليه من الكميِّ المغتري

    You and a thrust are alike to the heart—

    One reaching it from an ambushing, armored warrior.

  6. قد كنتُ آنفُ من حَدِيثٍ مُفتَرى

    فوددت أنَّكِ من حَديثِ المفتَري

    I once disdained a fabricated tale,

    Yet I wished you were among the fabricator's tales.

  7. أَولَيتَكِ استوطَنتِ برزخَ ظنَّةٍ

    بينَ اليَقينِ وبَين شكِّ الممتَري

    Or would that you had settled in a limbo of suspicion,

    Between certainty and the doubter's doubt.

  8. وإذا وجدتَ تمتّعاً في باطِلٍ

    جاءتك كلُّ حقيقةٍ في عَسكَرِ

    And when you find enjoyment in falsehood,

    Every truth comes to you in an army.

  9. سكنَ الفضاءَ وأَسفرَت عَزماتُهُ

    عن مصرعِ الدُّنيا وثُكلِ الأَدهُرِ

    He occupied the open expanse, and his resolves revealed

    The world's downfall and the ages' bereavement.

  10. قادَ الجيادَ إلى الجيادِ وإنَّما

    قادَ النفوسَ إلى الحِمامِ المحضَر

    He led the steeds against the steeds, but in truth

    He led souls to death brought near.

  11. فتكشَّفَت هَبَواتُها لعيونِنا

    عن واضحٍ طلقِ الأَسرَّةِ أَزهَرِ

    Then their dust clouds parted before our eyes,

    Revealing a fair, radiant man with an unclouded brow.

  12. بَطَشَ الرَّدى منه بِمُغتالِ الرَّدى

    فأُدِيلَ عَدلاً قَسوَرٌ من قسوَرِ

    Death struck down in him a slayer of death,

    And one lion was fairly granted victory over another.

  13. قَدَرٌ رَمى قَدَراً وكلٌّ صائبٌ

    إن السهام إلى السهام لتنبري

    One fate shot another fate, and each hit its mark;

    Indeed, arrows rise to meet arrows.

  14. أني يَحيدُ الموتُ عن مُتعَرِّضٍ

    للموتِ مفتضحِ الشُّعاع مشهَّر

    How can death turn aside from one exposed

    To death, his radiance laid bare, conspicuous to all?

  15. حَسرَ الدِّلاصَ وفوقهُ من بأسِهِ

    حَصدَاءُ موثَّقةُ العرى لَم تُحسَرِ

    He stripped off his polished mail; yet over him, from his valor,

    Lay close-woven mail, its fastenings firm, never stripped away.

  16. هَاتا لِداوودٍ وتِلكَ لِرَبِّهِ

    فاختارَها وَسضخا بذاكَ المِغفرِ

    This was David's, and that his Lord's;

    He chose that one and [apparently freely relinquished] that helmet.

  17. إيهٍ أبا يحيى وأنتَ عُطاردٌ

    إلا تكُنهُ فأنتُما من عُنصُرِ

    Speak on, Abu Yahya—you are Mercury;

    If you are not he, you two are of one substance.

  18. أَنفِس بنفسٍ في الحِفاظِ كريمةٍ

    أَمسَيتَ بائِعَها وربُّكَ مُشتَرِ

    How precious a soul, noble in guarding honor!

    You came to sell it, your Lord the buyer.

  19. أَحييتَها فأَمَتَّها مُتطهراً

    صلَّى الإلهُ عليكَ مِن مُتَطهِّرِ

    You gave it life, then put it to death, purified;

    May God bless you, purified one!

  20. أَنتَ الخَبيرُ عن الجِنانِ وإنَّهُ

    لولا المهابَةُ قُلتُ شَوقاً خَبِّر

    You know the Gardens of Paradise, and indeed,

    But for awe, I would say in longing: 'Tell me!'

  21. إلا تُخَبِّرنِي فإنَّ براءةً

    قَد أَخبَرَت واللَهُ أَصدَقُ مُخبِرِ

    If you do not tell me, then Bara'ah

    Has told me, and God is the truest teller.

  22. قد فُزتَ بالحُسنى وثَمَّ زيادةٌ

    قد أبهمت لك فاقترح واستفسِرِ

    You have won the finest reward, and there is more

    Left undefined for you: ask and inquire.

  23. قد كانتِ الدنيا تضيقُ بهمةٍ

    لك لم تجد من فوقها من مظهَرِ

    The world had been too narrow for an aspiration

    Of yours; above it you found no height to climb.

  24. فالآنَ قد غَصَّت بأولِ نفحةٍ

    بهرَت مُناكَ بمُجمَلٍ ومُفَسَّرِ

    Now it is overwhelmed by the very first breath

    That dazzled your hopes, in sum and in detail.

  25. أما عِدَاك فإنَّهم قد سَلَّموا

    من كافِرٍ حَنِقٍ ومَن لم يَكفر

    As for your foes, they have yielded,

    Both wrathful unbelievers and those who do not disbelieve.

  26. مَالَت عليهم مَعلواتُكَ مَيلَةً

    خَضعُوا لها لَيسَ الصَّباحُ بمُنكَر

    Your lofty merits swept down upon them;

    They bowed to them: daylight cannot be denied.

  27. أَتراهُمُ يَرجُونَ منكَ تطوُّلا

    أم يَحذَرُونَ ومَن يَمُت لا يَحذَرِ

    Do you think they hope for bounty from you,

    Or fear you? Whoever dies no longer fears.

  28. لا بَل هُوَ الإجماعُ من يتعدَّهُ

    فكأنَّما استهواهُ خَبلٌ مُعترِ

    No: it is unanimity; whoever goes against it

    Seems lured astray by an afflicting madness.

  29. ولقد ذكرتُكَ والهُمومُ تُنوشني

    سَهَراً يُذكِّرُني بوَقعِ السَّمهَرِي

    Indeed, I remembered you while sorrows clawed at me,

    In sleeplessness recalling the strike of a hard-shafted spear.

  30. واللّيلُ قد لَبسَ الحِداد كأنَّما

    دَهَمتهُ حادِثَةٌ بفَقدِ المشتَري

    And night had donned mourning black, as though

    A calamity had struck it with the loss of Jupiter.

  31. وكأَنَّما فَطرَ المسامعَ أَعيُناً

    بظلامِهِ فالأُذنُ عَينُ المبصِرِ

    As though it had fashioned ears into eyes

    Through its darkness: the ear was the seeing man's eye.

  32. وكَأَنَّني من جِنحِهِ في زاخِرٍ

    أَخشى الرَّدى من مَوجهِ المتَنَمِّرِ

    As though beneath its dark wing I were in a swelling sea,

    Fearing death from its tigerish waves.

  33. يَبدو بهِ حَبَبُ النُجومِ وتارةً

    يَخفى بمضطربِ الدَّياجي أَكدَرِ

    The stars' foam appears upon it, and at times

    Is lost in the turbid turmoil of deep darkness.

  34. وكأَنَّ شَخصك في الضّمير سريرةٌ

    أَو مُنيَةٌ تأبى على المتصوِّرِ

    As though your form within my mind were a hidden thought

    Or a wish that eludes the imagining mind.

  35. يَدنيه قُربُ العَهدِ حتى رُبَّما

    ناجيتُه تَرحاً بما في مُضمَري

    The recency of our meeting draws it near, until at times

    I confide to it, grieving, what lies hidden in me.

  36. لو حَلَّ لي ذاكَ النَّجيعُ ذَخرتُهُ

    متمسكاً منه بمسك أَذفَرِ

    Had that fresh blood been lawful for me, I would have treasured it,

    Clinging to its pungently fragrant musk.

  37. وكفى بقبرِكَ أنَّ تربَةَ أرضِهِ

    مَفتوقَةٌ من مِسكَةٍ أَو عَنبَرِ

    It is enough for your grave that the soil of its earth

    Is blended from musk or ambergris.

  38. يا غَيثُ يمِّم راشداً سَرَقُسطَةً

    واسكُب دموعي في السِّحاب الممطرِ

    O rain, make your way rightly toward Zaragoza,

    And pour my tears into the rain-bearing clouds.

  39. وانثُر على أُفُقِ المصَلّى رحمةً

    واجرُر بها ذَيلَ الربيعِ الأَخضَرِ

    And scatter mercy over the prayer ground's horizon,

    And with it trail the hem of green spring.

  40. فَهُناكَ لو تَدي أخّ لك بل أبٌ

    إنَّ الغَمامَ لمُعرِقٌ في الأَبحُر

    For there, if you knew, is a brother of yours—rather, a father;

    Indeed, clouds have deep roots in the seas.

  41. لا تُنكر النُّعمى كلانا ثاكلٌ

    فتعالَ أُعذِر في البُكاءِ وتُعذِرِ

    Do not deny the favor: we are both bereaved.

    Come: let me weep to the utmost, and you do likewise.

  42. لكَ في دُموعِ العالمينَ ذخيرةٌ

    وبكلِّ عَينٍ ديمةٌ فاستَغزِر

    In all people's tears you have a store,

    And in every eye a steady rain: draw it abundantly.

  43. وإذا تناوَحَتِ الرّياحُ فعندنا

    نَوحٌ يُفرِّق شَملَهُنَّ ويَمتَرِي

    And when the winds wail together, we have

    A lament that scatters their ranks and milks them for rain.

  44. وَإذا نَفَرنَ ففي الصُّدور ضَمائرٌ

    وعلامَ نُضمِرُها إذا لم تُظهِرَ

    And when they flee, hidden thoughts lie within our breasts;

    Why conceal them if you do not reveal them?

  45. كن يا فؤادي رَحمَةً من عَبرةٍ

    تَدمَى ولا تكُ قسوةً من جَوهَرِ

    Be, my heart, a mercy made of a tear

    That bleeds, not hardness made of a gemstone.

  46. فاللَه قَد ذَمَّ الذين قَسَت قُلو

    بهم وما يذمم بمقليةٍ حَرِ

    For God has condemned those whose hearts grew hard,

    And what is condemned deserves hatred.

  47. أوَلستَ مِمَّا أَنبَتَت آلاؤُهُ

    فأَثِب صَنائعَهُ ثوابَ المثمِرِ

    Are you not among what his blessings caused to grow?

    Then repay his favors as a fruit-bearing tree repays.

  48. كم نعمةٍ هبَّت عليك نَسيمُها

    أَسرى وألطَفَ من خَيالِ البُحتُرِي

    How many a blessing has wafted its breeze over you,

    More night-roaming, more delicate than al-Buhturi's phantom!

  49. وخلائق رزق النطافِ وردتَها

    أَصفى وابرد من مَعينٍ كَوثَرِ

    And virtues—sustenance of clear waters—from which you drank,

    Clearer and cooler than an abundant, flowing spring.

  50. يا مَورِداً ولّى وأعقب غُلَّةً

    في الصدر مُنذُ وردتها لم أصدُر

    O watering place that departed, leaving a burning thirst

    In my breast: since I drank there, I have not left.

  51. أَستودعُ الرحمن منكَ ذخيرةً

    قبضَ الزَّمان بها يَدي مُستأثر

    I entrust to the Merciful a treasure from you,

    Time closed my hand upon it, claiming it for itself.