Sol 6.1

  1. أنُوحُ على نَفْسِي وأَندبُ نُبْلَهَا

    إِذا أَنا في الضَّرَّاءِ أَزمعْتُ قتلَهَا

    I lament my soul and mourn its nobility,

    When, in adversity, I resolve to kill it.

  2. رضيتُ قضاءَ اللَّهِ في كُلِّ حالة

    عليَّ وأَحكاماً تيقَّنْتُ عدلَهَا

    I have accepted God's decree in every circumstance,

    And judgments upon me whose justice I know for certain.

  3. أَظلُّ قَعيد الدّارِ تجنُبُني العصا

    على ضَعْفِ ساقٍ أَوْهَن السُّقْمُ رِجلَهَا

    I remain housebound, a staff leading me along,

    On a feeble leg whose foot sickness has weakened.

  4. وأَنْعى خسيساتِ ابْنِ آدم عاملاً

    براحَةِ طِفْل أَحكم الضُّرُّ نَصْلَهَا

    And I bewail the petty failings of Adam's son, working

    With a child's palm whose blade affliction has honed.

  5. أَلا رُبَّ خَصمٍ قد كفيت وكُرْبةٍ

    كشفْتُ ودارٍ كُنْتُ في المحْلِ وبلُهَا

    Ah, many a foe I have warded off, and many a hardship

    I have dispelled, and many a household whose downpour I was in drought.

  6. ورُبَّ قَريضٍ كالجرِيضِ بعثْتهُ

    إِلى خُطْبةٍ لا يُنْكِرُ الجمْعُ فَضْلَهَا

    And many a poem, like a choking mouthful, I have sent

    To an address whose excellence the assembly does not deny.

  7. فمن مُبْلِغُ الفِتْيانِ أَنَّ أَخاهُمُ

    أَخُو فَتكةٍ شَنْعَاءَ ما كانَ شكْلَهَا

    Who, then, will tell the young men that their brother

    Has suffered a hideous assault that did not befit him?

  8. علَيْكُمُ سلامٌ مِن فَتًى عضَّهُ الرَّدى

    ولم ينْس عينْاً أَثْبتَتْ فيه نَبْلَهَا

    Peace be upon you from a youth whom death has bitten,

    Who has not forgotten an eye that lodged its arrows in him.

  9. يُبِينُ وكَفُّ الموْتِ يَخْلَعُ نَفْسه

    وداخلُهَا حُبٌّ يهوِّنُ ثُكْلَها

    He departs, while death's hand wrenches out his soul,

    And within it is a love that eases the grief of its loss.