Sol 6.1

  1. هل كانَ ضَمّخَ بالعبير الريحا

    مُزْنٌ يُهّزُّ البرقُ فيه صَفيحا

    Had the wind been drenched in perfume

    by a raincloud in which lightning brandishes a blade?

  2. تُهْدي تحِيّاتِ القُلوبِ وإنّما

    تُهْدي بهنّ الوجْدَ والتّبريجا

    It brings the hearts' greetings, but in truth

    with them it brings longing and anguish.

  3. شَرِقَتْ بماء الوَرْدِ بَلّلَ جَيْبَها

    فَسَرَتْ تُرَقْرِقُ دُرّه المنْضوحا

    It choked on rosewater that soaked its bosom,

    then traveled by night, making its sprinkled pearls shimmer.

  4. أنفاسُ طِيبٍ بِتْنَ في درْعي وقد

    باتَ الخيالُ وراءهُنّ طَليحا

    Breaths of fragrance spent the night in my tunic, while

    the phantom lay behind them, exhausted.

  5. بل ما لهذا البرق صِلاًّ مُطْرِقاً

    ولأيّ شمْلِ الشائمين أُتيحا

    But why is this lightning a serpent with lowered head,

    and for which gathering of lightning-watchers was it granted?

  6. يُدْني الصّباحَ بخَطْوهِ فعلام لا

    يُدني الخَليطَ وقد أجَدّ نُزوحا

    It brings morning near with its stride—so why does it not

    bring the companions near, now that they have departed in earnest?

  7. بِتْنا يُؤرّقُنا سَناه لَمُوحا

    ويشُوقُنا غَرَدُ الحمامِ صَدُوحا

    We spent the night sleepless at its flashing radiance,

    and the resounding song of doves stirred our longing.

  8. أمُسَهَّدَيْ ليلِ التِّمامِ تعالَيا

    حتى نَقومَ بمأتمٍ فَنَنُوحَا

    O you two kept awake through the longest night, come,

    so that we may hold a mourning gathering and lament.

  9. وذَرا جلابيباً تُشَقّ جيوبُها

    حتى أُضَرّجَها دَماً مسْفُوحا

    And leave robes whose necklines are rent,

    so I may stain them with blood poured out.

  10. فلقد تجَهّمَني فِرَاقُ أحِبّتي

    وغدا سَنِيحُ المُلْهِياتِ بَريحا

    For the parting of my loved ones has scowled at me,

    and the favorable omens of diversions have turned ominous.

  11. وبَعُدْتُ شَأوَ مطالبٍ وركائبٍ

    حتى امتَطَيْتُ إلى الغمام الرّيحا

    And I journeyed beyond the reach of quests and mounts,

    until I rode the wind toward the clouds.

  12. حَجّتْ بنا حرمَ الإمام نجائبٌ

    تَرمي إليه بنا السُّهوبَ الفِيحا

    Noble camels made pilgrimage with us to the Imam's sanctuary,

    flinging us toward him across the wide-open steppes.

  13. فتَمسّحَتْ لِمَمٌ بهِ شُعْثٌ وقد

    جِئْنا نُقبّل ركْنَه الممسوحا

    Disheveled locks rubbed themselves against him, and

    we had come to kiss his reverently touched corner.

  14. أمّا الوفودُ بكُل مُطّلَعٍ فقدْ

    سَرّحْتَ عُقْلَ مَطيّهمْ تَسريحا

    As for the delegations at every approach, you have

    fully released the hobbles of their mounts.

  15. هل لي إلى الفرْدوْسِ من إذنٍ وقَدْ

    شارَفْتُ باباً دونَها مفتوحَا

    May I have leave to enter Paradise, now that I have

    approached a gate standing open before it?

  16. في حيث لا الشَعراء مُفحَمَةٌ ولا

    شأوُ المدائح يُدْرِك الممدوحا

    There, neither are poets silenced, nor

    does the reach of praises attain the one praised.

  17. مَلِكٌ أناخَ على الزّمان بكَلْكَلٍ

    فأذَلّ صَعْباً في القِيادِ جَموحا

    A king who bore down upon Time with his breast,

    subduing it, stubborn and rebellious under the reins.

  18. يُمضي المَنايا والعطايا وادعاً

    تَعِبَتْ له عَزَمَاتُه وأُريحا

    He dispenses deaths and gifts while at ease;

    his resolves labored for him, and he was given rest.

  19. نَدعوهُ مُنْتَقِماً عزيزاً قَادِراً

    غفّارَ مُوبقةِ الذّنوبِ صَفوحا

    We call him an avenger, mighty and powerful,

    a great forgiver of ruinous sins, ever pardoning.

  20. أجدُ السّماحَ دخيلَ أنْسابٍ ولا

    ألْقاهُ إلا منْ يديْهِ صَريحا

    I find generosity an outsider to lineages, and never

    find it trueborn except from his two hands.

  21. وهو الغَمامُ يَصُوبُ منه حياتُنا

    لا كالغمام المُسْتهلّ دَلوحا

    And he is the cloud from which our life rains down,

    unlike the rain-pouring, heavy-laden cloud.

  22. نَعَشَ الجُدودَ فلو يُصافحُ هالكاً

    ما وَسّدَتهُ يدُ المَنونِ ضَريحا

    He revived fortunes; if he shook a dying man's hand,

    the hand of Death would not lay him in a grave.

  23. قُلْ للجبابرةِ المُلوكِ تَغَنّموا

    سِلْماً كفى الحربَ العَوانَ لقوحا

    Tell the tyrant kings: seize the chance of

    peace—enough of recurrent war, pregnant still.

  24. بعيونكم رَهَجُ الجنودِ قوافلاً

    بالأمسِ تنتعلُ الدّماءَ سُفوحا

    Before your eyes is the dust of troops returning,

    who yesterday wore streaming blood as sandals.

  25. أمّتْكَ بالأسْرى وفُودُ قبائلٍ

    لا يَجتدينَكَ سَيْبَكَ الممنوحا

    Delegations of tribes headed toward you with captives,

    not to beg you for your freely granted bounty.

  26. وَصَلوا أسىً بغليلِ تَذكارٍ كما

    وصَل النّشاوَى بالغَبوق صَبوحا

    They joined grief to the burning thirst of remembrance, as

    drunkards joined a morning draught to their evening draught.

  27. لو يُعْرَضُونَ على الدُّجُنّة أنكرَتْ

    ذاكَ الشحوبَ النُّكْرَ والتلويحا

    Were they shown to the darkness, it would reject

    that ghastly pallor and emaciation.

  28. ولقد نَصَحْتَهُمُ على عُدْوانهم

    لكنّهم لا يَقْبلونَ نَصيحَا

    You counseled them despite their aggression,

    but they accept no sincere adviser,

  29. حتى قَرَنْتَ الشمْلَ والتفريقَ في

    عَرَصَاتهمْ والنّبْتَ والتّصْويحا

    until you paired unity and dispersal in

    their dwelling-grounds, and growth with withering.

  30. ونَصَرْتَ بالجيش اللُّهام وإنّما

    أعْدَدْتَهُ قبل الفُتوح فتوحا

    And you secured victory with the immense army, but in truth

    you prepared it as victory before any conquests.

  31. أُفْقٌ يمورُ الأفْقُ فيه عجاجةً

    بحرٌ يموج البحرُ فيه سَبوحا

    A horizon in which the horizon churns as a dust-cloud,

    a sea in which the sea surges, swimming.

  32. لو لم يَسِرْ في رَحْبِ عَزمِك آنفاً

    لم يُلْفِ مُنخَرَقَ الخُبوتِ فسيحا

    Had it not first marched through the vastness of your resolve,

    it would not have found the lowland passages spacious.

  33. يُزْجيهِ أرْوَعُ لو يُدافَعُ باسمِهِ

    عُلوِيُّ أفلاكِ السّماء أُزيحا

    A formidable man drives it onward: were his name set against

    the highest of heaven's spheres, it would be swept aside.

  34. قادَ الخضارمةَ الملوكَ فوارساً

    قد كان فارسَ جمْعها المشبوحا

    He led the mighty kings as horsemen,

    having been the broad-limbed champion of their host.

  35. فكأنّما مَلَكَ القضاءَ مُقدِّراً

    في كُلِّ أَوبٍ وَالحِمامَ مُتيحا

    As though he possessed destiny, ordaining it

    in every direction, and Death, dispensing it.

  36. وافى بِهَيبَةِ ذي الفقارِ كَأَنَّما

    وَشّحْتَهُ بِنِجادِهِ تَوْشِيحا

    He arrived with the awe of Dhu al-Fiqar, as though

    you had firmly girded him with its baldric.

  37. حتى إذا غَمَرَ البحارَ كتائباً

    لو يرتشفْنَ أُجاجَها لأميحا

    Until, when he flooded the seas with battalions—

    if they sipped their brine, the seas would be drained—

  38. زخَرَتْ غواشي الموت ناراً تلتظي

    فأرَتْ عَدوّكَ زندَك المقدوحا

    Death's shrouds surged as blazing fire,

    and showed your enemy your fire-stick struck ablaze.

  39. فكأنّما فَغَرَتْ إليهِ جَهَنّمٌ

    منُهنّ أو كلَحَتْ إليه كُلوحا

    As though Hell had gaped toward him

    from among them, or bared its teeth at him in a snarl.

  40. وأُمَيّةٌ تُحفْي السّؤالَ وما لِمَنْ

    أودى به الطُّوفانُ يذكرُ نُوحا

    And Umayya presses its questions; but what use is it for one

    destroyed by the Flood to mention Noah?

  41. بُهِتُوا فهم يَتَوَهّمونَكَ بارِزاً

    والتّاجَ مؤتلقاً عليك لَمُوحا

    They were stunned, imagining you standing forth,

    with the crown upon you gleaming and flashing.

  42. تتجاوبُ الدّنْيا عليهم مأتَماً

    فكأنّمَا صَبّحْتَهُمْ تصبيحا

    The world echoes back and forth in mourning over them,

    as though you had raided them at daybreak.

  43. لَبِسوا معائبَهم ورُزْءَ فقيدِهم

    كاللاّبساتِ على الحِدادِ مُسوحا

    They wore their disgraces and grief for their lost one,

    like women wearing sackcloth in mourning.

  44. أنْفِذْ قضاءَ اللّهِ في أعدائهِ

    لِتُراحَ من أوتارها وتُريحا

    Carry out God's decree against His enemies,

    that you may rest from their vendettas and give others rest,

  45. بالسّابقين الأوّلِينَ يؤمُّهُمْ

    جبريلُ يَعتَنِقُ الكُماةَ مُشِيحا

    with the first and foremost, led by

    Gabriel, resolutely grappling with armored warriors.

  46. فكأنّ جَدّكَ في فوارسِ هاشِمٍ

    منهم بحيثُ يرى الحسينَ ذبيحا

    It is as though your forefather were among Hashim's horsemen,

    one of them, where he sees al-Husayn slaughtered.

  47. أعَليكَ تختلِفُ المنَابِرُ بعدَما

    جَنحتْ إليكَ المَشْرِقانِ جُنوحا

    Do the pulpits differ over you, after

    the two Easts have inclined wholly toward you?

  48. أمْ فِيكَ تخْتلِجُ الخلائقُ مِرْيَةً

    كلاّ وقد وَضَحَ الصّباحُ وُضوحا

    Or does mankind waver in doubt about you?

    No indeed—the morning has become utterly clear.

  49. أُوتِيتَ فَضْلَ خِلافَةٍ كنُبُوّةٍ

    ونَجِيَّ إلهامٍ كوَحْيٍ يُوحَى

    You were granted the excellence of a caliphate like prophethood,

    and inspiration's secret whisper, like revelation revealed.

  50. أخَليفَةَ اللّهِ الرّضَى وسبيلَهُ

    ومَنَارَهُ وكِتَابَهُ المشروحا

    O God's well-pleasing caliph, and His way,

    and His beacon, and His expounded book!

  51. يا خيرَ مَن حجّتْ إليهِ مَطيّةٌ

    يا خيرَ من أعطى الجزيلَ مَنوحا

    O best of those to whom a mount has made pilgrimage,

    O best of those who have bestowed abundant bounty!

  52. ماذا نقولُ جَلَلْتَ عن أفهامنِا

    حتى استَوَينْا أعْجَماً وفَصيحا

    What can we say? You are exalted beyond our understanding,

    so that we, inarticulate and eloquent, became alike.

  53. نَطَقَتْ بك السَّبْعُ المثاني ألسُناً

    فكَفَيْنَنَا التعريض والتّصْريحا

    The Seven Oft-Repeated Verses became tongues speaking of you,

    thus sparing us allusion and explicit declaration.

  54. تَسْعَى بنورِ اللّهِ بَينَ عِبادِهِ

    لتُضيءَ بُرهاناً لهم وتلوحا

    You move with God's light among His servants,

    to shine as a proof for them and gleam forth.

  55. وَجَدَ العِيانُ سناك تحقيقاً ولم

    تُحِطِ الظّنونُ بكُنهِهِ تصريحا

    Direct sight found your radiance a certainty, yet

    conjectures did not clearly encompass its essence.

  56. أخشاكَ تُنسي الشمسَ مطلعَها كما

    أنسى الملائكَ ذكرُك التسبيحا

    I fear you may make the sun forget its rising-place, as

    the mention of you made the angels forget their glorification.

  57. صورت من ملكوت ربك صورةً

    وأمَدَّها عِلماً فكنْتَ الرّوحا

    You were fashioned as a form from your Lord's dominion,

    and He endowed it with knowledge, so you became the spirit.

  58. أقسمتُ لولا أن دُعيتَ خليفةً

    لَدُعِيتَ من بعدِ المسيح مسيحا

    I swear: had you not been called a caliph,

    you would have been called, after the Messiah, a messiah.

  59. شَهِدَتْ بمفخركَ السّمواتُ العُلى

    وتنزّلَ القرآنُ فيك مديحا

    The lofty heavens bore witness to your glory,

    and the Qur'an descended in praise of you.