Sol 6.1

  1. حرٌّ ومن لك بالفتى الحر

    إن أعوزتك نوائب الدهر

    Al-Hurr—and who can bring you such a freeborn youth,

    if time's calamities leave you in need?

  2. نصر ابن بنت نبيه فحوى

    جمل الثناء بذلك النصرِ

    He aided the son of his Prophet's daughter, and so earned

    every form of praise through that aid.

  3. بأبي المفدي نفس سيده

    بالنفس منه ومحرز الأجر

    May my father be ransom for him who ransomed his master's life

    with his own life, and won the reward.

  4. فانصاع ينظر واعظاً عُصباً

    خانت بني الموافين بالنذرِ

    Then he turned, gazing at and admonishing bands

    that betrayed the sons of those faithful to their vow.

  5. إن أدركته شهادة فلقد

    قُسمت له من عالم الذرِّ

    If martyrdom overtook him, it had indeed

    been allotted to him from the realm of primordial souls.

  6. أو طاب منه نجاره وزكا

    فكذا يكون مخلص النجرِ

    Or if his lineage was noble and pure,

    so is a man of unalloyed stock.

  7. واغر أخفى البدر حين رمى

    كلفاً أضر بغرة البدرِ

    And a bright-browed man who eclipsed the full moon when he cast

    a dark stain that marred the full moon's radiant brow.

  8. واشم أبيض لا ينهنه ما

    بين المواضي البيض والسمرِ

    And a proud, fair man, undeterred by what lies

    between keen white blades and dusky spears.

  9. أسدٌ مؤللة أظافره

    ذرب علوق الناب والظفرِ

    A lion whose claws are sharpened to points,

    keen, gripping fast with fang and claw.

  10. ذو الطعنة النجلاء راشحةٍ

    علقا ورب الضربة البكرِ

    Master of the wide-gaping spear-thrust, oozing

    gore, and master of the stroke that needs no second.

  11. وأرح قلوصك في معرسه الس

    سامي فذاك معرس السفرِ

    And rest your young she-camel at his resting-place,

    the lofty one—for that is the travelers' resting-place.

  12. ولئن ثوى في مهمه فأجل

    مثوى الأسود بمهمهٍ قفرِ

    And even if he lies in a trackless waste, the noblest

    abode of lions is in a barren wilderness.

  13. للَه أية حرمة عظمت

    ليست لحرٍّ ما عدا الحرِّ

    By God, how exalted is the sanctity

    that belongs to no free man but al-Hurr!

  14. الحرُّ أحرى بالشفاعة لي

    من كل ذي شان وذي قدرِ

    Al-Hurr is worthier of interceding for me

    than any man of distinction and rank.

  15. فهم الأولى أنسي بمضطجعي

    إن أوحشتني ظلمة القبر

    For they are the ones who comfort me in my resting-place,

    if the darkness of the grave leaves me desolate.

  16. يا حافظ الإسلام بيضته

    بأساً وصادع بيضة الكفر

    O guardian of Islam's stronghold,

    through valor, and cleaver of unbelief's stronghold!

  17. عجباً يضم الغيب منك علىً

    أدناه جاوز كوكب النسرِ

    How strange that the unseen enfolds heights of yours,

    whose lowest surpasses the Eagle's star!

  18. فامط حجاب الغيب وأبدلُنا

    في طلق ذاك المنظرِ النضرِ

    So lift the veil of the unseen, and appear to us

    in the smiling brightness of that radiant countenance.

  19. حتى مَ لا أمر يقام فقم

    وقم حدود النهي والأمرِ

    How long shall no command be upheld? So rise,

    and uphold the bounds of prohibition and command.

  20. نرعاك في وردٍ وفي صدرٍ

    فتهيج فيك بلابل الصدرِ

    We keep you in mind in coming to water and returning,

    and so, for you, the breast's sorrows surge.

  21. الصبر صبرٌ كاسمه بفمي

    وأمرُّ أحياناً من الصبرِ

    Patience is aloe, its namesake, in my mouth,

    and sometimes more bitter than aloe.

  22. عمري لئن لم أفنِ من جزع

    بك هاتفا لمضيِّع عمري

    By my life, if I do not perish of anguish,

    calling out to you, I am surely wasting my life.

  23. أدعوك ما هتفت مطوقة

    ورقا على ورقٍ من السدرِ

    I call on you as long as a ring-necked dove calls,

    ash-gray, upon the leaves of the lote-tree.