Sol 6.1

  1. أَلا تَصحو وَتُقصِرُ عَن صِباكا

    وَهاذا الشَيبُ أَصبَحَ قَد عَلاكا

    Will you not come to your senses and abandon your youthful folly,

    When this gray hair has already spread over you?

  2. أَمِن دِمَنٍ بَلَينَ بِبَطنِ قَوٍّ

    بَكَيتَ لَها وَشَجوٌ ما بَكاكا

    Is it over weathered campsites in the valley of Qaww

    That you wept for them? What sorrow made you weep!

  3. تَباعَدُ مِن وِصالِكَ أَيَّ بُعدٍ

    وَلَو تَدنو قَتَلتَ بِها هَواكا

    She keeps far, so far, from union with you;

    Yet were she to draw near, you would slay your passion with her.

  4. إِذا ما جُرِّدَت فَنَقا كَثيبٍ

    وَفي القَرِّيِّ هَيكَلَةً ضِناكا

    When stripped bare, she is a sandhill's ridge,

    And in the howdah, a tall, full-figured woman.

  5. أَلا يا حَبَّذا جَرَعاتُ قَوٍّ

    وَحَيثُ يُقابِلُ الأَثَلُ الأَراكا

    Ah, how lovely are the sandy tracts of Qaww,

    And where tamarisks stand facing arak trees.

  6. وَقَد لاحَ المَشيبُ فَما أَراهُ

    عَداكَ وَقَد صَبَوتَ وَلا نَهاكا

    Gray hair has appeared; I do not think it

    Has spared you—yet you have dallied, and it has not checked you.

  7. فَلَيتَكَ قَد قَضَيتَ بِذاتِ عِرقٍ

    وَمِن نَجدٍ وَساكِنِهِ مُناكا

    Would that, at Dhat Irq, you had won

    From Najd and its people too, what you desired.

  8. تُذادُ عَنِ المَشارِعِ كُلَّ يَومٍ

    وَوِردُكَ لَو وَرَدتَ بِهِ كَفاكا

    You are driven from the watering places every day,

    Yet your draught, if you reached it, would suffice you.

  9. أَتَهوى مَن دَعاكَ لِطولِ شَجوٍ

    وَمَن أَضنى فُؤادَكَ إِذ دَعاكا

    Do you love one who summoned you to prolonged sorrow,

    And one who wasted your heart when calling you?

  10. فَكَيفَ بِمَن أَصابَ فُؤادَ صَبٍّ

    بِذَلِكَ لَو يَشاءُ لَقَد شَفاكا

    Then what of one who struck a lovesick heart

    With that? If willing, that one would surely heal you.

  11. وَقَد كانَت قُفَيرَةُ ذاتَ قَرنٍ

    تَرى في زَيغِ أَكعُبِها اِصطِكاكا

    And Qufayra once wore a braid;

    You could see her crooked ankles knocking together.

  12. أَتَفخَرُ بِالحُبى وَخَزيتَ فيها

    وَقَبلَ اليَومِ ما فُضِحَت حُباكا

    Do you boast of knee-wraps, though disgraced in them?

    Your knee-wraps were shamed long before today.

  13. قَدِ اِنبَعَثَ الأُخَيطِلُ غَيرَ فانٍ

    وَلا غُمرٍ وَقَد بَلَغَ اِحتِناكا

    Al-Ukhaytil has bestirred himself, neither decrepit

    Nor a callow youth: he has reached full maturity.

  14. وَما قَرَأَ المُفَصَّلَ تَغلِبِيٌّ

    وَلا مَسَّ الطَهورَ وَلا السِواكا

    No Taghlibite has read the Mufassal surahs,

    Nor touched purifying water or a tooth-stick.

  15. وَلا عَرَفوا مَواقِفَ يَومِ جَمعٍ

    وَلا حَوضَ السِقايَةِ وَالأَراكا

    Nor have they known the stations on the day of Jam‘,

    Nor the watering basin and the arak trees.

  16. أَيوعِدُني الأُخَيطِلُ مِن بَعيدٍ

    وَقَد لاقى أَسِنَّتَنا شِباكا

    Does al-Ukhaytil threaten me from afar,

    Though he has faced the net of our spearheads?

  17. رُوَيدَ الجَهلِ إِنَّ لَنا بِناءً

    إِذا ما رُمتَهُ قَصُرَت يَداكا

    Curb your folly: we have an edifice;

    If ever you sought it, your hands would fall short.

  18. تَعَلَّم إِنَّ أَصلِيَ خِندِفِيٌّ

    سَتَعلَمُ مُبتَنايَ مُبتَناكا

    Know that my lineage is Khindifi;

    You will learn how my edifice compares with yours.

  19. لَنا البَدرُ المُنيرُ وَكُلُّ نَجمٍ

    وَلا بَدراً تَعُدُّ وَلا سِماكا

    Ours are the shining full moon and every star;

    You can count neither a full moon nor Simak.

  20. وَإِنَّكَ لَو تَصَعَّدُ في جِبالي

    تَباعَدَ مِن نُزولِكَ مُرتَقاكا

    And if you were to climb among my mountains,

    Your summit would lie far above your lodging.

  21. تُلاقي العيصَ ذا الشَبَواتِ دوني

    وَوِردَ الخَيلِ تَعتَرِكُ اِعتِراكا

    You would meet the thicket of sharp points before reaching me,

    And the throng of horses battling fiercely,

  22. وَحَيّاً يُقرِبونَ بَناتِ قَيدٍ

    بِها مَنَعوا المُلَيحَةِ وَاللُكاكا

    And a clan that keeps the daughters of Qayd close at hand;

    With them they defended al-Mulayha and al-Lukak.

  23. إِذا ما عُدَّ فَضلُ حَصى تَميمٍ

    تَحاقَرَ حينَ تَجمَعُهُ حَصاكا

    When the superiority of Tamim's pebbles is reckoned,

    Your own pebbles seem paltry when you gather them.

  24. حَمَت قَيسٌ بِدِجلَةَ عَسكَرَيها

    فَأُنهِبَ يَومَ دِجلَةَ عَسكَراكا

    Qays defended its two camps at the Tigris;

    So your two camps were plundered on the day of the Tigris.

  25. هُمُ حَدَروكَ مِن نَجدٍ فَأَمسَت

    مَعَ الخِنزيرِ قاصِيَةً نَواكا

    They drove you down from Najd, and so

    Your home came to lie far away, beside the pig.

  26. تُكَفِّرُ بِاليَدَينِ إِذا اِلتَقَينا

    وَتُلقي مِن مَخافَتِنا عَصاكا

    You bow with both hands folded when we meet,

    And cast down your staff in fear of us.

  27. عَطاءُ اللَهِ تَكرِمَةً وَفَضلاً

    بِسُخطِكَ لَيسَ ذَلِكَ عَن رِضاكا

    God's gift—an honor and a bounty—

    Comes despite your anger, not by your consent.

  28. رَشَتكَ مُجاشِعٌ سَكَراً بِفَلسٍ

    فَلا يَهنيكَ رِشوَةُ مَن رَشاكا

    Mujashi‘ bribed you with a copper coin's worth of wine;

    So may your briber's bribe bring you no joy.

  29. أَلَيسَ اللَهُ فَضَّلَ سَعيَ قَومٍ

    هَداهُم لِصِراطِ وَما هَداكا

    Has not God favored the efforts of a people

    Whom He guided to a path, while He did not guide you?

  30. تُكَفِّرُ بِاليَدَينِ إِذا اِلتَقَينا

    وَأَدِّ إِلى خَليفَتِنا جِزاكا

    You bow with both hands folded when we meet,

    And pay your tribute to our caliph.

  31. أَتَزعُمُ ذا المَناخِرِ كانَ سَبطاً

    يَهودِيّاً وَنَزعُمُهُ أَباكا

    Do you claim Dhu al-Manakhir was a straight-haired

    Jew, while we claim him as your father?