Sol 6.1

  1. قُل لِمَن تاهَ إِذ بِنا عَزَّ جَهلاً

    لَيسَ بِالتيهِ يَفخَرُ الأَحرارُ

    Say to him who ignorantly grew haughty when we brought him honor:

    The freeborn do not glory in conceit.

  2. فَتَناهَوا وَأَقصِروا فَلَقَد جا

    رَت عَنِ القَصدِ فيكُمُ الأَبصارُ

    So desist and hold back, for indeed

    Eyes have strayed from fairness in judging you.

  3. أَيَّكُم حاطَ ذا جِوارٍ بِعِزٍّ

    قَبلَ أَن تَحتَويهِ مِنّا الدارُ

    Which of you shielded one under his protection with might

    Before our house took him in?

  4. أَو رَجا أَن يَفوتَ قَوماً بِوَترٍ

    لَم تَزَل تَمتَطيهُمُ الأَوتارُ

    Or hoped to elude a people with a blood debt,

    Whom blood feuds have never ceased to ride?

  5. لَم يَكُن ذاكَ فيكُم فَدَعوا الفَخ

    رَ بِما لا يَسوغُ فيهِ اِفتِخارُ

    That was not found among you; so abandon pride

    In what affords no rightful cause for boasting.

  6. وَنِزاراً فَفاخِروا هُم تَفَضَّلوا

    وَدَعوا مَن لَهُ عَبيدُ نِزارُ

    As for Nizar, vie with them in boasting and claim superiority;

    And leave alone him whose slaves are Nizar.

  7. فَبِنا عَزَّ مِنكُمُ الذِلُّ وَالدَه

    رُ عَلَيكُم بِريبَةٍ كَرّارُ

    For through us the abject among you gained might, while Time

    Returns again and again against you with misfortune.

  8. حاذِروا دَولَةَ الزَمانِ عَلَيكُم

    إِنَّهُ بَينَ أَهلِهِ أَطوارُ

    Beware the turn of time against you;

    For it has many phases among its people.

  9. فَتُرَدّوا وَنَحنُ لِلحالَةِ الأَو

    لى وَلِلأَوحَدِ الأَذَلِّ الصَغارُ

    Lest you and we be restored to our former state—

    With humiliation for the lone, most abject one.

  10. فاخَرَتنا لَمّا بَسَطنا لَها الفَخ

    رَ قُرَيشٌ وَّفَخرُها مُستَعارُ

    She vied with us in boasting when we laid our pride before her—

    Quraysh, whose pride is borrowed.

  11. ذَكَرَت عِزَّها وَما كانَ فيها

    قَبلَ أَن تَستَجيرَنا مُستَجارُ

    She spoke of her might, though among her there was no

    Refuge before she sought our protection.

  12. إِنَّما كانَ عِزُّها في جِبالٍ

    تَرتَقيها كَما تُرَقّى الوَبارُ

    Her might lay only in mountains

    She climbed as hyraxes climb.

  13. أَيُّها الفاخِرونَ بِالعِزِّ وَالعِ

    زُّ لِقومٍ سِواهُم وَالفَخارُ

    O you who boast of might, though might

    And glory belong to a people other than you!

  14. أَخبِرونا مَنِ الأَعَزُّ أَأَلمَن

    صورُ حَتّى اِعتلى أَم الأَنصارُ

    Tell us who is mightier: al-Mansur

    Even at his height, or the Ansar?

  15. فَلنا العِزُّ قَبلَ عِزِّ قُرَيشٍ

    وَقُرَيشٌ تِلكَ الدُهورَ تِجارُ

    For ours was might before Quraysh had might,

    While Quraysh in those ages were merchants.