Sol 6.1

  1. يوم الهوان وصيحة المرتاب

    ومطل الاسباب بالاسباب

    The day of humiliation, and the doubter's cry,

    And one pretext deferred by another.

  2. فيم التساؤل والجوانح ثرة

    بفوادح الآلام والاوصاب

    Why question, when the breast is brimming

    With grievous pains and ailments?

  3. النفس من عنت الزمان كليمة

    والقلب من شجب الحوادث خالي

    The soul is wounded by time's hardship,

    And the heart is hollow from the sorrow of calamities.

  4. وفواجع الذكرى خيال طائف

    يخفي معالمه سراب هابي

    And memory's tragedies are a passing phantom,

    Whose outlines a hazy mirage conceals.

  5. يا ويك يوماً في دجنة ليله

    عمي الغبيّ وابصر المتغابي

    Woe to you, day, in the gloom of whose night

    The fool went blind, while he who feigned folly saw!

  6. عشرون عاماً قد مضين ولم تكن

    يا يوم إلا ريبة المرتاب

    Twenty years have passed, and you have been nothing,

    O day, but the doubter's doubt.

  7. أولست ذا وجهين وجه باسم

    لهم ووجه بارز الانياب

    And do you not have two faces: one smiling

    For them, and one with fangs laid bare?

  8. دخلوا بلادك فاتحين فصنتهم

    واذقتنا يا يوم مر عذاب

    They entered your land as conquerors, and you protected them,

    And made us taste, O day, bitter torment.

  9. ما اشأم الدنيا وذكرك حافل

    بفواجع الاشلاء والاسلاب

    How ill-omened the world, with your memory laden

    With the horrors of severed limbs and plunder!

  10. لهفي على الوطن العزيز يذله

    وعد العدو وهزة القرضاب

    My anguish for the dear homeland, humiliated

    By the enemy's promise and the swing of the keen-edged sword!

  11. ينبيك كاذب وعده عن ختله

    يا للعدو ووعده الكذاب

    His false promise tells you of his deceit.

    Oh, that enemy and his lying promise!

  12. فتح البلاد وقال انتم اهلها

    يا صفوة الاحلاف والاحباب

    He conquered the land and said, “You are its people,

    O choicest of allies and beloved friends.

  13. آمالنا آمالكم وقلوبنا

    قد جن خافقها إلى الاعراب

    Our hopes are your hopes, and our hearts

    Beat madly with longing for the Bedouin Arabs.”

  14. حتى إذا جد الزمان وامل

    الاعراب بالاسلاب من سلاب

    Until, when times grew grave and hope stirred

    In the Bedouin Arabs for spoils from a plunderer,

  15. سخر العدو وفي مرارة سخره

    عبث السراب الخادع الخلاب

    The enemy scoffed; and in the bitterness of his scoffing

    Lay the mockery of the deceptive, beguiling mirage.

  16. الختل يقطر من ثنايا وجهه

    او ما رأيت السم في الاكواب

    Deceit drips from the creases of his face;

    Or have you not seen the poison in the cups?

  17. لهفي على وطن تنازع اهله

    عبث الرؤوس وضيعة الاذناب

    My anguish for a homeland whose people are torn between

    The frivolity of the heads and the abasement of the tails.

  18. الضغن والشحناء ببعض خطوبه

    ومصارع الاخلاق والآداب

    Rancor and hatred are but some of its woes,

    And the downfall of morals and manners;

  19. وتبلبل الرأي الشتيت وعزة

    موؤدة وتناحر الاحزاب

    And the confusion of divided opinion, and dignity

    Buried alive, and parties at one another's throats;

  20. وتواكل في الحادثات وذلة

    وفتور اشياخ ونوم شباب

    And mutual shirking in calamities, and humiliation,

    And the apathy of elders and the slumber of youth;

  21. وتزلف او ما رأيت سراتنا

    هاماتهم تمشي على الاعتاب

    And sycophancy—or have you not seen our notables,

    Their heads walking upon the thresholds?

  22. الشعب في دمه يخوض وخوضهم

    يا ويحهم في الشاي والاكواب

    The people wade in their blood, while those men wade—

    Woe to them—in tea and cups.

  23. وعزائم مفلولة ومشاكل

    تغني شواهدها عن الاسهاب

    And blunted resolves, and problems

    Whose evidence leaves no need for elaboration.

  24. يوم الهوان نكأت جرحاً داميا

    واثرت بالذكرى الاليمة ما بي

    Day of humiliation, you reopened a bleeding wound,

    And with the painful memory stirred what ails me.

  25. ورجعت بي عشرين عاماً كلها

    تبريح آلام وطول عذاب

    And took me back twenty years, all of them

    Racking pain and prolonged torment.

  26. نبغي الخلاص وانت سر صامت

    ترنو الينا من وراء حجاب

    We seek deliverance, while you are a silent mystery,

    Gazing at us from behind a veil.

  27. ما وراءك من صحائف حلكة

    تطوي الليالي في الغد الصخاب

    What dark pages lie beyond you,

    Which the nights fold away in the clamorous morrow?

  28. الخير في غدك القريب مغيب

    في الرمس والشر على الابواب

    The good in your near tomorrow lies hidden

    In the grave, while evil is at the doors.

  29. والموت يرقب ظاعنين حياتهم

    عبء على الاعداء والاصحاب

    And death watches the departing, whose lives

    Are a burden to enemies and friends.

  30. ذكراك يا يوم الهوان مريرة

    ذهبت بميعة صبوتي وشبابي

    Your memory, O day of humiliation, is bitter;

    It carried away the bloom of my youthful ardor and youth.

  31. يا من فتحت القدس مهلا ما انتهت

    ما زال في الميدان بعض صعاب

    O you who conquered Jerusalem, not so fast—it is not over;

    Some difficulties still remain in the field.

  32. ما زال بينكم اللنبي وبيننا

    في هذه الدنيا رصيد حساب

    Between you, Allenby, and us there remains

    An unsettled account in this world.

  33. هذي عناصر كرهنا موروثة

    لكم ونورثها إلى الاعقاب

    These are the inherited elements of our hatred

    For you, and we bequeath them to posterity.

  34. لا تسألوا تبياننا اسبابها

    انا ورثناها عن الاحقاب

    Do not ask us to explain their causes;

    Indeed, we inherited them from ages past.

  35. الدهر دولاب يدور وأنتم

    معنا تدورون مع الدولاب

    Time is a wheel that turns, and you

    Turn with us, along with the wheel.