Sol 6.1

  1. وأَمَّا بِلالٌ فَبِئسَ البِلاَل

    أرَانِي بِهِ اللهُ داءً عُضَالا

    As for Bilal, what a wretched Bilal!

    May God show me an incurable disease in him!

  2. فَلَو أنَّهُ قد كَساهُ الجُذَامُ

    فَجلَّلَهُ مِن أَذَاهُ جِلاَلا

    For if leprosy had clothed him,

    And shrouded him in a cloak of its torment,

  3. وَلَو قد جَرَى فِي عُروق الشُّئُونِ

    فأورثه بَحَّةً أَوسُعَالا

    And had coursed through the veins along his skull’s seams,

    Then left him with hoarseness or a cough,

  4. لَعَادَ بِلاَلٌ إِلى أُمِّهِ

    مُقَفَّعَةً ومُخًّا خِبَالا

    Bilal would have returned to his mother,

    Shriveled, with a deranged brain.

  5. هُمَا المعجِبَانِ فَأَمَّا العَجُوزُ

    فَتُؤتَى النِسَاء مَعاً وَالرِّجَالا

    They are a wondrous pair! As for the old woman,

    She is given women and men alike.

  6. وأما بِلاَلٌ فذاك الذي

    يَمِيلُ مَعَ الشُّرب حَيثُ استَمالا

    And as for Bilal, he is the one who

    Sways with the drink wherever it draws him.

  7. يَبِيتُ يَمُصُّ عَتِيقَ الشَرابِ

    كَمَصِّ الوَلِيدِ يَخَافُ الفِصَالا

    He spends the night sucking aged wine,

    As an infant sucks, fearing weaning.

  8. ويُصبحُ مُضطَرِباً ناعِساً

    يُخَالُ مِنَ السُّكرِ فِيه احوِلاَلا

    And in the morning he is unsteady and drowsy,

    Seeming cross-eyed from drunkenness.

  9. ويمشي يَزِيفُ كمَشي النَّزِيفِ

    كَأَنَّ بِهِ حِينَ يَمشِي كُسَالا

    And he sways as he walks, like a drunken man,

    As though stricken with lethargy when he walks.