Mutanabi elder poet How anguished my heart is while his is cold A love that caused malady to my body and mind How do I hush up such a love that caused my body to fade whereas the hypocrites in their claim of his love lied If we all share the same love of his bright forehead I wish he would accordingly among us his gratitude divide I witnessed his wisdom when his sword in its scabbard And his acts when swords were in blood immersed In both cases he acted in the best manner ever a human would And he proved how good acts can be well-advised You missed the enemy that from you fled Partially bad that you missed and partially good that he survived The dread of you acted on your behalf instead Giving you the solemnity that even courage couldnt extend You obliged yourself to render them no place to hide A commitment by which a triumphant doesnt have to abide Whenever you defeated an army that retreated and fled Your soldiers then followed and wiped out what remained Your duty is to defeat them in every battlefield And you bear no shame if they your combat do avoid Or is it for a remarkable victory that you look forward When heads from bodies by bright blades are disjoined You are the most fair to all except to my deed You are the opponent and the judge who my trial does preside I deem it impossible that you make a true regard Mistaking the healthy body for that filled with tumoral wad What use of mans sight can be made If he does alike view light and shade All those whom our assembly did include Will realize that I am the best ever a foot would guide I sleep in peace leaving the secrets my works shade To others who spend the nights debating over what they hide An ignorant whose ignorance prolonged upon my disregard Until with my courage and wit, his soul I deprived If you ever come across a lion with its teeth bared Assume not that the lion at you has smiled When the intention of a man was to see me dead But I killed him secured by the horseback I did ride A swift horse that whose legs seem one and its hands a hand Responds duly without having the rider use his hand or a goad Holding my sharp sword amid the two legions I strode when I stroke, waves of death among them did collide I am well known to horses, night, and the deserted wild As well to the spear, pen, papers and the sword In wilds, I faced the monster alone and self-assured In an act which even high mountains it did dumbfound You! Whom it is hard for us to leave behind We realized that everything without you is absurd Had you taken heed of my love and gratitude You wouldnt have found more worthful than me to reward Has the reason been is what enviers to you have conveyed Then no pain a wound shall cause if it makes you satisfied Have you considered the relation we have had As relations for the wise are obligations to which he shall abide You wont find any fault in me no matter how you tried Allah forbids such attempts and are undesired by the kind My honour is irreproachable and I am with viceless pride I am the Pleiades while others are weak and old I wish that I was spared the thunderbolt of the cloud And only rained with its graces and bestowed Departing you makes me cross distances of land That even the swift and wide paced camel cant stand Have I left to Egypt passing by Dameer to my right side Those whom I bid farewell will surely for my leaving feel sad If you have left a people who your departure didnt mind Then they whove lost you and its you whom they mislaid The worst profit a person makes is that to him shame does yield And the most gloomy place is where no friend to find The ever worst hunting my palm has attained Is that with which by the vile and worthless I was shared How silly the poetry is that uttered by a bland Whose poetry is nor by Arabs or even by Persians recognized This is my admonition to you, true and fond It is pearly composed, but in words compiled
Posted on: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 16:28:52 +0000
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