Sol 6.1

  1. بعزك تختال العلى والمناصب

    وباسمك تزدان الحلى والمناقب

    In your glory, high honors and offices walk in pride.

    And with your name, ornaments and virtues are adorned.

  2. لك الشيم الغرّاء لا المدح بالغ

    مداها ولا للدم فيهن جانب

    Yours are the radiant qualities; no praise can reach

    their extent, nor has blood any place in them.

  3. وكم لك من نعماء في الناس شكرها

    عليهم كفروض العبادات واجب

    How many favors you have bestowed among the people, gratitude for which

    is incumbent upon them, like the prescribed duties of worship.

  4. إذا الغيث ولى عن ذراهم سحابه

    توالت عليهم من ذراك سحائب

    When the rain's clouds turn away from their heights,

    clouds from your heights come upon them in succession.

  5. تفيض عليهم من أياديك بالندى

    رغائب فيها السماح غرائب

    From your hands there pour upon them, in bounty,

    precious gifts containing marvels of generosity.

  6. أياد يؤدّى من لدى مصر حمدها

    بعلم وتثنى بالسماع الاجانب

    Benefactions whose praise is rendered from within Egypt

    with knowledge, while foreigners praise them by report.

  7. وصيت بعيد الشأو في المدح شاركت

    مشارق أقصى الأرض فيها المغارب

    And renown, far-reaching in praise, shared

    by earth's farthest East and West in praising these deeds.

  8. تطير به غرّ القوافي سواجعاً

    تناغي به ألافها وتجاوب

    Radiant rhymes fly with it, cooing,

    calling with it to their companions and answering one another.

  9. تجوب بسيط البر فهي ركائب

    وتقطع لج البحر فهي مراكب

    They traverse the land's expanse, serving as riding camels,

    and cross the sea's depths, serving as ships.

  10. وعزم كحدّ السيف ماض غراره

    وفهم كنصل السيف بالحق صائب

    And resolve like a sword's edge, its cutting edge keen,

    and understanding like a sword's blade, unerring in truth.

  11. تناجيه أستار الخفايا بسرها

    سواء لديه بدؤها والعواقب

    The veils of hidden things whisper their secret to it;

    their beginnings and outcomes are alike before it.

  12. ورأى كنور الصبح إن لَيلُ حادث

    أظل استنارت من سناه الغياهب

    And judgment like dawn's light: if a calamity's night

    casts its shadow, the darkness is illumined by its radiance.

  13. تقاد له شمّ الصعاب خواضعاً

    كما خضعت طوع الزمام النجائب

    Proud difficulties are led before it, submissive,

    as noble camels submit, obedient to the rein.

  14. وفكر له من نصرة الحق مذهب

    إذا اختلفت طوع الزمام النجائب

    And thought whose path is the championing of truth,

    when noble camels diverge, obedient to the rein.

  15. وفكر له من نصرة الحق مذهب

    إذا اختلفت في العالمين المذاهب

    And thought whose path is the championing of truth,

    when schools of thought differ among the world's peoples.

  16. ولفظ عليه رونق الحسن دونه

    سنا الدرّ بل زهر الدراري الثواقب

    And speech bearing beauty's luster, which surpasses

    the gleam of pearls—nay, the radiant, piercing stars.

  17. وقلب رحيم بالرعايا وهمة

    لها فوق هامات الثريا مراتب

    And a heart compassionate toward the subjects, and ambition

    whose ranks rise above the crowns of the Pleiades.

  18. محاسن لم يستوفها نظم شاعر

    بليغ ولم يبلغ مداهنّ كاتب

    Virtues that no poet's verse has fully encompassed,

    however eloquent, nor has any writer reached their extent.

  19. درى المجلس العالي الخصوصيّ قدرها

    فلج به شوق إليك يجاذب

    The High Privy Council recognized their worth,

    so longing for you grew insistent within it, tugging at it.

  20. وقلدك الأمر الخديويّ أمره

    فهنئ مطلوب وهنئ طالب

    And the Khedive entrusted you with command—his own charge;

    so the one sought was congratulated, and so was the seeker.

  21. وبلغه الرحمن خير مرامه

    بتوفيقه واللَه للخير واهب

    And may the All-Merciful bring him to the best of his aims,

    through His enabling grace; and God is the giver of good.

  22. فلا زلت محروس الجناب مهنأ

    بعزك تختال العلى والمناصب

    So may you ever remain protected in person and felicitated,

    in your glory, high honors and offices walk in pride.