Sol 6.1

  1. لَعمرك أنت اليوم باني المناصب

    بعدلٍ أمات الجور عقبى المناصب

    By your life, today you are the builder of high offices,

    with justice that slew oppression, the outcome of high office.

  2. وُقيت الردى لولاك كابحنا الردى

    ولولاك ناشتنا سهام المصايب

    May you be spared death; but for you, death would have battled us.

    And but for you, misfortune's arrows would have reached us.

  3. وكنا رصيداً بين ناب ومخلبٍ

    من الشر أن نسطيع ردَّ النوايب

    And we would have stood watch between fang and claw

    of evil, that we might be able to ward off calamities.

  4. فعمرك أنت الأمن من سوء كايد

    وحقِّك أنت البرّ راحة ناصب

    So, by your life, you are safety from a schemer's malice.

    And by your worth, you are kindness, the weary one's repose.

  5. لنشكر معروفاً وحالك بيننا

    شبيهٌ قريباً ودّ نفع الأقارب

    Let us give thanks for kindness; your way among us

    is like that of a kinsman wishing to benefit his relatives.

  6. رقيت عُلىً فرداً بمجد يجيبه

    علاء أصولٍ عنَّ فوق الثواقب

    You climbed the heights unrivalled, with a glory answered

    by the loftiness of ancestral roots, appearing above the piercing stars.

  7. سميّك أحيى الخَلق أبقاك في الحيا

    ومن جدّك الفاروق صفّ الكتايب

    Your namesake, the most modest of men, has kept you in modesty;

    and from your forefather al-Faruq comes the marshaling of battalions.

  8. فمن مُخبر أحيا عدي بأنها

    بفارسها أمست سماء المناقب

    Who, then, will tell Adi's clans that their tribe,

    through its knight, has become the heaven of noble deeds?

  9. بمولى الورى عثمان أمن بلادنا

    فلم تَخَفِ الأعداء عن أيّ جانب

    Our lands' safety lies with Uthman, lord of mankind,

    so they feared no enemies from any quarter.

  10. كريم الجرشى واسع الجود قاطع

    مع الخَلق بأساً واصلاً لطالب

    Noble of soul, boundless in generosity, cutting off

    distress among people and reaching out to the petitioner.

  11. يدبّر وسم الخطب قبل حلوله

    أجل جاد ذو علم بكَته العواقب

    He considers calamity's mark before its arrival.

    Indeed, a learned man, chastened by consequences, gave generously.

  12. كميٌّ إذا دقّ القنا بيمينه

    لنتج للأقران عكس السوالب

    An armored warrior: when he crushes lances with his right hand,

    the reverse of negatives would surely result for his adversaries.

  13. وإن قام للحرب العوان مواثب

    فأحنى بني الفاروق أول واثب

    And if an assailant rises for renewed battle,

    then the most compassionate of al-Faruq's sons is the first to spring.

  14. فتلقى لدى الحرب المهيع حسامه

    يلامح أطواداً كخراق لاعب

    Then, on the broad field of battle, you find his sword

    casting glances at mountains as though they were a player's rags.

  15. فيا مُجدِيَ العافي إذا أمَّ وافداً

    أيا مُرِقَد المثنى بأسنى المواهب

    So, O benefactor of the petitioner, when he approaches as a visitor,

    O you who lull the praiser with the loftiest gifts!

  16. أتى العيد بالإقبال يصدح مسرعٌ

    يهنّيك فأبشر مجريا للمناصب

    Eid has come with good fortune; a hurrying well-wisher sings out,

    congratulating you—rejoice, you who set high offices in motion!

  17. وعبدك في ذا العيد دانك وافداً

    لوفدٍ وقد زُمَّت إليك ركايبي

    And your servant, on this Eid, approaches you as a visitor,

    to join a delegation, and my riding-camels have already been bridled toward you.

  18. ففي كل شطر طرس مدحي يمسّه

    أؤرخ مجداً بان فوق الكواكب

    So in every half-line touched by the page of my praise,

    I record the date of a glory that shone above the stars.