Sol 6.1

  1. جلت عزماتك الفتح المبينا

    فقد قرت العيون المسلمينا

    Your firm resolves unveiled the manifest victory,

    For the Muslims' eyes have found delight.

  2. رددت أخيذة الإسلام لما

    غدا صرف القضاء بها ضمينا

    You restored Islam's captive, when

    The turn of fate had become her guarantor.

  3. وهان بك الصليب وكان قدماً

    يعز على العوالي أن يهونا

    Through you the cross was humbled, though of old

    It had been hard for lofty spears to humble it.

  4. يقاتل كل ذي ملك رياء

    وأنت تقاتل الأعداء دينا

    Every king fights for show,

    But you fight the enemies out of faith.

  5. غدت في وجنة الأيام خالاً

    وفي جيد العلى عقداً ثمينا

    She became a beauty spot on the cheek of days,

    And a precious necklace on the neck of glory.

  6. فيا لله كم سرت قلوباً

    ويا لله كم أبكت عيونا

    O God, how many hearts she has gladdened!

    And, O God, how many eyes she has made weep!

  7. وما طبرية إلا هدي

    ترفع عن أكف اللامسينا

    Tiberias is nothing but a bride,

    Kept beyond the hands of those who would touch her.

  8. حصان الذيل لم تقذف بسوء

    وسل عنها الليالي والسنينا

    Chaste of hem, never accused of dishonor—

    Ask the nights and years about her.

  9. فضضت ختامها قسراً ومن ذا

    يصد الليث أن يلج العرينا

    You broke her seal by force—and who

    Can stop the lion from entering the den?

  10. لقد أنكحتها صم العوالي

    فكان نتاجها الحرب الزبونا

    Indeed, you wedded her to the stout, lofty spears,

    And her offspring was fiercely raging war.

  11. هناك ندى أهل الأرض طراً

    سولك ومعقل أعيا القرونا

    May you rejoice, O bounty of all earth's people,

    In your wish fulfilled, and a stronghold that defied the ages.

  12. قست حتى رأت كفواً فلانت

    وغاية كل قاس أن يلينا

    She was hard until she found her match, then softened;

    And every hard thing's end is to grow soft.

  13. قضيت فريضة الإسلام منها

    وصدقت الأماني والظنونا

    You discharged Islam's sacred duty through her,

    And made hopes and expectations true.

  14. تهز معاطف القدس ابتهاجاً

    وترضي عنك مكرمة والحجونا

    You set Jerusalem's flanks swaying with delight,

    And win the favor of Mecca and al-Hajun.

  15. فلو أن الجهاد يطيق نطفاً

    لنادتك ادخلوها آمنينا

    If holy war could find a voice,

    She would call to you: 'Enter her in safety!'

  16. جعلت صباح أهلها ظلاماً

    وأبدلت الزئير بها أنينا

    You made her people's morning darkness,

    And replaced the roaring within her with groans.

  17. تخال حماة حوزتها نساء

    يخوضون الحديد مقنعينا

    You would think the defenders of her domain were women,

    Wading through iron with faces veiled.

  18. لبيضك في جماجمهم غناء

    لذيذ علم الطير الحنينا

    Your gleaming blades have a song within their skulls,

    A sweet one that taught the birds their plaintive cry.

  19. تميل إلى المثقفة العوالي

    فهل أمست رماحاً أم غصونا

    They lean toward the straightened, lofty spears;

    Are these now lances, or branches?

  20. يكاد النقع يذهلها فلولا

    بروق القاضبات لما هدينا

    The dust almost bewilders them; were it not for

    The lightning of the cutting blades, they would not find their way.

  21. فكم حازت قدود قناك منها

    قدوداً كالقنا لوناً ولينا

    How many have your lances' slender shafts seized from her—

    Forms like lances in hue and suppleness,

  22. وغيد كالجآذر آنسات

    كغيد نداك أبكارا وعونا

    And graceful, companionable women like young oryx,

    Like the beauties of your bounty, virgins and matrons.

  23. ولما باكرتها منك نعمى

    بنان تفضح الغيث الهتونا

    And when a bounty from you reached her at dawn—

    From fingers that put the pouring rain to shame—

  24. أعدت بها الليالي وهي بيض

    وقد كانت بها الأيام جونا

    You brought her nights back, shining white,

    Though her days had once been black.

  25. فليس بعادم مرعى خصيباً

    أخو سغب ولا ماء معينا

    So lush pasture is never lacking

    For the hungry, nor is freely flowing water.

  26. فلا عدم الشآم وساكنوه

    ظبي تشفي به الداء الدفينا

    May Syria and its people never lack

    The sword edges with which you heal the deep-hidden ill.

  27. سهاد جفونها في كل فيح

    سهاد يمنح الغمض الجفونا

    Their sheaths' sleeplessness in every open field

    Is a sleeplessness that grants the eyelids sleep.

  28. فألمم بالسواحل فهي صور

    إليك وألحق الهام المتونا

    So descend upon the coasts, for they lean

    Toward you; and join heads to backs.

  29. فقلب القدس مسرور ولولا

    سطاك لكان مكتئباً حزينا

    For Jerusalem's heart rejoices; were it not for

    Your onslaught, it would be dejected and sad.

  30. أدرت على الفرنج وقد تلاقت

    جموعهم عليك رحى طحونا

    You turned against the Franks—as there converged

    Their hosts upon you—a grinding mill.

  31. فغي بيسان لاقوا منك بؤساً

    وفي صفد أتوك مصفدينا

    So at Baysan they met misery at your hands,

    And at Safad they came to you in fetters.

  32. لقد جاءتهم الأحداث جمعاً

    كأن صروفها كانت كمينا

    Calamities came upon them all together,

    As though their reversals had lain in ambush.

  33. وخانهم الزمان ولا ملام

    فلست بمبغض زمناً خؤونا

    Time betrayed them, and there is no blame;

    For I do not hate a treacherous age.

  34. لقد جردن عزماً ناصرياً

    يحدث عن سناه طورسينا

    They indeed unsheathed a Nasiri resolve,

    Of whose radiance Mount Sinai tells.

  35. فكنت كيوسف الصديق حقاً

    له هوت الكواكب ساجدينا

    Thus you were truly like Joseph the Truthful,

    Before whom the stars fell down in prostration.

  36. لقد أتعبت من طلب المعالي

    وحاول أن يؤوس المسلمينا

    You have wearied whoever seeks high glory

    And tries to lead the Muslims.

  37. وإن تكُ آخراً وخلاك ذم

    فإن محمداً في الآخرينا

    Though you come last—and may blame pass you by—

    For Muhammad, too, is among the last.