يا ناعي ابن رسول الله في البشر — Abn Rumi

يا ناعيَ ابن رسول اللَه في البشرِ

ومُعلناً باسمه في البدو والحضَرِ

O announcer among mankind of the death of God's Messenger's son,

Proclaiming his name among nomads and settled folk,

لقد نعيتَ امرَأً ظلَّتْ لِمَصْرَعِهِ

قواعدُ الدين والدنيا على خطر

You have announced the death of a man whose slaying left

The foundations of faith and worldly life in peril.

لقد نعيتَ امرأً لم تَحْيَ مَكْرُمَةٌ

إلا به وبه سارت إلى الحفَر

You have announced the death of a man: no noble deed lived

Except through him, and with him it went into the graves.

لقد نعيتَ امرأً ما كنتُ أحسَبُه

ينعاهُ إلا هُوِيُّ الشمس والقمر

You have announced the death of a man whom I never thought

Would be mourned by anything but the falling of the sun and moon.

لو فات شيء مدى ميقاته انكدرتْ

زُهرُ النجوم عليه كلَّ مُنكَدَر

Had anything escaped its appointed span, there would have tumbled

The bright stars upon him, in every manner of falling.

يا ناعي ابن رسولِ الله مبتهجاً

لقد تفوهتَ بالكبرى من الكُبَر

O you who announce the death of God's Messenger's son, rejoicing,

You have uttered the greatest of great calamities.

سمعاً لها وإن استكَّتْ مسامعنا

إن المسامع للناعين والبُشَر

We will hear it, though our ears are deafened;

For ears must hear death-announcers and glad tidings.

لا تَشمتوا واذكروا منجَى طليقكُمُ

وجوهُكُمْ يا بني العباس للعَفَر

Do not gloat; remember the deliverance of your freed captive.

May your faces meet the dust, O sons of al-Abbas!

إن السيوف منايا كلِّ معتزِمٍ

يلقى المنايا بعزمٍ غيرِ منتشر

Swords are the death of every resolute man

Who meets death with undivided resolve.

للهِ همةُ يحيى أين وجَّهَهَا

لو أنها شيَّعَتْهُ مُدّة العمر

To God belongs Yahya's resolve, wherever he directed it!

If only it had accompanied him throughout his life!

بني النبي أما ينفك طاغيةٌ

مغادراً جَزَراً منكم على جزر

O sons of the Prophet, does a tyrant never cease

Leaving slaughtered bodies of yours upon slaughtered bodies?

بني نُتَيْلةَ ثَلَّ اللَه عرشَكُمُ

كم للنبي لديكم من دم هَدر

O sons of Nutayla, may God topple your throne!

How much of the Prophet's blood lies with you, spilled unavenged!

بني نُتَيْلَةَ كُفُّوا غَربَ جهلكُمُ

لا يصبِح السيفُ فيكم غيرَ معتذرِ

O sons of Nutayla, restrain the sharp edge of your folly.

Let not the sword dawn among you unapologetic.

إن تَفجعونا بسهمٍ من كِنانتنا

فعندكم من ثَناه أبلغُ الخبرِ

If you bereave us of an arrow from our quiver,

You yourselves possess the fullest account of his renown.

أو خاننا القدَر المحتوم فيه فقد

بقَّاكُمُ سَمَراً عفَّى على السمر

Or if inexorable fate betrayed us concerning him, he has

Left you a tale eclipsing all other tales.

ما زال يضربكم بالسيف عن عُرُضٍ

حتى لأذعنتُمُ بالذل والصغَر

He kept striking you with the sword from every side,

Until you submitted in abasement and humiliation.

أبقاكُمُ نُهْزة للناس كلِّهِمُ

أذلَّةً لا عدِمتم ذلة النفَر

He left you easy prey for all people,

Abased—may you never be spared your band's humiliation!

وكل يومٍ لكم أمثال سورتهِ

منا وسيفٌ أبيٌّ غير مزدجَر

Every day you shall face assaults like his

From us, and a defiant sword that cannot be checked.

كذاك ما باخ منا بدرُ مملكةٍ

إلا تلاهُ نظيرٌ غيرُ منتظر

Thus no full moon of kingship among us is extinguished

Without its equal following, with no delay.

نحمي حمانا بأسيافٍ مجردةٍ

مَقِيلُها قُلَّةُ المستأسد الأشر

We defend our sanctuary with unsheathed swords;

Their noon repose is the crown of the insolent man who plays the lion.

إنا إذا صعَّر الجبار صفحتَهُ

شفاءُ صفحتِه من ذلك الصعَرِ

Indeed, when a tyrant twists his cheek in pride, we are

The cure for that cheek's arrogant twisting.

بسيفنا وبنا نلتم مراتبكم

لا بالطليق حليفِ العجز والخور

Through our sword and through us you attained your ranks,

Not through the freed captive, ally of helplessness and weakness.

إن السيوف التي أردَتْ أوائلَكُم

أسيافُنا وبها نُردي ذوي البطر

The swords that felled your forebears

Are our swords, and with them we fell the insolent.

مُعدَّةٌ لكُمُ ما فُلَّ صارمها

ونحن أبناء تلك العُصبة الصُبُر

They are ready for you, their keen blade never blunted;

And we are the sons of that steadfast band.

جَلَى بنا اللَهُ تلك الجاهليةَ عن

آبائكم فاستبانوا مَطْرَح البصر

Through us God swept that ignorance away from

Your fathers, and they could see clearly what lay before their eyes.

وهذه جَهلةٌ طَخْياء ثانيةٌ

بنا تَكشَّفُ بالخَطِّية السُّمُر

And this is a second, pitch-dark ignorance,

Dispelled through us with brown Khatti spears.

لك الخمولُ وموتُ الذكر ليس لنا

أما سمعتَ بنا في سائر السير

Obscurity and the death of remembrance are yours, not ours.

Have you not heard of us throughout the chronicles?

لطفلنا موقِف تُغْضي الكُفاةُ له

وسيفُهُ فيهمُ أمضى من القدر

Even our child takes a stand before which champions lower their eyes,

And his sword among them is more piercing than fate.

ما ضم سيفاً لنا غِمدٌ ولا برحت

ضريبتاه من الأعداء والجَزر

No sheath has ever enclosed a sword of ours, nor have

Its two targets ceased to be enemies and slaughtered men.

نأوي إلى بيت مجدٍ لا كِفاءَ له

أوفت به السُّورة العُليا من السور

We take refuge in a house of glory that has no equal,

Raised aloft by the highest of exalted ranks.

مدَّ النبيُّ لنا أطنابه فغدت

معلقاتِ العُرَا بالأنجم الزهر

The Prophet stretched out its tent-ropes for us, and they became

Suspended by their loops from the shining stars.

له من القابسين العلمَ آونة

والمعتَفين فناءٌ غير مُهتَجَر

It has, for those seeking knowledge's flame at intervals,

And for seekers of bounty, a courtyard never forsaken.

من زارنا فيه ألقى اللَهُ حاضرهُ

ناهيك من حاضر فيه ومحتضَر

Whoever visits us there finds God present with him;

What a presence there, and what a place to visit!

من تعتصمْ يده يوماً بعصمتنا

يمسكْ بحبل متين غير ذي غَررِ

Whoever's hand clings one day to our protection

Grasps a firm rope with no peril in it.

لنا الشفاعة والحوض الرويُّ لنا

ونحن من خُصَّ بالتقديس والطُّهُر

Ours is intercession, and ours the thirst-quenching Pool;

And we are those singled out for sanctification and purity.

يا يوم يحيى لقد أحييت داهيةً

دهياءَ للناس تبقى آخر العُصُر

O day of Yahya, you have brought a calamity to life,

A grievous calamity for mankind, lasting to the end of the ages.

لقد أنخت على الأحياء من يمنٍ

ومن ربيعةَ والأحياءِ من مضر

You have made calamity kneel upon the clans of Yaman,

And of Rabi'a, and the clans of Mudar.

وعمّ فقدك أهلَ الأرض كلَّهمُ

لم يُبقِ ذا نفس منهم ولم يذر

Your loss encompassed all the people of the earth,

Sparing no living soul among them, leaving none,

إلا أناساً فسادُ الناس يُصلحهم

مثلَ الكلاب حياها مُمسَكُ المطر

Except people whom the ruin of others benefits,

Like dogs kept alive by the withholding of rain.

تالله لو أن مولاهُ أقيد به

هذا الأنامُ لأمسَى غير مثَّئر

By God, if his kinsman were granted in requital for him

All humankind, he would still have gained no vengeance.

أيا قتيلَ رسول اللَه في رجب

يا أكرم الناس مخبوراً لمختبر

O slain descendant of God's Messenger, in Rajab,

O noblest of men, proven to anyone who tests you!

ما خانك السيف إذ خانتك نصرتُهُ

وفيه منتصَرٌ يوماً لمنتصِر

The sword did not betray you when its aid failed you,

And in it an avenger will one day find redress.

لئن تحكمتِ الأعداء فيك لقّد

حَكمتَ فيهم ظُبا الهندية البُتُر

Though the enemies held mastery over you, you had indeed

Set the edges of keen Indian swords to rule over them.

قلقلت جبارهم عن لين مضجعه

رعباً ووكلته بالخوف والحذر

You jolted their tyrant from the softness of his bed

With terror, and consigned him to fear and vigilance.

أولغت في مُهَج الأعداء مرهَفةً

من كل أزرَق نظارٍ بلا نظر

You made a sharpened blade lap the heart-blood of your enemies,

One of those blue blades that stare without sight.

يا قاتل ابن علي وابن فاطمةٍ

تَبّاً لسعيك في الإيراد والصدر

O killer of the son of Ali and the son of Fatima,

Ruin to your striving, in coming and going!

يا قاتل ابن علي إن قتلَكَهُ

سيجني لك المرَّى من الثمر

O killer of the son of Ali, your killing him

Will harvest the bitterest fruit for you.

بأيِّ وجهٍ تلاقي اللَّه معتذِراً

جلت خطيئتك العظمى عن العذر

With what face will you meet God, offering excuses?

Your enormous sin is far beyond excuse.

خصيمُك اللَه فانظر كيف تخصمُهُ

بل أنت أدحض خصمٍ فوكَ للحجر

God is your adversary; see how you can defeat Him in argument.

No, you are the feeblest disputant—stones for your mouth!

لو شاركتْك بنو حواءَ في دمه

لكُبكبوا يا ابن بنت النار في سقر

Had the children of Eve shared with you in his blood,

They would be hurled into Saqar, O son of Fire's daughter.

ما بعدكم من يزيد في عداوته

آلَ النبي وقتل السادة الغرر

How little you differ from Yazid in his hostility toward

The Prophet's family, and the killing of the radiant lords!

عليكم لعنة الرحمن واقعة

في السر والجهر والآصال والبُكَر

Upon you falls the All-Merciful's curse,

In secrecy and openly, in evenings and mornings,

ومن سرى نحوه أو من أشار به

ومن نوى ذاك من أنثى ومن ذكر

And on whoever traveled by night toward him, or counseled it,

And whoever intended that, female or male,

ومن رآه فلم يسمح بمهجته

ومن تخلف عنه غير مقتسَر

And whoever saw him yet would not offer his own lifeblood,

And whoever stayed behind from him without being forced.

خسراً لقوم أقاموا دينهم سفهاً

فيمن يزيد بوَكْس البيع محتقر

Ruin to a people who foolishly staked their faith

On a despised man who only worsens the loss in their bargain.

وبارزوا اللَّه في قربى النبي ولم

يرعوا له حرمة القربى ولا الإصر

They openly defied God over the Prophet's kin, and did not

Honor for him the sanctity of kinship, nor the covenant.

برّوا ذليلاً وعَقّوا اللَّه واعتصموا

منه بحبلٍ ضعيف واهن المِرر

They were dutiful to a base man, undutiful to God, and clung

To a weak rope from him, with failing strands.

سرى إليه عداةُ اللَه فانْصَلتوا

مستأسِدين عليهم جلدة النمر

God's enemies marched against him by night, rushing forth,

Playing the lion, clad in the leopard's skin,

مجاهدين بأسيافٍ مجردةٍ

كأنما قصدوا للروم والخزَر

Waging war with unsheathed swords,

As though they had set out against the Byzantines and the Khazars.

يا عصبة الشرك ما أعلى جدودكمُ

لقد ظفرتم برب النصر والظفر

O band of idolatry, how high your fortunes rise!

You have overcome the lord of victory and triumph.

لقد ظفرتم بمن ما هز مُنصُلَه

إلا تَحكَّم في الهامات والقَصَر

You have overcome one who never brandished his blade

Without making it master of heads and necks.

لقد ظفرتم بمن كانت أنامله

تقوم فينا مقام الرزق في البشر

You have overcome one whose fingers

Took among us the place that sustenance holds for mankind.

مهذب من رسول اللَه نسبتُهُ

بين الوصيِّ وسِبْطيه إلى عمر

A noble man whose lineage comes from God's Messenger,

Through the Legatee and his two grandsons, down to Umar.

لهفي على خير مَيْتٍ بعد والده

وخيرِ منتسِب يوماً ومفتخِر

Alas for the best of the dead after his father,

And the best ever to proclaim his lineage and take pride in it.

إني لأعذل نفسي في الحياة وقد

قام النعيُّ به جذلانَ ذا أشر

I reproach myself for living, when

His death-announcer has risen, gleeful and insolent.

لأفنينَّ أفانينَ المديح له

مجاهِراً للأعادي غير مستتر

I shall exhaust the many forms of praise for him,

Proclaiming it openly to the enemies, unconcealed.

وأمنح الود أهل البيت إنهُمُ

خير البرية لا بل خِيرة الخِيَر

And I give my love to the People of the House, for they are

The best of creation—no, the choicest of the choice.

يا ليتني كنت فيمن كان شاهدَه

حياً وقفيت إذ قفى على الأثر

Would that I had been among those who beheld him

Alive, and had followed when he followed the trail.