Sol 6.1

  1. واشتاق طلعتك الخليفة مظهراً

    لك شوقه المطوي في اسرارهِ

    And the caliph yearned for your countenance, revealing

    to you his longing, folded within his secrets.

  2. ودعا الملوك فلم يلبّ دعاءه

    إلاّ أحقهم بدار قراره

    And he summoned the kings, but none answered his call

    except the one among them most worthy of his abode.

  3. عظمت امر الله في تعظيمه

    واقمت دين الله في استحضاره

    You exalted God's cause by exalting him,

    and upheld God's religion by summoning him.

  4. وافاك في برد النبي محمد

    بهدى النبي وسمته ووقاره

    He came to you in the mantle of the Prophet Muhammad,

    with the Prophet's guidance, bearing, and dignity.

  5. يشكو الى الإسلام وخط مشيبه

    ما كلفته الترك من أسفاره

    The gray streaks in his hair complain to Islam

    of the journeys the Turks had forced upon him,

  6. حتى بدا عضد الهدى وكأنّما

    كان الخضاب أحال شيب عذاره

    until the Arm of Guidance appeared, and it was as though

    dye had transformed the gray of his sideburns.

  7. حتى إذا أبدى الإمام أمامه

    ملكاً كبدر التم في انواره

    At last, when the imam displayed before him

    a king like the full moon in its radiance,

  8. خلنا على الكرسي ليثاً غابه

    سمر القنا نبتت بفيض بحاره

    we imagined a lion upon the throne, whose thicket

    was dusky spear-shafts, grown from his seas' overflow.

  9. وغداة ظلت مساير الإقبال في

    خلع الإمام وطوقه وسواره

    And that morning you kept pace with good fortune, in

    the imam's robes of honor, his neck-ring, and his bracelet,

  10. متسوراً بأهلة متطوقاً

    بالشمس أو بالبدر او بإطاره

    braceleted with crescent moons, wearing a neck-ring

    of the sun, or the full moon, or its halo,

  11. في خلعة صبغ للشباب بلونها

    فالخلق قد جلبوا على ايثاره

    in a robe whose hue dyed him young;

    for all people had rallied to give him precedence.