أوَما انثنيتَ عن الوداعِ بلوعةٍ

أوَما انثنيتَ عن الوداعِ بلوعةٍ

ملأت حشَاك صبابةً وغليلا

ملأت حشَاك صبابةً وغليلا

And did you not turn from farewell with burning grief

O you who turned away from farewell in sorrow,

That filled your breast with longing and burning thirst,

Filling your thoughts with youth and anguish,

ومدامعٍ تجري فيحسبُ أن في

ومدامعٍ تجري فيحسبُ أن في

آماقِهنَّ بَنَانَ إسماعيلا

آماقِهنَّ بَنَانَ إسماعيلا

And streaming eyes, so one might think that in

With tears flowing, so it seems in their depths

Their inner corners were the fingertips of Ismail?

Are the children of Ishmael.

يا أيها القرمُ الذي بعلوِّهِ

يا أيها القرمُ الذي بعلوِّهِ

نال العَلاءُ من الزمانِ السُّولا

نال العَلاءُ من الزمانِ السُّولا

O noble chief, through whose eminence

O exalted mountain whose height

Glory won from Time its heart’s desire,

Brought glory to the time of old,

قَسَمت يداك على الوَرَى أرزاقها

قَسَمت يداك على الوَرَى أرزاقها

فَكنوكَ قاسمَ رزقها المسئُولا

فَكنوكَ قاسمَ رزقها المسئُولا

Your two hands apportioned humankind their livelihoods,

Your hands have divided its grace among the lands

So they named you Qasim, the distributor of their sustenance whom they petition.

So you have become the giver of its destined shares.

أهدت لمجدكَ حُلة موشيةً

أهدت لمجدكَ حُلة موشيةً

تكسو الحسودَ كآبةً وذبولا

تكسو الحسودَ كآبةً وذبولا

It offered your glory an embroidered robe

You have given your glory a garment embroidered

That clothes the envious in gloom and withering.

To clothe the envious in gloom and fading,

أحيَت حبيباً والوليدَ ففصَّلا

أحيَت حبيباً والوليدَ ففصَّلا

منها وشائعَ نسجها تفصيلا

منها وشائعَ نسجها تفصيلا

It revived Habib and al-Walid, and the two fashioned

You have revived a beloved and Al-Walid who distinguished

From it the strands of its weave, in fine detail.

Themselves in it and spread tales of its weaving,

فأفادها الطائيُّ دقةَ فكرهِ

فأفادها الطائيُّ دقةَ فكرهِ

والبُحتُري دماثةً وقَبُولا

والبُحتُري دماثةً وقَبُولا

Thus al-Ta’i lent it the subtlety of his thought,

So Al-Tai brought it wit’s refinement

And al-Buhturi, grace and charm.

And Al-Buhturi grace and acceptance.