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 away among 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 dwelling.

  3. عظمت امر الله في تعظيمه

    واقمت دين الله في استحضاره

    You exalted God's cause by exalting him,

    And upheld God's faith by summoning him.

  4. وافاك في برد النبي محمد

    بهدى النبي وسمته ووقاره

    He came to you in the Prophet Muhammad's mantle,

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

  5. يشكو الى الإسلام وخط مشيبه

    ما كلفته الترك من أسفاره

    His streaks of gray complain to Islam

    Of the journeys the Turks had burdened him with,

  6. حتى بدا عضد الهدى وكأنّما

    كان الخضاب أحال شيب عذاره

    Until the Arm of Guidance appeared, 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 fancied a lion on the throne, whose thicket was

    Tawny lances, sprung from the overflow of his seas.

  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 collar, and his bracelet,

  10. متسوراً بأهلة متطوقاً

    بالشمس أو بالبدر او بإطاره

    Wearing crescents as bracelets, and as a collar

    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 is a dye for youth—

    For people have been drawn to prefer it.