Sol 6.1

  1. اللَهُ أَكبر جاءَ النَصر وَالظفرُ

    وَالأَمن وَاليَمن لَما ساعَدَ القَدرُ

    God is greatest! Victory and triumph have come,

    And security and good fortune, when fate lent its aid.

  2. وَاخضر رَوض الأَماني فَهِيَ حالية

    كَأَنَّما جَرَّ فيها ذَيلَهُ الخضرُ

    The garden of hopes grew green, and they are adorned,

    As though al-Khidr had trailed his hem through them.

  3. وَأَشرَق المَجلس المَسعود طالِعُهُ

    بِطَلعة عَن سَناها الطَرف يَنحَسِرُ

    The assembly, blessed in its fortune, shone

    At a visage whose radiance makes the gaze recoil.

  4. أَعني الوَزير الَّذي أُعتابهُ وَزرٌ

    بِهِ الوِزارة كَالعَلياءِ تَفتَخِرُ

    I mean the vizier whose thresholds are a refuge,

    In whom the vizierate, like lofty glory, takes pride.

  5. إِذ لِلوزارة ناموس بِهَيبَتِهِ

    أَحياهُ لَما رَآهُ وَهُوَ مُحتضرُ

    For the office has a prestige which, through his imposing presence,

    He revived when he saw it at death's door.

  6. ما زالَ مُنذُ غَدا التَوفيق يَصحَبُهُ

    لِبيضة الملك وَالإِسلام يَنتَصِرُ

    Ever since success began to attend him, he has continued

    To defend the heart of the realm and Islam.

  7. العَدل يَنشُر في دِيوانِهِ أَبَداً

    وَالشَرع يَأمُر وَالصَمصام يَنتَظِرُ

    He spreads justice in his court continually;

    Sacred law commands, while the keen blade waits.

  8. وَالحَقُ يَعلو عَلى الأَخصام قاطِبة

    وَالعلم مُحتَرم وَالمال مُحتَقِرُ

    Right prevails over every adversary,

    Learning is honored, and wealth held in contempt.

  9. مَن يَغرس العَدل يَجِنّ النَصر عَن ثِقَة

    وَالعَدل يُثمر ما لا يُثمر الشَجَرُ

    Whoever plants justice confidently reaps victory;

    Justice bears fruit no tree can bear.

  10. تَعظيمُهُ العلم عَن فَضل وَمَعرِفَة

    ما عظم العلم إِلّا مَن بِهِ خَطَرُ

    His reverence for learning springs from merit and knowledge;

    Only one of stature reveres learning.

  11. كَم في السَماءِ نُجوم طالَ ما أَفلَت

    وَلِلعُلوم نُجوم لَيسَ تَنكَدِرُ

    How many stars in heaven have so often set,

    While learning has stars that never fade.

  12. صَدرٌ وَلا ضَجَرٌ فكرٌ وَلا حَصرٌ

    نَطق وَلا هَذر مَجد وَلا بَطرُ

    A breast without impatience; thought without constraint;

    Speech without babble; glory without arrogance.

  13. مَعارف صَدرت عَنها عَوارِفُهُ

    إِذ صَدرهُ البَحر لَكن لَفظُهُ الدُرَرُ

    Knowledge from which his benefactions spring,

    For his breast is the sea, but his utterance pearls.

  14. أَلفاظُهُ وَزلال الماءِ بَينَهُما

    تَمازج وَنَسيم الرَوض وَالسحرُ

    His words and limpid water share

    A mingling with garden breezes and enchantment.

  15. وَخَطُهُ هُوَ وَالسحر المجوَّز قَد

    تَلازَما وَجُفون الغيد وَالحورُ

    His handwriting and permitted magic have

    Become inseparable, like beauties' eyelids and their dark-eyed charm.

  16. لا يَستَطيع اِنصِرافاً عَن تَأَمُل ما

    يَملي وَيَكتُب لا سَمع وَلا بَصَرُ

    There can be no turning away from contemplating what

    He dictates and writes—not for ear or eye.

  17. يَطوي مَحاسِنَهُ وَالطَيّ يَنشُرُها

    كَما تَبرج في أَكمامِهِ الزَهرُ

    He folds away his virtues, yet the folding spreads them,

    As blossoms flaunt their beauty within their calyxes.

  18. مَفاخر لَيسَ يَخفيها تَواضعهُ

    وَلِلصَباح ظُهور لَيسَ يَستَتِرُ

    Glories his humility cannot conceal,

    For morning has a radiance that cannot hide.

  19. ذِكري مَناقبهُ في شَرح سيرَتِهِ

    مطول لَكن التَلخيص مُختَصَرُ

    My account of his virtues, in expounding his life,

    Is lengthy, though the summary is brief.

  20. إِن طالَعتَ كُتبهُ أَعداؤُهُ كَسرت

    فَقارَ أَظهُرِهم مِن خَوفِهِ الفُقرُ

    If his enemies read his letters, their passages shatter

    The vertebrae of their backs, through fear of him.

  21. مِن كُلِ مَعنىً بِديوان يَقول لَهُ

    قَلب المُخاطب إِجلالاً وَيَنفَطِرُ

    At every meaning in a dispatch, there speaks to him

    The addressee's heart in reverence, and breaks apart.

  22. حصن العِقاب غَدا مِن خَوف سَطوَتِهِ

    يَرتَج مِن قَبل أَن تَنتابُهُ النذرُ

    The fortress of al-Uqab, fearing his might, began

    To tremble before warnings even reached it.

  23. فَسَلموهُ وَأَخفى الجَرَس هاربهم

    أَن صَرصر الباز أَخفى سدعهُ النغرُ

    So they surrendered it, and their fugitive hushed his voice;

    When the hawk screeches, the finch hushes its call.

  24. وَفَرَّ قعدان وَالأَقوام تَعذرهُ

    إِذ فَرَّ مِن أَسَد غَضبان يَهتَصرُ

    Qaʿdan fled, and the people excuse him,

    For he fled a furious lion that tears apart.

  25. يَهَتَزّ في جفنِهِ وَالدار نازِحَةٌ

    شَوقاً إِلى وَدجيهِ الصارم الذكرُ

    It quivers in its sheath, though the dwelling is far away,

    The keen, stout blade, longing for his two jugular veins.

  26. قَد كانَ في صيتِهِ لِلقَوم مَوعِظَةً

    لَيتَ السَفيه بِغَير السَيف يَنزَجِرُ

    His renown held a warning for the people;

    Would that the fool could be deterred without the sword.

  27. تَخافَتوا بَينَهُم إِذ زارَ أَرضَهُمُ

    بِالدارعين فَلو صَلوا لَما جَهَروا

    They whispered among themselves when he visited their land

    With armored men; had they prayed, they would not have prayed aloud.

  28. إِن مَرَّ مِنهُ خَيال في خَواطرهم

    ذابَت مَرارَتَهُم وَاِنحَلَت المررُ

    If even an image of him crossed their thoughts,

    Their gallbladders melted, and their sinews unraveled.

  29. تَوحشوا فَرقاً حَتّى مَواردهم

    ما أَسأر البَقَر الوَحشيّ وَالحُمرُ

    They grew wild with fear, until their watering places held

    Only what wild cattle and asses had left over.

  30. فَهارب بِجِوار الرال مُعتَصم

    وَآخرٌ بِوجار الضَب مُنحجِرُ

    One fugitive sought refuge beside an ostrich chick,

    Another hid in a lizard's burrow.

  31. لَولا المَفاوز وَارتهم لَما وَأَلوا

    هَيهات لَم يَنجُ مِن مِيعادَهُ سقرُ

    Had the deserts not concealed them, they would not have escaped;

    Far from it! None whose appointed end was Saqar escaped.

  32. فَالذُل إِن صَبَروا وَالرُعب إِن نَفَروا

    وَالقَتل إِن ظَهَروا وَالنار إِن قَبَروا

    Humiliation if they endure, terror if they flee,

    Death if they emerge, and fire if they are buried.

  33. أَما العصاة فَقَد ماتوا وَما دَفنوا

    خَوفاً وَأَما الأولى دانوا فَقَد نَشَروا

    As for the rebels, they have died yet are unburied

    From fear; those who submitted, however, have come back to life.

  34. وَحارَبَتهُ بَنو حَرب فَأَورَدَهُم

    مِن المنية وَرداً مالَهُ صَدرُ

    Banu Harb fought him, and he brought them

    To death's watering place, from which there is no return.

  35. فَأَصبَحَت هامهم في البيد ساقِطَة

    كَما تَساقَطَ مِن أَغصانِهِ الثَمَرُ

    So their heads lay fallen in the wilderness,

    As fruit falls from its branches.

  36. حَتّى إِذا اِحمَرَت الصَفراء مِن دَمِهم

    وَسالَ في كُل وادٍ جَدوَلُ كَدرُ

    Until al-Safra reddened with their blood,

    And a turbid stream flowed in every valley,

  37. زارَتهُمُ النار في الدُنيا معاجلة

    تِلكَ الرُبوع بِما خانوا وَما فَجَروا

    Fire visited them in this world, swiftly overtaking

    Those dwellings, for their treachery and wickedness.

  38. تَحصنوا بِجِبال الشامِخات فَما

    أَغنَت مَعاقلهم عَنهُم وَلا الحَذَرُ

    They fortified themselves in lofty mountains, yet

    Neither their strongholds nor their caution availed them.

  39. أَخفاهُمُ الرُعب وَالتَأمين أَظهرهم

    لَما اِستَغاثوا فَما غابوا وَلا حَضَروا

    Terror hid them; assurances of safety brought them out,

    When they cried for help; they were neither absent nor present.

  40. كان السَبيل إِلى البَيت الحَرام وَقَد

    تَفاقَمَ الأَمر صَعباً كُلُهُ خَطَرُ

    The road to the Sacred House had become,

    As matters worsened, difficult and wholly dangerous.

  41. حَتّى الطَواف عَلى طَيف الخَيال بِما

    ظَنوا مَحالاً فَخابَ الظَن بَل خَسِروا

    Even circumambulation in a fleeting vision was, as

    They supposed, impossible; that supposition failed—indeed, they lost.

  42. وَوكل اللَه بِالحَجاج متكلاً

    عَلَيهِ لا الخَوف يَثنيهِ وَلا الحَذَرُ

    And God appointed over the pilgrims one relying

    On Him, whom neither fear nor caution deters.

  43. يَرعاهُم بِجِنان ملؤهُ هِمَمُ

    بِلا فُتور وَطَرف كحلُهُ السَهَرُّ

    He watches over them with a heart full of resolve,

    Without flagging, and an eye whose kohl is sleeplessness.

  44. يَهنيهِ زادٍ بِبَحر الآل تَحملها

    سُفُنٌ وَما ثمذَ الواحٌ وَلا دسرُ

    Provisions gladden him, carried over a sea of mirage

    By ships, though there are neither planks nor nails.

  45. وَبالروايا مياه في المَفاوز مِن

    أَفواهِها كَالسَحاب الجون تَنهَمِرُ

    And water in the skins, amid the deserts, from

    Their mouths pours down like dark clouds.

  46. قُل لِأَعاريب كَم روم وَكَم عَجَمٍ

    راموا الثَبات لَهُ يَوماً فَما قَدَروا

    Tell the Bedouins: how many Romans and non-Arabs

    Sought one day to stand against him, but could not.

  47. فَلا يَغُرَنَّكُم بُعد الدِيار فَما

    عَلى الأَجادل بَعد الحين تَبتدرُ

    Do not let distant homes deceive you, for there is no

    Distance too great for falcons racing toward doom.

  48. لا غُروُ فَالأَكرَم المِغوار يذكر في

    أَلقابِهِ الغُر وَالأَلقاب تَعتَبِرُ

    No wonder: 'most noble' and 'valiant raider' are named among

    His radiant titles, and titles carry weight.

  49. وَخَيلُهُ لا تَزال الدَهر ملجمةً

    لا الوَهم يَلحق مَسراها وَلا النَظَرُ

    His horses remain bridled at all times;

    Neither imagination nor sight catches their night-march.

  50. تَسيل كَالبَحر إِلّا أَنَّها أَبَداً

    نيران حَرب عَلى الأَعداءِ تَستَعِرُ

    They flow like the sea, except that they are always

    Fires of war blazing against the enemy.

  51. سِياطَها العَتب في الغارات إِن فَتَرَت

    وَالخَيل تَعتب فيما قَرر الأَثَرُ

    Their whips in raids are reproaches, if they flag,

    And horses heed reproach, as tradition attests.

  52. عَزت لَدَيهِ نَواصيها فَقَد غبطت

    جِباههنَّ خُدود الغيد وَالطُررُ

    Their forelocks are prized by him; envied are

    Their foreheads by beauties' cheeks and tresses.

  53. مِن كُل طَرف إِذا ما الطَرف عايَنهُ

    تَقَسمَت لُبهُ الأَوضاح وَالغُرُرُ

    Each steed, whenever the eye beholds it,

    Has white markings and blazes that divide the beholder's heart.

  54. إِذا جَرى الماء مِن أَعطافِهِ عَرَقاً

    يَكادُ يَقدح مِن أَحداقِهِ الشَررُ

    When water runs as sweat from its flanks,

    Sparks almost flash from its eyes.

  55. أَعدَّ لِلحَرب قَلباً ما بِهِ وَجَلٌ

    وَمدَّ لِلمَجد باعاً ما بِهِ قصرُ

    He readied for war a heart untouched by fear,

    And stretched toward glory an arm that never falls short.

  56. قرعُ القَنا وَزَئير الأَسَد يُطربهُ

    عِندَ المَلاحم لا كَأس وَلا وَتَرُ

    The clash of lances and the roaring of lions delight him

    Amid great battles—not a cup or a plucked string.

  57. إِن كَرَّ يَوماً رَأَيت الهَام طائِرة

    كَما تَدَحرج في مَيدانِها الأَكرُ

    If he charges one day, you see heads flying,

    As balls roll across their field.

  58. مِن تَحتِهِ البَرق إِلّا أَنَّهُ فَرَسٌ

    في سَرجِهِ اللَيث إِلّا أَنَّهُ بَشَرُ

    Beneath him is lightning, except that it is a horse;

    In its saddle is a lion, except that he is human.

  59. لا يُشهر السَيف في خطب يُحاولهُ

    إِلّا عَلى وَقعة تَزهو بِها السَيرُ

    He never draws the sword in an undertaking he attempts

    Except for a battle in which chronicles take pride.

  60. سَيفٌ تَبَسم لَما أَن بَكوا جَزعاً

    كَأَنَّما دَمَهُم في خَدِهِ خَفرُ

    A sword that smiled when they wept in anguish,

    As though their blood upon its cheek were modesty's blush.

  61. لَو لَم يَكُن في الطِباع البَغي ما طَبعت

    زرق الأَسنة وَالهِندية البترُ

    Had oppression not been in human nature, there would not have been forged

    Blue spearheads and severing Indian swords.

  62. فَاِستَقَر أيةَ أَنَزلنا الحَديد تَجد

    في طَيِها حُكماً فيهنَّ مُعتَبِرُ

    Read the verse 'We sent down iron'; you will find

    Within it a judgment about them worth pondering.

  63. وَكَم أَساءَ ذوو جَهل فَعاملهم

    بِالحلم وَالحلم يَستَبقى بِهِ الظَفر

    How often the ignorant have done wrong, yet he has treated them

    With forbearance; through forbearance victory is preserved.

  64. بَحرٌ مِن الحلم عَن علم يُسدده

    وَالبَحرُ يَعلو وَما مِن طَبعِهِ الكَدر

    A sea of forbearance, guided by knowledge,

    The sea rises, yet murkiness is not its nature.

  65. قَد عمنا صَفداً مِن قَبل مدحتِهِ

    مِن بَعد إِن كانَت الأَصفاد تَنتَظِرُ

    He had showered us with bounty before being praised,

    Though gifts, if awaited, are awaited afterward.

  66. وَاِمتازَ رَسمي بِهِ وَالشَمس تَرفع عَن

    أَرض المَذَلة ظلّاً خَطُهُ السحر

    My stipend gained distinction through him; the sun lifts from

    The ground of abasement a shadow whose outline is magic.

  67. صَنعت لِلشُكر عقداً الَ ما وَأَدت

    أَبكاره قلة الأَفكار وَالغَير

    I fashioned a necklace of thanks, save for what was buried:

    Its maiden pearls, by scant ideas and fortune's changes.

  68. وَلَستُ أَمدح إِلّا عَن مُشاهَدة

    وَالخَبَر يُثبت ما لا يُثبت الخَبَر

    I praise only from what I have witnessed,

    And experience confirms what mere report cannot confirm.

  69. ما الفَخر في المَلبس المَنسوج مِن ذَهَب

    لِباس أَهل العُلا ما تنسج الفكر

    Pride lies not in a garment woven of gold;

    The attire of the lofty is what thoughts weave.

  70. لا زالَ مُنتَشِراً بَعدَ الدُعاءِ لَهُ

    في كُل قُطر ثَناء نَشرَهُ عُطر

    May there ever spread, after prayers for him,

    In every land, praise whose scent is perfume.