Sol 6.1

  1. أهلاً بشاعر فارس وأديبِها

    ووزيرها وسفيرها وخطيبِها

    Welcome to Persia’s poet and man of letters,

    its minister, its ambassador, and its orator;

  2. ومشرِّف الفئة الشريفة بالذي

    أوحى لها ومعزها ومثيبها

    and to one who honors the noble company through what

    he has imparted to it, who exalts it and rewards it;

  3. موصي الممالك بالسماحة والندى

    نقّادها ورقيبها وحسيبها

    who counsels kingdoms to magnanimity and bounty,

    their critic, their overseer, and their reckoner.

  4. انزل بلاداً يصطفيك أميرها

    تدلي إليك بعذبها وخصيبها

    Alight in a land whose prince favors you;

    it offers you its sweet waters and fertile land.

  5. حبُّ الملوك إليك برهانٌ على

    حظ القوافي عندهم ونصيبها

    The love kings bear you is proof of

    the good fortune of rhymes with them and the share they receive.

  6. كم في الوزارة من نجيبٍ كابرٍ

    هل ناله ما نلت من تلقيبها

    How many gifted, eminent men hold ministerial office!

    Has any gained what you gained through its conferral of a title?

  7. ماذا رأيت على التخوم من الخطى

    بأمينها أنبئت أم برهيبها

    What steps did you see along the frontiers?

    Were you told of their safe ones, or their fearsome ones?

  8. أسكن قلوب معاشر مشتاقة

    ذهبت أراجيف العدى بقلوبها

    Calm the hearts of yearning communities;

    the enemies’ false rumors have swept their hearts away.

  9. ترجو لأمتك السعادة والعلى

    بمليكها الساعي إلى تهذيبها

    You hope for your nation’s happiness and greatness,

    through its king, who strives to refine it.

  10. لو كان بالجارين ما نخشاه لم

    تترك بلادك في مثار خطوبها

    Had what we fear beset the two neighbors, you would not

    have left your country amid its rising troubles.

  11. أتعود بينهما الخطوب وأنت في ال

    دنيا رسول السلم بين شعوبها

    Will calamities return between them, while you are in the

    world as a messenger of peace among its peoples?

  12. نلت الشفاعة عند كل مناجزٍ

    وعطفت غالبَها على مغلوبها

    You have gained the right to intercede with every combatant,

    and turned its victors kindly toward its vanquished.

  13. إن الذي استصفى لدولته العدى

    من بعد ما اجتمعوا على تعذيبها

    Indeed, he who won the enemies’ friendship for his state,

    after they had united to torment it,

  14. وينيلها ود البعيد الدار لم

    يفقد مودة جارها وقريبها

    and wins it the love of those dwelling far away, has not

    lost the affection of its neighbor and its kin.