لجلال قدرك تخضع الأقدار — Al Tughrai

لجلالِ قدرِكَ تخضعُ الأقدارُ

وبيُمْنِ جَدِّكَ يحكمُ المِقْدارُ

Before the majesty of your rank, destinies bow.

And through your auspicious fortune, fate decrees.

والدهرُ كيف أمرتَهُ لك طَيِّعٌ

واللّهُ حيثُ حللتَهُ لك جارُ

Time obeys you, however you command it,

and God is your protector wherever you settle.

ولك البسيطةُ حيثُ مدَّ غِطاءَهُ

ليلٌ وما كشفَ الغِطاءَ نَهارُ

Yours is the earth wherever its veil is spread

by night, and as long as day draws back the veil.

والفَيْلقُ الجَرّارُ بينَ يديهِ من

سطواتِ بأسِكَ فيلَقٌ جَرَّارُ

The vast host has before it, from

the onslaughts of your might, another vast host.

ومَهابةٌ ممزوجةٌ بمحبَّةٍ

دانتْ لها الأشرارُ والأخيَارُ

And awe is mingled with love;

to it the wicked and the good submit.

طابتْ بكَ الأيامُ والدُّنيا بما

فيها وطابَ بذكرِكَ الأَخبارُ

Through you the days are pleasant, and the world with all

it holds; and news is sweetened by mention of you.

هذا هو العصرُ الذي سبقتْ بهِ ال

بُشرَى وجاءَ بذكرهِ الآثارُ

This is the age announced beforehand by the

glad tidings, and mentioned in transmitted accounts.

ولَّى ظلامُ الظُّلمِ فيهِ فما لهُ

أثَرٌ وشاعَ بعدلِه الأنوارُ

In it the darkness of oppression has fled, leaving no

trace; through its justice, lights have spread.

رقَّتْ حواشيهِ وراقَ رُواؤُهُ

فهجيرُهُ وأصيلُه أسحارُ

Its edges have softened, and its aspect has grown fair;

its midday heat and late afternoon are predawn hours.

عمَّ البريّةَ والبسيطةَ عدلُهُ

فالخَلْقُ شخصٌ والبسيطةُ دارُ

Its justice has embraced all creatures and the earth;

all creation is one person, and the earth one house.

شكراً فقد آتاكَ ما لم يُؤْتِهِ

أحداً سِواكَ الواحدُ القَهَّارُ

Give thanks: He has granted you what He has not granted

anyone but you—the One, the All-Subduing.

ورآكَ إذْ ولَّاكَ أمرَ عِبادهِ

تَدعُ الذي تهوَى لِما يختارُ

When He entrusted you with His servants' affairs, He saw you

relinquish what you desire for what He chooses.

تُعطِي وتَمْنَعُ من تشاءُ بإذنِهِ

وبكفِّكَ الأرزاقُ والأعمارُ

You give to, and withhold from, whomever you wish, by His leave;

in your palm lie livelihoods and lifespans.

ينساقُ نحوَكَ ما تُرِيدُ بعزمةٍ

ما كدَّها الإِيرادُ والإصدَارُ

What you desire is driven toward you by a resolve

that bringing in and sending forth have never wearied.

تتفاوتُ الأقدارُ ما بينَ الوَرى

فإِذا ذُكِرْتَ تساوتِ الأقدَارُ

Ranks differ among humankind;

but when you are mentioned, all ranks become equal.

وإِذا هَمَمْتَ جَرى القضاءُ بما تَرى

فكأنكَ المُتحكِّمُ المختارُ

When you resolve, destiny follows what you judge right,

as though you were the arbiter, free to choose.

وأسوتَ جُرْحَ الحادثاتِ وطالما

كنَّا وجُرْحُ الحادثاتِ جُبَارُ

You healed the wound of calamities; for so long

we lived while calamities' wound went unredressed.

جرَّدْتَ عزمَك للجِهَادِ فقبلَ أنْ

جَرَّدْتَ سيفَك زُلْزِلَ الكُفَّارُ

You unsheathed your resolve for holy war; before

you unsheathed your sword, the unbelievers were shaken.

طَرَقْتهُمُ من حَدِّ بأسِكَ رَوْعةٌ

هُدّتْ لها الأمصارُ والأَعصارُ

A terror from the keen edge of your might struck them,

by which cities and ages were shattered.

وَلَوَ اَنّها رامتْ عِتاقَ الطيرِ لم

تَثْبُت على شَعَفاتِها الأوكارُ

Had it assailed the noblest birds, no

nests would have stood firm upon their peaks.

خَيلٌ بأرضِ الرَّقَّتَيْنِ وراءَها

نَقْعٌ كمُرْتكِمِ الغَمامِ مُثَارُ

Cavalry in the land of al-Raqqatayn, behind it

dust stirred up like piled-up clouds.

نشأتْ بأعلى الشامِ من سَرَعانها

سُحُبٌ لها العلقُ المشاعُ قَطارُ

In upper al-Sham there rose from its vanguard

clouds whose rainfall was blood freely shed.

رِيعَ العدوُّ وقد أحسَّ بِقُرْبِها

فالجنبُ نابٍ والرُقَادُ غِرارُ

The enemy was terrified on sensing its approach;

his flank finds no rest, and his sleep is scant.

وغدا الذي كفرَ الجميلَ وجاملَ ال

كُفَّارَ أحسنُ حالتيهِ إِسَارُ

He who denied kindness and courted the

unbelievers found captivity the better of his two fates,

في رأسِ شاهقةِ المرامِ منيعةٍ

والقِدُّ طَوقٌ والحديدُ سِوَارُ

atop an impregnable height, hard to reach,

with rawhide for a collar and iron for a bracelet.

وجنى على عُصَبِ النِفاق كما جَنَى

في الغابرينَ على ثَمُودَ قُدَارُ

He brought ruin upon the bands of hypocrisy, as did

Qudar upon Thamud among the peoples of old.

وعلى خليجِ الرومِ منكَ مَهابَةٌ

من خوفِها يتطامنُ التيارُ

Over the Romans' gulf hangs a dread of you;

in fear of it, the current bows low.

لا البيدُ بِيْدٌ إذ تَهُمُّ بنهضَةٍ

نحو الخليجِ ولا البِحارُ بِحَارُ

The deserts are no deserts when you resolve to march

toward the gulf, nor are the seas then seas.

ولقد درى الرومي أن وراءه

خطراً تقاصَرُ دونه الأخطارُ

The Roman knows full well that awaiting him

is a peril before which all perils shrink:

يومٌ يقوتُ المُرْهَفاتِ وقد غدتْ

غرثَى ويُروي السُمْرَ وهي حِرارُ

a day that feeds the keen-edged swords when they have grown

hungry, and slakes the brown spears while they are parched.

وبأرضِ بُرقةَ والصعيدِ روائعٌ

لِلَهيبِها في الخافقَيْنِ شرارُ

In Barqa and Upper Egypt are terrors

whose blaze scatters sparks to east and west.

وإِذا عَدا فرعونُ فيها واعتَدى

فعصا الكليم لواؤُكَ الخَطَّارُ

If Pharaoh transgresses there and oversteps his bounds,

your fluttering banner is the staff of Moses.

عَلَمٌ بهِ نُصِرَ الهُدى فكأنَّهُ

عَلَمُ النبيِّ وحولَهُ الأنصارُ

A standard through which guidance won victory, as though it were

the Prophet's standard, surrounded by the Ansar.

تتلقّفُ الإفْكَ الذي سُحِرتْ به ال

ألبابُ والأبصارُ والأفكارُ

It swallows the falsehood that bewitched the

minds, the eyes, and the thoughts.

أيَّدْتَ دينَ الهاشميَّ فلم يضِعْ

لبني الشريعةِ عندَ سيفِك ثارُ

You upheld the Hashimite's faith, so no

blood-claim of the Law's sons went unavenged by your sword.

وهتكتَ سِتْرَ الباطنيّةِ بعدَما

لُطَّتْ وراءَ غُيوبِها الأستارُ

You tore away the veil of the Batiniyya, after

curtains had been drawn behind their hidden recesses.

ملكوا قِلاعَ الأرضِ واتَّسقَتْ لهمْ

حِيَلٌ يَضِلُّ بمثلِها الأغمارُ

They held the earth's fortresses, and for them came together

ruses whose like mislead the inexperienced.

غرَّتهمُ الأقدارُ إذ أملَتْ لهمْ

فتكاملَ الآثامُ والأوزارُ

The fates deceived them when they granted them respite,

and so their sins and burdens reached their fullness.

حكَّمتَ سيفَكَ فيهمُ فصدعْتَهُمْ

صدعَ الزُجاجةِ صَكَّها الأحجارُ

You made your sword their judge, and shattered them

like a glass vessel struck by stones.

وأخذتَ ثأرَ الدينِ منهمْ بعدَمَا

شاطَ الدماءُ وضاعفَ الأوتارُ

You exacted the faith's vengeance from them, after

blood had been shed unavenged and blood-feuds multiplied.

دبُّوا الضَّراءَ مخاتلينَ وأَعْمَلوا

أفكارَهُمْ في الكفرِ وهو سِرَارُ

They crept through cover, deceitful, and applied

their thoughts to unbelief, while it was kept secret.

ففتكتَ جهراً لا طِعانُكَ خِلْسَةٌ

في المارقينَ ولا الضِرابُ ضِمَارُ

But you struck openly: your thrusts were not stealthy

against the renegades, nor were your sword-blows hidden.

لما رأوكَ ولم يَرْوا لنفوسِهمْ

أنْ يُقْدِموا عندَ اللِّقاءِ وحاروا

When they saw you, and found no way for themselves

to advance at the encounter, and stood bewildered,

بعثُوا أَناسِيَّ الحِداق فما انثنتْ

إلا وأشفارُ الجفونِ شِفَارُ

they sent out the pupils of their eyes, which turned back

only with the rims of their eyelids as blades.

فلتهنأِ الأيامُ أنّك مالكُ ال

دنيا وطوعُ مرادِكَ الأقدارُ

Let the days rejoice that you are master of the

world, and destinies obey your will.

يا مالكَ الدُّنيا الذي بشبيههِ

عقُم الزمانُ وضنَّتِ الأدوارُ

O master of the world, whose like

barren time cannot beget, nor grudging ages yield!

أوليتَنِي النِّعَمَ التي سارتْ بها ال

ركبانُ وامتلأتْ بها الأقطارُ

You bestowed on me blessings carried abroad by the

riders; with them all lands were filled.

ورفعتَ ذكري بعد طُولِ خمولهِ

فكأنني عَلَمٌ عليهِ نارُ

You raised my renown after its long obscurity,

as though I were a mountain with a fire upon it.

لا شرْكةٌ فيما اصطنعتَ ولا يَدٌ

لِسواك فيها ذلَّةٌ وصَغَارُ

No one shares in what you bestowed, nor is there a hand

of anyone else, bearing abasement and humiliation.

وكفيتَني مِنَنَ الرِجالِ ولم يزلْ

مِنَنُ الرجال يعافُها الأحرارُ

You spared me the favors of men, and always

have the freeborn disdained men's favors.

فلأُفردنَّك بالمدائحِ إنَّها

دررٌ وهنَّ على عُلاك نِثَارُ

I shall reserve my praises for you alone: they are

pearls, strewn upon your exalted rank.

وَلأَشكرنَّ جميلَ ما أوليتَني

شُكراً تسيرُ بذكرهِ الأشعارُ

And I shall thank you for the kindness you have bestowed on me,

with thanks whose mention poetry will carry abroad.

ولأطلِعَنّك إن بقيتُ على مدى

سِرٍّ تقاصَرُ دونَه الأسرارُ

And if I live, I shall reveal to you the reach

of a secret before which all secrets fall short.

فَبقِيتَ مرهوبَ الجَنابِ مؤمَّلاً

من شأنِكَ الإغناءُ والإفقارُ

May you endure, your presence feared, your favor hoped for;

it is yours to enrich and to impoverish.

أيامُك الأعيادُ وهي نواضرٌ

زُهْرٌ وعودُكَ في العَلاء نُضَارُ

Your days are festivals, fresh and flourishing,

radiant; your stem in the heights of glory is pure gold.