1. طَرِبنَ لترجيعِ الغناء المُهَزَّجِ

    نَواعِجُ حتى جُزْنَ أعلامَ مَنْعِجِ

    They thrilled to the modulations of rhythmic song,

    swift she-camels, until they passed the landmarks of Man'ij.

  2. وخُضنْا بها بحراً من الآل طافحا

    فعامتْ بنا مثلَ السّفينِ المُلجَّج

    We waded on them into a brimming sea of mirage,

    and they swam with us like ships upon the deep.

  3. فلمّا طَوتْ كفُّ الدجى سطْرَ أحرفٍ

    منَ العيسِ في ظهْرٍ من البيدِ مُدْرَج

    When darkness's hand folded away a line of letters—

    the pale camels upon a rolled expanse of desert—

  4. ولاحَتْ نجومُ اللّيلِ والصُبحُ مغمَدٌ

    كترصيع دُرٍ في قرابِ أرنْدَج

    and night's stars appeared while dawn remained sheathed,

    like pearls inlaid in a black-leather scabbard,

  5. أَلمّتْ بنا تجلو قشيبَ بهائها

    أُميمةُ في بُرْدٍ من الليلِ منْهَج

    she visited us, displaying her fresh splendor:

    Umayma, in a worn-through cloak of night.

  6. فما سمعَ الأقوامُ قبلَ طُروقها

    بشمسٍ بدَتْ والصّبحُ لم يَبتلَّج

    Before her nocturnal visit, people had never heard

    of a sun appearing before dawn shone.

  7. وأَنّى خَطَتْ في الرّملِ طُرْقاً خفيّةً

    على الحيِّ أن يَقْتافَها أُختُ مُدلِج

    And how did she tread paths in the sand, concealed

    from the tribe that might trace her—this sister of Mudlij?

  8. خَلَصْنا نَجِيّاً في نَدِيٍّ من الكَرى

    ونحن بأسرارِ الصّبابةِ نَنْتَجِي

    We withdrew into private converse in sleep's assembly,

    confiding to each other the secrets of longing.

  9. وقالتْ أترضَى أنّ طَرفَكَ راقدٌ

    وأنّيَ من بينِ الأسنّةِ مَخْرَجي

    She said, 'Are you content that your eyes sleep,

    while my way out lies among spearpoints?'

  10. فقلت لها لولاكِ ما بِتُّ ناصباً

    شباكَ الكَرى في البيدِ مُصطادَ بحْزَج

    I told her, 'Were it not for you, I would not spend the night setting

    sleep's nets in the desert to catch a wild-cow calf.

  11. فواللهِ ما عهْدي بدَهماءَ ليلةً

    تَخُبُّ بجفْنٍ لي على الغُمضِ مُشرَج

    By God, I have never known a pitch-black night

    to trot along with an eyelid of mine fastened shut in sleep.

  12. ولا دُرُّ دَمْعي خِيفةَ النَّهبِ ساعةً

    غَدتْ خلفَ بابٍ لي من العينِ مُرْتَج

    Nor have the pearls of my tears, fearing plunder, ever

    hidden behind a closed door of my eye.'

  13. كذلك ما زالَ التّعاتُبُ دَأبَنَا

    إلى أن رُمينا من هُبوب بِمُزْعِج

    Thus mutual reproach remained our custom,

    until a disturbing awakening struck us.

  14. وقام خَطيبُ من سَنا الفَجْرِ فارتقَى

    على مِنْبرٍ من آبَنوسٍ مُعَوَّج

    A preacher of dawn's radiance arose and ascended

    a crooked pulpit of ebony.

  15. حَطَبْتُ ضلُوعي ثمَّ أقبسْتُها الهوى

    فإن راحَ عَذْلٌ نارَها تَتأجّج

    I made my ribs firewood, then kindled them with love;

    if reproach fans their fire, it flares.

  16. فلا تَسْقِ كأسَ اللّومِ صِرْفاً مَسامعي

    ولكنْ بذكْرِ العامريّةِ فامْزُج

    Do not pour the cup of blame undiluted into my ears;

    mix it instead with mention of the woman of Amir,

  17. عقيلةِ حَيٍّ حامِلينَ لها القَنا

    من الخَيْلِ مَعْروضاً على كُلِّ مَنْسِج

    the treasured lady of a tribe whose men bear lances for her,

    laid crosswise upon the withers of every horse.

  18. لها رُمْحُ قّدٍ كلّما هَزَّه الصِّبا

    تَلَقّاهُ من بُعْدٍ فؤادُ المُدَجَّج

    Her stature is a spear: whenever the east breeze sways it,

    an armored man's heart receives it from afar.

  19. تَبِعْتُ لها أخرى الحُمولِ مُشَيِّعاً

    على زَبِدٍ عَبْلِ الذِّراعينِ مُدْمَج

    I followed the last of her camel-litters, escorting her,

    on a foaming horse, stout-forelegged and compactly built.

  20. تَبرقَعَ بالبدرِ المُنيرِ جَبينُه

    ويَرفُل في لّيلٍ بِعطْفَيهِ مُدَّج

    Its forehead was veiled with the luminous full moon,

    and it strutted through night enveloping its flanks.

  21. فلمّا أَحَسَّ السرْبُ وقْعَ نِعالِه

    رَمَيْنَ بعينَيْ كُلِّ أدْماءَ عَوْهَج

    When the flock of women sensed its horseshoes' tread,

    they cast looks with the eyes of slender white gazelles.

  22. ولولا نَسيمُ الرِّيحِ لم يَدرِ ناظرٌ

    حَذارَ الغَياري ما ضمائرُ أحدُج

    Without the breeze, no observer would have known—

    for fear of jealous men—what the howdahs concealed.

  23. فلا يَقطَعنَّ اللهُ ألسنةَ الصِّبا

    بما كشَفتْ للرَّكْبِ عن سِرٍّ هَوْدَج

    May God never cut off the east wind's tongues

    for revealing a howdah's secret to the caravan.

  24. ويومَ الكثيبِ الفَرْدِ لمّا استفَزَّنا

    وادعٌ وكنّا من وُشاةٍ بمَدْرَج

    And on the day of the solitary dune, when we were stirred

    by a gentle one, while on a path used by informers,

  25. وقفنا فدلسنا على رقبائنا

    فظنوا خلياً كل ذي لوعة شج

    we stopped and deceived our watchers,

    who thought every sorrowful, yearning soul free of love.

  26. حطَطْت لثاماً عن مَجودٍ مُوَرَّسٍ

    وألقَتْ نقاباً عن أسيلٍ مُضَرَّج

    I lowered a veil from a rain-drenched, saffron-yellow cheek,

    and she cast off a veil from a smooth, flushed cheek.

  27. فما زِلت أُذْري دَمعَ عَيْني صبابة

    وتُبدي دَلالاً عن شَتيتٍ مُفَلَّج

    I kept shedding tears of longing from my eyes,

    while she coquettishly revealed her spaced, gapped teeth.

  28. وقال رَقيبانا دَعُوا لَومَ ناظرٍ

    وناظرةٍ لم تَنْوِ سُوءاً فتُحرَج

    Our two watchers said, 'Stop blaming a gazing man

    and a gazing woman who meant no evil to incur blame.

  29. رَعتْ هِيَ روضَ الزعفرانِ وما درتْ

    وحَدّقَ ذا في الشّمس عند التّوهُّج

    She grazed in a saffron garden without knowing it,

    and he stared into the sun at its blazing height.

  30. فبالطبعِ مَجلوبٌ بكاه وضِحكُها

    بلا مُحزِنٍ مِمّا ظَنَنّا ومُبهِج

    His tears and her laughter arise naturally,

    without the sorrow or joy we imagined.'

  31. أصاحِ تَرى بَرْقَ المشيبِ تَهُزُّه

    يدا قادحٍ في ليلِ فَودَيْك مَسْرِج

    Friend, do you see the lightning of gray hair being stirred

    by a spark-striker's hands, lighting the night of your temples?

  32. تغنم فأطرب الشبيبة فرصة

    كأمس متى يذهب عن المرء لايجي

    Seize the chance and make merry: youth is an opportunity,

    like yesterday—once it leaves a man, it never returns.

  33. وما حلية الأعمارِ إلا مُعارةٌ

    فخلِّ لها خَيلَ البَطالةِ تَمْعَج

    The ornament of our lives is only borrowed;

    let the horses of idleness gambol for it.

  34. ولمّا رأيتُ اللهوَ حانَ وداعهُ

    وقالَ الصِّبا إلا أَرُحْ منكَ أُدلِج

    When I saw that the time to bid pleasure farewell had come,

    and youth said, 'If I do not leave you at dusk, I shall depart by night,'

  35. غَمسْتُ فؤادي في الجهالةِ غَمْسةً

    وقلتُ له امْرَحْ ما بدا لك وامرُج

    I plunged my heart deep into folly

    and told it, 'Frolic as you wish, and run wild!'

  36. ومَن رام نَزْعَ الثّوبِ يَدْخُلْ بوَجهه

    وكفّيهِ فيه دَخلةً ثمَّ يُخْرج

    Whoever wishes to remove a garment first puts his face

    and both hands into it, then draws them out.

  37. وقد كنتُ مثلَ الطّودِ مُدَّتْ ظِلالُه

    على رَوضِ عَيْشٍ بالشّباب مُدبَّج

    I had been like a mountain whose shadows stretched

    over a meadow of life embroidered with youth.

  38. فقد ثُلِجَتْ منّي الذُّوابةُ كَبرةً

    ومَن يَبْقَ حتَّى يَشْتُوَ العُمرُ يُثلَج

    Now age has snowed upon my forelock;

    whoever survives until life's winter is snowed upon.

  39. تَعجّبْتُ من راجي سِقاطي بعدما

    غدا نَقْدُ فَضْلي هازئاً بالمُبَهْرَج

    I marveled at one hoping for my slips, after

    the genuine coin of my excellence came to mock the counterfeit.

  40. أُجاملُ أقواماً على ما يريبني

    حياءً ومن يَمرُرْ على الصّحب يُمجَج

    I treat people courteously despite what troubles me,

    from modesty; whoever tastes bitter to friends is spat out.

  41. وأسكتُ إبقاءً وعندي مَقالةٌ

    مُفّوَّفةٌ إن تَصدِمِ الصدرَ تَلْعَج

    I remain silent to preserve goodwill, though I have words,

    embroidered words that burn when they strike the breast.

  42. ولست وإنْ أمسكْت للضَّيم مركباً

    ولكنَّ حِلْمِي مُلْجَمٌ غيرُ مُسْرَج

    Even when I hold back, I am no mount for oppression;

    my forbearance is bridled, but not saddled.

  43. وكم صاحبٍ داريْتُ أمزجُ جَهْله

    بحِلْمِي أزماناً فلم يتَمَزَّج

    How many companions have I humored, mixing their ignorance

    with my forbearance for ages, yet it would not blend!

  44. ولستُ ولو شمَّمتُه الورْدَ جانباً

    سوى الشّوكِ يُدمي الكفَّ من جِذْم عَوْسج

    Even if I made it smell roses, I would gather nothing

    but thorns from a boxthorn's root, drawing blood from my hand.

  45. دعوتُ لإسعادي على الدَّهر دعوةً

    وبيَّنْتُ في الأقوام غيرَ مُلَجْلج

    I called for help against Time,

    speaking plainly among people, without stammering.

  46. فلم أرَ إلا عند أبناء أرْحَبٍ

    وفاءً وإلا عند أبناء أعْوج

    But nowhere did I find, except among Arhab's offspring,

    fidelity—or among the offspring of A'waj.

  47. جنَبْتُ إلى مَهريَّةٍ كلَّ مُهرة

    متى تَعْلُ لطْماً هامةَ البِيدِ تشْجُج

    I led every filly beside a Mahri she-camel;

    whenever she rises to strike the desert's crown, she splits it.

  48. وراوحْتُ بين السَّرجِ والكُورِ سابقاً

    على مِثْلِ خفاقِ الجناحَيْنِ أخْرج

    I alternated between saddle and camel-saddle, racing

    upon one like a black-and-white ostrich beating its wings.

  49. كأني خيالٌ طارِقٌ أسلُكُ الفَلا

    على الهَوْلِ في طَرْفٍ من اللّيلِ أدعج

    Like a visiting phantom, I traversed the wilderness

    amid terrors, in a pitch-black stretch of night,

  50. إلى جاعلٍ عزاً مكانِيَ عَيْنَه

    ومَن يَعشَقِ العلياءَ بالوفدِ يَلْهَج

    toward one who honors me with a place in his very eye;

    whoever loves lofty glory delights in delegations.

  51. ولولا امتداحي تاجَ دينِ مُحمدٍ

    لَعِفْتُ لأبواب المُلوكِ تَولُّجي

    Were I not praising the Crown of Muhammad's Faith,

    I would have shunned entering the gates of kings.

  52. ولكنّ إحسانَ الحُسَينِ أهاب بي

    فقلتُ لحادي الأرحبيّةِ عَرِّج

    But Husayn's kindness summoned me,

    so I told the driver of the Arhabi she-camel, 'Turn aside!'

  53. أيا ماجداً تَغْشَى الوفودُ فِناءهُ

    ومَنْ يَك بيتاً للمكارِم يُحجَج

    O noble man whose courtyard delegations throng:

    whoever becomes a home for virtues receives pilgrimages.

  54. ثِقافُ لهذا المُلْكِ ما زال رأيُه

    يُقوِّم من أطرافِه كلَّ أعْوج

    A straightening tool for this kingdom, his judgment has always

    straightened every crooked part of it.

  55. إذا أثَّفَتْ يوماً ثلاثَ أناملٍ

    له قلَماً يَقْدِرْ أُموراً ويُنْضِج

    Whenever three fingertips prop

    a pen for him, it measures affairs and brings them to maturity.

  56. ربيطٌ إذا ما قَعقع الخَطْبُ جأْشَه

    وجَلَّ ابن غابٍ أن يُخشَّى بهَجْهَج

    Steadfast when calamity rattles his heart,

    a son of the forest is too mighty to be frightened by shouts.

  57. أخو صدقاتٍ صادقاتٌ يُسِرُّها

    بِيُمناه مِن يُسراه فَرْطَ تَحرُّج

    A man of genuine charities, he conceals them

    with his right hand from his left, out of utmost scrupulousness.

  58. يَجودُ بلا بَرْقٍ ورَعْدٍ غَمامُها

    على كلِّ حُر ذي دَريسَيْنِ مُلْفَج

    Their clouds rain without lightning or thunder

    upon every destitute noble man in two worn garments.

  59. إذا ذُكرَتْ أخلاقُه الزُّهْرُ ذَكرَةً

    بأرضٍ وتَهبُبْ فوقَها الرِّيحُ تأرج

    If his radiant virtues are mentioned once

    in a land, the wind blowing over it becomes fragrant.

  60. من القاسِمِيِّينَ الذين وجوهُهم

    متى ما تَلُحْ في المأزِقِ الضَّنكِ يُفْرَج

    He is among the Qasimids, whose faces,

    whenever they appear in a constricted crisis, bring relief.

  61. إذا ما انتَمَوا في آلِ شَيبانَ صُودِفوا

    إلى عِيصِ مَجْدٍ فيهمُ مُتَوشَّج

    When they trace their descent within the house of Shayban, they are found

    joined to a thicket of glory intertwined among them.

  62. ملوكٌ تَهادَى النّاطقون تهادياً

    بكلِّ حديثٍ عن عُلاهم مخَرَّج

    Kings: people exchange as gifts

    every account drawn from their lofty deeds.

  63. لهمُ يومُ ذي قارٍ وقد رَكزَوا القنا

    بأطْرافها ما بينَ أحشاءِ أَعْلُج

    At Dhu Qar, when they planted their lances

    with their tips amid foreign warriors' entrails,

  64. مُقامٌ به باهىَ النَّبيُّ وأنتمُ

    فوارسهُ في ظِل أقتمَ مُرهِج

    theirs was a stand in which the Prophet took pride; and you

    were its horsemen beneath a dark, dust-raising cloud.

  65. كسَرتُم جناحَيْ جيشِ كسرى وقلبَهُ

    بضرْبٍ كما ألهَبْتَ نيرانَ عَرفَج

    You broke both wings of Kisra's army and its center

    with blows like flames you kindled in 'arfaj brush,

  66. غداةَ دلَفْتُم بالرِماحِ شوائلاً

    تَرى النّقْعَ فيها مثل ثوبٍ مُفَرَّج

    on the morning you advanced with lances raised,

    the dust among them appearing like a slit-open garment.

  67. بإسلامِكم والجاهليةِ قبلَه

    أُديِلَ الهُدَى حاجِجْ بذلك تَحْجُج

    Through your Islam—and in the pre-Islamic age before it—

    guidance was given victory; argue this and you will prevail.

  68. فللّهِ أسلافٌ وأخلافُ سُؤدَد

    لكَم نَهَجوا العلياءَ أوضَحَ مَنْهَج

    God be praised for forebears and successors of nobility!

    They paved for you the clearest road to lofty glory.

  69. غَنُوا في ديارِ العُجْم عزّاً وإنّما

    نَماهم ملوكُ العُرْبِ من كل أبلَج

    They dwelt in non-Arab lands in honor, yet

    radiant kings of the Arabs gave them their lineage.

  70. هُمُ افتتَحوها ثمَّ حلُّوا نِجادَها

    وما الليثُ عمّا صادَه بمُهَيَّج

    They conquered those lands, then settled their uplands;

    a lion is not driven away from what it has caught.

  71. لهم صافناتُ الخيلِ مِلْءَ عِراصهم

    لخائفِ قومٍ يَعْتَري أو لِمُرْتَج

    Their poised horses fill their courtyards,

    for a frightened visitor or one who comes in hope.

  72. ومَضْروبةٌ خَمْساً لغيرِ جريمةٍ

    بأبوابهم ضَرْباً بكلِّ مُحَدْرَج

    And drums are beaten five times, for no offense,

    at their gates, struck with every rounded drumstick,

  73. تَوابعٌ أسْرابِ المُثوِّبِ مثلما

    يَلِى الرّعدَ لَمْعُ البارقِ المتبرِّج

    trailing the prayer-caller's flocks of summons, just as

    the gleam of flashing lightning follows thunder.

  74. أيا واحداً قد حَلّ للمجدِ ذِروةً

    إذا حّلَّ كلٌّ في حواشٍ وأثْبُج

    O peerless man who has occupied glory's summit,

    while everyone else occupies margins and middle slopes!

  75. بكَ اللهُ رَبُّ العرشِ تَوَّجَ دينه

    وقبلَك دينُ اللهِ لم يَتَتَوَّج

    Through you, God, Lord of the Throne, crowned His religion;

    before you, God's religion had not been crowned.

  76. لأنتَ المُحلُّي لا المُحَّلي بمَنْصبٍ

    فخَلِّ الحسودَ النّكْسَ يَبْكِ ويَنْشج

    You adorn an office, rather than being adorned by it;

    let the debased envious man weep and sob.

  77. لئن رُفّهَ الصَّمصامُ بالغِمْد مَرّةً

    لَمُرتقَبٌ منه وَشيكَ التَّبَرُّج

    If the keen sword is once given rest in its sheath,

    its swift emergence is still expected.

  78. وإن يجْزعوا أن قيلَ لازِم بيتهِ

    وإن كان نَجْماً حلَّ في خَير أبْرج

    And if they despair because it is said he keeps to his house,

    though he is a star settled in the finest zodiacal house,

  79. فلا يَيْأسَنْ حُرُّ وبَيتُ عطارِد

    له شَرَفٌ فاليومَ أعظَمُ ما رُجى

    let no noble man despair: Mercury's house

    has its exaltation; today holds the greatest hope.

  80. مَلكتَ بمَوروثِ العَلاء تَحلِّياً

    فلستَ إلى الحَلْىِ المُعارِ بمُخْرَج

    Your adornment comes from inherited loftiness,

    so you are not driven to borrowed ornaments.

  81. ومهما أبىَ جِيدُ الحَمامِ حُلَى الورى

    فما هو من طَوْقِ الإله بمُخرَج

    Though the pigeon's neck refuses mortal ornaments,

    it cannot be stripped of God's collar.

  82. أرى الفَضْلَ من غيرِ التَفضُّلِ حِلْيةً

    متى يُجْلَ فيها المرءُ يَحْسُن ويَسْمج

    I see merit without generosity as an ornament

    in which a man, displayed, looks both fair and foul.

  83. وكم مُلهَجٍ بالشِعْر لكنْ لسانُه

    لِراجيهِ عن إنعامِه مثْلُ مُلْهِج

    Many a man is enamored of poetry, yet his tongue,

    to one hoping for his bounty, is like a weaning gag.

  84. إذا رُحت عنه باحثاً قال خُلْقُه

    لمَدْحِيَ ما هذا بعُشِّكَ فادْرج

    When I leave him after searching, his character says

    to my praise, 'This is not your nest: move along!'

  85. أطلْتُ لأبناء الزَمانِ تَوسُّمي

    فلم أرَ في الفِتْيانِ غيرَ مُزَلَّج

    Long have I scrutinized the men of this age,

    but among its young men I have found only inferior fellows.

  86. فمَن ذا بتأميرٍ أُخاطِبُ منهمُ

    وقد صارَ كلُّ القومِ واليَ مَنبِج

    Which of them, then, should I address as emir,

    when every man has become governor of Manbij?

  87. فأُقسِمُ لولا الغُرُّ من آلِ قاسمٍ

    لقَلَّ على أهلِ الجبالِ مُعَرَّجي

    I swear, were it not for the radiant men of Qasim's house,

    I would seldom turn aside to the mountain folk.

  88. أولئك أجوادٌ بنانُ أكفّهِم

    ضَرائرُ أخلافِ السَّحابِ المُثَجَّج

    Those are generous men whose fingertips

    are rival wives to the udders of pouring clouds.

  89. كأنّي وقد ألقيتُ رحْلي إليهمُ

    أقمْتُ ثَوِيّاً بينَ أوسي وخَزْرجي

    When I set down my saddle among them, it seemed

    I had lodged between an Awsi and a Khazraji.

  90. أرحْتُ إلى فِكْري من الشِّعْرِ عازباً

    وغَيْري الّذي إنْ يُنْتِج القولَ يُخْدِج

    I brought a straying poem home to my thought;

    another, when he brings words to birth, delivers them prematurely.

  91. فَرصَّعْتُ في تاج على الدّينِ درّةً

    تَخيّرتُها من بَحْرِيَ المُتَمَوِّجِ

    I set a pearl in a crown upon the Faith,

    choosing it from my surging sea:

  92. من الكَلِمِ الغُرِّ اللَّواتي كأنّها

    رياضٌ لعَيْنِ النّاظرِ المُتفَرِّج

    radiant words that seem

    gardens to the delighted beholder's eye,

  93. نجومٌ لترغيبِ الورى في اقتِنائها

    وتَخْليدِ ذِكْرسائلٍ متَأرّج

    stars enticing people to acquire them

    and preserving a petitioner's fragrant remembrance.

  94. تَرى للَّيالي دائماً من صِغارِها

    بكّفِّ الثريّا سِتّةً كالنّموذَج

    You always see some of their smaller gems belonging to the nights:

    six in the Pleiades' palm, like a sample.

  95. بَقيِتَ ونَدْباً ماجِداً أنت صِنْوُه

    قَرينَيْينِ في ضافٍ منَ العيشِ سَجْسَج

    May you remain, together with a noble champion whose peer you are,

    two companions in an abundant, pleasant life.

  96. تَدومان فَرْعَيْ دَوحةٍ قاسِميّةٍ

    كثيرةِ أفنانٍ إذا جاءَ مُلْتَج

    May you endure as two branches of a Qasimi tree,

    rich in boughs whenever a seeker of shelter comes.

  97. كفَى بِبَني الكافي لِمُلْكٍ إنارةً

    برأْيٍ لغَمّاءِ الخطوبِ مُفَرِّج

    The sons of al-Kafi suffice to illuminate a kingdom

    with judgment that dispels the darkness of calamities.

  98. سماءُ عُلا ما يَبْرَحُ الدَّهرَ سامياً

    إليها رجاءُ النّاسِ من كلِّ مَعْرَج

    A sky of loftiness, toward which continually rises

    people's hope from every path of ascent.

  99. أبوهم وهم كانوا كسَبعةِ شُهبِها

    فإن تَمْضِ أنوارُ النُّجومِ وتَدْرُج

    Their father and they were like its seven bright stars;

    if the stars' lights depart and pass away,

  100. ففي قَمَرَيْها من سناً ما كفَى الورى

    إذا سفَرا عن كلِّ وجْهِ مُسَرَّج

    its two moons possess radiance sufficient for all people,

    when they unveil their luminous faces.

  101. نَظيمٌ لجِيدِ الفخرِ من جوهرِ العُلا

    بسِلكِ بقاءٍ جامعٍ غيرِ مفْرَج

    A necklace for glory's neck, made of loftiness's jewels,

    on a lasting thread that binds them without separation.

  102. فَدُمْ في ظلالِ العِز مُستمتِعاً بهم

    ونَورِزْ بسَعْدٍ ألفَ عامٍ ومَهْرِج

    Remain in honor's shade, enjoying their company,

    and happily celebrate Nowruz and Mihrjan for a thousand years.