Sol 6.1

  1. المَجد بَحر أَنتُم وراده

    وَالفضل غصن أَنتُم أَوراده

    Glory is a sea; you are those who come to its waters.

    And excellence is a branch; you are its blossoms.

  2. وَالسَعد دوح أُنتُم أَغصانه

    وَالفَخر جد أَنتُم أَولاده

    And good fortune is a grove; you are its branches.

    And pride is a grandsire; you are his children.

  3. والرشد أوج أنتم أقطابه

    والحلم قطب أنتم أوتاده

    And right judgment is a zenith; you are its poles.

    And forbearance is a pole; you are its stakes.

  4. وَالعَقل نور أَنتُم مشكاته

    وَالحَزم بر أنتُم أَطواده

    And reason is a light; you are its lamp-niche.

    And firm resolve is land; you are its mountains.

  5. وَالعلم حَرف أُنتُم حَركاته

    وَسُطوره وَطروسه وَمداده

    And knowledge is a letter; you are its vowel marks,

    and its lines, its pages, and its ink.

  6. يا آل أَحمد أنتُم نور الوَرى

    وَمَنار دائرة العُلى وَعِماده

    O house of Ahmad, you are the light of humankind,

    and the beacon of the sphere of eminence, and its pillar.

  7. ما صَح مِن خَبر السَماء وَوَحيه

    إِلا وَأَنتُم في الوَرى أَسناده

    No tidings from heaven, nor its revelation, are confirmed

    unless you are their authorities among humankind.

  8. لَو يَعقل الدَهر الخؤون لَضمكم

    يا آل فاطمة البتول فؤاده

    If treacherous Time had sense, it would clasp you—

    O house of Fatimah the Chaste—to its heart.

  9. أَو كانَ يُبصر من رآه بِطرفه

    لَحنا عَلَيكُم جفنه وَسَواده

    Or if it could see whoever it beheld with its eye,

    its eyelid and pupil would incline tenderly over you.

  10. لَكنهُ عميت جُفون عُيونه

    عَن نور سُؤددكُم وَضَل رَشاده

    But the lids of its eyes have gone blind

    to the light of your eminence, and its sound judgment has strayed.

  11. إِن عد حزب أَنتُم عُلَماؤه

    أَو كانَ قرن أَنتُم أَسياده

    If a group is reckoned, you are its scholars;

    or if there is an age, you are its masters;

  12. أَو هاجَ حَرب أَنتُم نيرانه

    وَسُيوفه وَرِماحه وَصعاده

    or if war flares up, you are its fires,

    and its swords, its spears, and its straight lances.

  13. يا آل فَخر يا سلاله حَيدر

    أَنتُم ضَمير مَديحنا وَمُراده

    O house of Fakhr, O offspring of Haydar,

    you are the inward meaning of our praise and its intent.

  14. طلتم عَلى أَهل الزَمان لأَنكُم

    أَعلامه وَجَماله وَسَداده

    You tower above the people of the age, for you are

    its leading lights, its beauty, and its rectitude.

  15. وَسَبَقتُم مَن رامَ سَبق جَوادكُم

    عَمهاً فَقصر عَن مَداه جَواده

    And you outstripped whoever sought to outrun your steed

    blindly; so his steed fell short of its range.

  16. أَفهل يرام مَقام والد أَسعد

    علم الهُدى وَمَناره وَزِناده

    Can anyone then aspire to the station of As'ad's father—

    the banner of guidance, its beacon, and its flint?

  17. بَحر إِذا زَفرت طَوافح كَفه

    أَغنى العفاة خَليجه وَثماده

    A sea: when his palm's overflowing waters roar,

    his gulf and his shallow pools enrich the supplicants.

  18. حبر يُريك فَرائِداً سَمَحت بِها

    خَطراته وَسَخا بِهن فُؤاده

    A scholar who shows you rare gems, freely bestowed

    by his passing thoughts, and given generously by his heart.

  19. كانَت محجبة بِصَدر واسع

    فَأَبانهن يَراعه وَمداده

    They lay veiled within a spacious breast,

    then his reed pen and his ink revealed them.

  20. وَتَوقدَت مِنهُ مَصابيح الهُدى

    وَبِها انجَلَت ظَلماؤه وَسَواده

    And from him the lamps of guidance were kindled,

    and through them its darkness and blackness cleared.

  21. وَتَفَجرَت مِن كَفه صم النَدى

    وَبِها ارتَوَت غب الصدا وراده

    And from his palm the hard rocks of bounty burst open,

    and from them his water-seekers drank their fill after thirst.

  22. وَرث السِيادة عَن أَبيه وَجده

    وَتَورثتها عَنهُما أَولاده

    He inherited lordship from his father and grandfather,

    and his children inherited it from them both.

  23. فَبَدَت مَطالع سَعدهم مِن فَخرهم

    فَلِذاك قَد حسنت بِهم أَعياده

    So, from their glory, the dawns of their good fortune appeared;

    thus his feast days have grown fair through them.

  24. غر الوجوه كَريمة أَحسابهم

    فرع الرِضا أَجدادهم أَجداده

    Their faces are radiant, their ancestral honors noble;

    a branch of al-Rida—their forefathers are his forefathers.

  25. نور تَشَعب مِن زُجاجة أَحمَد

    حَتّى أَنارَت مِنهُم بغداده

    A light branched forth from Ahmad's lamp-glass,

    until his Baghdad shone through them.

  26. عُذراً إِلَيكُم سادة مِن مدحة

    مِن الفكم جاءَت بِها آحاده

    Forgive me, lords, for a poem of praise

    brought forth by the single units of your thousand.

  27. قصرت وَعَن أَفضالكُم قَد قصرت

    وَالبال قَد أَقوى وَكُل جَواده

    It is brief, and of your virtues it has indeed fallen short;

    and the mind has grown barren, and its steed has grown weary.

  28. فَتهن عَبد اللَه بِالعيد الَّذي

    لِجَلال نَصرك قَد أَتَت أَجناده

    So rejoice, Abd Allah, in the feast whose

    hosts have come for the majesty of your victory.

  29. فَأَقم مَقام العز تَحتَ بنوده

    فَلَقَد وَفى لَكَ بِالهَنا ميعاده

    So take the station of honor beneath its banners,

    for its appointed day has indeed fulfilled its promise of joy to you.

  30. وَاغنم أُجوراً للصيام فَطالَما

    بزلال جودك قَد زَهَت أَوراده

    And reap the rewards of fasting, for so often

    its blossoms have flourished with the pure water of your generosity.

  31. وَأَقم مَناجلك الحداد بِزَرعه

    قَد حانَ يا ابن الأَكرَمين حَصاده

    And set your sharp sickles to its crop;

    its harvest time has come, O son of the most noble.

  32. وَابشر بِطول سَلامة وَكَرامة

    في سُؤدد لا تَنقَضي آباده

    And rejoice in lasting well-being and honor,

    in eminence whose ages never end.