1. بشرى فمولدُ صاحبِ الأمرِ

    أهدي إليك طرائف البِشرِ

    Glad tidings! The birth of the Master of the Command

    Has offered you the choicest gifts of joy.

  2. وبطلعةٍ منه مباركةٍ

    حيّى بوجهك طلعةَ البدرِ

    And with a blessed appearance of his,

    It hailed the full moon's rising in your face.

  3. وكساك أفخر خلعةٍ مكثت

    زمناً تُنمِّقُها يدُ الفخر

    And clothed you in the finest robe of honor, which spent

    Long ages being embroidered by glory's hand.

  4. هي من طِراز الوحي لا نُزعت

    عن عِطف مجدك آخر العمر

    It is of revelation's embroidery; may it never be stripped

    From your glory's shoulder, till life's very end.

  5. وإليك ناعمةُ الهبوبِ سرت

    قُدسيَّة النفحاتِ والنشر

    And to you wafted a breeze of gentle breath,

    Holy in its breaths and fragrance.

  6. فحبتك عِطراً ذاكياً وسوى

    أرجِ النبوَّة ليس من عطر

    It bestowed on you a heady perfume; and apart from

    The fragrance of prophethood, there is no perfume.

  7. الآن أضحى الدين مبتهجاً

    وفم الإِمامةِ باسم الثغر

    Now religion has grown joyful,

    And the Imamate's mouth is smiling.

  8. وتباشرت أهلُ السماءِ بمن

    حفَّت به البُشرى إلى الحشر

    And heaven's dwellers exchanged glad tidings of him

    Whom good tidings surround until the Resurrection.

  9. فَرِحت بمن لولاهُ ما حُبيت

    شرف التنزُّلِ ليلة القدر

    They rejoiced in him without whom they would not have been granted

    The honor of descending on the Night of Decree,

  10. ولما أتت فيه مسلِّمةً

    بالأمرِ حتَّى مطلع الفجر

    Nor would they have come that night, submitting

    To the Command, until the break of dawn.

  11. لله مولدهُ غدا

    الإِسلامُ يخطُر أيّما خَطر

    Praise God for his birth! Now

    Islam struts—what a proud strut!

  12. هو مولدٌ قال الإِلهُ به

    كرماً لعينك بالهنا قرّي

    It is a birth at which God said

    Out of grace, to your eye: 'Rest content in joy.'

  13. وحباك أنظرَ نعمةٍ وَفَدت

    فيه برائق عيشكَ النضر

    And bestowed on you the fairest blessing, which came

    On it with the sweetness of your radiant life.

  14. باكر به كأس السُرور فما

    أحلاه عيداً مرَّ في الدهر

    Drink from joy's cup early in its honor—how

    Sweet a festival among all that time has known!

  15. صقلت به الأيَّامُ غرَّتها

    وجلت وجوهَ سعودِها الغُرّ

    Through it the days polished their brow,

    And burnished the faces of their radiant fortunes.

  16. هو نعمةُ للهِ ليس لها

    من في الوجود يقومُ بالشكر

    It is a blessing from God, for which

    No one in existence can render due thanks.

  17. فلكم حشًى من انسهِ حبرت

    في روضةٍ مطلولةِ الزهر

    How many a heart has rejoiced in its solace,

    In a garden of dew-sprinkled blossoms!

  18. ولكم على نشر الحبورِ طوت

    طيَّ السجل حشًى على جمر

    And how many, when joy unfurled, folded shut

    Like a scroll—hearts closed around burning coals—

  19. من عصبة وتروا الهُدى فلذا

    حنقوا بمولد مُدركِ الوتر

    Of a band that had wronged guidance; and so

    They raged at the birth of the avenger of that wrong.

  20. سيفٌ كفاك بأن طابعهُ

    مَلكُ السما لجماجم الكفر

    A sword—suffice it that its forger is

    The King of Heaven, for the skulls of unbelief.

  21. بيديهِ قائمةٌ وعن غضبٍ

    سَيَسُلُّه لطلى ذوي الغدر

    Its hilt is in his hands; and in wrath

    He will unsheathe it against the necks of the treacherous.

  22. فترى به كم خدر مُلحدةٍ

    نهبٍ وكم دمِ ملحدٍ هدر

    Then through it you will see how many an unbelieving woman's chamber

    Is plundered, and how much unbeliever's blood is shed unavenged.

  23. حتَّى يعيد الحقُّ دولته

    تختالُ بين الفتحِ والنصر

    Until Truth restores its reign,

    Striding proudly between conquest and victory.

  24. للمجتبى الحسن الزكي زكى

    عيصٌ ألفّ بطينةِ الفخر

    For the chosen Hasan, the pure, there has flourished

    A dense thicket in the clay of glory.

  25. نشأت بسامرَّاء أنملهُ

    دِيماً تعمُّ الأرض بالقطر

    In Samarra his fingers arose

    As steady rains covering the earth with showers.

  26. وكأنَّه فيها وصفوتُهُ

    أهلُ النهى والأوجهِ الغرّ

    And there he seems, with his chosen companions—

    Men of understanding and radiant faces—

  27. قمرٌ توسَّط هالةً فغدا

    فيها يُحفُّ بشهبها الزُّهر

    A moon that stands amid a halo, now

    Surrounded there by its shining stars.

  28. متضوّعٌ أرجُ السيادةِ من

    عطفي علاه بأطيب النشر

    The scent of lordship wafts from

    Both sides of his grandeur, with the sweetest fragrance.

  29. عفُّ السرائر طاهرُ الأزر

    عذبُ الشمائل طيبُ الذكر

    Chaste in his hidden thoughts, pure in his garments,

    Sweet in character, good in repute.

  30. عمَّارُ محراب العبادةِ قد

    نشر الإِلهُ به أبا ذرّ

    A constant presence in worship's prayer-niche; indeed,

    Through him God has raised Abu Dharr to life again.

  31. وحباهُ عِلماً لو يقسِّمهُ

    في دهره لكفى بني الدهر

    And granted him knowledge which, were he to share it

    In his age, would suffice for all the children of time.

  32. حرُّ العوارفِ يسترقُّ بها

    في كلِّ آنٍ ألسنَ الشكرِ

    Free with his favors, he enslaves through them

    At every moment the tongues of gratitude.

  33. ومنزَّهٌ ما غبَّرت يَدهُ

    تبعاتُ هذي البيض والصفر

    And unstained: his hand has never been soiled

    By the burdens of these white and yellow coins.

  34. جذلانَ يبدأ بالسخا كرماً

    ويعيدُه ويظنُّ بالعُذر

    Joyful, he begins with giving, out of generosity,

    And repeats it, thinking of an apology.

  35. وله شمائلُ بالندى كَرُمت

    فغمرنَ مَن في البرِّ والبحر

    And he has qualities ennobled by generosity,

    Which have flooded all on land and sea.

  36. والمرءُ لم تَكرُم شمائلهُ

    حتَّى يهينَ كرائمَ الوفر

    A person's character is not noble

    Until he treats his choicest riches lightly.

  37. مولًى عَلَت فهرٌ بسؤددهِ

    وله انتهى إرثاً على فهر

    A lord through whose lordship Fihr rose high,

    And in him culminated inherited rule over Fihr.

  38. من لو مشى حيثُ استحقَّ إذاً

    لمشى على العيّوق والنَسر

    One who, were he to walk where he deserves,

    Would walk upon al-Ayyuq and al-Nasr.

  39. الخُلقُ من ماءٍ لرقَّتهِ

    والحلمُ مفطورٌ من الصخر

    His character is of water, so gentle is it,

    And his forbearance is fashioned from rock.

  40. تبري طُلى الأعدام أنملُهُ

    بصنايعٍ من مَعدن التبر

    His fingers sever the necks of destitution

    With benefactions from the very mine of gold.

  41. لم تَترك خطباً تصادِفُه

    إلاَّ ثنته مقلَّم الظفر

    They leave no calamity they encounter

    Without turning it back, its claws clipped.

  42. يا واحدَ العصر استَطِل شَرقاً

    فقد استنابك صاحب العصر

    O peerless one of the age, tower eastward!

    For the Master of the Age has appointed you his deputy.

  43. ورأى وليُّ الأمرِ فيك نُهًى

    فدعاك قم بالنهيِ والأمر

    And the Guardian of the Command saw sound judgment in you,

    So he called you: 'Take charge of forbidding and commanding.'

  44. فمثلتَ في الدنيا وكنتَ لها

    علماً به هُدِيت بنو الدهر

    So you stood forth in the world, and were to it

    A landmark by which the children of time were guided.

  45. يا خير مَن وَفَدت لنائلِهِ

    وأجلَّ من يمشي على العَفر

    O best of those to whose bounty I have come,

    And most exalted of all who walk upon dust.

  46. بك إن عدلتُ سواك كنتُ كمن

    يَزِنُ الجبال الشمَّ بالذرّ

    If I equated another with you, I would be like one

    Who weighs lofty mountains against dust motes.

  47. إن كان زانَ الشعرُ غيرك في

    مدحٍ فمدحُك زينةُ الشعرِ

    If poetry has adorned another in

    Praise, then praising you is poetry's adornment.

  48. ماذا أقول بمدحكم ولكم

    جاءَ المديح بمحكمِ الذكر

    What can I say in your praise, when for you

    Praise has come in the clear verses of the Reminder?

  49. كيف الثناءُ على مكارِمكُم

    عجز البليغُ وأُفحمَ المُطري

    How can one extol your noble virtues?

    The eloquent is helpless, the panegyrist struck dumb.

  50. فاسلَم ولا سَلِمت عداك ودم

    ولك العُلى ونباهةُ القدر

    So remain safe—may your foes never be safe—and endure,

    And may exaltation and eminent rank be yours.