إقبال جدك للإسلام إقبال — Ibn Darray Alqastalli

إِقبالُ جَدِّكَ للإِسلامِ إِقبالُ

وعزُّ نصرِكَ للإِشراكِ إِذْلالُ

The rise of your fortune is a rise for Islam,

And the glory of your victory is humiliation for polytheism.

ولا مُعَقِّبَ لِلْحُكْمِ الَّذِي سَبَقَتْ

بِهِ من اللهِ أَحكامٌ وأَفعالُ

No one can overturn the decree already set forth

In judgments and deeds from God.

أَحَقَّ حقَّكَ فِي الملكِ الَّذِي ضَمِنَتْ

ميراثَهُ لَكَ أملاكٌ وأَقيالُ

It has affirmed your right to the kingship whose

Inheritance kings and chieftains guaranteed to you.

وحَقَّ لِلْمَفْخَرِ المرفوعِ مَعْلَمُهُ

حَقٌّ وللباطِلِ المَجْهُولِ إِبْطالُ

And the glory whose beacon is raised is granted

Its due, while unrecognized falsehood is annulled.

فاسْعَدْ بِمِلْكِ مفاتِيح الفتوحِ ولا

خابَتْ بِسَعْيِكَ للإِسلامِ آمالُ

So rejoice in possessing the keys to conquest, and may no

Hopes for Islam be disappointed through your striving.

ولا كَفَتْحٍ غَدَتْ أَعلامُ دعوتِهِ

ترسو بِهِ وَكَثِيبُ الشِّرْكِ يَنْهالُ

No conquest equals this, whose summons' banners have become

Firmly planted through it, while polytheism's dune crumbles.

فَتْحٌ كفاتِحِهِ فِي الخلْقِ لَيْسَ لَهُ

مِمَّا خَلا من فتوحِ الأَرضِ أَشكالُ

A conquest that, like its conqueror among men, has no

Equal among the earth's conquests of the past.

أَضْحَتْ بِهِ حُلَلُ الدُّنيا لَنَا جُدُداً

ولِبْسُ والي العِدى والغَدْرِ أَسْمالُ

Through it, the world's robes have become new for us,

While the garb of the ruler of enemies and treachery is rags.

وشَبَّ شيبانُنا من ذِكْرِهِ فَرَحاً

وشابَ من خِزْيِهِ فِي الشِّرْكِ أَطفالُ

Our graybeards have grown young with joy at its mention,

While children among the polytheists have turned gray from the shame it brings.

وغَنَّتِ الطيرُ فِي أَغصانِها طرباً

وشَدْوُ طَيرِ العِدى والكفرِ إِعوالُ

And birds have sung joyfully in their branches,

While the singing of the birds of enemies and unbelief is wailing.

فَقُلْ لرافِعِها بالغَدْرُ أَلْويَةً

حَسْبُ الرَّدى والأَعادِي منك مَا نالوا

So tell him who raises banners through treachery:

What death and the enemies have gained from you is enough.

وقُلْ لمن أَخْلَفَتْهُ الوَعْدَ غَدْرَتُهُ

أَنْ يُخْلِفَ القَمَرَ الوَضَّاحَ إِكْمالُ

And tell him whose treachery failed him in its promise

That fullness would fail the radiant moon:

هيهاتَ أَشرقَ فِي جوِّ العُلا مَلِكٌ

بالعَدْلِ والفَضْلِ قَوَّالٌ وفَعَّالُ

Far from it! A king has shone forth in the sky of greatness,

Abundant in word and deed, in justice and bounty.

وللمُنى كاسمِهِ مُحْيٍ ومُنْتَعِشٌ

وللأَسى والعِدى والبَغْيِ قَتَّالُ

And for hopes, true to his name, a reviver, full of life,

And a relentless slayer of sorrow, enemies, and oppression.

فَذُّ المكارِمِ لا شِبْهٌ ولا مَثَلٌ

والناسُ من بَعْدُ أَشباهٌ وأَمثالُ

Unique in noble deeds, with neither likeness nor equal,

While all other people are likenesses and counterparts.

وَقَدْ تَجَلَّى إِلَى العلياءِ فِي حُلَلٍ

للملكِ منهنَّ إِعظامٌ وإِجلالُ

And he has shone forth toward the heights in robes

That bring kingship exaltation and reverence.

وقابَلَ الدينَ والإِسلامَ فِي شِيَمٍ

فِي عفوِها من مُنى الإِسلامِ مَا سَالُوا

And met religion and Islam with qualities

In whose spontaneous bounty lie the hopes they asked for Islam.

وقُلْ لِمَنْ قَصَّرَتْ بالأُسْدِ خِبْرَتُهُ

فشَكَّ أَن يخلُفَ الرئبالَ رئبالُ

And tell him whose experience of lions fell short,

So he doubted that a lion could succeed a lion:

صَبْراً لموقِعِ أَظفارِ المُظَفَّر هَلْ

يُحِيلُها عن حشاكَ اليومَ مُحْتالُ

Endure the strike of al-Muzaffar's claws—can

Any schemer turn them from your vitals today?

وَقَدْ طَمَتْ فَوْقَه أَمواجُ أَبْحُرِهِ

حَتَّى تَيَقَّنَ أَنْ قَدْ غَرَّهُ الآلُ

The waves of his seas have surged above him,

Until he knew for certain that the mirage had deceived him.

سفائِنٌ من خيولٍ مَا لَهَا شُحَنٌ

إِلّا سيوفٌ وأَرماحٌ وأَبطالُ

Ships made of horses, bearing no cargo

Except swords, spears, and heroes.

أَبناءُ رَوْعٍ وأَهوالٍ لِمَقْدَمهِمْ

فِي أَعْيُنِ الموتِ أَذْعارٌ وأَهوالُ

Sons of terror and horrors, at whose approach

Terrors and horrors fill the eyes of death.

ثُبْتُ المواقِفِ لَوْ زالت بأَرْجُلِهِمْ

تَحْتَ العجاجِ متونُ الأَرضِ مَا زالوا

Firm in their stands: though beneath their feet

The earth's back should shift amid the dust, they would not move.

دَعَوْا إِلَيْكَ حصونَ الغَدْرِ فاسْتَبَقَتْ

مثل النجومِ عَلَى يُمْناكَ تنثالُ

They summoned the fortresses of treachery to you, and they raced

Like stars, cascading upon your right hand.

والموتُ قَدْ عَدَّهُمْ أُكْلاً لَهُ فَفَدَتْ

أَعدادَهُمْ من بنِي الإِشراكِ أَبْدَالُ

Death had counted them its food, but ransom was paid for

Their numbers by substitutes from the sons of polytheism.

معاقِلٌ عَرَفَتْ يمناكَ فَاعْتَرَفَتْ

بذنْبِ مَا فَعَلَ الغاوونَ أَوْ قالُوا

Strongholds that knew your right hand and acknowledged

The guilt of what the erring had done or said,

مُقِرَّةٌ أَنَّكَ المَوْلى المليكُ لَهَا

وأَنَّها منكَ إِنعامٌ وإِفضالُ

Admitting that you are their lord and king,

And that they are your gift and bounty

عَلَى الَّذِي احتازَها مِنَّا فأَوْدَعَها

غِلّاً فعادَتْ عَلَيْهِ وَهْيَ أَغلالُ

To him who took possession of them from us and lodged in them

Rancor; so they turned against him as shackles.

ذو حُرْمَةٍ فالَ منها فَأْلُ طائِرِهِ

قَلْبٌ غَوى بحجاهُ عنكَ تَذْهَالُ

A man of honor, whose bird's omen strayed from that honor;

A heart astray in its judgment, heedless of you.

وَكَانَ فَأْلُ وقارٍ صَدَّ عنكَ بِهِ

فارْتَدَّ طائِرَ طَيْشٍ ذَلِكَ الفالُ

It was an omen of dignity, by which he turned away from you;

But that omen became a bird of recklessness.

صَعَقْتَ بالنَّصْرِ مثواهُ ومَوْطِنَهُ

فَضُعْضِعَتْ منه غِيطانٌ وأَجْبَالُ

You thunderstruck his dwelling and homeland with victory,

So lowlands and mountains were shaken by it.

صَعْقاً رَمَتْ كُلَّ كُفْرٍ منه راجِفةٌ

وهَبَّ فِي كلِّ غدرٍ منه زِلْزالُ

A thunderstroke whose tremor struck all unbelief,

And from it an earthquake rose in every act of treachery.

وحَكَّمَ اللهُ يَا يَحْيَى سيوفَكَ فِي

إِحياءِ حَقِّكَ والموتورُ صَوَّالُ

And God, O Yahya, made your swords the judges in

Reviving your rightful claim; the wronged man is fierce in assault.

فما يبيتُ نَجيُّ الكفرِ مُرْتَقِباً

إِلّا خيولَكَ فِي جفنَيْهِ تَخْتَالُ

So no confidant of unbelief spends the night on watch

Without your horses prancing within his eyelids.

ولا يراعِي نجومَ الليلِ ذو حَذَرٍ

إِلّا وقِرْناهُ آجالٌ وأَوجالُ

No fearful man watches the stars of night

Without death's appointed hours and terrors as his two adversaries.

يبيتُ يُسْهِدُهُ لَيلُ السليمِ أَسىً

بصاعِ خوفِكَ يَسْتَوْفِي ويَكْتالُ

He spends a snakebitten man's night, sleepless with sorrow,

With fear of you as his bushel, he takes his full share and measures it.

فإِنْ تَخَطَّتْهُ منكَ اليومَ بائِقَةٌ

ففي غدٍ بَعْدُ حالٌ بعدَها حالُ

If a calamity from you passes him by today,

Tomorrow still brings one plight, followed by another.

وإِنَّ أَقطعَ وَصَّالٍ لواصِلِهِ

غَدْرٌ لطاغِيَةِ الإِشراكِ وَصَّالُ

Indeed, the ally most destructive to the one allied with it

Is treachery, ever allied to the tyrant of polytheism.

فَافْخَرْ فما فَوْقَ ظهرِ الأَرضِ من حَسَنٍ

فِي الذِّكْرِ إِلّا عَلَيْهِ منك تِمْثَالُ

So take pride: no beauty upon the earth's back

Is mentioned without bearing an image of you.

وابْشِرْ فإنكَ رُوحُ الحقِّ لَيْسَ لَهُ

إِلّا مِنَ النصرِ أَعضاءٌ وأَوصالُ

And rejoice: you are truth's spirit, and it has

No limbs or joints except those formed from victory.

واللهُ يحرُسُ مولىً مَا يزالُ لَنَا

بِهِ إِلَى الفَتْحِ بعدَ الفتحِ إِهْلالُ

And God guards a lord through whom we always have

Joyful acclaim for conquest after conquest.