Sol 6.1

  1. عَمُرَتْ بطولِ بقائِكَ الأَعمارُ

    وجرَتْ بِرِفعةِ قَدْرِكَ الأقدارُ

    Lives have flourished through your long life,

    and destinies have run in keeping with your lofty rank.

  2. ودَنَتْ لَكَ الدُّنيا بِقاصِية المُنى

    وَتَخَيَّرَتْ لَكَ فَوْقَ مَا تختارُ

    The world has drawn near you with the farthest wishes,

    and chosen for you beyond your own choosing.

  3. فإِذَا النُّجومُ تطلَّعتْ لَكَ أَسعُداً

    بَدَرَ البدُورُ بهنَّ والأقمارُ

    When the stars rise as lucky omens for you,

    full moons and moons hasten forth with them.

  4. وإِذا زَجَرْتَ ليُمنِ يَومِكَ طائراً

    حُشرَتْ إِليكَ بِيُمنِها الأَطيارُ

    When you startle a bird to augur your day's good fortune,

    all birds gather to you with their auspicious omens.

  5. وإِذا المُنى بدَأَتْكَ غَرْسَ رياضِها

    حَيَّتكَ فِي أَغصانِها الأَثمارُ

    When wishes begin planting their gardens for you,

    the fruits upon their branches greet you,

  6. سَبقاً كما سَبَقتْ فِعالُكَ كُلَّ مَا

    أَعيتْ بِهِ الأَوْهامُ والأَفكارُ

    in eager anticipation, just as your deeds surpassed all that

    has baffled imaginings and thoughts;

  7. وتَجلِّياً للدَّارِعينَ تَصيدُها

    بطيورِ خَيلكَ والعقولُ تُطارُ

    and in appearing before armored warriors, whom you hunt

    with the birds of your steeds, while minds are put to flight;

  8. بشمائلٍ مشمولةٍ بمكارِمٍ

    مَا للخطائرِ عندَها أَخطارُ

    with qualities embraced by noble virtues,

    beside which precious things have no worth;

  9. ومعالِمٍ لِندى يَديْكَ وإِنَّها

    سُرُجٌ إِليكَ لحائرٍ ومَنارُ

    and signs of your hands' bounty, which indeed

    are lamps and beacons guiding the bewildered to you.

  10. فإِذا عوَانُ المَجدِ رَدَّ خطيبُها

    فَلَكَ الأَيامى مِنهُ والأَبكارُ

    When a suitor to glory's seasoned bride is rebuffed,

    its widows and virgins belong to you.

  11. وإِذا الحُروبُ تساجَلتْ أَيَّامُها

    فقتيلُ سيفكَ فِي المُلوكِ جُبارُ

    When the days of war trade victories,

    any king slain by your sword has no blood-price.

  12. ولقد عَضضتَ عَلَى الخطوبِ بناجِذٍ

    للدَّهرِ منه سكينةٌ وَوَقارُ

    You have indeed clenched your molar upon adversities,

    giving Time itself composure and dignity.

  13. لكن شمائلُ فِي النَّدى وكَّلتها

    بعفاةِ جُودِكَ فتيةٌ أَغمارُ

    Yet the qualities you have charged, in generosity,

    with tending the seekers of your bounty are youthful and guileless.

  14. ما البحرُ فِي الأَرْضِ العريضةِ بعدَما

    فاضتْ عليها من نَداكَ بحارُ

    What is the sea upon the broad earth, after

    seas of your generosity have overflowed it?

  15. أَوْ مَا غَناءُ المِسك فِي الدُّنيا وَقَدْ

    مُلِئَتْ بطيبِ ثنائكِ الأَمصارُ

    Or what use is musk in the world, when

    cities are filled with the fragrance of your praise?

  16. فبهِ تأَنَّقَتِ الحدائِقُ وازْدَهى

    زَهرُ الرُّبى وتفتَّحَ النُّوّارُ

    Through it the gardens have adorned themselves, and

    the hills' blossoms have grown resplendent and the flowers opened.

  17. وتنافَحتْ بنسيمها ريحُ الصَّبا

    وتفاوَحَتْ برِياضها الأَسحارُ

    The east wind exchanges fragrance with their breeze,

    and the predawns breathe fragrance through their gardens.

  18. وتعاطَتِ النُّدَماءُ كأْسَ مُدامِها

    وسَرَتْ بِهَا الرُّكبانُ والسُّمَّارُ

    Boon companions pass around the cup of their wine,

    and riders and nighttime companions travel with it through the night.

  19. فكأَنَّ للدُّنيا بحَمدِكَ أَلسُناً

    تُصغِي لَهَا الآفاقُ والأَقطارُ

    It is as though the world has tongues to praise you,

    to which the horizons and regions listen.

  20. وكأَنَّما الأَيَّامُ فيكَ مدائحٌ

    نُظِمَتْ كما نُظِمتْ لَكَ الأَشعارُ

    It is as though the days themselves are panegyrics about you,

    strung together as poems are composed for you.

  21. واللهُ جارُكَ كم أَجَرْتَ عِبادَهُ

    من كُلِّ خطبٍ لَيْسَ مِنه جارُ

    God is your protector: how often you have sheltered His servants

    from every calamity against which there is no protector!

  22. وَضَرَبْتَ عنهمْ كُلَّ جبَّارٍ عتا

    فحباكَ بيضةَ مُلكهِ الجبَّارُ

    You struck down, away from them, every rebellious tyrant,

    so the All-Compelling bestowed on you the heart of His dominion,

  23. في جَحْفَلٍ كاللَّيلِ جرَّارٍ لَهُ

    من عِزِّ نَصركَ جحفلٌ جَرَّارُ

    in a vast army like night, itself attended

    by a vast army of your triumphant might.

  24. أُمدِدْتَ فِيهِ بالملائكةِ الَّتِي

    نُصرَتْ بِهَا أَعمامُكَ الأَنصارُ

    Within it you were reinforced by the angels through whom

    your uncles, the Ansar, were granted victory.

  25. وكَسوْتَ فِيهِ الشمسَ بُردَ عَجاجَةٍ

    للموتِ تَحْتَ ظلامِها إِسفَارُ

    Within it you clothed the sun in a mantle of swirling dust,

    beneath whose darkness death shone clear.

  26. والجوُّ يَحمى والدِّماءُ سواكِبٌ

    والأَرْضُ رَيَّا والسَّماءُ غُبارُ

    The air grows hot, and blood pours down;

    the earth is drenched, and the sky is dust.

  27. والمُقفِراتُ سوابقٌ وخوافقٌ

    والشاهِقاتُ أَسِنَّةٌ وشِفارُ

    The wastelands are racing steeds and fluttering banners,

    and the towering heights are spearheads and blades.

  28. كلٌّ رَفَعتَ صدورَهُنَّ لغارَةٍ

    مَا إِنْ لَهَا قبلَ الصُّدورِ مُغارُ

    You raised the breasts of all of them for an assault

    that finds no target short of enemy breasts.

  29. وقد ادَّرَعَت لَهَا سوابقَ عَزمةٍ

    البِرُّ والتقوى لهنَّ شِعارُ

    You had armored yourself for it in swift resolves,

    whose inner garment was righteousness and piety.

  30. بَهرَتْ فهنُّ عَلَى ابن يَحيى فِي الوغى

    نورٌ لَهُ وَعَلَى ابن شنجٍ نارُ

    They blazed: for Ibn Yahya in battle they were

    a light, but upon Ibn Shanj a fire.

  31. تحمى فيودِعُها جوانِحَ صَدرِهِ

    كي لا تُبَيِّنَهُ لَكَ النُّظَّارُ

    It burns, and he lodges it within the chambers of his breast,

    so that watchers may not reveal him to you.

  32. أَسَدٌ حَطمْتَ سِلاحَهُ فتركْتَهُ

    بالبيدِ لا ظَفَرٌ ولا أَظفارُ

    A lion whose weaponry you shattered, leaving him

    in the wilderness with neither victory nor claws,

  33. رَهناً بإِلقاءِ اليدَيْنِ لقاهِرٍ

    أَعلى يَدَيهِ الواحِدُ القهَّارُ

    bound to surrender both hands to a conqueror

    whose hands the One, the All-Subduing, raised high.

  34. مَلِكٌ كَأَنَّكِ يَا مَحاسِنَ فِعلِهِ

    من سَيِّئاتِ زمانِكَ استغفَارُ

    A king—O beauties of his deeds, it is as though you were

    a plea for forgiveness for your age's sins.

  35. خُصَّتْ بِهِ سَبأٌ وعُمَّ بنصْرِهِ

    عُليا قُرَيشٍ فِي الهُدى ونِزارُ

    Saba' was specially favored through him, while his victory embraced

    the noblest of Quraysh in guidance, and Nizar.

  36. رَبذُ القِداحِ من الرِّماحِ وَمَا لَهُ

    إِلّا السِّباعَ وطيْرَها أيسارُ

    Swift with his gaming arrows of spears, he has

    no fellow gamblers but beasts of prey and their birds;

  37. ونديمُ بيض الهِندِ يومَ دَمُ العدى

    خمرٌ لَهُ والمأْثراتُ خُمارُ

    a boon companion to India's bright blades, on a day when his foes' blood

    is his wine, and glorious deeds his hangover.

  38. آياتُ نصْرٍ فِي الوَرى بسيوفِها

    أَمِنَ الهُداةُ وآمَنَ الكُفَّارُ

    Signs of victory among mankind: through their swords

    the guides found safety and the unbelievers believed.

  39. جاهَرْتَ حُرَّ بلادِهِم بجهادِهِمْ

    حَتَّى غَدَوْا وهُمُ لَهَا أَسرارُ

    You openly assailed their choicest lands in holy war against them,

    until they became hidden secrets within them.

  40. وسرَيتَ حَتَّى ظَنَّ من صبَّحتَهُ

    أَن الظلامَ عَلَى سُراكَ نهارُ

    You traveled by night until those you attacked at dawn thought

    that darkness was daylight for your night march.

  41. ولكم أَطارَهُمُ لِسيفِكَ بارِقٌ

    حَتَّى دَعَوْتَهُمُ إِليكَ فطاروا

    How often a flash of your sword scattered them,

    until you called them to you, and they flew!

  42. وجنَحتَ للسَّلم الَّتِي جَنحوا لَهَا

    وقضاءُ ربِّكَ فِي العِبادِ خِيارُ

    You inclined toward the peace to which they inclined,

    and your Lord's decree concerning His servants is best.

  43. فأَتوكَ مُستَبِقِينَ قَدْ قربَ المدى

    منهمْ إِليكَ وذُلِّلَ المضمارُ

    They came to you racing one another: the distance had shortened

    from them to you, and the racecourse had been made easy.

  44. ودَنا ابنُ رُذْميرٍ يُزَلْزِلُ خَطوَهُ

    أملٌ تقسَّم نفسَهُ وحِذارُ

    Ibn Rudhmir drew near, his footsteps shaken

    by hope that shared his soul with fear.

  45. ففُؤادُهُ من ذُعْرِ سيفكَ طائرٌ

    طَوْراً ومن عَجلٍ إِليكَ مُطارُ

    His heart, in terror of your sword, was flying

    at times, and at times was sped toward you by haste.

  46. ولَقبلُ أَيْقنَ فِرْذِلَندٌ مَا لَهُ

    إِلّا إِليكَ من الحِمامِ فِرار

    Earlier, Firdhiland had become certain that he had

    no escape from death except to you.

  47. كلٌّ يَخِرُّ لأَخْمَصَيْكَ وطالَما

    سَامَوْكَ فِي رَهَجِ الخَميس فخَارُوا

    Each falls at the hollows of your feet, though often before

    they rivaled you amid the army's dust, only to falter.

  48. فهناكَ أُخْلِصتِ النُّفُوسُ وأُكِّدَتْ

    عُقَدُ العُهُودِ وشَدَّتِ الأَنْصارُ

    Then souls were made sincere, and reinforced were

    the knots of covenants, which the supporters bound fast.

  49. وتَوَاصَلَ البُعَدَاءُ منكَ بطاعَةٍ

    وُصِلتْ بِهَا الأَرْحامُ والأَصهارُ

    Those far from you joined themselves to you in obedience,

    through which ties of kinship and marriage were joined.

  50. فعقدْتَ فِي عُنقِ الضَّلالِ مَواثِقاً

    دانَتْ بِهَا الرُّهبانُ والأَحبارُ

    You fastened covenants around the neck of error,

    through which monks and rabbis submitted.

  51. وكأنَّما كانتْ عُقودَ تمائِمٍ

    سَكنتْ بِهَا الأَوْجَالُ والأَذْعارُ

    It was as though they were necklaces of amulets,

    through which anxieties and terrors were stilled.

  52. أَحيَيتَ منها مُلكَ رُذْميرٍ وَقَدْ

    مَشَتِ الدُّهور عَلَيْهِ والأَعصارُ

    Through them you revived Rudhmir's kingdom, though

    ages and eras had trodden over it.

  53. وأَقَمْتَ تاجَ جَبينِهِ منْ بعدِما

    عفَتِ المعالِمُ منهُ والآثارُ

    You set upright the crown upon his brow after

    its landmarks and traces had faded away.

  54. وبَسَطتَ من قَشتِلَّةٍ يَدَ آمِنٍ

    لِرِضاكَ فِيهَا يارَقٌ وسِوارُ

    You stretched forth from Castile a hand now secure,

    with an armlet and bracelet of your favor upon it.

  55. ثم انثَنَوْا يَبأوْنَ منكَ بطاعَةٍ

    رَفَعوا بِهَا أَعلامَهُمْ وأنارُوا

    Then they returned, proud of their obedience to you,

    through which they raised their banners and shone.

  56. ولَهُمْ بذِكْرِكَ فِي العداةِ تَبجُّجٌ

    وبقُبلِ كَفِّكَ فِي البلادِ فخارُ

    They boast among their enemies by mentioning you,

    and take pride throughout the lands in kissing your palm.

  57. ورفَعتَ أَجيادَ الجِيادِ لأَوْبَةٍ

    رَفِعتْ لَهَا الآمالُ والأَبصارُ

    You raised your fine steeds' necks for a homecoming

    for which hopes and eyes were raised.

  58. فكأنما البُشرى بذلِكَ عندَنا

    كأْسٌ علينا بالسُّرورِ تُدارُ

    The glad tidings of that were among us like

    a cup passed around to us with joy.

  59. والأَرْضُ أَرْضُكَ كُلُّها لكَ رَوْضَةٌ

    أُنُفٌ وأَنتَ سماؤها المِدْرارُ

    The earth is yours, all of it a meadow for you,

    fresh and ungrazed, and you its rain-pouring sky.

  60. حتى قَدِمْتَ وَمَا تَقَلَّبَ ناظِرٌ

    إِلّا لَهُ بقدُومِكَ استِبشارُ

    At last you arrived, and no eye turned

    without rejoicing at your arrival.

  61. حُرَّ المكارِمِ حقُّ قَدْرِكَ أَنْ تُرى

    وعبيدُكَ السَّاداتُ والأَحرارُ

    O purest in noble deeds, your rank deserves that you be seen

    with lords and freeborn men as your slaves,

  62. ومُجَاهِداً فِي اللهِ حَقَّ جهادِهِ

    واللهُ أَبْصَرَ فِيكَ مَا يَخْتارُ

    and striving for God with the striving truly due to Him;

    God has discerned in you what He would choose.

  63. واسْأَلْ بِضَيْفِكَ كيْفَ بَعْدَكَ حالُهُ

    وقدِ اقْتَضَتْهُ بعدَ دارٍ دارُ

    Ask about your guest: how fares he after your departure,

    when dwelling after dwelling has made its claim on him?

  64. غَدَرَتْ بِهِ أَيَّامُ عامٍ قَدْ وَفى

    أَنَّ الوفاءَ بِعَهْدِهِ غَدَّارُ

    The days of a year now completed have betrayed him—

    fidelity to its pledge is treacherous indeed.

  65. ودنا بِهِ أَجَلُ الرَّحِيلِ كَأَنَّهُ

    أَجَلُ المماتِ دَنَا بِهِ المقدارُ

    The appointed time of departure drew near him, as though it were

    the appointed death, brought near by destiny.

  66. عامٌ كعُمْرِ الوَصْلِ ليلَةَ زائِرٍ

    وأسىً تَقاصَرُ دُونَهُ الأَعمارُ

    A year like the span of union on a visitor's night,

    and sorrow before which lifetimes fall short.

  67. طالَتْ ليالِيهِ الزَّمانَ بِهَمِّهِ

    وكأَنَّهُنَّ من السُّرورِ قِصَارُ

    Its nights, with his sorrow, outlasted Time,

    yet seemed short from joy,

  68. بِمُشَرَّدٍ قَلِقِ الثَّواءِ بِمَنْزِلٍ

    لا يَنْثَنِي فِيهِ لَهُ الزُّوَّارُ

    for an exile, uneasy in his stay at a lodging

    where visitors do not return to him.

  69. مثوايَ قيه تَقَلْقُلٌ وتَأَهُّبٌ

    وَقِرَاي فِيهِ ذِلَّةٌ وصَغَارُ

    My stay there is restlessness and readiness to depart,

    and my fare there is humiliation and abasement;

  70. وحسابُ أَيَّامٍ كَأَنَّ متاعَهَا

    نَوْمٌ عَلَى وَجَلِ البَيَاتِ غِرَارُ

    and counting days whose comfort seems

    a scant sleep under fear of a night attack;

  71. وطِلابُ مأْوىً قبلَ حِينِ أَوانِهِ

    فَالدَّهْرُ أَجْمَعُهُ لِيَ اسْتِنْفارُ

    and seeking shelter before its due season—

    for all of Time is a summons for me to flee.

  72. للهِ من عامٍ جَرى عَنْي بِهِ

    جَرْيُ الأَهِلَّةِ فِيهِ والأَقْمارُ

    God, what a year! It coursed away from me

    with the coursing of its crescents and moons,

  73. في أَهْلِ دَارٍ كالكَوَاكِبِ والنَّوى

    بَعْدَ النَّوى فَلَكٌ بِهِمْ دَوَّارُ

    amid a household like stars, while separation

    after separation was a sphere revolving around them.

  74. كانوا جَمالاً للزَّمانِ فأَصْبَحُوا

    وَهُمُ عَلَيْهِ بالتَّغَرُّبِ عَارُ

    They were an adornment to Time, but became

    a disgrace upon it through their exile.

  75. تَنْبُو الدِّيارُ بِهِمْ وَتِلْكَ ديارُهُمْ

    غَرَضُ المصائِبِ مَا بِهَا دَيَّارُ

    The homelands cast them out, while those homes of theirs

    stand as targets for calamities, without a single dweller.

  76. قد أَقْفَرُوا وَطَنَ الأَنيسِ وأُنِّسَتْ

    بِهِمُ مفاوِزُ بالفَلا وقِفارُ

    They have deserted the home of fellowship, while

    wildernesses and barren deserts are peopled by them.

  77. يتأَوَّهونَ إذَا رَمَتْ أَوْهَامُهُمْ

    داراً لساكِنِها بِهَا اسْتِقْرارُ

    They groan whenever their thoughts picture

    a home whose resident has a settled abode.

  78. ويَهِيجُهُمْ عِينٌ لَهُنَّ مرابِضٌ

    ويَشُوقُهُمْ طَيرٌ لَهَا أَوْكارُ

    Wide-eyed wild cattle with resting places stir them,

    and birds with nests awaken their longing.

  79. وإِلَيْكَ يَا مَنصُورُ حَطُّوا أَرْحُلاً

    لَعِبَتْ بِهِنَّ تَنَائِفٌ وبِحارُ

    To you, O Mansur, they set down saddles

    that desert wastes and seas had tossed about,

  80. فَزَعاً إِلَيْكَ من الجَلاءِ بأَوْجُهٍ

    فِي كُلِّ عامٍ للجَلاءِ تُثَارُ

    seeking refuge with you from exile, with faces

    driven out for exile year after year.

  81. ورأَوْا بقُرْبِكَ أَنَّهُمْ قَتَلُوا النَّوى

    فاسْتُحيِيَت ولها عَلَيْهِمْ ثارُ

    They thought that, near you, they had killed separation;

    yet it was spared, and still has vengeance to claim against them.

  82. قد طُيِّرَتْ غِرْبانُ كُلِّ مُغَرِّبٍ

    وغُرَابُهُمْ للبَيْنِ لَيْسَ يُطَارُ

    The ravens of every exile have been driven off,

    but their raven of separation will not be driven away—

  83. جُرةً عَلَيْكَ وَمَا رَأَتْ من قَبْلِها

    خَطْباً لَهُ فِيمَنْ أَضَفْتَ خِيَارُ

    an affront to you; never before had it seen

    a calamity free to choose among those you hosted.

  84. وَعَلَى اللَّيَالي مِنْكَ عَهْدٌ ثابِتٌ

    أَلّا يُبَاحَ لِمَنْ حَمَيْتَ ذِمَارُ

    The nights are bound by a firm covenant from you

    that the honor of those you protect shall not be violated.

  85. واللهُ قَدْ أَعْلَى مَحَلَّكَ أَنْ تُرى

    مكشوفَةً فِي سِتْرِكَ الأَسْتارُ

    God has raised your station above seeing

    veils stripped away beneath your sheltering veil.

  86. وحباكَ بالمُلْكِ الَّذِي لَوْ شِئتَ لَمْ

    تَضِقِ القُصُورُ بنا ولا الأَحيارُ

    He bestowed upon you a kingship such that, if you wished,

    neither palaces nor walled gardens would be too narrow for us.

  87. وَأَجَارَ قَدْرَكَ أَن يَسُوغَ لِقائِلٍ

    جَارَ الزَّمَانُ وأَنْتَ مِنهُ جَارُ

    He has protected your rank from anyone having cause to say,

    “Time dealt unjustly, though you are a refuge from it.”

  88. ولَحَقُّ مَنْ أَبْقى ثَناءَكَ فِي الوَرى

    أَنْ تَسْتَقِرَّ بِهِ لَدَيْكَ الدَّارُ

    Surely one who keeps your praise alive among mankind deserves

    a home made secure for him beside you.