بعزمك أيها الملك العظيم

بعزمك أيها الملك العظيم

تذل لك الصعاب وتستقيم

تذل لك الصعاب وتستقيم

Through your resolve, O mighty king,

With your resolve, O great King,

hardships submit to you and fall into line.

Obstacles submit and rectitude prevails,

رآك الدهر منه أشد بأساً

رآك الدهر منه أشد بأساً

وشح بمثلك الزمن الكريم

وشح بمثلك الزمن الكريم

Time saw you more formidable in battle than itself,

Time has seen none mightier than you,

and bountiful Time was miserly with your like.

Nor an age more generous than yours.

إذا خطرت سيوفك في نفوسٍ

إذا خطرت سيوفك في نفوسٍ

فأول ما يفارقها الجسوم

فأول ما يفارقها الجسوم

When your swords cross people's minds,

When your swords rage in souls,

the first things to leave their souls are their bodies.

Bodies are first to depart them.

ولو أضمرت للأنواء حرباً

ولو أضمرت للأنواء حرباً

لما طلعت لهيبتك الغيوم

لما طلعت لهيبتك الغيوم

And had you secretly intended war against the rain-bearing stars,

Had you plotted harm on the winds,

the clouds would not have risen, in awe of you.

Your awe would hold back the clouds.

أيلتمس الفرنج لديك عفواً

أيلتمس الفرنج لديك عفواً

وأنت بقطع دابرها زعيم

وأنت بقطع دابرها زعيم

Do the Franks seek pardon from you,

The Franks seek mercy from you,

while you are pledged to cut off their last remnant?

While you lead the way in erasing them.

وكم جرعتها غصص المنايا

وكم جرعتها غصص المنايا

بيومٍ فيه يكتهل الفطيم

بيومٍ فيه يكتهل الفطيم

How often you have made them swallow death's choking pangs,

And how many drafts of death you made them drink

on a day when the weaned child grows middle-aged.

On a day when the gallant warrior takes arms.

فسيفك في مفارقهم خضيبٌ

فسيفك في مفارقهم خضيبٌ

وذكرك في مواطنهم عظيم

وذكرك في مواطنهم عظيم

So your sword is bloodstained on the crowns of their heads,

So your sword against them is bloodstained,

and your renown is great in their homelands.

And your name in their lands is magnificent.

وكل محصنٍ منهم أخيدٌ

وكل محصنٍ منهم أخيدٌ

وكل محصنٍ منهم يتيم

وكل محصنٍ منهم يتيم

And every protected one among them is captive,

Each of their fortresses lies destroyed,

and every protected one among them is an orphan.

Each of their towers left desolate.

ولما أن طلبتهم تمنى ال

ولما أن طلبتهم تمنى ال

منية جو سلينهم اللئيم

منية جو سلينهم اللئيم

And when you pursued them, he wished for

When you sought them out, they wished for nothing

death, that vile Joscelin of theirs.

But the ignoble death that would end them.

أقام يطوف الآفاق حيناً

أقام يطوف الآفاق حيناً

وأنت على معاقلهم مقيم

وأنت على معاقلهم مقيم

He spent a while roaming the horizons,

He marched the horizons for a time,

while you remained stationed at their strongholds.

While you held fast to their citadels.

فسار وما يعادله مليكٌ

فسار وما يعادله مليكٌ

وعاد وما يعادله سقيم

وعاد وما يعادله سقيم

So he set out with no king his equal,

No king has marched the likes of him,

and returned with no sick man his equal.

No weakened man returned like him.

يحاول أن يحاربك اختلاساً

يحاول أن يحاربك اختلاساً

كما رام اختلاس الليث ريم

كما رام اختلاس الليث ريم

He tries to fight you by stealth,

He tries to fight you by stealth,

as a white gazelle sought to seize a lion unawares.

As the fox once thought to steal from the lion.

ألم تر أن كلب الروم لما

ألم تر أن كلب الروم لما

تبين أنك الملك الرحيم

تبين أنك الملك الرحيم

Have you not seen how the dog of the Romans, when

Did you not see when Rome's dog

he realized you were the merciful king,

Saw you were a merciful king,

فجاء فطبق الفلوات خيلاً

فجاء فطبق الفلوات خيلاً

كأن الجحفل الليل البهيم

كأن الجحفل الليل البهيم

came and covered the wastelands with horses,

He came, spreading horses over the plains,

his host like the pitch-black night?

Like the black night spreads its darkness.

وقد نزل الزمان على رضاه

وقد نزل الزمان على رضاه

فكان لخطبه الخطب الجسيم

فكان لخطبه الخطب الجسيم

And Time had yielded to his wishes,

Time itself consented to his affairs,

so a mighty calamity befell his undertaking.

Which made his situation most grave,

فحين رميته بك في خميسٍ

فحين رميته بك في خميسٍ

تيقن أن ذلك لا يدوم

تيقن أن ذلك لا يدوم

Then, when you hurled yourself against him amid an army,

But when he attacked you on a Thursday,

he became certain that this would not last.

He knew such would not last.

وأبصر في المفاضة منك جيشاً

وأبصر في المفاضة منك جيشاً

فأحرن لا يسير ولا يقيم

فأحرن لا يسير ولا يقيم

And he saw in you, clad in ample mail, an army,

And he saw in your onslaught an army,

so he balked, neither marching on nor staying.

Moving relentlessly, neither halting nor resting.

كأنك في العجاج شهاب نورٍ

كأنك في العجاج شهاب نورٍ

توقد وهو شيطانٌ رجيم

توقد وهو شيطانٌ رجيم

As though, amid the battle dust, you were a meteor of light,

As if you were a fire ablaze in the darkness,

blazing, while he was an accursed devil.

Kindled while he is a banished demon.

أراد بقاء مهجته فولى

أراد بقاء مهجته فولى

وليس سوى الحمام له حميم

وليس سوى الحمام له حميم

He wanted to preserve his life, so he turned and fled,

Wanting to preserve himself, he fled,

and he has no close friend but death.

With none left to him but the mourning dove.

يؤمل أن تجود بها عليه

يؤمل أن تجود بها عليه

وأنت بها وبالدنيا كريم

وأنت بها وبالدنيا كريم

He hopes that you will grant him his life,

He hopes you would bestow it upon him,

and you are generous with life and with the world.

While you and the world are generous.

رأيتك والملوك لها ازدحامٌ

رأيتك والملوك لها ازدحامٌ

ببابك لا تزول ولا تريم

ببابك لا تزول ولا تريم

I saw you, with kings crowding

I saw you, with the kings crowded before you,

at your gate, neither leaving nor stirring.

At your door, enduring, never moving.

تقبل من ركابك كل وقتٍ

تقبل من ركابك كل وقتٍ

مكاناً ليس تبلغه النجوم

مكاناً ليس تبلغه النجوم

At every moment they kiss upon your stirrup

You accept, anytime, from your stirrups,

a spot the stars cannot reach.

A rank beyond what the stars can reach.

تود الشمس لو وصلت إليه

تود الشمس لو وصلت إليه

وأين من الغزالة ما تروم

وأين من الغزالة ما تروم

The sun wishes it could reach that place,

The sun desires if it could attain it,

but how far beyond the sun lies what it seeks!

Where is the gazelle from what it seeks?

أردت فليس في الدنيا منيعٌ

أردت فليس في الدنيا منيعٌ

وجدت فليس في الدنيا عديم

وجدت فليس في الدنيا عديم

You willed it, so nothing in the world is impregnable;

You wanted, and nothing in the world is impregnable,

and you gave generously, so no one in the world is destitute.

You found, and nothing in the world is unattainable.

وما أحييت فينا العدل حتى

وما أحييت فينا العدل حتى

أميت بسيفك الزمن الظلوم

أميت بسيفك الزمن الظلوم

And you did not revive justice among us until

And you revived justice among us, until

the tyrannical age was slain by your sword.

You vanquished with your sword the unjust times,

وصرت إلى الممالك في زمانٍ

وصرت إلى الممالك في زمانٍ

به وبملكك الدنيا عقيم

به وبملكك الدنيا عقيم

And you came to rule the kingdoms in an age

And you reached kingdoms in an age,

whose like, and the like of your reign, the world cannot bear.

Barren and dead were it not for you.

تزخرف للأمير جنان عدنٍ

تزخرف للأمير جنان عدنٍ

كما لعداه تستعر الجحيم

كما لعداه تستعر الجحيم

Eden's gardens are adorned for the prince,

You adorn the prince with Gardens of Eden,

just as Hell blazes for his enemies.

While for his enemies burn the hellfires.

أقر الله عينك من مليكٍ

أقر الله عينك من مليكٍ

تخامر غب همته الهموم

تخامر غب همته الهموم

May God gladden your eye, O king,

May God gladden your eyes with a king

whom cares beset in the wake of his resolve.

Whose ambition is troubled by concerns,

ولا برحت لك الدنيا فداءً

ولا برحت لك الدنيا فداءً

وملكك من حوادثها سليم

وملكك من حوادثها سليم

And may the world always be a ransom for you,

Never ceasing to ransom the world for you,

and your kingdom safe from its calamities.

And your kingdom safe from its afflictions.

وإن تك في سبيل الله تشقى

وإن تك في سبيل الله تشقى

فعند الله أجرك والنعيم

فعند الله أجرك والنعيم

And if you suffer in the path of God,

And if you endure hardship in God's path,

then with God are your reward and bliss.

With God lies your reward and bliss.