1. لِلّه عزة فارس من غالها

    بردىً فكوَّر بدرها وهلالها

    To God belongs Persia's glory—who struck it down

    with death, and shrouded its full moon and crescent?

  2. من فلَّ حد حسامها الماضي الشبا

    عدواً وجذَّ يمينها وشمالها

    Who blunted the edge of its keen-bladed sword

    in enmity, and severed its right hand and its left?

  3. حُطت سروج الخيل وهي موائل

    فقدت بمعترك الهياج رجالها

    The horses' saddles were taken off, though they were havens;

    they lost their men in the arena of battle.

  4. رزءٌ على ايران القى كلكلا

    ونحا العراق فزلزت زلزالها

    A grievous loss laid its breast upon Iran,

    and turned toward Iraq, shaking it to its depths.

  5. خطبٌ المَّ بفارس فأهالها

    وسطا فدكَّ سهولها وجبالها

    A disaster befell Persia and terrified it,

    and assailed it, crushing its plains and mountains.

  6. ان قامت الحرب العوان جثالها

    بالسيف يضرب معلماً ابطالها

    Whenever war flared anew, he knelt to face it,

    striking its champions with his sword, his battle-mark displayed.

  7. الخاطب العليا ببيض مناقب

    وقواضب بيض اجدَّ صقالها

    He wooed the heights with spotless virtues

    and bright, keen-cutting swords whose polish he renewed.

  8. ان اعوزت في الدولتين مهمة

    جلّى لها ابن جلا ضحىً فازالها

    If a grave task defied the two realms,

    Ibn Jala came forth for it in daylight and swept it away.

  9. او اشكلت امراء فارس ازمة

    في الدهر حلَّ برأيه اشكالها

    Or if a crisis perplexed Persia's princes,

    amid time's vicissitudes, he resolved its difficulty through his judgment.

  10. من للممالك مرهفا اقلامها

    او للمهالك خانضاً اهوالها

    Who will serve the kingdoms, sharpening their pens,

    or face deadly perils, wading through their terrors?

  11. من ذا الذي شغل السحاب عن الحيا

    ونهى البروق فعطلت اشغالها

    Who is it that distracted the clouds from rain

    and forbade the flashes of lightning, so they ceased their labors?

  12. يا يومه ولقد طلعت بكاسف

    فجعلت اوقات الضحى آصالها

    O day of his death, you indeed rose in eclipse,

    and turned the hours of forenoon into evening.

  13. بذل الخزائن في بناء حضيرة

    اوحى لها الرحمن ما اوحى لها

    He lavished treasuries on building a sanctuary

    to which the All-Merciful revealed what He revealed.

  14. قصرت يدا بهرام عن تعميرها

    أَني ولا كسرى بن هرمز نالها

    Bahram's two hands fell short of building it;

    how could he? Not even Khosrow son of Hormuz attained it.

  15. تلك المساعي لا كقوم قد سعت

    فسعت لها افعالها افعى لها

    Those are true endeavors, unlike those of a people who strove,

    only for their deeds to slither toward them, a viper against them.

  16. إن المكارم لم تزل معقولة

    حتى حللت براحتيك عقالها

    Indeed, noble virtues had remained tethered

    until you untied their tether with your two palms.

  17. لك اعولت امُّ العلى ولحقَّ ان

    تمسي تردد ثاكلا اعوالها

    For you the mother of glory wailed, and rightly should she

    spend the evening repeating her laments, bereaved.

  18. نشرت ذوائبها عليك وقل لو

    جذَّت عليك المكرمات قذالها

    She unbound her tresses for you; it would be little even if

    the noble virtues cut the hair from their napes in mourning for you.

  19. ما ان ذكرت من المكارم خلة

    الا وجدتك عمَّها او خالها

    No trait among noble virtues did I mention

    without finding you its paternal or maternal uncle.

  20. ما بال دست الملك اصبح خاليا

    من سلَّ من غاب الشرى رئبالها

    Why has the royal throne become empty?

    Who plucked its mighty lion from the thickets of al-Shara?

  21. شبلين بل اسدين ان خطبٌ عرى

    والأسد تترك في الشرى اشبالها

    Two cubs—nay, two lions, should calamity strike;

    and lions leave their cubs in al-Shara.

  22. الهاديين المهديين كلاهما

    ان اعوزتك ملمِّةٌ فهمالها

    Two guides, both rightly guided,

    if a calamity leaves you helpless, both are equal to it.

  23. ولنادر الاضراب جمُّ نوادر

    لم تحص بعض صفاتها وخصالها

    And that man of few peers had a wealth of rare deeds,

    whose qualities and traits have not been counted even in part.

  24. كم روعةٍ للدهر هوَّن وقعها

    ومروعةٍ عضلت أَلان عضالها

    How many a terror of time he eased the impact of,

    and how many a fearsome, intractable calamity he made yield!

  25. صبراً ذويه وان دهتكم نكبة

    طرقت تزجّ نصالها ونبالها

    Patience, his kin, though a calamity has struck you,

    that came knocking, thrusting its blades and arrows.