Sol 6.1

  1. طَبعتْكَ كفُ الله سيفَ أمان

    كمنَ الرّدى في حدِه للجاني

    God's hand forged you as a sword of safety;

    Death lay in wait along its edge for the wrongdoer.

  2. العدلُ قائمهُ وفي اِفْرَنْدهِ

    سورُ الهدى نُزلّن سحر بيان

    Justice is its hilt, and in its blade's patterned sheen

    Are surahs of guidance, revealed as a spell of eloquence.

  3. وعليك أملى الله من آياته

    شهباً هتكْنَ مدارع البُهتان

    And God dictated to you, from His verses,

    Shooting stars that tore apart the armor of falsehood.

  4. لولا كتابك ما رأينا معجزا

    في أمةٍ مرصوصة البنيان

    Without your Book, we would have seen no miracle

    In a nation whose structure was firmly knit,

  5. حملت إلى الأقطار من صحرائها

    قبسَ الهدى ومطارفَ العمران

    That carried from its desert to distant lands

    The flame of guidance and the rich cloaks of civilization.

  6. هادٍ يُصوَّر لي كأنّ قَوامه

    متجسدٌ من عنصر الإيمان

    A guide appears to me, as though his form

    Were the very substance of faith made flesh.

  7. وأراه يغضب للإله موحدا

    من نخلةٍ في عِرقِها صِنوان

    And I see him, affirming God's oneness, angered for His sake

    At a palm tree whose root bears twin trunks.

  8. لم يُزْهِهِ بدرٌ ولا أحدٌ ثنى

    عزماتِه عن خِطة العرفان

    Badr did not make him vain, nor did Uhud turn

    His resolves from the path of knowledge.

  9. فهو اليقين يصارع الدنيا ومنْ

    جاز اليقين يعودُ بالخذلان

    For he is certainty, wrestling with the world; and whoever

    Goes beyond certainty returns defeated.

  10. وكذا النّبوة حكمةٌ وصرامةٌ

    وتقى وإلهام وفرطُ حنان

    And such is prophethood: wisdom and firmness,

    And piety, inspiration, and overflowing tenderness.

  11. هي ذلك الرّوح التي تَتَقَمَّصُ

    الأبطالَ للحدث العظيم الشان

    It is that spirit which takes flesh in

    Heroes for an event of mighty consequence.

  12. تُلقي على الأبطال شِكّتها فتد

    فعهم فينفجرون كالبركان

    It casts its armor upon heroes, then drives—

    —them, and they erupt like a volcano.

  13. لك في السماء منصةٌ قدسيةٌ

    قامَتْ على التوحيد والميزان

    For you in heaven stands a sacred dais,

    Founded on God's oneness and the scales of justice.

  14. ما كنتَ سفاحا ولم تسفك دماً

    إلا بحق العادل الديان

    You were no bloodthirsty killer, nor did you shed blood

    Except by the authority of the Just One, the Judge.

  15. لو كنتَ في قوم تسيخُ عقولهم

    وحياً لكنت كأطوع الحملان

    Had you been among a people whose minds were steeped

    In revelation, you would have been like the meekest of lambs.

  16. قد أحرجوك فأخرجوك فنِلْتَهم

    ومذ ارعووا عن ذلك الطغيان

    They harassed you and drove you out, so you overcame them;

    And when they desisted from that tyranny,

  17. وسمحتَ ثم صفحتَ عن آثامهم

    وغمرتَهم بالفيءِ والإحسان

    You were generous, then pardoned their sins,

    And showered them with spoils and kindness.

  18. لله دينك جنةٌ مختومةٌ

    من كل فاكهةٍ بها زوجان

    To God belongs your faith—a sealed garden;

    Within it are two kinds of every fruit.

  19. دينٌ تدفّق حكمةً وتجدداً

    كالبحر لفظاً والسماءِ معاني

    A faith that flowed with wisdom and renewal,

    Like the sea in its wording, and the sky in its meanings.

  20. ألّفت منه وحدةً كونيةً

    العبدُ والمولى بها نِدان

    You fashioned from it a universal unity,

    In which the slave and master are equals.

  21. يامَنْ يموتُ ودرعه مرهونةٌ

    قد دُستَ مجدَ الأصفرِ الرّنان

    O you who die with your armor held in pledge,

    You have trampled the glory of ringing gold.

  22. لو أَدّتِ الناسُ الزكاةَ وأنصفوا

    ما كان في الدنيا فقيرٌ عاني

    If people paid the prescribed alms and acted justly,

    There would be no suffering pauper in the world.

  23. يسّرتَ للناس الشؤونَ فأيسروا

    أما الهوى فكبحتَهُ بعِنان

    You eased affairs for people, and they prospered;

    As for desire, you curbed it with a rein.

  24. وجمعت حولك يا رسولُ صحابةً

    بعمائمٍ أزهى من التيجان

    And you gathered companions around you, O Messenger,

    In turbans more splendid than crowns.

  25. خَشُنَتْ ملابسهم ولان جوارهم

    بالعدل فالأعداءُ كالإخوان

    Their clothes were coarse, but their neighborly ways were gentle

    Through justice, so that foes were like brothers.

  26. تشقى العدالةُ في القصور وأنت قدْ

    أسعدْتَها بمضاربِ العربان

    Justice suffers in palaces, while you have

    Made her happy amid the Bedouins' tents.

  27. أمعلمَ التوحيد وَحِّد أمةً

    قدْ فرقَتْها نُعرة الأديان

    O teacher of God's oneness, unite a nation

    That religious fanaticism has torn apart.

  28. يتنازعون على السماء وأرضهم

    في قبضة الرُّواد والحَدثان

    They quarrel over heaven, while their land

    Is in the grip of pioneers and time's vicissitudes.

  29. فلتنحنيْ الأجيالُ إجلالاً لدى

    ذكرِ النّبي الأطهر العدنان

    So let the generations bow in reverence at

    The mention of the purest Prophet, of Adnan's line.

  30. ولينعق المتعصبون فلم يَضُرْ

    طيرَ الجنان تمنطقُ الغربان

    And let the fanatics caw: never has

    The crows' pretentious reasoning harmed the birds of paradise.