1. يا زَرْوةً قد أورثتْ

    بُرْءَا من الداءٍ العُتمامِ

    O visit that has brought

    a cure for the grievous illness!

  2. لم أدرِ أن كلامَها

    يشفى القلوبَ من الكِلامِ

    I did not know that her speech

    heals hearts of wounds.

  3. واهاً فيا شوقاً إلى

    تلكَ المنازلِ والخِيَامِ

    Ah, what longing for

    those dwellings and tents!

  4. ما كان إلْمامِي بهم

    إلا كحلمٍ في مَنَامِ

    My brief visit to them was

    no more than a dream in sleep.

  5. بيضاءَ يمنعها الحيا

    ءُ بأن تحَدَّث بالكلامِ

    A fair-skinned woman, whom modesty keeps

    from speaking.

  6. ولها رُضابٌ باردٌ

    يُزْرِى على صَرْف المُدامِ

    And she has cool saliva

    that puts unmixed wine to shame,

  7. أو طَعْم شَهْد نثرُه

    كالمِسْك مَفْضُوض الخِتَامِ

    or the taste of honey, whose scattered drops

    are like musk with its seal broken.

  8. لو ذَاق مَيتٌ طعمه

    لا نسلَّ من تحت الرجَامِ

    If a dead man tasted its flavor,

    he would slip out from beneath the burial stones.

  9. وموشحٍ واهٍ ضعيفٌ

    مِثْلَ جِسْمي في السَّقَامِ

    And a girdled waist, frail and weak,

    like my body in sickness;

  10. ريانُ يثقلها فَتَخْتَ

    ارُ القعودَ على القِيامِ

    plumpness weighs her down, so she chooses

    sitting rather than standing.

  11. تشكُو الخواصر منه شك

    وى عَاشِقِيها في الغَرامِ

    Her flanks complain of it with the lament

    of her lovers in passion.

  12. كَمْ ليلةٍ قد بتُّ أجْ

    نِى الشهدَ من ذاك اللِّثَامِ

    How many a night I have spent gathering

    honey from that veil!

  13. حتى رأتْ شيبي يلو

    حُ بعارضِي مثلي الثغَامِ

    Until she saw my gray hair gleaming

    on my cheek, like thughām.

  14. قالتْ فلم أقنع أزو

    رك بعدُ في حُلمِ المَنامِ

    She said—I was not content—“I shall visit

    you henceforth in dreams of sleep.”

  15. فكأنَّما اتصلَ انسكَابُ

    دموعها بندى الإمَامِ

    And it was as though there mingled the flow

    of her tears with the imam's bounty,

  16. ذِى العدلِ سلطانِ

    الهُمَامِ بن الهُمَامِ بن الهُمَامِ

    the bearer of justice, Sultan,

    the valiant, son of the valiant, son of the valiant,

  17. أهلِ الفواضلِ والفضا

    ئلِ والعطياتِ العِظَامِ

    a man of bounties and virtues,

    and mighty gifts;

  18. وأخِي الموائدِ والفوا

    ئِد والمروءَاتِ الجِسَامِ

    and a man of banquet tables and benefactions,

    and great deeds of honor.

  19. أجدادُه الغُر الكرامُ هُمُ

    الكرامُ بَنُو الكرامِ

    His illustrious, noble forefathers are

    noble men, sons of noble men.

  20. تُسدى أكفّهُمُ بجودٍ

    مثلَ منْهلِّ الغَمَامِ

    Their palms give with generosity,

    like the clouds' pouring rain.

  21. أطوادُ حِلمٍ في الوغَى

    وبحورُ جودٍ في الطعَامِ

    Mountains of forbearance in battle,

    and seas of generosity at meals.

  22. فَضَلُوا الورَى بأبوّةٍ

    فضلَ النُّضَارِ على الرَّغَامِ

    They surpassed mankind in ancestry,

    as gold surpasses dust.

  23. عَرَفوا السيادةَ والسيا

    سةَ والندى قبلَ الفِطامِ

    They knew lordship and governance,

    and generosity before weaning.

  24. جبلت شمائِلُهم على

    الجَدْوى لإصلاحِ الأَنَامِ

    Their natures were fashioned for

    beneficence, to better humankind.

  25. يا ابنَ الأولى من يعربٍ

    وأولى الإمامةِ والذِّمامِ

    O son of those descended from Ya'rub,

    and of the holders of the imamate and covenants!

  26. أنتَ المؤيدُ لم تزل

    ندعو لِملْكِكَ بالدوامِ

    You are the one upheld, and have always been;

    we pray that your reign endure.

  27. تاهَ الزمانُ بعدلك

    المشهور في مصرٍ وشامِ

    Time exults in your justice,

    renowned in Egypt and al-Sham.

  28. كلُّ أقرّ لكمْ تقىً

    بالفضل من سام وحام

    All have piously acknowledged your

    excellence—those descended from Shem and Ham.

  29. وانحطَّ عالى المرتقى

    لكَ وارعوى صَعْبُ المرامِ

    And the lofty summit bowed down

    to you, and the difficult goal yielded.

  30. فهزمت جَيشَ الكفر والإش

    راك بالجيش اللُّهامِ

    So you routed the army of unbelief and polytheism

    with the vast, engulfing host.

  31. عرَّفت كلّ منكَّر

    منِهم بِلاَ ألفٍ ولامِ

    You made every unknown one known,

    among them, without alif and lam.

  32. وسلخت كيدهمُ كما

    انسلخَ الضياءُ من الظلامِ

    And you stripped away their guile, as

    light peels free of darkness.

  33. فانحلَّ عقد نظامهم

    مِن قبلُ بالموتِ الزؤامِ

    So the knot that held their ranks unraveled,

    beforehand, through swift, dreadful death.

  34. رامُوا قتالك قبل فإنْ

    قَادُوا إليك بِلاَ زِمامِ

    They sought to fight you before, but then

    they submitted to you without a rein.

  35. غرتْهمُ منكَ الأنا

    ةُ فأوقعتهم في انهزامِ

    Your forbearance deceived them,

    so you cast them into defeat.

  36. يا غيثَ أَهل اللأرض

    يومَ نَدىً وغيثاً في الزِّحامِ

    O rain for the people of the earth,

    on a day of bounty, and rain in battle's press!

  37. هُنِّيتَ بالعيد الذي

    يهوى لقاءك بالسلامِ

    Joy to you on the feast that

    longs to meet you with greetings of peace.

  38. وليهن عيدُ الفطر أنّ

    ك عيدُه في كلِّ عامِ

    And may Eid al-Fitr rejoice that

    you are its feast in every year.