لك بالمعالي رُتبة تختارُها

فافخر فأَنتَ فخارُنا وفخارُها

You have sublime ranks to choose from

So take pride, for you are our pride and its pride

يا ساعدَ الدِّين القويم وباعَه

لَحَظَتْكَ من عين العُلى أنظارها

O helper of the upright religion and its seller

The supreme eye has looked upon you

لله أَيَّةُ رفعةٍ بُلّغْتَها

قَرَّتْ وليس بغيرك استقرارها

What an elevation you have attained unto God!

It has settled and none but you is its settlement

في ذروة الشَّرف الرَّفيع مقامها

وعلى أهاضيب العُلى أوكارها

In the peak of glorious nobility is its position

And in the meadows of sublime is its dwellings

فلتَهْنَ فيك شريعة قد أصبَحتْ

وعليك ما بين الأَنام مدارها

So let the law be happy in you, for it has become

Upon you lies what revolves among the people

ولقد ملأْتَ الكون في نور الهدى

كالشَّمس قد ملأَ الفضا أنوارها

And you have filled the universe with the light of guidance

Like the sun that filled the horizons with its lights

وكشفْتَ من سرِّ العلوم غوامضاً

لولاك ما انكشَفَتْ لنا أسرارها

And you uncovered mysteries from the secret of knowledge

Without you, its secrets would not have been revealed to us

يا دوحةَ الفضل الَّذي لا يجتنى

إلاَّ بنائل جوده أَثمارها

O tree of excellence that cannot be attained

Except by palms of his generosity its fruits

الله أكبر أَنت أكبر قدوة

لم تعرف الثقلات ما مقدارها

God is Greatest, you are greatest role model

The heaviest matters, it knows not its weight

ولتسمُ فيك المسلمون كما سمتْ

في جدّه عدنانُها ونزارها

And let the Muslims fast in you as they fasted

In his grandfather Adnan and his offspring Nizari

من حيث أنَّ لسانه صمصامُها ال

ماضي وإنَّ يراعَهُ خطَّارُها

From where his tongue is its sword

A gone past, and its present a cutting blade

فردٌ بمثل كماله ونواله

لم تسمح الدُّنيا ولا أعصارها

A unique one with attributes like his perfection and gift

The world did not allow, nor its eras

دنياً بها انقرض الكرام فأَذنبت

فكأنَّما بوجوده استغفارها

A world in which the generous perished, so it sinned

So it is as though by his existence it seeks forgiveness

وكأَنَّما اعتذرت إلى أبنائها

فيه وقد قُبِلَتْ به أعذارها

And it is as though it apologized to its children through him

And its apology through him was accepted

أَمُؤمّلاً نَيْلَ الغنى بأَكُفِّه

يُغنيك عن تلك الأَكُفِّ نضارها

Hoping to gain riches from his palms

It makes you needless of other palms and their stinginess

بَسَطَتْ مكارمُه أَنامِلَ راحةٍ

تجري على وُفَّاده أنهارها

His virtues have spread fingers of comfort

Flowing over his heart rivers

أَحرارنا فيما تنيل عبيدُها

وعبيدُه من سيبه أحرارها

The free among us from those whom he set free

And his slaves from those he gifted freedom

هاتيك شِنْشِنَة وقد عُرِفَتْ به

لم تقضِ إلاَّ بالنَّدى أوطارها

There the "shanashina", known through him

Did not spend except with the dew their times

كم روضةٍ بالفضل باكرها الحيا

فزهتْ بوابل جوده أزهارها

How many gardens the life made blossom early

So it rained with the downpour of his generosity its flowers

هو دِيمةٌ لم تنقطع أنواؤها

وسحابةٌ لم تنقشعْ أمطارها

He is a rain that did not cease its spouts

And a cloud that did not clear its showers

أحيا ربوعَ العلم بعد دروسها

عِلْماً وقد رَجَعَتْ لها أعمارها

He gave life to the lands of knowledge after its lessons

A knowledge whose times have returned through him

وكذا القوافي الغرّ بعد كسادها

رَبحَتْ بسوق عكاظه تجارها

And so did the strange rhymes after their recession

Profit through the market of Ukaz and its trade

حَمَلَتْ جميل ثنائه ركبانها

وتحدَّثت بصنيعهِ سمَّارها

Carried the beauty of his praise its transports

And talked of his works its brokers

ورَوَتْ عن المجد الأَثيل رواتها

وتواتَرَتْ عن صحَّة أخبارها

And narrated the ancient glory its narrators

And circulated the validity of its news

فضلٌ يسير بكلِّ أرضٍ ذكرُه

وكذا النجوم أَجلُّها سيَّارُها

Virtue that spreads in every land his mention

And so are the stars, the greatest its rover

وله التصانيف الحسان وإنَّها

قد أسفَرَتْ عن فضله أسفارها

And his excellent prose, they have revealed

Through them his excellence and its books

هي كالرِّياض تفتَّحت أزهارها

أو كالحِسان تفكَّكتْ أزرارها

Like gardens that blossomed its flowers

Or beautiful women that undid their buttons

تبدي من المخفيّ ما يُعيي الورى

وتحير عند بروزها أفكارها

Revealing from the hidden what makes existence weary

And confuses with its emergence minds

لا زالَ خائضُ ليلها في ثاقب

من فكرة حتَّى استبان نهارها

Still swimming its night in penetrating

From a thought until its day came out

مصبوبة من لفظه بعبارة

يحلو لسامع لفظها تكرارها

Poured from his words with eloquence

Pleasant for the listener is reiterating it

لو كانَ مالُكَ مثل عِلْمكَ لاغتدت

من مالِكَ الأَرضون أو أقطارها

If Malik's wealth was like your knowledge, it would transgress

The lands and its regions

ولقد شملت المسلمين بنعمةٍ

كُفَّار نعمةِ ربِّها كُفَّارها

And you have included the Muslims with a blessing

Sufficient to thank for the blessing of its God

قرَّتْ عيونُ الدِّين فيك وإنَّما

حُسَّاد فضلك لا يقرّ قرارها

The eyes of the faith are pleased in you, and only

Your envious enemies, their settlement does not settle

راموا الوصول إلى سعاد سعودها

فنَأَتْ بهم عنهم وشطَّ مزارها

They wished to attain the happiness of its happiness

But you distanced them from it and erased their landmarks

تختار لذَّات الكمال على الهوى

تلك المشقَّة قلَّ مَنْ يختارها

You choose for the essence of perfection over desires

That ordeal, few choose it

فإذا نثرتَ فأَنتَ أَبلغُ ناثِرٍ

نظَّام لؤلؤ حكمةٍ نثَّارها

So when you spread, you are most eloquent spreader

Stringer of pearl of wisdom, its spreader

رسائلٌ أين الصّبا من لفظها

الشَّافي وأَين أريجُها وعَرارُها

Letters, where is youth from its words

Al-Shafi'i and where is its fragrance and nectar

خَطٌّ كليلاتِ السُّعود تراوَحَتْ

فيها بطيب نسيمها أَسحارها

A scripture interchanged with the night of glory circulated in it

The pleasant morning breeze and its times

هل تدري أيّ رويّة لك في الحجى

ومن العجيب فديتك استحضارها

Do you know what stream comes to you in discourse

And from the wondrous, your recollection of it

تأتي كسَيْل المزن حيث دعوتها

وكجُودِ كفّك وافرٌ مدرارها

Comes like the flood of al-Muzn wherever you called it

And like your palm's generosity, abundant its pouring

فلكم دجوت دُجنَّةً من مُشْكِلٍ

ينجابُ فيك ظلامُها وأُوارها

So how much darkness of perplexing I lit for you

Its darkness and illumination unravels through you

وجَلَيْتَ فيه من العلوم عرائساً

فأتاك من ملك الزَّمان نثارها

And you have elucidated in it from the sciences brides

So you came from the possession of time its strewing

قد زدتَ فيها رفعةً وتواضعاً

وأرى الرِّجال يَشينُها استكبارها

You have increased in it elevation and humility

And I see men disdain its arrogance

إنَّ الرَّزانةَ في النُّفوس ولم تطش

نفسٌ وقار الرَّاسيات وقارها

Verily composure is in the souls and did not transgress

A soul, dignity of the calm and its calmness

إنْ كنتَ مفتخراً بلبس علامةٍ

فعُلاك يا شرف الوجود فخارها

If you take pride in wearing a mark

Then your deeds, O honor of existence, its pride

صِيغَتْ لعِزّك سيِّدي من جوهر

حيث الجواهر أَنتَ أَنتَ بحارها

It was molded for your honor my master from essence

Where essences, you are, you are its seas

فكأَنَّما من صَدرِك استخراجها

أَو من جمالك أشْرَقتْ أنوارها

As if extracted from your chest

Or from your beauty its light shone

لا زالَ يأخذ بالنواظر نورها

لكنْ بأحشاء الحواسد نارها

Still takes the sights its light

But in the chests of the envious its fire

إنَّ العناية أَقْبَلَتْ بجميع ما

تهوى عليك وهذه آثارها

Verily providence came with all that

It desires upon you and these are its traces

قتلت عداك بلوغُها وكأَنَّها

قتلى العيون فلبس يُدركُ ثارها

It has killed others with its reaching, as though it were

The dead of eyes, so none can attain its revenge

وكفاك إقرار العداة بما به

قَرَّ الولاة ولم يفد إنكارها

And suffice you the acknowledgement of enemies with what

Pleases the governors, and their denial did not benefit

ولقد خَلَقْتَ سماء كلّ فضيلةٍ

طَلَعَتْ على آفاقها أقمارها

And you have created a sky of each virtue

Risen on its horizons its moons

هل في العراق ومن عليه ومن له

منها وليس لأَلْفِهِمْ معشارها

Is there in Iraq, and who is over it, and who has from it

And not a thousandth of it for them all?

ولقد سَتَرْتَ على عوادي بلدةٍ

لولاك لم يستر وحقّك عارها

And you have covered the disgraces of a land

Were it not for you, none could cover, and it is your right its shame

يا قطبَ دائرة الرئاسة والعلى

أضحى يدور لأمره دوارها

O pole of the orbit of leadership and sublimity

Revolving for its affairs have become its spinner

لحقت سوابقك الأُلى فسبقتهم

بسوابقٍ ما شقَّ قط غبارها

Your prior virtues have reached them, so you surpassed them

With virtues whose dust was never stirred

خذها تغيظ الحاسدين قصيدةً

ما ملَّ فيك أبا الثنا إكثارها

Take it, angering the envious with a poem

I did not tire, O Abu Al-Thana', of its increase

لا زالت الأَيَّام توليك المنى

وجرتْ على ما تشتهي أقدارها

The days do not cease conferring upon you wishes

And flow upon what you desire its fates