بشراك هنّيت يا ذا المجد والظفرِ
ولا بَرحتَ بإقبالٍ مدى العُمُرِ
Glad tidings! May joy attend you, O man of glory and victory;
I congratulate you, O one of glory and victory,
and may prosperity never leave you all your life.
Who has not ceased to be blessed throughout life,
بشراك هُنّيت فالأيام مقبلة
والدهر وافاك طوعاً غير ذي عذرِ
Glad tidings! May joy attend you—for the days advance smiling,
I congratulate you, for the days are auspicious,
and time itself comes willingly to you, offering no excuse.
And time itself has willingly come to you without excuse,
وعندليب الهنا غَنى لنيل منى
على غصون من الأفراح والبِشَرِ
The nightingale of happiness sang at wishes fulfilled,
The nightingale of bliss has sung to attain wishes,
upon branches laden with joys and delight.
On branches of joy and good tidings,
وطالع النصر معقود منصَّتُه
فوقَ المجَّرة مرفوع بلا نُكُرِ
The ascendant of victory has raised its dais
The star of victory has its pedestal knotted,
high above the Milky Way, exalted beyond denial.
Raised above the galaxy without denial,
بشراك قد نلت في ذا الشأن مكرمة
مضبوطة الفضل من بادٍ ومن حضرِ
Glad tidings! In this affair you have attained an honor
I congratulate you for attaining in this matter an honored grace,
whose excellence is attested by absent and present alike.
Whose virtue is verified from absent and present,
سبَقتَ أقرانك الغرّ الكرام وقد
خطبتَ بالمجد شمس الفخر فأفتخر
You have outstripped your noble, illustrious peers, and
You preceded your peers, the honorable and generous,
through glory you courted the sun of pride—so take pride!
And you sought glory, the sun of pride, so I take pride,
واختارك الليث صهراً حيث كنت له
دون الورى في محلّ الناب والظُفُر
The Lion chose you as his son-in-law, for to him you stood,
The lion chose you as a son-in-law, where you were to him,
above all mankind, in the station of fang and claw.
Beyond all creation, in the position of sharpness and victory,
وُصِلتَ بالشرف العالي وصرت على
متن المكارم مخدوماً بكلّ سَري
You were joined to exalted honor and came to ride
You were connected to the highest honor and became
upon glory’s back, served by every noble lord.
Served on the ship of favors with all mystery,
أكرِم بها لُحمَةً منسوجة بيد ال
إقبال موصولةً بالعزّ والظَّفَر
How noble this bond, woven by the hand of
Be honored with a bond woven by the hand of
prosperity and joined to might and victory!
Fate, joined with might and victory,
واغنم بعرسٍ عظيم جلّ موقعه
أبان عن حِكمةٍ عظمى لمفتكر
Rejoice in a magnificent wedding, sublime in import,
And profit from a great wedding, all of its position,
revealing profound wisdom to anyone who reflects.
Indicates supreme wisdom of the thoughtful,
قد زَيَّنَ الكون فازداد الورى فرحاً
وعَمَّمَ البشرُ منه جملة البَشَرِ
It has adorned the universe, and all creation has grown more joyful;
It adorned the universe so the world rejoiced more,
the gladness it brought has encompassed all humankind.
And people shared in it, all of mankind,
أمسَت به بلدة الزوراء فائقة
على المدائن في كِبرٍ وفي فَخر
Through it, Baghdad, city of al-Zawra, has come to surpass
The city of Zorra became supreme over all cities
all cities in grandeur and in pride.
In greatness and in pride,
كأنَّ غبراءَها الخضراءُ إذ نُقِشَت
بأحسن الشكل من تبرٍ ومن دُرَرَ
It is as though her dusty earth turned verdant when adorned
As if its green ruins, when embroidered
in loveliest form with gold and pearls.
With the best pattern of gold and pearls,
يا طيبَ عُرسٍ به الأرجاء نيَّرةٌ
لم يتفّق مثله في سالفِ العُصُرِ
How delightful a wedding, by which every quarter shines!
O good wedding, with which horizons are illuminated,
Its like has never occurred in ages past.
The like of it did not occur in eras past,
سُرَّت به السبعة الأفلاك فانبَعثت
عليه دائرةً في أحسن الدورِ
The seven celestial spheres rejoiced in it and began
The seven spheres rejoiced at it and revolved around it
to circle round it in the fairest revolution.
In the best cycles,
والسعد يرقص تحت النجم في طرب
والقطب إذ ذاك ساهي الطرق في سَهَرِ
Good fortune dances beneath the star in rapture,
And good fortune dances under the stars in rapture
while the Pole, then heedless of the pathways, keeps its vigil.
While the celestial pole forgot paths in vigil,
والمشتري قال للمريخ حين راى ال
شعرى العَبورَ مع العّيوقِ في سَمَر
And Jupiter said to Mars, when he saw
And Jupiter said to Mars when he saw
Sirius the Crosser conversing by night with Capella:
Hair passing with the loose strands in gathering,
إذهب فلست رفيقي إنّني جذلَ
ولم أجد مثل ذي الأفراح في عمري
“Go! You are no companion of mine, for I am exultant,
“Go away, you are not my companion, I am chaste
and never in my life have I known joys like these.”
And I have not found the like of one having joys in my life,”
فسار تحت السُّهى يرجو القران به
فاصطاده النسر بين السبعة الزُهُر
So Mars passed beneath Alcor, hoping to conjoin with it,
So he went under the Pleiades hoping for marriage with it
but the Eagle seized him among the seven radiant stars.
And the eagle snatched him between the flowers,
وسائر النجم أمسى وهو في شغلٍ
من المسّرة لم يُبق ولم يَذَرِ
All the other stars spent the evening wholly occupied
And the rest of the stars spent the night busy
with such delight that it spared nothing and left nothing untouched.
From gladness, neither leaving anything nor keeping anything,
فيا لَها ليلةً جاد الزمان بها
كانت من العمر بل من أحسن العُمرِ
Oh, what a night—the gift of a bountiful age!
O what a night the times brought,
It was part of life—indeed, among the finest of all its years—
It was of life, nay of the best of life,
إذ كان ما حار فيه ذو النهى ولقد
أرَّخت روم ازدواج الشمس في القمر
when there occurred what left the wise bewildered; and I gave its date:
When the forbidden was confused in it, and days
“Seek the union of the sun within the moon.”
Were recorded of the sun eclipsed in the moon,
Sol 5.6