أعد علينا يا حويدي النجب
حديث ينبي عن أهيل الكثب
Recite to us, O Howaydi of noble descent
A tale that speaks of the dwellers of the mountain
فبالتذكر لمحبّ هائم
فرج من أهوال الجوى والحبّ
So that by remembering an infatuated lover
His distress may be relieved from the calamities of life and love
أعد على ذكرى أميمة انه
يا صاحبي يطفي لواعج كربي
Recite the memory of my beloved one
O my friend, it soothes the agonies of my sorrows
فهي مرادي وإليها بغيتي
وحبها ساكن سويداء قلبي
For she is my desire and my yearning
And love for her resides in the pure white of my heart
تنوعت فيها فنوني يا فتى
فمنها دائي ومنها طبي
My talents have flourished through her, O youth
She is both my ailment and my remedy
هي بغيتي هي منيتي لا أرتضي
عنها بديلاً في الورى هي حسبي
She is my wish, my death wish, I will not accept
Anyone else in this world, she is enough for me
رعيا لمحبوب أتاني عتبه
فجاءة وليس لي ذنب
Out of devotion for my beloved, her reproach came to me
Suddenly though I have no sin
مشرف بشرف مملوكه
من سيد يا حبذا من عتب
Elevated by the glory of her servitude
Of a master, how excellent is such reproach
اسمع فدتك الروح يا سامي الذرى
والمال والأهل معا والأب
Listen my soul would be sacrificed for you, O eminent one
Along with my wealth, family and father
يا ذار المفاخر والمكارم والثنا
ياذا المعالي والجناب الرحب
O you of glorious triumphs, magnanimity and song
O you of sublime deeds and vast dignity
يا مزريا لليث في سطواته
يا مرويا سمر القنا والقضب
O you who flows copiously like a lion in his assaults
O you who irrigates the thickets and canes copiously
يا من رقى في الملك أعلى رتبة
ومجده سامي عوالي الشهب
O you who rose to the highest rank in the kingdom
Whose glory towers to the peaks of comets
وعطاؤه عم البرايا كلها
وجوده يزري بوبل السحب
Whose gifts have encompassed all the lands
Whose generosity rains like clouds of hail
ما حاتم ما جعفر في جوده
ما حيدر ما عنتر في الضرب
Not Hatim, not Ja'far in his munificence
Not Haydar, not Antara in battle
كم قلعة عيظا فتحها عنوة
كم هامة قد قدّها بالعضب
How many impregnable fortresses you have forcefully conquered
How many distinguished heads you have severed in rage
وكم خصوم صبحهم جيشه
أبادها بطعنه والضرب
And how many rivals has your army made
Vanish at your stabbing and striking
وكم وفود يمموا فناءه
أغناهم بالجود ثم الرهب
And how many delegations heading to your court
Whom you enriched then awed with might
قد جمع الأضداد فكم من مفتن
منه وخصم باده بالنهب
You have united opposites, so how many dissenters
You were hostile to, destroyed by plunder
تنظره في كل خطب باسما
طلقا فحيى من شجاع ندب
You are seen in every discourse as unerring
Pure, lauded as a courageous hero
ما التمست في كلامي حيلة
ولا كتبت عامداً للكذب
I have not devised any tricks in my words
Nor intentionally written any lies
بل قلت ما قد قيل لي من امرها
وحياتكم أقسم وعزّة ربي
Rather, I have stated what has been said to me of her affair
By your lives, I swear and the Almighty as my witness
ثم الصلاة دائماً مكررا
تخص مولى العجم ثم العرب
Then prayers are always repeated
Especially for the Master of the non-Arabs and Arabs
