جَلَّ واللهِ ما دهاك وَعَزَّا

فعزاءً إن الكريمَ مُعَزَّى

By God, he was not lacking in consolation and honor

For the noble one is consoled with honor

والحصيفُ الكريم من إن أصابت

نكبةٌ بعد ما يَعزُّ يُعَزَّى

And the wise honorable one, if struck

By misfortune, after being honored, is consoled

هي ما قد عَلِمتَ أحداثُ دَهرٍ

لم تدع عُدَّةً تُصانُ وكَنزا

These are events of fate that you knew

Left no family to be protected and treasure to be stored

قصدت دولةَ الخلافةِ جَهراً

فأبادت عمادَها والمعزا

You headed purposefully to the caliphate

So you destroyed its pillars and glory

وقديماً أَفنَت جَديساً وطَسماً

حفَّزَتهُم إلى المقابرِ حَفزا

Long ago, it destroyed Jadis and Tasm

Inciting them to the graves, incited

أصغ والحظ ديارهم هل ترى من

أَحَد منهُمُ وتَسمَعُ رِكزا

Listen and observe their abodes - do you see any

One of them, or hear a whisper?

ذهبَ الطِّرفُ فاحتسِب وتَصَبَّر

للرَّزايا فالحرُّ من يتعزَّى

The eyes are gone, so be patient and stoic

To calamities, for the free one is consoled

فعلى مِثله استُطِير فؤادُ الحا

زمِ للنَّدبِ حسرةً واستُفزَّا

So keep the heart of the saddened refugee

Lamenting in sorrow, and provoked

لم يَكُن يَسمحُ القيادَ على الهو

نِ ولا كان نافراً مُشمَئِزَّا

He did not allow the leader to be dishonored

And was not averse, disgusted

رُبَّ يومٍ رأيتُه بينَ جُردٍ

تتقفَّاه وَهوَ يجمِزُ جَمزا

Many a day I saw him among the bare hills

With him fending them off, resisting

وكأن الأبصارَ تعلق منه

بِحُسام يُهزُّ في الشَّمسِ هزَّا

As if sights were fixed on him

With a sword brandished, waving in the sun

وتراه يُلاعبُ العَينَ حَتَّى

تَحسَبَ العينُ أَنَّه يَتَهَزَّا

You’d see him playing with the eyes until

The eyes thought he was jesting

وسواءٌ عليه هجَّر أو أَس

رى أو انحَطَّ أو تَسنَّمَ نَشزَا

And it was all the same if he shunned or captured,

Lowered or elevated himself, exalted

وكأن المِضمَارَ يبرُزُ منه

مَتنُ حِسي يَنِزُّ بالماءِ نزَّا

As if the racecourse sprang from him

A Hisan steed gushing water, spurting

استراحت منه الوحوشُ وقد كا

ن يَرَاها فلا ترى منه حِرزا

The beasts rested from him though he would see them

And not see any caution from him

كم غَزالٍ أنحى عليه وعَير

نالَ منه وكم تَصَيَّدَ فَزَّا

How many gazelles tilted toward him and he struck them

And how much game he hunted and startled!

وصرُوفُ الزمانِ تَقصِدُ فيما

يستفيدُ الفتى الأعزُّ الأعزَّا

The turns of fate seek what profits the noble youth, the most noble

So if you find any anguish in heart and self from the blow

فإذا ما وَجَدتَ من جزعِ النَّك

بَة في القَلبِ والجوانح وَخزَا

Remember bygones - he of noble manner would be consoled

When praised

فتَذَكَّر سَوَابقاً كان ذا الطَّ ر

ف إليهنَّ حين يُمدحُ يُعزَى

Where are Shaqq and Dahis and Dubaib

Struck by the occurrences of fate, struck?

أين شقٌ وداحسٌ وضبيبٌ

غَمَزتها حوادتُ الدَّهرِ غَمزا

Galn the generous, and it chipped away

At Zurb, al-Lizaz and al-Sakib, chipped

غُلنَ ذا اللِّمَّةِ الجواد ولَزَّت

ظرباً واللِّزَازَ والسَّكبَ لَزَّا

It truly humbled al-Wajeeh and Maqtoum

The clan of A’sar and crooked Auj, humbled

ولقد بَزَّتِ الوجيهَ ومكتُو

م بَنى أعصرٍ وأعوجَ بزَّا

And it confronted the unified so it threw him

And Gharib, Zuhdum - so it provoked

وتَصَدَّت للاحقٍ فَرَمَته

وغرابٍ وزهدَمٍ فاستَفَزَّا

So thank God that the slightest loss you suffered

Is what you were consoled for

فاحمدِ الله إنَّ أهونَ تُر

زأُ ما كنتَ أنتَ فيه الُمعزَّى

We have eulogized and not fallen short, and went far,

And in some, what sufficed him and fulfilled him

قد رَثَينا ولم نُقَصِّر وبالغ

نا وفي البعض ما كفَاه وأجزى

It is just to reward Abu Eisa

Based on what we did and were rewarded

ومن العدلِ أن تُثابَ أبا عي

سى على قَدرِ ما فعلنا ونُجزى