هذي سُعودُك قد حيّتْ طوالِعُها
واستشْرَفَتْ من ثَناياها طلائِعُها
This is your dawn whose horizons have risen
And whose vanguards have emerged from its folds
آثارُ مُلْكِكَ لا تبْلَى نَضارَتُها
أنوارُ أُفْقِكَ لا تخْبو سواطِعُها
The freshness of your kingdom does not fade
The lights of your horizon do not dim
آياتُ حمْدِكَ تُسْتَجْلى مواقِعُها
إياتُ هديكَ تُسْتَجْلَى نواصِعُها
The signs of your praise are made clear in their places
The miracles of your guidance are made evident by their helpers
ما يمّمَتْ بابَكَ القُصّادُ آمِلةً
إلا تَدانَى منَ الآمالِ شاسِعُها
No determined seeker has come to your door
Except that his hopes have drawn nearer in their vastness
أبوابُ عزٍّ بها الأخْبارُ وارِدةٌ
فالسّيفُ شارِحُها والسّيبُ شارِعُها
The doors of honor arrive with news
So the sword lays them open and the sword follows them
بيوسُفٍ مَلكِ الأملاكِ ناصرها
بانَتْ شعائِرُها قامَتْ شرائِعُها
With Yusuf, king of kings, as its champion
Its rituals stand tall and its laws spread
أمَا له الهِمّةُ العُلْيا فما وضحَتْ
مَراقِبُ العِزِّ إلا وهْوَ فارِعُها
For he has the loftiest ambition, so whenever
The guardian of honor watched, it tore through him
أما لهُ الكرمُ المَحْضُ الذي أخذتْ
عنهُ الغَمائِمُ إذ جادتْ هوامِعُها
For he has pure, bountiful generosity that
The clouds have taken from when they poured forth their torrents
أما لهُ الشِّيَمُ الغُرُّ التي جُليَتْ
كَواكِباً لم تَزلْ تَهْدي طوالِعُها
For he has brilliant, noble traits that
Have shone like stars whose dawns continue to guide
أما لهُ العَزماتُ الماضِياتُ كما
هزّ الحُسامُ وخاضَ الحربَ دارِعُها
For he has resolute, determined acts just as
The sword shook and battled plunged into the fray
أمَا لهُ المَكْرُمات السّائِراتُ ثَنىً
كالشّمْسِ يُجْلَى على الآفاقِ شائِعُها
For he has endless noble deeds that have spread
Like the sun whose lights blanket the horizons
فالشّهْبُ من نورِ مَرْآهُ أشِعّتُها
والسُّحْبُ من جودِ كفَّيْهِ يَنابِعُها
So the meteors in the light of his vision have shone
And the clouds from his palms’ generosity gush forth
والغربُ يا طالَما ودّتْ خِلافَتُهُ
لديْهِ لو أنها رُدّتْ ودائِعُها
And the West - oh how it wished for his caliphate
To return to it if it gave back its deposits
هذا مُناوِيه قد ولّتْ كتائِبُهُ
والرّعْبُ يَقْدُمُها والسّيفُ تابِعُها
And terror goes before them while the sword follows
It is as if I hear the tongue of fate chanting them:
كأنّني بلِسانِ الدهْرِ يُنْشِدُها
أنّى بأسْبابِ عِزٍّ وهوَ قاطِعُها
"Where can the means of honor be cut off when he severs them?"
Away with the group whom disgrace has befallen
تبّاً لطائِفةٍ طافَ الهَوانُ بِها
تُخادِعُ الله سِرّاً وهْوَ خادِعُها
Who secretly deceive God while He deceives them
They have journeyed from fleeing to the abode of destruction
منَ الفِرارِ إلى دارِ البَوارِ مضَتْ
فَما مصارِفُها إلا مَصارِعُها
So their ways are none but their deaths
And for the elements in the battle's fray there is work:
وللعوامِل في هامِ العِدَى عمَلٌ
فالسّيْفُ خافِضُها والرُمْحُ رافِعُها
The sword lowers them and the spear raises them
It is as if the egg whites and yolks are dripping down
كأنّ بيضَ الظُّبا والنقْعُ مُنْسَدِلٌ
بوارِقٌ قد جَلا الظّلْماءَ صادِعُها
Flashes that illuminate the darknesses with their striker
And sometimes the heroes rode out when the night
وربّما جالَتِ الأبطالُ حيثُ غَدا
ليلُ العَجاجةِ تجْلوهُ مدارِعُها
Of war came to smooth its ways with their smoothing
His caliphate was a garden, yet here it is
كانتْ خِلافَتُه روضاً فَها هي قدْ
أضحى هَشيماً بنارِ الحرْبِ يانِعُها
It has become rubble with the fire of war blowing through it
Does he seek peace while the plain surrenders
أيَخْطُبُ السِّلْمَ والبَيْضاءُ مانِحةٌ
حُلولَ أرْجائِها لا كان مانِعُها
Its far reaches to him without objection?
When the regiments of victory came to its field
كَتائِبُ النّصْرِ إذ حلّتْ بساحَتِها
كَرْهاً تُودِّعُها طوْعاً تُوادِعُها
They bid it farewell willingly and it bids them farewell lovingly
And how can evil and tumult be driven back from Fez
وكيفَ تُدْفَعُ عنْ فاسٍ أُسودُ وَغىً
وما مرابِضُها إلا مرابِعُها
When its firmness is none but firmness?
If the party of monotheism was defeated, here it is
إنْ أجْفلَتْ فئةُ التوْحيدِ ها هيَ قدْ
عادَت تنازِلُ فيها مَنْ يُنازِعُها
Returning to vie in it, the one who rivals it
And incidents by which God tested the servants
وقائِعٌ محّصَ الله العِبادَ بِها
حتّى تبيّنَ عاصِيها وطائِعُها
Until its obedient and its disobedient became clear
If resolve was lost when they split
إن كان ضُيِّعَ حَزْمٌ عندَما افْتَرَقَتْ
فإنّ جودَك حامِيها وجامِعُها
Then your generosity protects it and unites it
With this call of yours, its requests were attained
هذا نداكَ بهِ نيلتْ مَطالِبُها
هذا هُداكَ بهِ راقتْ مطالِعُها
With this guidance of yours, its horizons ascended
And your kingdom fulfilled it when events presented themselves
وإنّ مُلْكَكَ وافِيها وقدْ عرَضَتْ
لها الحوادثُ حتّى خيفَ واقِعُها
Until its befalling made its beholder anxious
So it felt the beauty of your favor when
فاسْتَشْعَرَتْ بجميلِ الصُّنْعِ حين علَتْ
بالنّصْرِ منكَ على الشّعْرى مصانِعُها
With victory from you, it rose above adversity
So the Guardian narrowed an eye as the Guardian willed
فقَرَّ عيْناً كما شاءَ الوليُّ بها
وفازَ بالعِزِّ رائِيها وسامِعُها
And the witness of its honor won honor and heard
For grace built for the mighty victory within it
إذْ شيّدَ الصُّنْعُ للنّصْرِ العزيزِ بها
مَصانِعاً يبْهَرُ الألْبابَ رائِعُها
Marvels that dazzle the minds with their spectacle
One like the son of victory, an inherited solution and an inherited ascension
مَن كابْنِ نَصْرٍ حُلاً مأثورَةً وعُلاً
مُضيعُها قاصِرٌ عنْها وطائِعُها
Whose loss falls short of it and whose obedience reaches it
And with this, Tlemcen gained victory
هذا وإنّ تِلِمْساناً بهِ انتَصَرَتْ
مُلوكُها ومَعاليهِ تُراجِعُها
Its kings and its glories keep returning to it
So its wanderer roamed for its swimmer
فحَثَّ سائِحُها سَيراً لسابِحِها
وبثّ نجْواهُ داعِيها وضارِعُها
And its confidant spread the call of its supplicant
It is jihad - if they sell their souls
هوَ الجهادُ فإن باعُوا نُفوسَهُمُ
مِن ربّهِمْ فازَ بالدّارَيْنِ بائِعُها
To their Lord, its seller wins the two abodes
And he came to Malaga while the people despaired
وحَلَّ مالَقَةً والنّاسُ قد يَئِسوا
من رحْمةٍ عنهُمُ ما ضاقَ واسِعُها
Of a mercy whose vastness did not narrow around them
The souls of people have become fearful before it
أضْحَتْ لديْها نُفوسُ الخلْقِ خائِفَةً
لا يهْتَدي لسَبيلِ الأمْنِ جازِعُها
With no guided path to the way of safety trembling before it
Their sins have caused their destruction, and there is none but
قد أوْبَقَتْهُمْ خطاياهُمْ وليسَ سِوى
جِهادِهِ في سبيل الله شافِعُها
Its jihad in the way of God that will intercede for them
The makings of God - when its field arrived
صنائِعُ اللهِ لمّا حل ساحَتها
فضْلاً بها قد حباهُ اللهُ صانِعُها
Favor which God has graced its maker with
So the faces of good tidings glistened with the rising
فأشرقَتْ أوجُهُ البُشْرى بناشِئَةٍ
من الغَمامِ قدِ انهَلّتْ مدامِعُها
Of clouds that poured down their tears
It came alive and the eyelids of flowers are sleeping
حيّا الحَيا وجُفونُ الزّهْرِ نائِمةٌ
والآن لا يالفُ الإغْفاءَ هاجعُها
And now slumber cannot turn away its roused one
Belonging to God, watching from it and gazing
للّهِ ناضرَةٌ منها وناظرةٌ
تنبّهَتْ بعدَ ما أغْفَتْ هواجِعُها
It awoke after what made its passionate lover sleep
The horses of landmarks do not bend their necks
هَذي بواسِمُها رقّتْ نواسِمُها
هذي منازِلُها رقّتْ منازِعُها
From the highlands whose heights have fascinated
And the spear sways proudly whenever
خيْلُ النواسِمِ لا تثْني أعنَّتَها
عنِ الرّوابي التي راقَتْ روائِعُها
Its lodgings make its opponent bend
And sometimes the wind straightens its bending
ومالتِ القُضْبُ زَهواً كلّما نزَعَتْ
لها فنازِلُها يَثْنيه نازِعُها
As the resolve of heroes straightens their deviator
And with this - you were congratulated on the feast of breaking fast when
وربّما قد تُقيمُ الرّيحُ مائِلَها
كما يُقيمُ صَغا الأبطالِ وازِعُها
The good news arrived whose timing was made clear
You rose in it, and from your vision the sun of daybreak
هذا وهُنّئْتَ عيدَ الفطرِ إذ وردتْ
فيه البشائِرُ تُسْتَحلى مواقِعُها
That illuminates and clears the gloom of darkness with its shining
So delight in it, and for us in it there is delight that
طلَعْتَ فيه ومِن مَرْآكَ شمْسُ ضُحىً
تُجْلى فيجْلو دُجَى الظّلْماءِ ساطِعُها
Your supreme hand has extended for us to pledge allegiance to
What can the pens of the eloquent compose
فاهْنأْ بهِ ولنا فيه الهَناءُ بأنْ
مُدّت لنا يَدُك العُليا نُبايِعُها
When their Originator and their Maker has created and designed?
The meteors of meanings and the crowns of its watchers
ماذا تُسطِّرُ أقْلامُ البَليغِ إذا
أبْدى وأبْدَعَ باريها وبارِعُها
The gazelles of its words and the meadows of my thought
With the victory of your kingdom may God elevate its manifestation
شُهْبُ المَعاني وأطْراسي مراقِبُها
ظِباءُ ألفاظِها فكْري مراتعُها
Prostrating to God, supplicating and bowing
May your supreme caliphate last - to which
بنَصْرِ مُلْكِكَ أعْلى اللهُ مظهَرَهُ
للهِ ساجِدُها يدْعو وراكِعُها
The creation and the world have submitted and obeyed
دامَتْ خلافَتُك العُليا التي خضعَتْ
لها الخلائِقُ والدُنْيا تُطاوِعُها
