صِفاتُ مجدِك لفظٌ جلّ معناه
فَلا اِستَردّ الّذي أعِطاكهُ اللّهُ
The attributes of Your glory, their meanings are sublime
None can take back what Allah has given You
يا صَارِماً بِيَمينِ اللَّه قائمُهُ
وَفي أَعالي أَعادي اللَّهِ حَدَّاهُ
O You who stand firm with Allah's sword in hand
And at the heights of Allah's enemies You slash
أَصبحْتَ دونَ ملوكِ الأرض منفرداً
بلا شبيهٍ إذِ الأملاكُ أشباهُ
You have become, above the kings of earth, singular
With no peer, for the angels are Your likeness
فَداكَ مَن حاوَلَتْ مسْعَاكَ هِمَّتُهُ
جَهلاً وقَصَّر عَن مَسعاكَ مسعاهُ
For You, one who aspired to hear of You, foolishly
And failed to hear fully of You and Your feats
قُل لِلأَعادي أَلا موتوا بهِ كَمَداً
فَاللَّهُ خيَّبَكُم واللَّهُ أَعطاهُ
Say to the enemies: die frustrated by it
For Allah has disappointed you, and Allah gave it to Him
مَلِكٌ تَنامُ عَنِ الفَحشاءِ هِمَّتُهُ
تُقىً وتَسهرُ للمعروف عيناهُ
A King who sleeps with integrity occupying His thoughts
Devoutly, whose eyes stay wakeful for good
مازال يَسْمُكُ والأيّامُ تخدمُهُ
فيما اِبتَلاهُ وتُدْني ما توخّاهُ
He continues to persevere as days serve Him
In what tries Him and brings closer what He desires
حتى تَعالَتْ عن الشِّعْرَى مشاعرهُ
قدْراً وجاوزتِ الجوزاءَ نَعلاهُ
Until His feelings have risen above lowliness
In worth, and His shoes have surpassed stars in rank
وقد روى النّاسُ أخبارَ الكرام مَضَوْا
وأين مِمّا رَوَوْهُ ما رأيناهُ
The people have conveyed accounts of great men who passed
Yet what we have seen - how far from what they told!
أَينَ الخَلائف عن فتحٍ أُتيح له
مظلَّلٌ أُفُقَ الدنيا جناحاهُ
Where are the successors to a conquest unlocked for him
Shaded - the horizons of the world - by its wings?
على المنابر من أنبائه أَرَجٌ
مقطوبةٌ بفتيق المِسْك ريّاهُ
Upon pulpits - from its news - a heady scent
Cut with pure musk's fragrance, its drafts blow
فَتْحٌ أَعادَ على الإِسلامِ بَهجتَهُ
فافْتَرَّ مِبْسَمُهُ واهتزّ عِطْفاهُ
A conquest that restored to Islam its splendor
Its smile shone anew and its glance fluttered
يهدي بِمُعتصمٍ بِاللَّهِ فَتكَتُهُ
حديثُهَا نَسَخَ الماضي وأنساهُ
It guides, with Mu'tasim holding firm to Allah, his onslaughts
Its narratives superseded the past and made it forgotten
إِنَّ الرُّهَا في عَمُّوريَّةٍ وكذا
مَن رامَهَا ليس مَغْزَاهُ كمغزاهُ
Surely, glory lies in Amorium, likewise
He who sought it - his campaign not like his campaign
أُختُ الكواكِبِ عِزّاً ما بَغى أَحَدٌ
مِنَ المُلوكِ لَها وَقماً فواتاهُ
Sister of stars in might - none who craved
Of kings, standing against it, attained their want
حَتّى دَلِفْتَ لَها بِالعَزْمِ يَشحَذُهُ
رأيٌ ببيت فُوَيْقَ النّجم مسراهُ
Until you marched on it with resolve sharpened
By a view whose abode is the star's apex
مُشمِّراً وبَنو الإِسلامِ في شُغُل
عن بدء غرسٍ لهم أثمارُ عُقْباهُ
Girding yourself while the sons of Islam were busy
From sowing seeds for them fruits to reap later
يا مُحْييَ العدلِ إذ قامت نَوَادِبُهُ
وعامرَ الجود لمّا محّ مَغْناهُ
O reviver of justice, when its pillars stood
And enricher of bounty, when its spring was clogged
يا نِعمَةَ اللَّه يستصْفى المَزيد بها
لِلشاكرينَ وَيستقنى صفاياهُ
O gift of Allah - through it, more good is sought
For the grateful, and its essence is filtered
أبقاك للدّين والدّنيا تَحُوطُهُما
مَن لمْ يُتَوِّجْك هذا التَّاجَ إلّا هُو
He made you stay, for the religion and world - guarding both
The One who crowned you with this crown except He
