يا شَمسُ لا كَسْفٌ ولا تكدارُ

ولا خَلَتْ من نُورِك الأنوارُ

O sun, no eclipse or gloominess,

And no lights lacked your light.

البَدرُ مَنقوصٌ وأَنتَ كاملٌ

لَكَ السَّرايا وَلَهُ السِّرارُ

The full moon is incomplete, and you are perfect,

For you are the brilliance, and for it the concealment.

بُرؤُكَ لِلإِسلامِ مِن أَدوائِهِ

بُرْءٌ وفي أعدائِهِ بَوارُ

Your shining is a remedy for Islam from its ailments,

A cure, while for its enemies is perdition.

ما أَنتَ إِلّا السّيف صَدَّ صدأً

عَن مَتنِهِ مَضْرِبُهُ البَتّارُ

You are nothing but a sword whose rust

Was removed from its blade by the cleaver.

لَو كانَ مَحمولاً أَذىً عَن مَنفَسٍ

لَحَملتهُ دونَكَ الأَبصارُ

If harm could be borne away from a breath,

The sights would have borne it away before you.

وَلَو فَدَتْ أَرضٌ سَماءً ساقَتِ ال

مُلوكَ في فِدائِكَ الأَمصارُ

If a land ransomed a sky, the countries

Would ransom you with their kings.

أَنتَ غياثُ مَحْلِهِمْ إِنْ أَجدَبوا

وَخَيرهُم إِنْ ذُكِر الخيارُ

You are their rescue when they are stricken with drought,

And their best when the virtuous are mentioned.

وَفي سَريرِ المُلْكِ مِنها ملكٌ

للَّهِ في سَرّائِهِ أَسرارُ

And in the bed of kingship is a king

To God among his elite ones are secrets.

خَيرُ مُلوكِ الأَرضِ جَدّاً وأَباً

إنْ هَزَّ عِطْفَيْ ماجدٍ نِجارُ

The best of the kings of earth in ancestry and father,

If the wrists of glorious carpenter are moved.

مَدَّ عَلى الدّينِ رواقَ دَولَةٍ

تَنازَعَت أَسْمَارَها السُّمَّارُ

He extended over the religion a porch of a state,

Its poles were disputed by the sleepless.

عَلَت بِناءً وحَلَت في يَدِهِ

فَهيَ عَلى السّورِ وَالسّوارُ

It rose up a building and settled in his hand,

Thus it is over the wall and the bracelet.

مَحمودٌ المحمودُ عَصرُ مُلْكِهِ

فَلِلْحَيَا مِن مُزْنِهِ اِعتِصارُ

Commendable is the time of his kingdom,

So the living in it should be content.

يا نورَ دينٍ أُظلِمَت آفاقُهُ

لَوْ لَمْ تَبلّج هَذِهِ الآثارُ

O light of a religion whose horizons were darkened,

Had not these traces shone.

للَّهِ أَيّامك ما تَخطّهُ

بِالمِسكِ مِن إِسفارِها الأسفارُ

To God belong your days, whatever

Passes by them cannot be traced even by musk.

سَلِمْتَ لِلإِسلامِ تَرعى سَرحَهُ

إِذا وَنَى رُعاتُهُ وَجاروا

You submitted to Islam and pasture its flock,

When its shepherds went astray.

شَكوتَ فَالدُّنيا عَلى سُكّانِها

قرارةٌ جانَبها القرارُ

You complained, so the world is discontent for its inhabitants,

While next to it is settlement.

كادَت تَموتُ الأَرضُ مِن إِشفاقِها

لَولا شِفاءٌ رَدَّها تمارُ

The earth almost died out of sorrow,

If not for a recovery that brought it back to life.

زَرَّتْ عَلَيكَ التُّرْكُ جَيْب نَسبٍ

يَحسُدها بِزِيِّهِ نِزارُ

The Turks visited you from a lineage whose dress

Is envied by the Arabian leopard.

لا عَدِمَتْ مِنكَ الأَماني رَبَّها

مُعْطىً من الإِقبالِ ما يَختارُ

Your wishes never lacked bestowing it

A gift of favor which it may choose.

ما سَمَحَ الدّهرُ بِأَنْ تَبقى لَنا

فَكُلُّ جَرْحٍ مَسَّنا جبارُ

Time did not permit us that you remain for us,

So every wound that touched us is severity.