نِلت صَعبَ الامورِ بالميسُورِ

وأَعانَتْكَ طاعةُ المقدُورِ

You have attained the difficult matters with ease,

And obedience to the Ordainer has helped you.

ولبستَ الايامَ تسحَبُ أَذيا

لَ مداها في غِبطةٍ وسرُورِ

You have worn days that pull harm,

With no extent in felicity and pleasure.

قد تفردتَ بالفعَالِ فما أَن

تَ الى رأى صَاحِبٍ بِفَقِيرِ

You have taken exclusive action, so what care,

To the view of a friend for a destitute.

وكفاكَ الزحامَ أَنكَ من قَو

مٍ حباهُم الهُمُمْ بالصدُورِ

It suffices you the crowding that you are from a people,

Who their spirits have endowed them with chests.

يا ابن من انهبَ القَطائع والما

لَ وما كانَ ذاكَ عن تَقصِيرِ

O son of one who seized the shares and wealth,

And that was not from inadequacy.

يتأَنى بجندِهِ رجعةَ الشَّا

ردِ منهم وراحة المبهُورِ

He is gentle with his troops, the return of the deserter from them,

And the comfort of the confused.

واذا اضطرتِ الامورُ ففي الكي

س نجاةٌ والحِفظِ في التبذِيرِ

And if matters become constrained, then in compromise,

Is salvation, and preservation in extravagance.

يا بَهاءَ العُلا اذا غِبتَ لا غِب

تَ فمنْ للقيادِ والتَّشْميرِ

O splendid, if you are absent you do not become absent,

So who else for leadership and motivation?

ولفتحِ من الفتوحِ يوافى

فوقَ ظنِّ الرّجالِ والتَّقْدِيرِ

And for an opening from the openings to concur,

Above the expectation of men and foresight.

ما فقدنا منكَ الفظاعةَ والرأ

فةَ مذ سَاسَنا أَبو منصُورِ

We have not missed from you violence and leniency, since,

We were ruled by Abu Mansur.

شَمَّريٌ كأَنَّه أَنتَ يا مَنْ

جَلَّ عن كلِّ مُشْبهٍ ونَظِيرِ

Determined, as if he were you, O one who,

Is too lofty for any likeness and peer.

نَزَّهَتْهُ عن الحُجُورِ هُمُومٌ

علمتْهُ الجلوسَ فوقَ السريرِ

Worries have exempted him from confines,

They taught him sitting atop a throne.

وركوبَ الجيادِ والمنبر اليا

فعِ في كلِّ موقفٍ مَشْهُورِ

And riding thoroughbreds and the sublime pulpit,

In every stance renowned.

أَنتَ هذبتَ حدَّهُ والى الصَّي

قل شَحْذ المهندِ المأَثُورِ

You have refined its sharpness, and to aptness,

Whetting of the famed blade.

وَتَفَرَّسْتَ فيهِ غير مُحَابٍ

أَنَّهُ كائنٌ أَباً للكُسُورِ

And you have observed in it without resistance,

That it exists as a father to victories.

يا لَهَا من مَخِيْلَةٍ كانَ يَوماً

شَامَها الأَرَدْشِيْرُ في سَابورِ

O what an imagination it was one day,

Its nobility Ardashir in Sabur.

هكذا يخلقُ الهُمامُ بنيه

كيفَ ما اختارَ للعلا والخِيرِ

Thus the spirits engender their sons,

However it chooses for supremacy and good.

عشِق المكرماتِ وهو اخمسٍ

لم يُشَفَّعْ كما لُها بشُهورِ

Love of favors while still a baby,

Not interceded as it was with months.

يَتَلظى تَوقداً وذكاءً

واضطلاعاً بالحزمِ والتدبيرِ

It blazes and lights,

With competence, resolve, and management.

أَنتَ شمسٌ لافقنا وهو بَدْرٌ

منكَ يَنبوعُ ضوئِه والنُّورِ

You are a sun to our horizon, and he is a moon,

From you the flowing of its light and brilliance.

ليس يُشفى بدون فارس غِلٌّ

بلغ الغيظُ نفثَةَ المَصْدُورِ

A swelling hatred is not remedied without a knight,

The fury has reached an outburst of the chests.

ولَعَمرى ما ذاكَ أَول غَيْمٍ

نلتَه من عَدُوِّكَ المَقْهُورِ

By my life, that is not the first cloud,

You have attained from your defeated enemy.

لا رَعى الناسَ غيرُ آل بويهٍ

فبهمْ يستقيمُ زيغُ الأُمورِ

None has shepherded people other than the family of Buyyah,

Through them, the deviation of affairs is corrected.

يُعْرَفُ الطفلُ منهم بِنُهاهُ

ويُرَى بالصَّغيرِ هَدُي الكَبيرِ

The child among them is known by his uprightness,

And the guidance of the elder is seen in the junior.