لازالَ سَعيُكَ مُقبِلاً مَقبولا

وَمَحَلُّ عِزِّكَ عامِراً مَأهولا

Your efforts are still forthcoming and accepted

And the place of your glory inhabited and crowded

أَمَّلتُ فيكَ بِأَن يَكونَ كَما أَرى

فَبَلَغتُ فيكَ السُؤلَ وَالمَأمُولا

I hoped in you that it would be as I see

So I reached in you the question and the expected

أَغنَيتَني مِمّا بَذَلتَ فَلَم تَدَع

وَجهي إِلى وَجهِ امرِئٍ مَبذولا

You have made me needless of what you have given so you did not leave

My face to the face of a man who has offered

وَعَتَبتَ لي صَرفَ الزَمانِ فَأَعتَبَت

أَخلاقُهُ وَتَبَدَّلَت تَبديلا

And you blamed me changing times, so

Its morals have changed and turned to change

المَنعُ بَذلاً وَالقَساوَةَ رَأفَةً

وَالعُسرَ يُسراً وَالقَبيحَ جَميلا

Refusal is giving, hardness is mercy

And hardship is ease, and the ugly is beautiful

لا أَشتَكي بُؤسَ الحَياةِ وَلا تَرى

نُوَبُ الزَمانِ لَها إلَيَّ سَبيلا

I do not complain of the misery of life, nor do you see

The flaws of time have a way to me

وَقَد اِنتَجَعتُ لِفاقَتي هَذا الحَيا

وَهَزَزتُ هَذا الصارِمَ المَصقولا

And I have recovered from my poverty this life

And I have shaken this fierce, polished

أَمِنَ الإِمامُ عَلى الثُغورِ وَأَهلِها

مُذ حَلَّ هَذا اللَيثُ هَذا الغيلا

Is the Imam safe on the borders and its people

Since this lion, this warrior has dissolved

مُتَبَهنِساً بَعدَ القَتامِ نَعُدُّهُ

في الجَيشِ جَيشاً وَالرَعيلِ رَعيلا

Degraded after war we count him

In the army an army and the riffraff riffraff

مَن لِلخَليفَةِ أَن يَراكَ فَلا يَرى

لَكَ في مُلوكِ بَني الزَمانِ عَديلا

Who is for the Caliph to see you and not see

For you among the kings of the people of the time alike

مُستَحقِراً لَكَ شُهبَةً وَلَو أَنَّها

شُهبُ النُجومِ مَراكِباً وَخُيولا

Scornful of you gray hair even if it

The gray of the stars riding and horses

وَلَو اِستَطاعوا مِن عُلاكَ لَصَيَّروا

نُورَ الغَزالَةِ ثَوبَكَ المَعمولا

If they could of your glory, they would make

The light of gazelle your clothes the twisted

ولَأَكبَروكَ عَنِ العِمامَةِ وَاِرتَضَوا

أَن يُلبِسوكَ التاجَ وَالإِكلِيلا

And they would forbid you the turban and approve

To dress you the crown and the wreath

أَمّا العَلامَةُ فَهِيَ خَيرُ عَلامَةٍ

لَكَ أَنَّ قَدرَكَ لَم يَكُن مَجهولا

As for the mark, it is the best mark

For you that your fate was not unknown

بَعَثوا بِها وَكَأَنَّ ما في صَدرِها

قَوسُ الغَمامِ مُلَوَّناً مَفتولا

They sent it as if what was in its chest

The bow of the clouds colored twisted

بَيضاءُ باتَ بَياضُ عِرضِكَ مِثلَها

لَوناً وَباعُكَ في المَكارِمِ طُولا

White night the whiteness of your honor like it

A color and your sale in generosity length

وَمِن الحَريرِ الجَونِ عَمّارِيَّةً

يَفري العَواصِفَ ذَيلُها مَسبولا

And from the soft silk Ammariya

Which storms its tail drained

مُخَضَرّةَ الجَنَباتِ تُحسَبُ رَوضَةً

باتَت تُعانِقُ شامِلاً وَقُبولا

Green sides thought to be a garden

Who spent the night embracing the inclusive and accepted

كادَ الحَمامُ الورق في شَجراتِها

يُبدي عَلى تِلكَ الغُصونِ هَديلا

The pigeons almost showed the paper in its trees

Reveal upon those branches croaking

وَالسَيفُ مَشحُوذُ الغِرارِ كَأَنَّهُ

جِسمُ المُحِبّ نَحافَةً وَنُحولا

And the sword sharpened edges as if it is

The body of the lover is slender and lean

ما عَوَّلَت شَفراتُهُ في مَعركٍ

إِلّا وَأَحدَثَ رَنّةً وَعَويلا

What its blades relied on in battle

Unless it made ringing and screaming

هُوَ أَبيَضٌ مِثلُ القِرابِ يَظُنّه

ظَنّ الحَقيقة مُغمَدا مَسلولا

It is white like the battles they think it

Imagining the truth sheathed stretched

قَد طالَما فَل الجُيوشُ وَغادَرَت

تِلكَ الفُلولُ بِمضرِبَيهِ فُلولا

It has long since the armies collapsed and left it

Those remnants with its strikes remnants

جادَ الإِمامُ بِها لِرَبِّ فضائِلٍ

لَم يُلفِهِ بفَضيلَةٍ مَفضولا

The Imam has endowed it to the Lord of virtues

Did not clothe it with inferior virtue

مَلِكٌ إِذا وَقَفَ المُلوكُ أَمامَهُ

وَسَمَت شِفاهُهُمُ الثَرى تَقبيلا

A king when the kings stood before him

And their lips touched the ground kissing

إِن تَلقَهُ تَلقَ الجَنابَ مُوَسَّعا

وَالوَجهَ طَلقاً وَالعَطاءَ جَزيلا

If you meet him you meet the dignified expanded

And the face is clear and the gift is plenty

أَعلى مِنَ الشُهبِ المُنيرةِ مَنزِلا

وَأَعَزَّ مِن مَأوى اللُيوثِ نَزيلا

Higher than the shining stars lodging

And more precious than the shelter of lions lodging

يا عاشِقَ الرُمحِ الأَصَمِّ كُعوبُهُ

يَومَ الوَغى لا الكاعِبَ العُطبولا

O lover of the deaf spear his heels

The day of the fight not the procrastinator, the lame

في كُلِّ يَومٍ أَنتَ باعِثُ تُحفَةٍ

تُفني اللُها وَتُحَيِّر المَعقولا

Every day you are the sender of a gift

That amazes the minds and confuses the reasonable

خَيلٌ تُقادُ وَجُنَّفٌ قَد أَوقِرَت

زِنَةَ الجِبالِ سُرادِقاً مَحمولا

Horses led and carriages that have burdened

The weight of mountains a tent carried

بَهَرَ العُيونَ وَحَيَّرَت حَجَواتُهُ

أَهلَ البِلادِ خَلائِقاً وَقُيولا

Dazzled the eyes and confused their imaginations

The people of the countries creatures and minds

حَسبُ الإِمامِ فَضيلَةً مِن شَدِّها

ظِلاً عَلى رَأسِ الإِمامِ ظَليلا

The Imam's feat of its severity is enough

A shadow over the Imam's head shaded

بُنِيَت إِزا تِلكَ القُصورِ وَأَكثَروا

مِن حَولِها التَكبيرَ وَالتَهليلا

Those palaces were built and they increased

Around it the Takbeer and Tahlil

هِيَ جُنَّةٌ نُصِبَت هُناكَ وَذُلِّلَت

حَولَ الإِمامِ قُطوفُها تَذليلا

It is a paradise set up there and humbled

Around the imam its fruits are humbling

وافَت وَقَد وُلِدَ السَليلُ فَبَشَّروا

بِمَسَرَّتَينِ هَدِيّةً وَسَليلا

It came while the baby was born so they gave good tidings

With two joys a gift and a baby

كانَت مُبارَكَةَ الحُلول وَأَعقَبَت

شَرَفاً أَحِلَّ مِنَ النُجومِ حُلولا

The blessing of descents was blessed and followed

Nobility descended from the stars descend

إِن جَل ما أَهدى الأَميرُ فَإِنَّهُ

أَهدى جَليلاً وَاستَعادَ جَليلا

The best of what the Prince gave is that he

Gave glorious and regained glorious

واصَلتَهُم بِحُباكَ حَتّى إِنَّهُم

حَقَروا بِهَذا النَيلِ ذاكَ النِبلا

You united them with your love until they

Scorned this Nile with that Nile

وَرَأَوكَ أَوفى أَهلِ دَهرِكَ ذِمَّةً

وَأَصَحَّ مِيثاقاً وَأَصدَقَ قِيلا

And they saw you as the most loyal of your time

And the strongest covenant and the most truthful saying

لَو أَنَّهُم جَعَلوكَ في أَبصارِهم

شُحاً عَلَيكَ لَكانَ فيكَ قَليلا

If they made you stingy in their sights

You would have been in you a little

لِلّهِ دَرُّكَ أَيُّ سَيِّد مَعشَرٍ

سُعدوا بِسَعدِكَ صِبيَةً وَكُهولا

To God is your worth O Lord of people

They prospered with your prosperity young and old

أَلبَستَهُم مِما صَنَعتَ جَلائِباً

سَحَبوا لَها فَوقَ النُجومِ ذُيولا

You have clothed them from what you have made gowns

They have dragged their trains above the stars

فَاسلَم لَهُم فَلَقَد بَنيتَ عَروشَهُم

لا باتَ عَرشُكَ فِيهِمُ مَثلولا

So surrender to them for you have built their thrones

Your throne among them did not spend the night inverted