بيني وبينَ الحادثاتِ خصامُ

فيما جَنَتْهُ على العلا الأيَّام

There is conflict between me and the events,

In what days have inflicted upon the heights.

كسفت هلالَ سمائِها من بعد ما

وافاهُ من كَرَمِ الجلالِ تمام

They eclipsed the crescent of its sky after

It was endowed with the perfection of glory.

ورمتْ قضيبَ رياضها بتقصفٍ

غضَّاً سقاه من الشباب غمام

And they threw down the rod of its meadows with decay

While the clouds had watered it with youthful rain.

فاليومَ بستانُ المكارمِ ماحِلٌ

واليومَ نورُ المعلُواتِ ظلام

Today the garden of virtues is barren,

And today the light of sciences is darkness.

رامت صروفُ الحادثاتِ فأدركت

مَنْ كان لم يبعدْ عليه مرام

The turns of events intended, so they attained

Whoever did not distance their purpose.

أودت بمهجته الليالي بعد ما

فخرت به الأسياف والأقلام

They took away his mind after

The swords and the pens prided in him.

وغدا وراح المجد ذا ثقة به

أن يردعَ الأحداثَ وهي جسام

Tomorrow and yesterday glory trusted

That it would deter events, though they are monuments.

وبدتْ عليه من حلاهُ شمائلٌ

لا تهتدي لنعوتها الأوهام

And qualities were manifest to it from its condition

That fancies cannot be guided to its attributes.

كالروضِ لما دبّجتُهُ غمامة

والمسكِ لما فُضَّ عنه ختام

Like the meadow when a cloud had embroidered it

And the musk when its seal was broken.

ناحتْ عليه الشهبُ وهي عرائسٌ

وبكى عليه الغيمُ وهوَ جهام

The stars wept for it as they are brides

And the clouds cried for it as it is the rain bearing clouds.

وانجابَ ظلُّ الأنسِ فهو مقلَّصٌ

وامتدَّ ليلُ الخطب فهو تمام

The shade of companionship has diminished so it is small

And the night of calamities has extended so it is complete.

واربدَّ ضوءُ الشمسِ في رأد الضحى

حتى استوى الإشراقُ والإظلام

And the light of sun has cooled in the tender dawn

Until the sunrise and sunset became equal.

ما للمدامعِ لا يُطَلُّ بها الثرى

والسادةُ الكبراء فيه نيام

What is happening to the tears, the ground is not moistened by them

While the great masters are sleeping in it.

أَكذا يُبادُ حلاحلٌ ومهذَّبٌ

أَكذا يُنالُ مُسَوَّدٌ وهمام

Is that how a sweet and refined one perishes?

Is that how a gloomy and miserable one attains?

تَعِسَ الزمان فإنَّما أيامه

ومقامنا في ظلِّها أحلام

How miserable is the time! Its days

And our standing in its shadow are but dreams.

لنرى الديارَ وهنَّ بعد أنيسها

دُرُسُ المعالمِ والجسومِ رِمام

We will see the abodes while they are in ruin after their companion

The features and bodies are in ruins.

والنسرُ مقتَنصٌ بأشراكِ الرَّدى

وبناتُ نعشٍ في الدجى أيتام

And the eagles are captured in the nets of loss

While the daughters of the bier are orphans in the darkness.

بأبي قتيلٌ قاتلٌ حُسْنَ العزا

مذ أَقصدته من المنونِ سهام

By my father! A slain, killer whose goodness of consolation

Since the arrows of death targeted him.

غدرتْ به أُمُّ اللهيمِ وطالما

فلَّ الخميسَ المجرَ وهو لُهام

The mother of affliction betrayed him after

The auspicious Thursday slipped away while it attacks.

وأبى له إلاَّ الشهادةَ ربُّهُ

ومضاؤُهُ والبأسُ والإقدام

And his Lord refused for him except martyrdom

And his light, might and audacity.

فتك الردى بأبي شجاعٍ فتكةً

زلَّت لها رضوى وخرَّ شمام

Loss took away my courageous father in a manner

That pleased him while the vultures and eagles fell down.

فُقِدَتْ لها الألبابُ والأحسابُ وال

آداب والإسراج والإلجام

Minds, calculations, morals, lamp, and reins were lost to it

The maidens of wars cried for his help and his party of God and Islam cried for him.

ندبته أبكارُ الحروبِ وعونها

وبكاهُ حزبُ الله والإسلام

Which sword did away with him while between him first

And the edges of swords are reins?

أيُّ السيوفِ قضى عليه وبينه

قِدْماً وبين ظبا السيوفِ ذِمام

And in which shroud did they bury him and he

Never wore armor in the grave?

وبأيِّ لحدٍ أودعوه وإنَّه

ما قَطُّ في الضريحِ حسام

It was only the blade that the purity of its casting

So the dust reclaimed it and the remains.

ما كان إلاَّ التبرَ أُخلِصَ سبكُهُ

فاسْتَرْجَعَتْهُ تربةٌ ورغام

O you who carry him, stand over him in a stance

That grief may be healed with it before farewell.

يا حامليه قِفوا عليه وقفةً

يَشْفَى بها قبل الوداع هُيام

Return the friend of God so that he may be healed

From the most healing of that which cured pains.

رُدُّوا وليَّ الله حتى يُشْتَفى

من أروعٍ شُفِيَتْ به الآلام

Return the martyr and straighten him with tears

In case grief has distorted him with spears.

ردُّوا الشهيد نُسَقِّهِ من أَدمع

إنْ أَخلفتْ مُزْنٌ بهنَّ رهام

Do not deliver him to the earth for to his sword

Surrender of his enemies has been since long.

لا تسلموه إلى الثرى فلسيفِهِ

مذ كان من أعدائه استسلام

And bury him in the hearts and emotions

If he accepts that position therein.

ولتدفنوه في الجوانحِ والحشا

إن كان يُرضيه هناك مَقام

And inhale the scent of his praise for with it

The wrap of dawn is lowered from itself.

واستنشقوا لثنائِهِ عَرْفَاً به

ينحطُّ عن نفسِ الصباح لثام

Nothing has contained him in the belly of earth except

The pavilions of paradise have contained him.

ما ضمَّهُ بطنُ الثرى إلا وقد

ضمَّتْه في دارِ النعيمِ خيام

God's prayers be upon him as the dawn sprigged

A branch and the dove sang for him.

صلى عليه الله ما ثنت الصبا

غصناً وما غنَّتْ عليه حمام

O eye, be composed and O tears, be gentle

And know that blaming is forbidden.

يا عينُ شأنك والمدامعَ فاسمحي

ولتعلمي أن الهجوعَ حرام

He in whom hope was established with his loyalty

Days betrayed him.

إن الذي كان الرجاءُ مشيّداً

بوفائِهِ غدرتْ به الأيام

Console me with one of power that

His eyes are tearful after the spears.

أَعززْ عليَّ بضيغمٍ ذي سطوةٍ

أَجماته بعد الرماحِ رِجام

Console me with a plucked flower that

Remained with no dress except the burial shroud.

اعززْ عليَّ بزهرةٍ مطلولةٍ

أمست ولا غيرَ الضريحِ كِمام

Console me with one whose loss is hard upon the heights

If the wound of his loss healed the wounds.

اعززْ عليَّ بمنْ يعزُّ على العلا

إن غيل قَسْوَرُ غيلها الضرغام

If the wars had ended him, how much

His sword had ended the special ones and the protectors.

إن كان أفنتْهُ الحروبُ فشدَّ ما

فنيت بِمُنْصُلِهِ الطلى والهام

Or he went, abandoned by demise, for long

The bodies had abandoned their souls.

أو راح مهجورَ الفِناءِ فطالما

هَجَرَتْ به أرواحَها الأجسام

Bloodied by his blood, they are dead

While the eternal king stands over them.

أمضرَّجٌ بدمائه هي ميتة

وَقْفٌ عليها السيد القمقام

Valour and audacity brought you to loss

If abstaining saved others from it.

البأسُ والإقدام أوردكَ الردى

إن كان أنجى غيرَك الإحجام

You were there with the choice

But you stood firm while feet slipped.

قد كنتَ في ذاك المقام مخيَّراً

لكن ثبتَّ وزلَّتِ الأقدام

None was found there except fleeing or loss

Yet you chose to meet death, and it is painful.

لم يُلْفَ فيه سوى الفرارِ أو الردى

فاخترتَ صَرْفَ الموتِ وهو زؤام

The glories and heights and loftiness refused for you

Any blemish, O kind and strong pillar.

وأبتْ لك الذمَّ المكارمُ والعلا

والسمهريُّ اللدنُ والصمصام

The night after you is endless with no end

So its hours are like years.

الليلُ بعدك سرمدٌ لا ينقضي

فكأنما ساعاتُهُ أعوام

Joy is grief, happiness is gloom

Sleep is oblivion, and life is worry.

والأنْسُ غمٌّ والسرورُ كآبةٌ

والنومُ سُهْدٌ والحياةُ حمام

For whom did glory lie down while it is like

An old relic that dawn and clouds have ruined?

لمن اطَّرحَت المجد وهو كأنه

طَلَلٌ تعفّيه صباً وغمام

And for whom did you leave the sword blades while they are

Branded with ineptness though they are generous?

ولمن تركتَ الصافناتِ كأنَّها

موسومةٌ باللؤمِ وهي كرام

The loss of my courageous father sighed a sigh

After which no waistband remained for them.

زَفَرَتْ لموتِ أبي شجاعٍ زفرةً

لم يبقَ ساعَتَها لهنَّ حزام

His sadness filled the hearts so each of them

Is a cup and wine is pouring into it from a pitcher.

عمَّتْ رزيَّتُهُ القلوبَ فكلُّها

كاسٌ وأنواعُ المدامِ حمام

Loud wailing for him increased after the news of him

Until it was as if both worlds were wailing.

كَثُرَ العويلُ عليه بعد نعيِّه

حتى كأنَّ العالمين حمام

And the tears of the singers strung their necklaces

Had their necklaces no system.

وحكتْ دموعَ الغانياتِ عقودُها

لو لم يكن لعقودهنَّ نظام

O you who carry the coffin! Where are his steeds?

O you who clothe him with dust! Where are the banners?

يا حاملينَ النعشَ أين جيادُهُ

يا ملبسيه التربَ أين اللام

Where is the generosity, eloquence and prohibition from him?

Where is the benevolence and reverence?

أينَ السماحةُ والفصاحةُ والنهى

منه وأين الجودُ والإكرام

The glory of God has verily become under his majesty

A cover of skin that is not desirable.

أضحى لعمرُ الله دونَ جلاله

سترٌ من الأجداث ليس يرام

O courageous father! If you are veiled with a cloak

Then flowers grow even on hills and dunes.

أأبا شجاعٍ إنْ حُجِبْتَ بربوةٍ

فالزهرُ منبتهُ رُبىً وأَكام

Stand and see the guards around you celebrating

If that were possible for them in the morning.

قم تبصرِ الخفراتِ حولك حُسَّراً

لو كان يمكنُهُ الغداةَ قيام

And listen to the wailing of their crying for the voices and banners cried

For their crying such that days deafened them to it.

واسمعْ عويلَ بكائها فلقد بكتْ

لبكائها الأصواء والأعلام

I knew you a planet whose towers

Were the vessels of misfortune and the sky was darkness.

ضجَّتْ لمصرعكَ النوادبُ ضجَّةً

سدَّت مسامعَها لها الأيام

And I knew your sword a stream on its bank

The day of hated matters to the souls.

ولقد عهدتُك كوكباً أَبراجه

جُرْدُ المذاكي والسماءُ قتام

So receive good news! The house of eternity has appointed you

And congratulations! In it is bliss and permanence.

وعهدتُ سيفك جدولاً في وِردِهِ

يومَ الكريهة للنفوسِ هيام

The clouds passed over your tomb greeting

So greetings and peace be upon the clouds!

فابشرْ فدارُ الخلد منكَ بموعدٍ

واهنأ ففيها غبطةٌ ودوام

مرَّ الغمامُ على ثراك محيِّياً

فعلى الغمامِ تحيَّةٌ وسلام