يا قَلْبُ كَمْ ذا الَّلجَجُ الفاضِحُ

راحَ بِكَ البارِحُ والسَّانِحُ

O heart, how much is this turbulent flood

That swept you yesterday and is sweeping you today

شَقِيتَ فِي الحُبِّ وَأَشْقَيْتَنِي

وَرُبَّ جِدٍّ جَرَّهُ مازِحُ

You suffered in love and made me suffer

And many serious things were dragged by jest

هَوِيْتُهُ بَدْراً عَلى بانَةٍ

عَلى نَقاً مُثْقَلُهُ راجِحُ

I loved him like a full moon over a lofty dune

On a tender palm tree heavily laden

اللَّيْلُ فِي طُرَّتِهِ مُبْهَمٌ

عَلى جَبِينٍ صُبْحُهُ واضِحُ

The night in its shawl is vague

Upon a forehead whose morning is clear

كَأَنَّما العَارِضُ فِي خَدِّهِ

نَمْلٌ إِلَى شَهْدِ اللَّمَى سارِحُ

As if the someone glancing at his cheek

Is an ant heading to the nectar of beauty

لَوْ ذُقْتَ لا ذُقْتَ جَنَى رِيقِهِ

مِنْ دُرِّهِ النَّاصِعِ يا ناصِحُ

If you tasted, you would have tasted the saliva of his mouth

From his shining pearls, O sincere advisor

عَذَرْتَ مَنْ أَنْتَ لَهُ لائِمُ

رَحِمْتَ مَنْ أَنْتَ لَهُ كاشِحُ

You excused whom you blame

And pitied whom you accuse

تَظنَّهُ لَمَّا رَنا وَانْثَنَى

أَعْزل وَهْوَ السَّائِفُ الرَّامِحُ

You thought, when he was soft and pliant,

That he was chaste, yet he is the penetrating assailant

القَلْبُ مِنِّي طائِرٌ خافِقٌ

وَاللَّحْظُ مِنْهُ كاسِرٌ جارِحُ

My heart is a bird fluttering from me

And my gaze from it is a breaking assailant

سَقَى وَزادَ الكَأْسَ مِنْ طَرْفِهِ

فَكُلُّنا مِنْ سُكْرِهِ طافِحُ

He quenched us and increased the cup from his mouth’s edge

So we are all drunk with its intoxication

راحٌ تَطِيرُ النَّارُ مِنْ دَنِّها

كَأَنَّما بازِلُها قَادِحُ

A gazelle whose fire burns from its farness

As if its guardian is the igniting kindler

أَْنَكَرها الخَمَّارُ ضَنّاً بِها

حَتَّى هَدانا عَرْفُها الفَائِحُ

The wine-pourer denied it avariciously

Until its strong fragrance guided us

فُزْنَا بِها عَذْراءَ غانِيةً

بِخَتْمِها ما افْتَضَّها فَاتِحُ

We found through it a singing virgin

With a seal unbroken by any deflowerer

يا نائِماً وَالنَّجْمُ فِي غَرْبِهِ

وَالصُّبْحُ مِنْ مَشْرِقِهِ لائِحُ

O sleeping one, while the star is setting

And the dawn is brilliant from its rising place

دَعْ كَدَرَ العَيْشِ وَخُذْ ما صَفا

تَحْيَ وَيَشْقَ الدَّائِبُ الكَادِحُ

Leave life's disturbances, and take the pure

To live, while the toiling distressed one complains

قَد نَضَحَ الطَّلُّ رِداءَ الرُّبَا

وَاشْتَجَرَ الباغِمُ وَالصَّادِحُ

The dark night has donned the dress of monks

And the raging thunderer and cloudburst roar

وَجَادَتِ الدُّنْيا عَلى أَهْلِهَا

وَاصْطَلَحَ الأَشْرَفُ وَالصالِحُ

The world was generous to its people

And the noble and righteous became reconciled

مَلْكانِ صِنْوانِ كَرِيمانِ ذا

بَحْرٌ وَهذا عارِضٌ سافِحُ

Two honorable and generous kings

One has a sea and the other a pouring rain

طَودانِ لِلأرْضِ هُما المُلْتَجا

بَدْرانِ يَسْتَهْدِيهِمَا اللاَّمِحُ

Two pillars for the land they have reconciled

Two full moons guided by the bright one

موسى وَمَحْمودٌ إِذْا اسْتَجْمَعا

قُلْتُ وَقَوْلِي صَادِقٌ وَاضِحُ

Moses and Mahmoud when they come together

I say and my words are clear and true

ذا يوسفٌ رُدَّ أَخوهُ لَهُ

وَماتَ ذاكَ النَّازِعُ النَّازِح

This is Joseph whose brother has returned to him

And that disputant and troublemaker has died

اليَوْمَ تَصْلَى صَفَحاتُ العِدَى

نِيرانَ حَرْبٍ ريحُها لافِحُ

Today the pages of enmity pray

The fires of war whose winds blow

اليَوْمَ تَهْتَزُّ مُتونُ القَنا

وَيَسْتَطِيرُ الشَّيْظَمُ القادِحُ

Today the bases of spears shake

And the igniting sparks fly

اليَوْمَ دارُ الشِّرْكِ مَأْهولَةٌ

يَأْوِيْ لَها الصَّائِحُ وَالنّائِحُ

Today the house of polytheism is inhabited

By those wailing and crying

موسى جَزاكَ اللَّهُ عَن دِينِهِ

خَيْراً فَما أَنْصَفَكَ المَادِحُ

Moses, may God reward you for His religion

With goodness, though the praisers were not fair to you

سَعَيْتَ فِي جَمْعِ شَتاتِ العُلَى

لِلَّهِ هذَا العَمَلُ الصَّالِحُ

You strove to unite the elite pearls

For God, this is a righteous deed

أَقْرَرْتَ عَيْنَ المُصْطَفَى أَحْمدٍ

فَوَجْهُهُ مُسْتَبْشِرٌ واضِحُ

You delighted the eye of Mustafa Ahmad

So his face is cheerful and bright

مَلْكٌ يَرَى أَنَّ اكْتِسابَ العُلَى

تِجارَةٌ خاسِرُها رابِحُ

A king who sees gaining supremacy

Is a losing trade, yet its loser is the gainer

يَسْعَى إِلَى الآفَاقِ إِحْسانُهُ

كالبَحْرِ غادٍ ماؤُهُ رائِحُ

His benevolence spreads to the horizons

Like an overflowing sea, its water sweeping

مُمَنَّعُ الجَارِ مُباحُ النَّدَى

لِلَّهِ ذاكَ المَانِعُ المَانِحُ

Impregnable to the neighbor, kind to the groves

For God, the withholder and giver

كالغَيْثِ لَوْلا الجَهْمُ مِنْ جُونِهِ

كالَّليْثِ لَوْلا وَجْهُهُ الكالِحُ

Like rain, were it not for the ungratefulness from its clouds

Like a lion, were it not for its grim face

قُلْ لِمُعادِيهِ ارْتَجِعْ سالمِاً

فَهْوَ سَماءٌ سَعْدُها ذابِحُ

Say to his enemies, turn back in peace

For he is a sky whose good fortune is slaughtering