مالكُمُ لا تغضبون للهوى

وتعرفون الغدرَ فيه والوفا

Why do you not get angry for love

And you know the betrayal in it and loyalty

إن كنتُمُ من أهله فانتصروا

من ظالمي أو فاخرجوا منه بُراَ

If you are among its people, then prevail

Over the oppressors or get out of it innocently

أما تَرَوْن كيف نام وحَمَى

عيني الكرى فلم ينم ظبيُ الحِمى

Do you not see how he slept while love for me kept him awake

And how my slow pace

وكيف خلاَّني بطيئا قَدَمِي

عنه ومرّ سابقا مع الوَنَى

Kept me away from him while he passed quickly with intimacy

Angry, oh my anxiety, how much I appeased him

غضبانُ يا لَهْفِيَ كم أرضيتُه

لو كان يَرضَي المتجنِّي بالرِّضا

If only the offender could be appeased with consent

No guide whose feet

ما لدليلٍ نَصَلَتْ ركابُهُ

من الدجى حاملةً شمسَ الضحى

Reached him from the darkness carrying the sun of dawn

He was lost and if he had my heart he would have been guided

ضلَّ ولو كان له قلبي أهتدَى

بناره أو شام جفنيَّ سَقى

By its fire or the sleeplessness of my eyelids would have quenched his thirst

They said patience, then I sighed for them

قالوا الغضا ثم تنفّستُ لهم

فهم يدوسون الحصا جَمْرَ الغضا

For they tread on pebbles while patience is hot coal

Among the dunes a reproacher annoys him

بين الحُدوج مُترَفٌ يُزعِجُهُ

لينُ مِهادٍ ورفيقاتُ الخُطَا

Soft bedding and the companions of sin

He blames me, reminding me of the branch through him

عارضني يُذْكِرُني الغصنَ به

وأين منه ما أستقام وأنثنى

And how far from it what went straight and bent

Wake, draw near the sand hill a visitor

حيِّ وقَرِّبْ بالكثيب طارقا

من طيف حسناءَ على الخوفِ سرى

From the apparition of a beautiful woman it secretly journeyed

He blamed her describing affection

عاتَبَ عنها واصفاً مودّةً

ما أسأرتْ إلا عُلالاتِ الكرى

That only the knots of wine had untied

I close my eyelids to it frightened

أضمُّ جفنيَّ عليه فَرَقاً

من الصباح وعلى ذاك أنجلى

Of the morning and for that I get clarity

As if amazed by him and infatuated

كأنني عُجْباً به وشَعَفاً

محبةُ العمدة في حُبِّ العلا

The love of the leader in loving the sublime

He took action for glory and I did not take action

شَمَّرَ للمجدِ وما تشمَّرتْ

له السنونَ يافعٌ كهلُ الحجا

The years did not dress him, a youth like an old man in experience

And he stood by his opinion so he was first

وقام بالرأي فكان أوّلٌ

من رأيه وآخرُ الحزمِ سَوَا

By his opinion and last in wisdom even

He aimed for the goal until his ambition took him

سما إلى الغاية حتى بَلَغَتْ

همّتُهُ به السماءَ وسما

To the sky and he aimed

So the son of kings takes the kings as an example

فابن الملوك بالملوك يَقْتدِي

وأبن البحار بالبحار يُبْتَغَى

And the son of sailors seeks the sailors

You disappointed him, betraying his generosity

سكنتموها فاضحين جُودَها

مُبَخِّليها بالسماحِ والنَّدَى

Depriving him of generosity and dew

You stole the kingdom after it was adorned

نشلتم المُلكَ وقد تهجَّمتْ

سائلةٌ بَلَّغَت الماءَ الزُّبى

Asking, it reached the mountain water the faraway

And an impenetrable snake blocked the way

وأعترضت وجهَ الطريق حَيَّةٌ

صَمّاءُ لا تُصغي لِخدْعاتِ الرُّقَى

Deaf not listening to tricks of cure

The state denied its crown's course

أنكر فيها المَلْكُ مجرى تاجِهِ

وقام عن سريره وقد نبا

And it stood from its throne and became eminent

It curled around Iraq then bent

لفَّتْ على العراق شطراً وأنثنت

لفارسِ فدبَّ سمٌّ وسرى

Towards Persia so poison crept and spread

It did not know that Oman contains

لم تدرِ أنَّ بعُمان حاوياً

ما خَرَزاتُ سحرِهِ إلاَ الظُّبا

Jewels whose magic charms are but gazelles

It leaves it searching for its fangs

يتركها تَفْحَصُ عن نيوبها

درداءَ تستافُ الترابَ باللَّها

A dervish digging the sand desperately

Racing, it came to you and protected you

سَبْقاً أتتك وحَمَتك حُسَّرا

عن هذه الدولة هاذاك العَشَا

From this state, that person of hardship

Wait O generous people, the yellow has born fruit and the land turned green

مهلا بني مُكْرَمَ من سماحِكم

قد أثمر المصفرُّ وأخضرّ الثرى

If you compete in generosity with it

Then it suffices what rain does so

إن كنتم الغيثَ تبارون به

فحسبكم ما يفعل الغيثُ كذا

O star, my eyes were watching it

Until the full moon rose and steadied

يا نجمُ كانت مقلتي تنظرُهُ

حتى أستنار بدرَ تِمٍّ وأستوى

I accompanied it as a fragrant herb so it did not stop

Calling me until its branch grew long and prospered

صحبتُهُ ريحانةً فلم يزل

دُعايَ حتى طال غصنا ونما

Remember, you mentioned goodness when you did not forget

The memory of my companionship in the days of youth

اُذْكُرْ ذَكَرتَ الخيرَ ما لم تنسَهُ

من صحبتي ذِكرَكَ أيامَ الصِّبا

And sanctity whose conditions are written

On the forehead of glory, respect this right

وحُرمةً شروطُها مكتوبةٌ

على جبين المجدِ راعوا حقِّ ذا

No blessing do I distribute except that I

Am more deserving of it than all you see

ما نعمةٌ تَقِسمُها إلا أنا

بها أحقُّ من جميع مَنْ تَرى

What beauty adorned me today with

Your praise among people tomorrow

أيُّ جمالٍ زِنتني اليومَ به

زانك بين الناس من مدحي غدا

The days do not fail, nor do your servants

Miss virtues from you that are emulated and created

لا تعدَم الأيامُ أو عبيدُكم

نعماءَ منكم تُحْتَذَى وتُجْتَدَى

And you do not stop being our lifetime refuge

A cave until you no longer see a lifetime

ولا تزل أنتَ مدَى الدهر لنا

كهفا إلى أن لا ترى الدهرَ مَدَى

Each morning its sun faced you

A celebration and each night a night of intimacy

كلُّ صباحٍ واجهتْك شمسُهُ

عيدٌ وكلُّ ليلةٍ ليلُ مِنَي

If they fulfill an obligation, stand up voluntarily

So I sacrifice others enviously without end

إن نحروا فَرْضاً فقم نافلة

فأنحر عداك حَسَداً بلا مُدَى

And keep what a permitter permitted

And what called during circumambulation and sa’y

وأبقَ على ما قد أحلَّ مُحرِمٌ

وما دعا عند الطوافِ وسعى