قم فانتشِطْها حسبُها أن تُعقَلا

ودَعْ لها أيديَها والأرجُلا

Rise and unveil her, it is enough for her to be rational

And leave her hands and feet be

وارم بها عرضَ الفلا فإنها

ما خُلقتْ إلا رُجوماً للفلا

And throw her into the open space, for she

Was created only to be pelted in the open space

ولا تَحَرَّجْ أن تَرى شِعارَها

حُصَّتْ ولا البدّنَ منها نُحَّلا

Do not hesitate to see her slogan being ripped

She was examined and the body had to be undressed

فإنّ ما تنفُضُ من أوبارها

أثمانُ ما تَنفُضُ من طُرْقِ العلا

For what she shakes of her shame

Are prices of what the sublime shakes of roads

لا يطرحُ الذلَّ وراءَ ظهرِها

إلا فتىً يُنْضي المطايا الذُّلُلا

No one casts away humiliation behind her back

Except for a young man who trots the saddled horses

كم للظَّما تُوعَدُ بالماءِ وكم

تَرعَى الطَّوَى وكم تُمَنَّى بالكَلا

How much the thirsty is promised water and how much

It grazes the slopes and how much it wishes for dry herbage

على ثرىً لا يُنبِت العزَّ ولا

يكون للحرّ الكريم مَنزلا

On a land that does not grow glory or

Is a home for the generous noble

خيرٌ من امتناعها وضمِّها

في الهُون أن تُطردَ أو تُشَلَّلا

It is better than her refusal and inclusion

In humiliation that she be expelled or paralyzed

ما بابلٌ بوطنٍ لعازفٍ

يأنفُ أن يضامَ أو يُبتَذَلا

What is Babylon as a homeland for a musician

Who disdains to be blamed or degraded

دارٌ يكون الناقصَ الخطوِ بها

والصوتِ من كان الأتمّ الأكملا

A land where the deficient in step becomes

And the one with the most imperfect voice becomes the most perfect

كأنما أقسمَ خبثُ طينها

لا يحمل الإنصافُ فيما حَمَلا

As if the wickedness of its clay swore

That fairness will not carry what it carried

وإن أرتكَ شارةً طريرةً

ترضَى بها العينُ ووجهاً هَلْهَلا

And if it maintained a warbling melody

The eye would be pleased with it and the face would smile

فغَرْ على المجدِ وواصلْ غيرها

أُخرَى تليقُ الفضلَ والتفضُّلا

So begrudge glory and keep connected to another

Who deserves excellence and nobility

ولا تكن إلا أخَا صريمةٍ

متى نَبَتْ دارٌ به تحوَّلا

And do not be but a sharp sword

Whenever a land sprouts change

رُمِ العلا بين بيوتِ أهلِها

مقلَّبا في طُرْقها مُقَلْقَلا

Aim the sublime between the houses of its people

Wandering in its paths shaken

فقلّما يعدَم نُجحَ حاجةٍ

من يقتني الخيلَ لها والإبلا

So it is rare that the success of a need lacks

Who acquires horses for it and camels

كم راودت بين بيوتِ أهلِها

عن رِيِّها فما سقَوْها بللا

How much it courted death between the houses of its people

From its shepherd, yet they did not water it with water

وفي بني الأصفر أوتارٌ لها

نام وليُّ ثأرها وغَفَلا

And in the children of Asfar there are strings for it

That slept while its avenger slept and was heedless

وبالعراقِ عَرَبٌ أصفَتْهُمُ

مُسْلِفَةً ثناءَها المنخَّلا

And in Iraq there are Arabs whom

Its long association chose the select

فما قَرَوْها والقِرَى ميسَّرٌ

إلا المنى مكذوبةً والأملا

So they did not visit it while the homes were facilitated

Except with false wishes and hopes

لم يوقِدوا نارا لها تؤنسها

بهم ولم يُرعُوا إليها جَمَلا

They did not light a fire for it to warm it

With them nor did they herd camels to it

لكن لها بالشرق من إخوتهم

حيٌّ قِرَى أضيافِهم حَيَّ هَلاَ

But it has in the East brothers of them

Its guests are alive, so welcome

وجمرةٌ من أسَدٍ ذاكيةٌ

تَهدِي على البعد الضيوفَ الضُّلَّلا

And an ember from a clever lion

That gift its guests on the distance the misguided

حيِّ وقرِّبْ من عفيفٍ أوجهاً

أسرّةُ الأقمار منها تُجتلَى

Come alive and bring close to the chaste faces

The new moons from it light up

وفاخر المجدَ بأيدٍ سَبْطةٍ

لهم تجود والحيا قد بَخِلا

And indulge the glory with capable hands

For them it is generous while the living was stingy

أملْ إلى واديهمُ وادي الندى

أعناقَها تَرعَ الخصيبَ المُبقِلا

Aim its necks to their valley, the valley of dew

Drinking the fresh dripping

ترى الرياضَ والحياضَ فعمةً

تكرَعُ علّاً ما اشتهتْ ونَهَلا

You see the gardens and the preserves abundant

It eats elevated whatever it craved and drank

أُدعُ إلى النصر الحسامَ المنتضَى

واسأل عن الغيث الغمامَ المسبِلا

I call for the desired swords for victory

And ask about the rainclouds for pouring

واجلُ دجاها بفتَى خُزَيمة

ما صدع البرقُ الغمامَ فانجلى

And face its enemies with a Khazima youth

The lightning did not split the clouds and clear up

وافتح بمجد الدين إن مدَّ لها

يمينَه بابَ السماح المقفَلا

And open with the glory of religion if it extended

Its right hand the locked door of generosity

بالعربيِّ نسباً وكرماً

والفارسيِّ سيرةً ومنزلا

With the Arab in origin and generosity

And the Persian in conduct and abode

وقل لأبناء دُبَيْس ما طما

بالشرق واديها وما تأثّلا

And say to the sons of Dubais what

Coursed in its valley and what lingered

فخراً ومجداً بفتىً جَذْعٍ غدا

من سِرِّكم ساد القروم البُزَّلا

Priding and glorying in a strong young man who became

From your secret, he ruled the disgraced nations

شُدُّوا الحُبَى بابن الحسين وانتدُوا

فوازِنوا كلَّ فخارٍ ثقُلا

Bind closely the son of Hussein and align

So evaluate every arrogance that is weighty

وكاثِروا كواكبَ الأفقِ به

مباهلين واستقِلُّوا الأُصُلا

And make the stars of the horizon abundant with him

Challenging and making the origins independent

إن كنتمُ من مضر لُبابَها ال

محضَ وصافي طينها المُصلصَلا

If you are from pure Mudar, the cream

Of its smooth and even clay

والأُسْدَ فيها نجدةً وأنفساً

إن ركِبتْ أو دُعيتْ لتنزِلا

And the lions in it are aid and souls

If it rode or was called to descend

فمن شهابِ الدولة اليومَ لكم

آخرُ مجدٍ فاقَ ذاك الأوّلا

So from the flash of glory today for you

Is the last glory that surpassed the first

قدّمه الله على علمٍ به

واللهُ من فضَّل كان الأفضلا

May God put him above knowledge with him

And God who graced was the most gracious

أمَّره بحقِّه عليكُمُ

أسخَطَ أو أرضاكُمُ ما فعلا

He mandated him with his right over you

Whether he angered or pleased you with what he did

فإن تطيعوا تجتنوها نحلةً

بيضاءَ طاب مجتناها وحلا

So if you obey, you will reap it as a

White bee whose collection and dissolution was good

وإن تميلوا حيداً عن أمره

وحسداً فانتقفوها حنظلا

And if you deviate, enviously from his order

Then pick it as bitter herbs

أو لا فُسدُّوا ثَمَّ ثغراً سدَّه

واحتمِلوا من مَغرَمٍ ما احتملا

Or else corrupt then mend a breach

He repaired and endure from a laden what he endured

من لكُمُ بني أبيه من لكُمْ

لولاه يبني ماابتنى من العلا

Who do you have from his father’s children who do you have

If not for him, he would not build what he built from sublimity

ومَن لكم يغدو بها مغيرةً

تُحْسَبُ في باقي الظلام شُعَلا

And who do you have that travels in it as an invader

That is considered in the remaining darkness as flames

نوازياً نزوَ الدَّبَى مُطلِعةً

على الأعادي أجَلاً فأجلا

A consoler the dew descends revealing

Upon the enemies periods then periods

يقدُمها منكم همامُ غابةٍ

يعلِّم الطعنَ الأشلَّ الأعزلا

It presents it from you the zeal of a forest

Who teaches the thrusting to the unarmed and unequipped

إذا حمَى ليثُ الشرَى عرينَه

حمى بها الملكَ وأحيا الدولا

If the lion of evil protected its lair

It protected the kingdom and revived the state

ومَن سواه مشبِعٌ أضيافَه

غُلُبَّةً من حيث يُروِي الأسلا

And whoever other than him is someone who saturates his guests

Overpowered from wherever he quenched the thirsty

وآخذٌ بيده وسيفه

نفائساً يسلُبها ما نوّلا

And takes by his hand and sword

Precious items he loots that are transported

وأين أبياتُكُمُ من بيته

إن طلبَ الوفدُ العماد الأطولا

And where are your abodes from his abode

If the delegation sought the tallest pillar

تَخْمُدُ أُولَى الليل نيرانُكُمُ

والشمسُ مع نيرانه كلا ولا

Your fires that light the beginning of the night dim

While the sun’s fires neither light nor flame

وتَحْطِبون وإماءُ بيته

يَقذِفْنَ فوق الجَمراتِ المَندَلا

And you break while the slave girls of his house

Throw over the embers the bundles

ومن قِرَى أضيافه أن تُنْحَرَ ال

بُدورُ حين تَنْحَرون الإبلا

And of his guests’ homes that are slaughtered

Are the homes when you slaughter the camels

كذاك ما فاض فصارت معه

بحارُكم مخائضاً ووشلا

That is how what overflowed so with him

Your seas became birthing and deaf

أعطاكُمُ فجار في أمواله

وقام فيكم حاكماً فعدَلا

He gave you immoral in his money

And stood among you governing so he was just

فسلِّموا الإقرارَ بالفضل لمن

راهن في السبق ففاتَ المُقَلا

So submit to recognizing the merit to he who

Wagered in the race so missed the swifter

واتَّبِعوا لواءَه فإنما ال

مُقبِلُ منكم من أطاع المقبِلا

And follow his banner for only

Those facing towards you who obeyed the facing are good

فخيرُ من قادكُمُ من لو سرى

بنفسه كان الخميسَ الجحفَلا

For the best who led you is he who if traveled

By himself would be the Thursday of collectiveness

العلَم المنصورُ منصوبٌ لكم

فاجتنبوا المنكوسَ المُخْذَّلا

The victorious flag is erected for you

So avoid the defeated miserable

مَن موصلٌ على النوى ألوكةً

يُفصِحُها مؤدّياً ومرسَلا

Who can convey on the intention an eloquence

Clarifying it, communicating and dispatching

يُبْلِغُ عني حَمَلتْ ناجية

ما ضمّ في عِيابه وحملا

To convey from me, the soliloquy carried

What it contained in its folds and carried

إذا الفِجاجُ صعُبتْ تذكَّر ال

فوزَ الذي يُدركُه فاستسهلا

If the perils become difficult, remember

The success that is attained so consider it easy

يمّمْ أميرَ الأمراء جانباً

بجانب الأهواز تلك الحِلَلا

Aim the prince of princes a side

By the side of Ahvaz, those hillocks

فحَيّ عنهم وجهَه المقبولَ بال

جهد وصافح كفَّه المقبَّلا

Greet him and his acceptable face without

Effort and shake his hand the kissed

وقل له تحدَّثتْ فشوَّقتْ

عنك الرواةُ مطلِقاً ومُرسِلا

And say to him the storytellers made me yearn

For you, detached and dispatching

تحدَّثُوا أنَّ يديك مُزنةٌ

تستضحك العامَ القَطوبَ المُمحِلا

They told that your hands are scales

That mock the laden year the fulfilling

وأَنك المرءُ تَقَرُّ عينُه

بفقره لسائل تموّلا

And that you are the man whose eye

Is content with his poverty when you give

تُعطي حياءً مطرِقاً ملثَّماً

وقد وهبتَ مُسنياً ومُجزِلا

You give shyly, head bowed, face veiled

While you gave freely to the elderly and plenty

ويُسفِر الناسُ على بخلهمُ

لأنهم لا يعرفون الخَجلا

And people show their stinginess

Because they do not know shame

وأَن أخلاقَك ماءُ نُطفةٍ

رقَّت لها الريح صَباً وشَمَلا

And that your morals are spring rain water

For which the wind blew gently and it covered

فلو سكبتَ خُلْقَك المطرِبَ في ال

كاسات ما غادرتَ إلا ثَمِلا

So if you poured your gentle morals in

Glasses, you would leave nothing but full

وقيل إنّ الليثَ لا يحمِي كما

تحمي البلادَ غابَه والأشبُلا

And it was said that a lion does not protect as

You protect lands, its forest, and cubs

لو حَرَص الموتُ على إيغاله

يطلبُ مَنْ تمنَعُهُ ما وصَلا

If death coveted its penetration

It would seek who prevents it from reaching

يَزْورُّ عن سَرحك سِرحان الغضا

فما يشُمُّ التُّربَ إلا وجِلا

It visits away from your enclosure the enclosure of docility

So it does not smell the dust except scared

وأنّ مُلْكَ الدّيْلميّ روضةٌ

لولاك كانت بالسيوف تُخْتَلى

And that the kingdom of Daylam is a meadow

If not for you, it would be slashed by the swords

أطمعتَه وفارسٌ سريرهُ

أرضَ العراق عَنْوَةً والجبلا

You gave him hope while a Persian, his throne

Took Iraq by force and the mountain

سمّاك إذ نصرتَه نصيرَه

ويده وسيفُه قد خَذَلا

You named him, when you supported him, his supporter

While his hand and sword had failed

يَهُزّ منك صَعْدةً خَطَّارةً

على العِدا وينتضيك مُنصُلا

He takes from you a dangerous prelude

Against the enemies and seeks you prepared

محاسنٌ تواترتْ أخبارُها

وعدَلَ الناقلُ فيما نقَلا

Virtues that are sequentially narrated

And the narrator was just in what he conveyed

فَطبَّقتْ سائرةً أوصافُها

في الأرض حتّى ملأَتْ عرضَ الفلا

So its qualities circulated successively

In the land until it filled the width of the expanse

فهزّني نحوَك قلبٌ لم يزلْ

بالأكرمين كَلِفاً موَكَّلا

So a heart that did not stop being

Assigned to the generous moved me toward you

تيمَّه أهلُ العُلا لكنّهم

حاشاك قد ماتوا معاً وقد سلا

Yearning for the people of sublimity but they

excluding you, perished together and flowed away

وكانت الفَوزةُ في زيارةٍ

تشفِي الغليلَ وتسُدُّ الخللا

And it would be a prize to visit

That alleviates the anguish and mends the rift

فمن بها لو سمح الدهرُ بها

ودِينُه في مثلها أن يبخلا

So for one with it, if fate allowed with it

And his religion in its like to be stingy

أرى مَطاراً وجناحي ناقصٌ

فكيف لي نحوَكُمُ أن أصِلا

I see an airport but my wings are deficient

So how can I reach you

وما الفؤادُ خانني لكنّها

حوادثٌ عاقت وجسمٌ نَكَلا

And the heart did not betray me but they are

Incidents that prevented and a body that failed

فقُدتُها نواهضاً خفائفاً

تطوِي الطريقَ مُحزِناً ومُسهِلا

I lost it as quick, agile steeds

That fold the road sorrowful and smooth

ناطقةً في الصُّحْف عن آياتها

على البعاد صامتاتٍ قُوَّلا

Speaking in the pages about its signs

Silent to the distant, spoken

غرائباً أبعثُ منها مُعجِزاً

كأنني بُعثتُ فيها مُرسَلا

Wondrous things I send from it miraculous

As if I were sent in it as a messenger

مطبِّقاتٍ مَفصِلاً فمَفصِلا

وناطقات فَيصلاً ففيصلا

Precisely articulated and precisely articulated

And speaking clauses and clauses

من كلّ بيتٍ لو دَعَا بسحره

أمَّ النجوم طامنتْ أن تنزِلا

From every abode that if called by its magic

The mother of the stars would believe to descend

إنْ دار دار فَلَكاً أو حلَّ حل

لَ جبلا أو سار سار مثلا

If it revolved a galaxy or landed a landmark

Or traveled, traveled an example

ودَّ الملوكُ نازحاً ودانياً

فِقَرَهُ جدَّ بها أو هزلا

The kings loved it, disputing and courting

Its poverty made it serious or facetious

كأنني حكّمتُ في قلوبهم

من لفظه الحلوِ العيونَ النُّجُلا

As if I arbitrated in their hearts

From its sweet words the blinking eyes

تَعضِلُه الغَيرةُ من خُطَّابِه

إذا القريضُ طلبَ التبعُّلا

Jealousy makes it difficult with its address

When the suitor seeks fickleness

كم سامه من مرغب أو مرهب

فلم يُجِبْ حبّاً ولا تجمُّلا

How much it named him from a persuader or deterrent

Yet he did not respond with love or pretense

لكنني أراك من خُطَّابِه

أكرمَ مُلكاً وأقلَّ ملَلا

But I see you from its address

The most generous king and the least bored

لذاك أمكنْتُكَ من عِنانه ال

صعبِ وأرخصتُ عليك ما غلا

For that I enabled you over its

Unruly rein and made easy for you what is expensive

أهديتُه من قبلِ أن تخطُبَه

تبرُّعاً بالوصل أو تنفُّلا

I gifted it before you sought it

Volunteering the connection or being chosen

فاشكر لمسعاي الذي سعيتُه

متى شكرتَ شاعراً مطفِّلا

So thank my efforts which I made effort for

When you thank a meddling poet

محضتُك النصحَ وما انتصحتَني

قولاً فكايلْني الجزاءَ عملا

I advised you sincerely and you did not advise me

So suffice me its reward with deed

ومن شهودِ طرَبي إليكُمُ

أني تركتُ للمديح الغزَلا

And from witnesses of my estrangement to you

Is that I left composing love poetry