هبَّتْ ومنها الخِلابُ والخَدعُ

تأخذ مني باللوم أو تدعُ

She turned away, and from her came coquetry and deception

She blames me or lets me be

لأهُبة السيرِ لا تطيرُ مع ال

ذكر بها لوعةٌ ولا تقعُ

The free spirit does not fly with the mention that causes anguish and does not settle

Parting did not disguise its type, nor did the resentful censurer's back bend for it

لم يختلب جنسَها الوداعُ ولا اه

تزّت لها خَلف ظاعنٍ ضِلَعُ

Before you, my ears grew weary of reproachers

What clarity with reproof will shatter?

قبلك أعيتْ عواذلي أُذني

أيّ صَفاةٍ بالعذل تنصدعُ

Among the predecessors was one unjust

Her judgments are heard and then followed

في سلف الرائحين جائرةٌ

تُسمَعُ أحكامُها فتُتَّبَعُ

For her are my heart's darkness and my gaze, so my tear does not set in it, nor despair

A gazelle, the beloved of the doe, the place where she looks from and the doe sits complacently

لها سوادا قلبي وطرفي فما

يغرب فيها دمعي ولا الجزعُ

My devotion to her steadfast loyalty corrected my fervor, and my mind was severed by her glances

She was evident in sweet purpose, and my life and coming to life, if it could be regained, has passed

حوراءُ ودّ الظبيُ المكانَ الذي

تنظرُ منه والظبيُ مرتبِعُ

And her ghost taught the walls, while I used to be content with fables of dreams

And the night of rest and travel, I was commanded to sleep, and yearning was repelling wakefulness

صحَّحَ رِقِّي حبُّ الوفاء لها

ومهجتي في لحاظها قِطَعُ

I forced my eye to watch her phantom, while my sleep I dedicated to refusal

So an adorned nature did not keep true and was innovated in her betrayal

بانت بحلو المنى وعيشي وآ

تي العيش ماضٍ لو كان يُرتَجَعُ

Until I wished I had stayed up with the riders, and the affection of companions if they had slept

She made me grey before I aged, with a juvenile love that springs up and climbs

وعلَّمتْ طيفَها الصدودَ وقد

كنتُ بإفك الأحلامِ أقتنعُ

It takes what the years take from the body, and leaves what you let go

Alas for a devastating one, who is neither poetry on my head nor splitting

وليلةَ النَّعفِ والسُّرَى آمرٌ

بالنوم والشوقُ زاجرٌ يَزَعُ

She signals to me with separation and tears through my lifespan what cannot be patched

I accompanied her to the drought of a companion. If only we had parted before we met

أكرهتُ عيني على الكرى أرقب ال

طيف ونومي أُولاه ممتنِعُ

Like the friend of the village, his brother the wolf in it and his neighbor the lion

They said refrain, for it is the ruin, and I had been refraining for the judgment of evil

فما وفت شيمة ملوّنةٌ

تُستنّ في غدرها وتُبتدعُ

Old age did not transfer to me a nature nor did an innate disposition dirty me before it was refined

My soul is more protective than to be moralized by preaching, and my heart rises with glory

حتى تمنيتُ لو سهرتُ مع ال

ركبِ وودّ السارون لو هجعوا

If passion elevated me or stupid fortune debased me, my resolve is lofty and rises

I was sincere with my time to know me, had I benefited from sincerity with it

شيَّبني قبل أن كبِرتُ له

حبٌّ لظمياءَ ناشىءٌ يَفَعُ

And I said, divert me from the ways of asking people, and guide me, for I am a follower

I tried a people whose loyalty had a flash of deception, they do not rain if they lightened, so if they gave I wished they had deprived

يأخذ ما تأخذ السنون من ال

جسم ولا يترك الذي تدعُ

I coveted in them until I despaired, and despair is only what desire profits you

So sit when effort has drawn affliction, and hunger when satiation degrades you

آهِ لشمطاء لا هي الشعر

برأسي ولا هي الصَّدَعُ

And a companion like the crippled hand, nothing can be warded by it so it is warded

He walked generously with me, so when nobility gathered, hyenas of his affection gathered for me

تؤذنني بالمدى وتخرُقُ من

عمريَ مالا تسدُّه الرُّقَعُ

I distanced my soul from him in disdain, and he may walk heavily with his burden

And I said the door of God, if difficulties narrow, is open and this space is vast

صحبتُ منها يُبس الرفيق ويا

ليت افترقنا من قبل نجتمعُ

And in the sweet loyalty is the loyalty of Job's son, a purpose sufficient and to be returned to

My Master, my hand and sword submitting to Him, and my supporter the day factions desert me

كصاحب البلدة القَواء أخو

ه الذئب فيها وجارهُ السَّبُعُ

I depended on Him for the stronghold of power, the lance blades of feats, and the ropes of hopes are cut off

Dazzling, passing the darkness of his majesty, glistening when it is traversed, and convulsing

قالوا ارتدعْ إنه البياض وقد

كنت بحكم السواد أرتدعُ

Pleasing of high spirit, resolute in determination, he appears as if he is a tree trunk

His speech directed, wary of what he has said of truth, trusting and taking refuge

لم ينقل الشيْبُ لي طباعاً ولا

دنّسني قبلَ صقله طَبَعُ

Insight exposes to him every problem, an opinion behind the hidden informed

Helping with might, being generous, and the faces of souls in awe of his serious mien

نفسيَ أحجَى من أن تُحلَّمَ بال

وعظ وقلبي بالمجد مضطَلعُ

The kingdom of the two leaders strengthened from him, a massive mountain, neither feeble nor pleading

He advises for God and the Caliphate, not elevating in desire or debasing

وإن هوى بي أو حطّني حُمُق ال

حظ فهمِّي يسمو ويرتفعُ

A ministry, since you came to it, the Sunna lived in it and innovation died

It testifies to me it is certainty, O God's ordainment, and the Muslims and community

صَدَقتُ دهري عنّي ليعرفَني

لو كنتُ فيه بالصدق أنتفعُ

You succeeded them as an heir of your father, so they did not falter in what they rooted and propagated

And they planted your generous origin, so how good is what they cultivated that they planted

وقلت مِلْ بي عن طَرْق مسألة ال

ناس وقُدني فإنني تبعُ

It was a favor upon their refusal from them, with those they put forward and contrived

You were a tongue decreeing when they spoke, the decreeing of their spears when they set forth

جرّبتُ قوماً وفاؤهم بارق ال

خلَّبِ لا يُمطرون إن لمعوا

And a Sunna repelling the opponent from their call since they armored themselves with you

An abundant superiority from it, engendering and fabricating what it transmits relating and devising

في العسر واليسر يمنعون فإن

أعطَوا تمنّيت أنهم منعوا

The people singled you out in prayer, and if they bent they would stray in slander even if they gathered

And the panegyrists were prolix regarding you with the current gems they fashioned or inlaid

طمعتُ فيهم حتى يئست وما ال

يأس سوى ما أفادك الطمعُ

And they did not speak except with what they knew, nor reported about you other than what they heard

So let there remain for the people from you, what the people unanimously agreed upon of your superiority and gathered

فاقعد إذا السعي جرَّ مهضمةً

وجُعْ إذا ما أهانك الشِّبعُ

And may troubles avoid your realm, for in a people are their summer resort and dwelling place

And may your Nayrouz overcome, the most generous who encampments came down to him or erected

وصاحبٍ كاليد الشليلة لا

يُدفعُ شيء بها فيندفعُ

A generous day, skillful, even on barren ground, ornaments from his bounty or robes

Giving you glad tidings of immortality, while the sun continues to rise after hiding

مشى جواداً معي فحين علا

تجمَّعتْ لي بودِّه ضَبُعُ

And may your palms be filled by the tight-fisted, overflowing in the regions with stinginess, abstaining

Without vigor in importance assailing him, nor craving pleasure

حملت نفسي عنه عزوفاً وقد

يَحْمَى فيمشي بثقلِهِ الظَّلِعُ

وقلت بابُ الإله إن ضقت مف

توحٌ وهذا الفضاءُ متَّسِعُ

وفي وفاءِ الحلو الوفاء ابن أي

يوب مَرادٌ كافٍ ومنتجَعُ

مولَى يدِي والحسامُ يُسلمها

وناصري يومَ تخذُلُ الشِّيعُ

علِقتُ منه شَزْرَ القُوَى مَرِس ال

فتل وحبلُ الآمال منقطعُ

أبلج يعدي الدجى سناه فتب

يضُّ إذا خاضها وتنتصعُ

راض العلا قارح العزيمة واس

تظهر حتى كأنه جَذعُ

مسدّد النطق مستريبٌ بما

قال من الحق آمنٌ فزِعُ

يُطلعهُ نجدَ كلِّ مشكلةٍ

رأيٌ وراء الغيوبِ مطَّلعُ

عنَّ على قدرةٍ وجادَ وجو

وُ الجدي جعدُ الأرواح منقشعُ

وشد منه مُلكُ الإمامين جل

دَ المتن لا عاجزٌ ولا ضَرِعُ

ينصح للّهِ والخلافةِ لا

يرفع في شَهوةٍ ولا يَضعُ

وزارةٌ مذ أتيتَها عاشت ال

سُنَّةُ فيها وماتت البدعُ

تشهد لي أنها اليقينُ قضا

يا اللّهِ والمسلمون والجُمَعُ

وزَرتَهم وارثاً اباك فما ار

تابوا بما أصَّلوا وما افترعوا

واغترسوا عِرقَك الكريمَ فما

أطيبَ ما استثمروا الذي زرعوا

كان اصطناعاً على تمنّعه

منهم بمن قدَّموا وما اصطنعوا

كنت لساناً يقضي إذا نطقوا

قضاءَ أرماحهم إذا شرعوا

وسنَّةً تدفع المخالفَ عن

دعوتهم مذ همُ بك ادّرعوا

فضلٌ طريف منه ومتَّلِدٌ

تنقُلُه حاكياً وتخترعُ

وحّدك الناسُ في الدعاء ولو

ثنَوَّا لضلّوا إفكاً ولو جَمَعوا

وأطنب المادحون فيك بما

صاغوا من السائراتِ أو رَصَعوا

ولم يقولوا إلا بما علموا

ولا روَوا فيك غيرَ ما سمِعوا

فليبقَ للناس منك من أطبقَ ال

ناسُ عليه في الفضل واجتمعوا

ولتجتنب ربعَك الخطوبُ وفي

قومٍ مَصِيفٌ لها ومُرتَبعُ

وليغشَ منك النيروزُ أكرمَ مَن

حطَّ إليه الوفودُ أو رفعوا

يومٌ جوادٌ حكاك حتّى على ال

تُربِ حُلى من جداه أو خِلعُ

يعطيك بُشرى الخلودِ ما طفِقت

تحتجبُ الشمس ثمّ تطَّلعُ

وليفدِ كفّيك مغلقُ اليد مخ

فورُ النواحي بالبخل ممتنعُ

ما عنده في المهمِّ يطرقُه

جدٌّ ولا بالندى له ولعُ