الآن قَدَّ الفؤاد نصفَينِ
فيه وأَجَرى الدموعَ نوعَين
Now my heart is torn in two,
In it flow two kinds of tears.
لما انحنتْ نونُ صُدْغِهِ فرمى
عن قوسِها واتَّقَى بعَيْنين
When the nun of his cheek bent, it shot
From its bow and aimed with two eyes.
وانتصَبتْ نِصفُ صادِ شاربه
وخطّ مِن عارِضَيهِ لامَيْن
Half the sad of his mouth stood erect
And two lam's were traced from his eyebrows.
ومَدَّ صُدْغيهِ في بياضِهما
ليلَينِ صُبَّا على نهارين
His cheeks extended in their whiteness
Two soft dawns over two days.
وردّ رأسَ العِذار منحرِفاً
عن لدغ جفنين بابليَّين
He turned the head of coyness askew
From the sting of two Babylonian eyelids.
ضرّجَ خدّيه ثم جَرّد عن
غنْجِ ضنَى مقلتيهِ سيفينِ
He stained his cheeks, then stripped off
The cover of the wink of his two swords.
فآهِ للمدنَف المعذَّبِ مِن
هذين حسناً وآهِ مِن ذينِ
Oh, for the tortured, broken-hearted one
From these two beautiful ones, oh from those two!
يَحمل دِعْصَين من روادِفِه
قوامُه في ذُبُولِ خَصْرين
He carries two date palm fronds on his shoulders
His figure stooped at the waist.
لام عِذارٍ فما أُمَيْلِحَه
أخاف عيني عليه مِن عيني
The glances of coyness - so I fear for my eyes because of them
O you who torment me with your gaze, I ransom you both
يا صارِمَي لحظهِ فديتكما
لا تُسلماني إلى العِذاريِن
Do not deliver me to the coquettish ones.
And O you two coquettish ones, how sweetly you have emerged
ويا عذارَيه ما أُحَيْسِنَ ما
برزتما فيه لي بعُذْرَين
To accuse me with two excuses.
As if his cheeks amidst your blackness
كأنّ خدّيه في سوادكما
صُبْحان قد طُرِّزا بليلين
Are two dawns embroidered with two nights.
By it the sun of day became two suns
أعاد شمسَ النهار شمسين
به وبدرَ الظلامِ بدرين
And the moon of darkness became two moons.
My skin is softer when it contemplates
أرقّ جلداً إذا تأمّل مِن
شكوَى بدت بين سَفْك دَمْعَين
Complaints appearing between two pouring tears.
It suffices you an eye whose tormenter you are habitually
حسبُك عينٌ يَلَذّ مؤلِمهُا
دأباً وقلبٌ يَحِنّ للحَيْن
And a heart that yearns at times.
And love is sweet - when it is little it calls
والحبّ عذبٌ ما قلّ منه فإن
زاد دعا للشَّقاءِ والشَّين
For more misery and ill fate.
Indeed the glorious Imam is more generous than
إن الإمام العزيزَ أكرمُ من
بَثّ الندى مرّة وثنْتَين
One who pours dew once or twice.
The shelter of his protection, when
المخجلُ الغيثَ راحتاه إذا
جاد بِغيثين مِرزميَّيْنِ
He is munificent with two abundant rains
To them belongs the glory of Egypt and what it has gathered
لِيهن مِصَر العُلا وما جَمَعتْ
بِه من المكُرماتِ والزَّينِ
Of noble deeds and adornment.
The dew of the sea of his generosity overflowed
فاض ندَى بَحر جُودِ راحتِهِ
وبحرُها فهيَ بين بحرين
And its sea comes between two seas.
If its land stretched to touch the stars
لو طاولت أرضها النجوم علت
به على النَّسْرِ والسِماكينِ
It would rise over Al Nesr and Semakeyn.
O son of the Prophet of guidance and best
يا بن نبيِّ الهدى وأفضلَ من
يسمو بجدَّين هاشِمِيَّين
Of those exalted with two noble Hashemite ancestors.
Who is like your victorious one, al-Mansour
من ذا كمنصورِك المبارك أم
مُعِزِّك الرافِعَينِ هذينِ
Or like your strengthener of these two, al-Muizz.
Or who rivals you in fatherhood
أم من يدانيك في أبوّتِهِ
مِن عَلَوِيّينِ فاطِمِيّينِ
Among the prominent Fatimids?
Whoever does not draw near his Lord through obeying you
من لم يَدنْ رَبَّه بطاعتِكْم
كان كغاوٍ يدين بِاثنينِ
Is like a wrong-doer professing two religions.
Indeed I do not refrain from you grudgingly
إِنِّيَ لم أغد مِنك منقبِضاً
ولم أَرُحْ فِيك ذا مُرادَين
Nor set out against you with two intentions,
I find you open to all, not constricted,
ألقاك دون الجميع منبسِطاً
أُدِلّ كالمقتضي لحقَّين
I petition like one demanding two rights.
It is not because I am the son of a father and brother
ليس لأنَّي ابنُ والدٍ وأخٌ
يَجمع مِنّا النِّصابُ غُصْنَينِ
Our relationship combining two branches,
But it is due to my love and obedience to you, when
لكن لِوُدّي وطاعتي لك إذ
وجدْتني أنصحَ الولِيَّينِ
You found me the most loyal advisor.
I count your stature above my kinsmen
أَعدُّ شانيك مِن ذوي رَحمي
ولُحمْتي أكبَر العَدُوَّين
And my flesh - the greatest of two enemies.
When did we wear loyalty to you and I did not
متى لبِسْنا لك الوفاءَ فلم
أُصبِحْ ولي وافرُ النّصيبين
Wake up with abundant fortune?
May God expand for me the horizon of my life
لا فسَحَ اللهُ لي مدى عُمُري
وأشَمت الله بي الحسودينِ
And let me gloat over the envious ones.
If I do not desire your survival for myself
إن كنت لا أشتهي بقاءكَ لي
بالصِدقِ لا بِالرِّياء والمَيْنِ
Sincerely - not falsely or hypocritically -
And I rejoice in your supremacy out of my solicitude
وأغتدي في عُلاك مِن شَفَقي
عَيْنين أرعى العِدا وأُذْنينِ
With two eyes keeping watch and two ears,
And I give advice unsuspected
وأبذلُ النُّصحَ غيرَ متَّهَمٍ
دون النَّصوحَيْن والمحِبَّين
Unlike the two advisors and loving ones,
And I am not like the pretenders, out of caution
ولستُ كالمُظهِرينِ مِن حَذَرٍ
وُدَّيْن واستشعَرَا نِفاقَين
They love falsely and perceive hypocrisy.
They show acceptance though they harbor
ويُبدِيان الرضا وقد طَوَيَا
على القِلىَ والشِقاقِ كَشْحينِ
Rancor and hatred like two misers.
Their eyes inform us about them
تخبِرُنا عنهما عيونهمُا
أنّهما يَحملان حِقديَن
That they harbor two hatreds.
There, one strives to uncover your secret to the visitors
ها ذاك يسعَى يكشف سِرك لل
زّاري وهذا يرِيك وجهينِ
While the other shows you two faces.
How greatly they disbelieved in God when they prevented
كم كَفَرا بالإِلهِ إذ منعَا
مُلكَك كالطالِبَيْه دَيْنين
Your kingdom like two seeking a debt.
How much they maligned me with ugliness and how much
كم شَنَّعا عنَّي القبِيحَ وكم
سَلاَّ حُسامينِ مَشْرَفيَّيْنِ
They sharpened two noble swords
In order to provoke you or to sever what is between you
كي يستفِزّاك أو لِتقطَع ما
بينك من لحُمةٍ وما بيني
And I of kinship and what is between us.
Or to make my position equal to yours with you, but can
أو يَلحَقا رُتبتي لديك وهل
يَلحَق حافٍ بِذي جَناحين
One catching up reach one with two wings?
You do not make an equal in your sweetness and your bitterness
وأنتَ لا تجعلُ المشارِكَ في
حُلْوِك والمُرِّ كالغَويَّيْن
Like the two misguided ones.
They bit their palms and your shoulders in anguish
عَضَّا على الكفِّ واهلكَا أَسَفاً
بَغْياً ومُوتاً كذا بِدَاءَيْنِ
Maliciously and dying like two with chronic diseases.
Indeed the glorious Imam, it became clear to him
إنّ الإمامَ العزيزَ بانَ لَه
وبانَ ما تحت كلِّ حِسَّين
And what was beneath every sense became clear.
The curse of God does not depart
فلعنةُ اللهِ غيرُ مقلِعةٍ
تَتْرى على أَغْدَرِ الفرِيقين
Flowing on the most treacherous of the two parties.
And am I not a comfort that emerged
وهل أنا غيرُ راحةٍ برزتْ
منكَ وكفّاك للذراعينِ
From you and your hands suffice the two arms?
And we have not seen, even if a bias became inflamed,
وما رأينا وإن وَشَت عُصَبٌ
أبقَى على الوِدّ من شقِيقين
Affection more lasting than that of two brothers.
Your holidays that we were congratulated with through you
هَنَّتك أعيادُك الّتي بك قد
هُنِّئن يا أوحدَ الزمانين
Congratulations, O unique one of the two eras!
We are congratulated for the holiday when
نحن مِن العيدِ إذ سلمِتَ لنا
ومنك في تهنئاتِ عِيدينِ
You are safe for us, and from you in two congratulations.
You emerged like the sun on its happiest day
برزتَ كالشمس يومَ أسعدها
بل زدت نوراً على المنيرَين
But you increased in light over the two luminaries.
As if among the pleiades there stood erect from you
كأنّ في السَّرْج منك منتِصباً
بدرَ سماءٍ وليثَ شِبْلين
A moon of the sky and two cubs of a lion.
In a regiment dragging behind its horsemen
في جَحْفل جَرَّ مِن فوارِسه
كَتائباً تملأ الفضَاءَين
Troops that fill the two horizons.
So who is the advisor by whose comfort you were diverted
فمن مشيرٍ براحة صُرفتْ
إليك أو ناظرٍ بلحظين
To you or the onlooker with two glances?
They looked from their Prophet to a nature
تأَمَّلوا مِن نبيهِّم خُلقُاً
فيك وخلَقْاً محمَّديَّين
In you and a Muhammadan nature.
Until when you ascended their pulpit
حتى إذا ما علوتَ منبرَهم
وقمتَ للحمد في اللِّواءيَن
And stood for praise between the two banners,
You frightened them with God then brought
خوّفتَ بالله ثمّ جئتَ به
مبشِّراً مُسْهَبَ الطّريقَين
Good tidings, clearing the two paths.
You combined a praise with an advice
تَضُمّ تحميدةً إلى عِظةٍ
لهمْ ووعداً إلى وعِيدَين
For them and a promise in addition to two warnings.
You are the clear Imam, your wisdom manifest
أنت الإمام المبينُ حكمتَه
والعالمُ الفردُ ذو الِّلسانين
And the unique scholar of the two tongues.
May God bless you from a King
صلّى عليك الإله من مَلِكٍ
عَدَّ يديه النَّدَى يمينَين
Who counted his favors with two right hands.
And here they are, lasting like the bride
وهاكَها كالعروس باقيةً
غرّاء تختال بين حُسْنين
Radiant, strutting between two beauties.
More ablaze than the stance of farewell and than
أحرَّ من وَقفْة الودَاع ومِن
دمعٍ تقاضتْه روَعة البَينْ
A tear summoned by the agony of separation.
It pours torment upon the throats
تُزري بألفاظها العذابِ على
صَوْلَج لامَيْن في عِذارَيْن
Of two lam's among two coquettish ones.
And it disappears rarely when mentioned
وتختفي قِلةً إذا ذُكرتْ
في ذَهبيّين جوهريّين
Among two golden, jewel-like ones.
That is because the one I have praised with it
وذاكَ أن الذي مَدحتُ بها
أحق الاثنين بالثَناءَيْن
Is most deserving of the two praises.
And that the one who crafted those, embedded in them
وأنّ مَن صاغَ تلك ضمَّنها
إفكَينِ في إفكٍ وزُورَين
Two lies in a lie and two falsehoods.
