احكُمْ على الثَقَلَيْنِ الإنس والجانِ

فأنت أقومُ بالمُلكِ السُلَيْماني

Judge the two burdens, mankind and jinn

For you are most just with the state of Solomon

لك البسيطانِ لا تقضي انقباضَهُما

وكيف يُقبَضُ كفّاكَ البَسيطانِ

For you are the two outstretched hands that do not withhold

How can your two outstretched hands withhold?

كذا الجديدانِ مذ أُلْبِسْت بُردَهما

تطابقَ الأمر والمعْنى جديدانِ

Thus the two new ones since you were clothed in their mantle

The matter and meaning are in harmony, both new

أنسَيتنا كلَّ إنسانٍ له شرفٌ

بهمةٍ أذكرَتْنا كلّ إنسانِ

You made us forget every honored human

With ambition, you reminded us of every human

لو صال سيفٌ على سيف بن ذي يزَنٍ

لفلّ أشفارَهُ في غِمْدِ غَمْدان

If a sword had clashed with the sword of Sai’f bin Dhi Yazan

It would have sheathed its blade in the sheath of sheaths

فأين كسرى ولا ساسانُ من هممٍ

غُرٍّ غدَتْ لبني كسرى وساسانِ

So where is Chosroes and the Sassanids from their ambitions?

Ambitions that became against the children of Chosroes and the Sassanids

عبسٌ وذُبيانُ والأخبار واسعة

لديك بالحمدِ لولا آلُ ذُبيانِ

Frowning and Dhubyan and the news is vast

With your grace, if not for the family of Dhubyan

تبني يمينُك وهي النيلُ كلّ عُلا

والنَيْلُ يهدِمُ دفعاً كلّ بُنيانِ

Your right hand builds every elevation

And the Nile demolishes every building

وطوْدُ حِلمِكَ لا بالطيشِ مهتَضَمٌ

هذا وطيفُك يرميهم بطوفانِ

The firmness of your patience cannot be shaken by recklessness

This while your clouds pelt them with a flood

يهْمي ويحمي وحسبُ الغيثِ واحدةً

ولو رضيتَ لقُلنا حسبُك اثنانِ

It protects and destroys, and the rain is enough

If you wished, we would say your two hands are enough

أوطأتَ خليلَك أبكارَ الحُصونِ على

أن الحصونَ عَذارى ذاتُ إحصانِ

You made your friend taste the virgin strongholds

As if the strongholds are chaste women of virtue

ما طرْنَ في جوّها عقبانَ ألويةٍ

صاغ النجيعُ لها تصْحيفَ عُقبانِ

No eagles of banners have nested in its atmosphere

The wailer has distorted it to be nests of eagles

وزُرْتَها بأسودِ الحرب زائرةً

تخافُ من فتكِها آسادُ خُفّانِ

You have visited it with the lions of war

Whose onslaught frightens the lionesses

من كلِّ مشتهِرٍ يقْضي بمُشْتَهرِ

كأنّ غرّتَهُ والسيفَ نجمانِ

With every famous one you judge with the famous

As if its pride and the sword are two stars

تخالُه واهتزازُ الرُمحِ في يده

ليثاً تَلاعَبُ يُمناهُ بثُعبانِ

Its swaying and the shaking of the spear in his hand

Seems like a lion playing with his right hand and a snake

هل الرماحُ غصونٌ باتَ يغرِسُها

من الصُدورِ طِعاناً فوقَ كُثْبانِ

Are the spears branches that he plants

Thrusting from the chests over the sand dunes?

أولا فما بالُنا بالمدْح في غزَلٍ

من كُثْبِ يبرين أم من قَضْبِ نُعمانِ

First, why do we praise with love poems

From the sand dunes of Yabrīn or from the canebrakes of Nu’man?

فنونُ وصفِك أجنَتْنا غرائِبها

فما لها من نهاهُ بين أفنانِ

The arts of your description have exhausted us

So it has no end among the arts

كلّ حَبانا بعدْن في رُبى عدَنٍ

رضوانُك ابنُ بِلالٍ قبلَ رُضْوانِ

Every gift after this is in the garden of Eden

Your pleasure, O son of Bilal, before all pleasure

يا طالبَ اليُسْرِ يمّم ياسرا وكفى

فياسرٌ أبداً واليُسْرُ سيّانِ

O seeker of ease, intend ease and enough

For ease is eternal and intention is equal

أضرِبْ به لا بمنهل الحَيا مثلاً

ما الماءُ والمالُ في الأزمانِ مِثْلانِ

Strike with it, not with the watering place of life as an example

Water and money are not equal in eras

عمّت بصدقٍ قَراع أو قِرى يده

فخصّصَتْهُ بمِطْعامٍ ومِطعانِ

It has spread with sincerity the villages or the palms of his hand

So it specified him with food and harvests

وجانسَ الحربَ بالمحراب يعمُرُه

فلا قِرىً وقِراعٌ دون قُرآنِ

And he equalized war with worship, developing it

So neither villages nor palms without the Quran

وشنّ دِرْعاً على درّاعةٍ فزَرى

بكلِّ صاحبِ إيوانٍ وديوانِ

And he donned shields over coats of mail, so he saw

With every owner of a hall and organization

ما فوقَ سُلطانِه في ملكِه أحدٌ

دعِ الأميرَيْن واذكُرْ كلَّ سُلطانِ

None above his sultanate in his kingdom

Ignore the two princes and mention every sultan

هما اللذانِ به دانَ الوَرى لهما

بلا خلافٍ من القاصي أو الداني

They are the two with whom the world has bowed without dissent

From the farthest to the nearest

بدرانِ للمُلْكِ سعداهُ اقترانُهما

كذاك ما يقترنْ بالسعدِ بَدرانِ

Two full moons, fortunate is their conjunction

That is how conjunction with good fortune is like two full moons

وصارمانِ إذا هُزّا بمعركةٍ

فإنما لهما الجفنان جفانِ

And two swords, if brandished in battle

For them are the two eyelids, blinking

فإن عَلا بهما قحطان في شرَفٍ

هما قد انتمَيا فيه لقَحْطانِ

So if Qahtan has risen in nobility

They have affiliated with him through Qahtan

فإنْ عدنانَ منه أحمدٌ وبه

كان السُموّ فلم يبرَحْ لعدْنانِ

And if Adnan - through him is Ahmad and through him

Was the ascent, so it did not cease for Adnan

فضَلْتُمُ آل عِمرانِ الورى شرَفاً

والله فضّلَ قِدْماً آل عِمرانِ

You have preferred, O family of Imran, the world in nobility

And Allah has preferred first the family of Imran

ثانٍ هو الأولُ الماضي عُلاً وبهاً

وأولُ هو في هذا وذا الثاني

The second one is the first, gone high in status and distinction

And the first one is in this and that, the second

أيُّ اقتبالٍ وإقبالٍ لمملكةٍ

قد عقّباها على يُمنٍ بإيمانِ

What confrontation and favor for a kingdom

Followed by faith in Yemen?

يا منْ له يدّعي الأملاكَ قاطبةٍ

ومن يُخِبّ إليه كلّ أظْعانِ

O you for whom all kingdoms are claimed

And for whom all succor turns

ومن سرَيْنا على نجمي مكارمهُ

فأنزلانا على سعدٍ وسَعْدانِ

And we traveled by the two stars of his virtues

So they descended upon happiness and delight

ومن به يُرْغَمُ الشاني وحقّ له

فإنّما يرغَمُ الثاني من الشانِ

And through whom the critic is silenced, and he has the right

For he only silences the second of two critics

للناسِ في كلّ قطرٍ لم تحُلّ به

عيدٌ وللناسِ في ذا القطرِ عيدان

People in every region have no feast endowed upon them

Except for the people in this region having two feasts

كم راحَ في نحْرِ عيد النحْرِ مُنتظِماً

بيُمنِ جدِّكَ من درّ ومُرجانِ

How much has trotted in the sacrifice of the feast of sacrifice

Through the good fortune of your grandfather, of pearls and coral

ركبتَ يا بحرُ بحراً بالعُباب جرى

فسالَ بينكُما في البرّ بحْرانِ

You rode, O sea, a sea with billows flowing

So two seas flowed between you on land

وسرتَ تحت لواءِ النصرِ مُعتلياً

تهدي كأنّكما طرّاً لِواءانِ

And you marched under the banner of victory

As if you two were a fluttering banner

في موكبٍ كم به من كوكب شرِقٍ

يسْمو على المُشتري قدْراً وكيوانِ

In a procession, in it many planets have risen

Above Jupiter in worth and stature

عساكرٌ كسطورِ الطُرْسِ تقدمُها

كأنّما أنت فيها سطرُ عُنوانِ

Armies like script lines, leading them

As if you among them are the line of the title

حتى أتيتَ المُعلّى ناشراً سبباً

رآكَ فيها على ضيقٍ سُليمانِ

Until you came to the Most High, spreading a cause

He saw you among them despite the narrowness of Solomon

ولو أردت بفضلِ القولِ قمتَ به

يوماً مَقاماً بفضلِ حول سحبانِ

And if you wished, you could have stood with the grace of words

One day in place of the grace of Suhayb and his troop

وعدتَ تستبدلُ الإحسان مرتجلاً

ما قالَ حسانُ في أبناءِ عفّانِ

And you returned improvising kindness

What Hassaan said about the sons of `Affan

لو أنّ إجماعنا في فضل سؤدَدِه

في الأصلِ لم يختَلفْ في الأمّةِ اثنانِ

If our consensus on the grace of his friendship

In origin, two people would not differ in the nation