صاحَبْتُ في سَفَرِي لك الآمالا

فأَعدْتَنِي وأَعَدْتَها أَموالا

I accompanied you on my journey with hopes

You restored me and restored them into wealth

وهتفتُ باسْمِكَ وهو فأْلٌ صادقٌ

فَوَجَدْتُه في راحَتَيْك نَوالا

And I invoked your name, an honest omen

I found it in your comfort a gain

ودعَوْتُ منكَ لدفعِ عُسْرِي ياسراً

ولِدَفْعِ غُلَّتِي الحَرورِ بِلالا

I sought from you to dispel my hardship, O Alleviator

And to dispel my grievous affliction, O Consoler

وعجِبْتُ للأَسماءِ كيف تصرَّفَتْ

بغرائِبٍ من نَحْوِها أَفعالا

And I was amazed at the names, how they were manifested

In strange ways from their likeness, deeds

وَأَمَا ووجْهِك إِنَّه الفَلَقُ الذي

منذ اهتديْتُ به أَمِنْتُ ضَلالا

As for your face, it is the dawn that

Since I was guided by it, I was safe from misguidance

لقد انتقصتُ إِلى شمائِلِكِ التي

عَتُقَتْ وقلت على السَّفين شَمالا

I moved towards your lofty attributes that

Were set free, and I said the ship set sail northwards

وسَرَيْتُ نحو عُلاك بدرًا كاملا

حتى انثنيتُ من الضُّمورِ هِلالا

And I walked towards your rising as a full moon

Until I bent from fading away like a crescent

فرفعتُ طَرْفِي للسَّماءِ رئاسةً

بلْ أَنت أَسْمَى والنجومِ خِلالا

So I raised my eyes to the sky in leadership

But you are higher and the stars are within your grasp

والشمس إِلا أَنَّ ضَوْءَكَ حاكِمٌ

أَنْ لا يفارِقَ مُجْتَلِيه ظِلالا

The sun, except that your light rules

Not to abandon those it shines upon with shadows

والشهْمُ مِثْلِي من يسيرُ مُهَجَّرًا

ومهاجِرًا يَتَقَبَّلُ الأَقْيَالا

One like me who travels distraught

And migrating, bearing the burdens

اللُّه أَكْبَرُ ما أَدَقَّ معانِياً

وَقَفَتْ عليكَ وما أَجلَّ خِلالا

God is Greatest - how subtle the meanings

That stand before you and how majestic the traits

خُذْ يا بَنَانُ فقد وَجَدْتَ مُساعِفاً

قل يا لسانُ فقد وجدتَ مقالا

Take, O skilled one, for you have found a promoter

Say, O tongue, for you have found speech

واضرِبْ عن الأَمثالِ بعد محاسِنٍ

شاهَدْتُها واضْرِبْ بها الأَمثالا

And talk of virtues after graces

I witnessed, and make them parables

الليثُ أَغلَبُ والحسامُ مُهنَّدًا

والبدرُ أَزْهرُ والحَيَا هَطَّالا

The lion overwhelms and the sword subdues

The full moon glows and the snake coils

حُلَلٌ رآكَ المَجْدُ أَظرفَ خاطرٍ

فيها فأَفْرغَها عليك حَلالا

States that glory saw you as the wittiest spirit

So it poured upon you lawful gains

وشمائِلٌ منها الشَّمُولُ لأَنَّهُ

أَضحى يميناً شامِلي وشِمالا

Attributes among which inclusiveness, for it

Has become a right hand including me and a left

فوقيتَ يا عَيْنَ الكمالِ ونفسَه

عَيْنَ الكمالِ فقَدْ خُلِقْتَ كَمالا

You surmounted, O eye of perfection, even perfection itself

The eye of perfection, for you were created perfect

مُلِئَتْ بكَ الدنيا اعتدالاً مثلَهُ

عَدْلاً ولى أَمثالَهُ أَعْدَالا

The world was filled with moderation like it

Justice replaced its likenesses with fair ones

وأَقَرَّ منك المُلْكَ في أَربابِهِ

مَلِكٌ أَقَرَّ المُلْكَ لمَّا جالا

And the King affirmed kingship among its lords

A King who affirmed kingship when they marched

واستخْدَمَ الثَّقَلَيْنِ طَوْعَ حُسامِه

وهو الذي يتحمَّلُ الأَثقالا

And summoned the two weighty things by the edge of his sword

He who bears the heaviest of burdens

وكأَنما عطف الزمانُ بكفِّه

قوساً وسدَّد من بنيهِ نِبالا

As if time bent its palm into a bow

And aimed from its sons arrows

أَرْسَى ولا الجبلَ الأَشَمَّ بحِنْكَةٍ

منك الصدورَ وزَلْزَلَ الأَجبالا

It settled and not even the mighty mountain with disdain

Repelled it from your chests and made the mountains quake

ورمى الحصونَ على الحِصانِ بفارسٍ

إِنْ بارَزَ الأَبطالَ والأَبطالا

And it shot the citadels atop the steed with a horseman

If the champions and heroes competed

ولقد تيقَّنَتِ المعاقِلُ أَنَّها

دارَتْ على المُتَدَبِّرينَ عِقالا

The fortresses were certain that they

Would fail against the prudent

حيثُ الخيولُ تجولُ تحتَ رِماحِها

لتحولَ في أَوعارِها أَوعالا

Where the horses roam under their spears

To transform their limping into bounding

والباتراتُ تطُولُ بينَ فوارسٍ

خُلِقوا على صِفَةِ الرماحِ طِوالا

And the tall ones on long mares

Were created in the form of long spears

تتناذَرُ الأَملاكُ مِيلَ قنيّهم

ولَوِ اسْتَقَامتْ دونَهُمْ أَميالا

The dynasties incline away from their hatred

And if their inclinations persisted without them, they would be far more

فلذا رسائِلُهُمْ إِليكَ لأَنَّهُمْ

خافوا ابتعاثَكَ قَبْلَها الأَرْسالا

So their messages to you are because they

Feared your delegation before their own envoys

يا مُلْتَقَى سُبُلِ الوفودِ ومَنْ له

جُودٌ أَدامَ عليهِمُ الإِسْبالا

O gathering place of messengers’ paths and he who

Has generosity continues to send them gifts

لا زالَ يستدعي نوالَكَ كلُّ مَنْ

ما زالَ إِنْ سَمِع النَّوالَ نَوَى لا

The appeal of your bestowal does not cease for all those

Who do not cease to intend if they hear of bestowal

حتَّى تَرَى الآباءَ والأَبناءَ وال

إخوانَ والأَعمامَ والأَخوالا

Until you see the fathers, sons and

Brothers, uncles and in-laws

ويقومَ فُلْكُ الداعِيَيْنِ وهَفْوَةٌ

قولي يقومُ فإِنه ما مالا

And the ship of the two callers is resurrected and an awakening

My words resurrect, so it does not slip

وترى ضِياءَ النَّيِّرَيْنِ كما تَرى

يجلو الغُدُوَّ ويصْقُلُ الآصالا

And you see the light of the two brilliances like

The morning dispels the darkness and polishes the mornings

بَدْرا سَماءِ المُلْكِ لا البدرُ الذي

لَبِسَتْ أَهِلَّتُهُ الخيولَ نِعالا

A full moon in the sky of the Kingdom, not that moon

Whose crescent donned horseshoes

ومُهَنَّدُ الإِسلامِ لا تلكَ التي

داستْ صفائِحَها القُيونُ صِقالا

And the sword of Islam, not those which

The scabbards trampled with their sheaths

العارِضانِ العارِضانِ من النَّدَى

وَبْلاً يكونُ من النُّدوبِ وبَالا

The two harvesting, harvesting the dew

Really obtaining from the scars and afflictions

يا مَنْ إِذا هَزَّ الذوابِلَ طَعْنُهُ

في جِنْحِ ليلٍ يُسْتَعَاد ذُبَالا

O you, when the shaking of his piercing spear

In the wing of night regains the mounts

واسْتَقْبَلا المُلْكَ السعيدَ بياسِرِ ال

مُلْكِ السعيدِ فأَحْرَزَا الإِقبالا

They welcomed the blessed reign with the right hand of

The blessed reign, thus seizing the opportunity

طابا وطالا والأُصولُ إِذا زكَتْ

أَبْصَرْتَ فيها الفَرْعَ طابَ وطَالا

Blessed and everlasting, and the originals when pure

You see in them the branch blessed and everlasting

إِنْ لم يَكُنْ فيها مُنًى فَبِها المُنَى

لَمْ يَمْتنِعْ عن من يَرومُ مَنَالا

If there is no rest in them, through them is rest

Not prevented from one who seeks rest

آلُ الزُّرَيْعِ ومَنْ لَهُمُ إِلاَّ العُلَى

أَنْ لا يزالَ لهم كذلكَ آلا

The family of Zurei’ and who but them has loftiness

That will not cease to be for them thus, a family