Claude 2

  1. بني وهب اللَّه جارٌ لكم

    من النائبات وأزمانِها

    God has granted you a neighbor

    Who withstands adversities and their times

  2. يغيظُ العدا أنكم عُصبةٌ

    تَبيَّن رُجحان ميزانِها

    The enemies resent that you are a faction

    Whose balance has proven correct

  3. جُعلتم وأبناؤكم دَوْحةً

    مَقيلُ الورى تحت أفنانها

    You and your sons have become a fountain

    The sanctuary of mankind beneath its branches

  4. فكان القوامُ بأعرافها

    وكان التمامُ بأغصانها

    Thus propriety was sustained through its manners

    And perfection through its branches

  5. ولن يذهب الدهرُ حتى تُرى

    سليمانُها كسليمانها

    Time will not pass until Suleiman

    Is seen like his namesake

  6. أقول لمستخْبرٍ عنكُمُ

    ودعوايَ رهنٌ ببُرهانها

    I say to one inquiring of you

    My invocation depends on its proof

  7. أولئك عُدَّةُ أملاكنا

    قديماً وزينة مُزدانها

    Those are the substance of our nation

    Anciently and the adornment of its decoration

  8. فهم في العَناء كأسيافها

    وهم في البهاء كتيجانها

    For they are its swords in tribulation

    And its crowns in prosperity

  9. ولم أُوفِهم حقَّ تمثيلهم

    ضلالاً لنفسي ونسيانها

    I have not fully represented them

    Straying for myself and forgetting them

  10. وليسوا كعينٍ وإنسانها

    وما قدرُ عين وإنسانها

    They are not like an eye and its sight

    Nor the worth of an eye and its vision

  11. سأُعلى مراتب أمثالها

    بما رفع اللَّهُ من شانها

    I elevate the status of their similes

    With what God has raised of their distinction

  12. همُ للمولك أرواحها

    إذا الناسُ كانوا كأبدانها

    They are the spirits for the King

    While people are like their bodies

  13. فتلك الخلافةُ تعتدُّهم

    يدَ الدهر أركان بنيانها

    Thus the caliphate enumerates them

    The hand of time the pillars of its building

  14. وما عند أربعةٍ منهمُ

    أبى اللَّه عدة أركانها

    And with four of them present

    God has refused the pillars of its edifice

  15. ولكن لها منهمُ عدَّةٌ

    كقَطْر السماء وسكانها

    But it has from them a number

    Like the rain of the sky and its inhabitants

  16. وأقلامُهم عند أملاكنا

    أسنةُ أرماح فرسانها

    Their pens with our rulers

    Are the tongues of the spears of its horsemen

  17. وحنَّت إليكم وزاراتُهُمْ

    فحنَّت إلى خير أوطانها

    Their ministries yearned toward you

    So they yearned toward the best of homelands

  18. لئن ضُمِّنُوا صوْن ساداتنا

    لما صان عينا كأجفانها

    Were they commissioned to guard our masters

    They would guard them like their eyelids