راجَعَ من بعد سلوةٍ ذِكَرَهْ

وواصَلَ الظبي بعدما هَجَرَهْ

A gazelle returned after absence, remembrance

And the gazelle continued after it had abandoned it

ظبيٌ دعا قلبَ هائمٍ كلفٍ

مؤتمِرٍ قلبُهُ بما أمره

A gazelle called a wandering, burdened heart

Whose heart converses with what it commanded it

يؤنِسُهُ حُسنهُ ويوحشهُ

قبحُ أفاعيله إذا ذكره

Its beauty gives it company and its

Ugliness of deeds estranges it when it remembers it

مازال يدعوه من محاسنهِ

داعٍ إذا سوءُ فِعلِهِ زَجره

It continues calling it because of its beauty

Calling when the evil of its action deters it

لا الوصلُ يصفو له وإن عزم ال

هِجرانَ غال النزاعُ مصطبره

Neither union clears for it even if it is determined

Separation's hatred has overcome its patience

يدنو فيُقصَى فإن نَأى أنفاً

بات يباري بكاؤهُ سهرَهْ

It comes near so it is distanced, if it moves away haughtily

It spends the night with its crying rivaling its wakefulness

ألقاه في حيرةٍ محيِّرةٍ

فما يرى وِردَهُ ولا صَدَرَهْ

It has cast it in a confusing confusion

So it does not see its relief or its chest

ظبيٌ وما الظبي بالشبيه به

في الحسن إلا استراقَه حَوره

A gazelle, and the gazelle is not similar to it

In beauty except its theft of its maids

وحسنَ أجياده وغُنَّتِهِ

ونفرةً فيه مِن رُقَى الفَجَره

The beauty of its snorting and the melody of its voice

And a thrill in it from the sublimity of its dawn

محاسنٌ كلهن مسترقٌ

منه وكلٌّ رآه فاغتفره

Beauties all of which are stolen

From it and all who saw it sought its forgiveness

سخّاه عن رُزءِ ذاك أنَّ له

حُسناً إذا قاسه به غمره

Its generosity distracted it from the meanness of that

For it has a beauty when compared to it immersed it

وكلُّ رزء فإنَّه جَلَلٌ

إذا المبقَّى لأهله كثَرهْ

And every meanness, it is majesty

When the remainder for its people is abundant

يا ليت مِن عفوه لعاشقهِ

بل ذاك شيء عليه قد حظرهْ

Oh if only from its pardon for its lover

But that is something it has forbidden

يصفح عن لصّهِ جريمَته

وهْو لنعماه أكفرُ الكَفره

It forgives its thief his crime

While it is most ungrateful to its blessings

ولستُ أنفكُّ من معاتبةٍ

بغير ذنب موازِنٍ وبَره

And I do not cease from blaming

Without sin, weighing and exonerating

يا عجباً من مُعذِّبي عجباً

عُجبي به ضِعفُهُ فقد هَدَره

Oh, the wonder of my tormentor, wondrously

My wonder at it, its weakness wasted it

سوَّغ ما نِيل من حُلاه ولو

يسأله الصبُّ قُبلةً نَهره

It permitted what was attained from its adornments even if

The morning asked it for a kiss, presenting its excuse

كما أجاع الوشاحَ حين تَردْ

دَاهُ وقد كظَّ مِئزراً وَزره

As it starved the garment when it turned away from it

And had wrinkled its waist wrapper and burdened it

بالله يا إخوتي سألتُكُمُ

أليس مولاي أجْوَرُ الجَوَره

By Allah, O brothers, I asked you

Is not my Master the most unjust of the unjust

أضحى وسيف العداء في يدهِ

عليَّ دون الأنام قد شَهره

The sword of enmity is in his hand against me

Without people, he has brandished it

إن عض خلخالهُ مُخلْخَلَهُ

أو شفّ عقدُ الإزار مؤتَزره

If his anklet bites his anklet

Or the knot of his wrap comes undone, wrapped

أقبل ظُلماً عليّ يشتمني

كأنني كلُّ واترٍ وَتَره

He unjustly comes at me insulting me

As if I am every treacherous betrayer

وقد رأى شيبةً فأنكرها

وتلك من فعله لو اعتبره

And he saw a gray hair so he denied it

And that is from his deeds had he considered it

شَيّبَني من هواهُ ما نَهك ال

جسمَ فماذا ترونَهُ نَكِره

My love for him wore out a body so what do you think

He denies

ألم ترعهُ محاسنٌ نَحلتْ

وراعه أن تنكَّرتْ شَعَره

Did you not shepherd it with beauty

And it shepherded that its hair was denied

أبصر بيضاء في القَذالِ فلا

نَفْرٌ كنفرٍ رأيتُهُ نَفَره

He saw whiteness in the short and no

Aversion like the aversion I saw it show

أعجِبْ بمن يقتل الرجال وإن

لاحَ له شخص شيبةٍ ذَعره

He is astonished at one who kills men even if

No trace of a gray hair appeared for him to be wary

لا يظلمنِّي ولا سِنى ولا

يظلم خلاخيله ولا أُزرَه

He does me no injustice, neither my age

Nor does he wrong his anklets or his wrap

فربَّ شيبٍ بعاشقٍ وبِلىً

قد برَّأ الله منهما كِبرَهْ

So there is a gray hair in a lover and worn

God has acquitted them both of old age

ما شَيَّبت رأسهُ السنون ولا

أبلتهُ بل حَرُّ وجدِهِ صَهره

His years did not white his head nor

Did it wear him out but the heat of his passion melted him

ورب ضيقٍ بملبسٍ وهو ال

سَابغ لكنَّ قِرنَه قَهَره

And there is tiredness in clothing while he

Is not perfect but his zeal overpowered him

قد أوسع الحِجْلُ والإزار لهُ

فزاد ما ضُمِّنا على الحَزَره

The anklet and the wrap have expanded for him

So what they contained increased over need

ومِن تَعدّيه أنه أبداً

يعتدُّ نفعاً لعبده ضرره

And from his transgression is that he always

Considers harm a benefit for his servant and his harm

يعتدُّ ما يعمِد الشقي بهِ

نيلاً ولم يَعْدُ نفعُهُ بصره

He considers what the wretched intentionally does

To attain while his benefit does not watch him

فإن رأى في المنام هفوتهُ

غضّ من الطرف عنه أو شَزره

So if he sees his loss in a dream

He averts his gaze from it or winks

يعتدُّ إبداءهُ محاسنَهُ

نَيْلاً لحرَّانَ هَيَّجت حَسَره

He considers displaying his beauty

An attainment that aroused the hottest passions

إذا نهتْ عن هواه غلظتُهُ

دعا إليه برقةِ البشره

If his harshness prohibits his love

He calls to it with the softness of cheer

ولحْظِ عينين لو أدارهما

لفارسٍ في سلاحِهِ أسره

And a glance of two eyes, if he directed them

To a knight in his armor, it would captivate him

نِضْوَى سَقامٍ يقود ضعفُهما

له شدادَ القلوب مُقتَسره

The sway of two sick gazelles leads

Him, capturing stony hearts completely able

من خُنْثِ جفْنيهما وغُنْجهما

تعلَّم السحرَ ماهرُ السَّحره

From the effeminacy of their two eyelids and their ogling

He learned magic - the most skilled of sorcerers

ومُضْحكٍ واضحٍ به شَنبٌ

يعرف من شام برقَهُ مطره

And an obvious, laughing dimple with which is a

Mustache that knows the rain of Damascus from its clouds

يضمن للعين طيب ريقتهِ

ثغرٌ يباري نقاؤهُ أَشَرَه

It guarantees the eye the goodness of its spittle

A mouth that rivals its purity unfermented wine

ينعت لألاؤُهُ عذوبتَهُ

وليس يُخفى نسيمُه خَصره

Its scintillation describes its sweetness

And its breeze is not hidden at its waist

لو ضاحك المَزنَ عنه ضاحَكَهُ

عن برقه مُسبلاً له دِرره

If the laugher laughed at the sad one because of it

Baring lightning, trailing pearls

وصحنُ خدٍّ حريقُهُ ضَرِمٌ

يقذف في القلب دائماً شرره

And the platter of a flaming cheek is an ember

It casts into the heart constantly sparks

لا ماءَ إلا رضابُ صاحبِهِ

يطفىء عن قلب ناظِرٍ سُعرَه

There is no water except the saliva of its companion

That extinguishes the blaze of a watcher's passion

أعاره الوردُ حسن صِبغته

بل صِبغةُ الورد منه معتصره

The rose lent it the beauty of its color

But the rose’s color is extracted from it

وفاحمٍ واردٍ يقبِّل مَم

شاه إذا اختالَ مُسبِلاً عُذرَهْ

An intermingler, a visitor, kissing smoothness

If it lets down, trailing its excuse

أقبل كالليل من مفارقِهِ

مُنحدِراً لا تَذمُّ منحدره

It comes like the night from its separation

Descending, not blaming its descent

حتى تناهَى إلى مَواطئهِ

يلثِم من كل موْطئٍ عَفَره

Until it reaches its resting places

Kissing the dust of every resting place

كأنه عاشقٌ دنا شغفاً

حتى قضى من حبيبه وَطره

As if it were a lover who approached out of passion

Until fulfilling from its beloved intercourse

تغشَى غواشي قرونه قدماً

بيضاءَ للناظرين مقتدره

Its steeds cover its feet with whiteness

For viewers, completely able

مثلَ الثريا إذا بدت سَحراً

بعد غمامٍ وحاسرٍ حَسره

Like the Pleiades when they appear at dawn

After clouds and darkness, appearing

وجيدِ إبريقِ فضةٍ دأبَ ال

صوَّاغُ حتى اصطفى له نُقَره

And the good face of a silver ewer which the

Jeweler habitually selects its engraving

يتخذ الحَلْيَ كالنميمة لا ال

زينة من حسنه الذي جَهره

It takes on jewelry like gossip not

Beauty from its beauty which its day made public

وحسنِ قدٍّ أجاد قادرُهُ

قدْراً فما مَدَّه ولا قَصَره

And the beauty of a waist which its Able Maker

Excelled in creating so it did not extend or shorten

عُدِّل حتى كأنه غُصنٌ

من خير ما أنجبتْ به شَجرهْ

It was balanced as if it were a branch

From the best of what a tree produced

يحمل ثديين خَفَّ ثِقلُهما

جداً فلا آده ولا اهْتَصره

Bearing two breasts whose weight it lightened

Extremely so it has no harm or exhaustion

محاسنُ الناس من محاسنه

منسوخةٌ في الحسان مختصره

The beauty of people is derived

From its beauties, summarized in beauty

كأنما الله حين صَوّرهُ

خَيَّرَه دونَ خلقهِ صُوَره

As if when God shaped it

He gave it a choice over His creation of forms

أغيدُ لم يرتعِ الخَلاء ولا

خالط غِزلانَه ولا بقره

An untamed gazelle that did not pasture the wilderness nor

Mingle with its deer or cows

يكفيه رعي الخلاء أنَّ له

من كل قلبٍ مُمنَّعٍ ثَمَره

It being pastured by the wilderness is sufficient for it

That for it from every protected heart is its fruit

كم من شفيقٍ عليّ ظَلَّمَهُ

ولو رأى حسنَ وجهه عذره

How many sympathetic people to me it has wronged

And if it saw the beauty of its face, it would excuse it

وناصرٍ لي عليه لو هَتفتْ

به دواعيه مرّةً نصره

And supporters of me against it, if

Its own motives called to aid me one time, they would support me

دعْ ذكره إنّ ذكره شعفٌ

وامنحْ من المدح سالماً غُررَه

Leave mentioning it, mentioning it is fervor

And abstain from praise safely taking its pearls

الواحد الماجد الذي عدم ال

مِثْل فلم يلق ماجداً عشره

The One, the Majestic whom the

Like of does not exist so it did not meet a match

الوارث المجد كلّ أصيدَ لا

يدفع تيجانه ولا سُرُرَه

The heir of all glory that a competitor does

Not ward off its crowns or thrones

القائل الفاعل الموارعَ لا

يشكو العلى بخله ولا حَصره

The speaker, the doer, the one with expansive

Virtue, neither complaining of the Most High’s stinginess or withholding

ذا المستقى الطيب القريب وذا ال

غور الذي لا تناله المَكَره

The one of lofty and good lineage and the near

One whose depth malice does not reach

المانح السائل الرغائبَ وال

غائل مِسبارَ كلِّ من سَبره

The granter of requests and

The questioner of souls and the one who throws at everyone who sounded him out

ذا المِرة الشَّزْرِ والمتانة وال

عقدةِ تحت السجية اليَسره

The one of gentleness, strength, solidity and the

Toughness beneath the facile hand

ذا اللين سائل به المَلاين وال

شِدّة سائل به من اعْتَسره

The soft one requesting millions through it and the

Vehemence requesting through it the one who lacks

الآخذ الخطة الرضيّة وال

تارك ما الحظ فيه أن يذره

The undertaker of honorable stratagems and the

Abandoner of what fortune in it risks him to neglect

ذا الكرم العذب والمُناكرة ال

مرّة إن هاج هائجٌ وغَرهْ

The one of gentle, sweet generosity and bitter

Harshness if an ardent zealot rouses and stirs him

ما ذاق شهداً أجل ولا صَبِراً

من لم يذق شهده ولا صبرَه

No one has tasted a sweeter honey nor more patient endurance

Than one who has tasted his honey and his endurance

الأسدَ المستعدَّ منذ دَرَى

أن الزُّبَى للأسود محتَفره

The prepared lion since it realized

That wildness for lions is dug up

العارض المستهلّ منذ رأى

أنّ العلى في الكرام مبتَدره

The aspirant brandisher since it saw

That supremacy in generosity is undertaken early

الراجح العفّ في كتابته

إذ في سواه نقيصةٌ وشَرَهْ

The prominent in his writing

For in another there is deficiency and evil

يرى مكان البعيد من دغلِ ال

مُدغِل والمستسِرِّ في الجحرَهْ

He sees the place of one far in fraud and the

Concealer in the burrow

أحاط علماً بكل خافيةٍ

كأنما الأرض في يديه كُرَهْ

He encompassed knowledge of all hidden things

As if the earth were in his hands grasped

مَهْ لا تَعُدَّن من ينابذهُ

له عُداةً وعُدَّهمِ جَزره

Wait, do not count among those who oppose him

Enemies while their number is few

كلا ولا طالبي فواضلهِ

له عُفاةً وعُدّهم نَفره

No, and not the seekers of his nobleness

Have casual friends and their number is some

ورائمٍ رامه فقلت له

حاولت من لا تنال مفتخَره

And a critic of him I said you have attempted

What you cannot attain, boastful

طاولتَ من لا أراك مُنْتصفاً

باعُك من شبره إذا شَبره

You attempted one whom I do not see you equalling

In sale from a span if a span

أصْوَر نحو العلى ترى أبداً

إلى نواحي وجوهِها صَوَره

I describe the height while constantly viewing

Their faces to it, describing

أزْورَ عن وجه كل فاحشةٍ

لا يعدِم الفحشُ كله زَوَره

I avert from the face of every disgrace

Disgrace in its entirety does not lack aversion

لو أعرض البحر دون مكرمةٍ

وليس للبحر مَعْبر ضَبرَه

If the sea presented short of a favor

And the sea has no crossing that crosses it

مظفَّرٌ بالتي يحاولها

لا يُعدِم الله سالماً ظَفره

Victorious through what he attempts

God will not deprive a greeting of victory

فيه وقارٌ يكفُّ سَوْرته

وفيه حدٌّ يَعز منتصِره

In it is a dignity that restrains its rebellion

And in it is a limit that makes its victor mighty

شاورْه في الرأي إن أُثِرتَ ولا

يَرِمْك بالرأي إنّه فَطَره

Consult him regarding opinion if given choice and do not

Throw you in opinion, he is its splitter

ذاك الذي قال فيه مادحهُ

مهما انتحى من رميَّةٍ فقَره

That which his praiser said however it departs

From a throw it returns poor

سِرْ بهُدَى كوكبٍ هَداك به

ولا تَعرَّضْ لكوكبٍ كَدرَه

Walk by the guidance of a star that guided you by it

And do not expose yourself to a star that harms

قد آمَنَ الله من يخاف من ال

فقر إذا جودُ سالمٍ خَفَره

God has granted security from fearing

Poverty when Salim’s generosity laughed lightly

يا رُبّ شاكٍ إليه خَلَّتَهُ

راح بجدواه يشتكي بطره

Oh Lord of a complainant whose party let him down

Relieved by his generosity complaining of betrayal

يسبق معروفُهُ العِدات وإن

قدّم وعداً حسبتَه نذره

His favor precedes reprisals even if

He presented a promise, you account it a vow

لا يُعرض القوم عن ثناه ولا

يَملّ سُمَّارُ ذكره سمره

The people do not turn away from his praise nor

Does the night conversant tire of mentioning his night conversation

مَن مُبْلغٌ صفوةَ الأمير أبي ال

عباس عن كل حامدٍ أثره

Who informs the elite of Al-‘Abbas Abu Al-

‘Abbas from every praiser his effect

أن قد تولَّى الزمامَ صاحبُهُ

بحكمةٍ أحكمت له مِرَره

That its companion has assumed leadership

With wisdom that destined success for it

فقاد مستصعَبَ الأمور بهِ

لا خائفاً ضَعفَهُ ولا قِصَرَهْ

So he led the formidable matters by it

Neither fearing its weakness nor its inadequacy

ولَّيتَ لا مائلاً إلى دنسٍ

عمداً ولا عاثراً مع العَثره

You have directed it neither leaning towards corruption

Intentionally nor stumbling with stumbling

هو القويُّ الأمينُ فارْمِ بهِ

ما شئتَ من معضلٍ يكُن حجره

It is the strong, the trusted one so cast to it

Whatever insoluble thing you possess is its rock

لا يشتكي الناسُ عنفهُ وكذا

لا تشتكي ضعفهُ ولا خوره

The people do not complain of its violence and likewise

Its weakness and ruin do not complain

أجريتَهُ والكُفاةَ في طَلَقٍ

فجاء لم تغشَ وجهه قَتره

I have made it race while the capable ones are comfortable

So it came without its face covered in gloom

تلوح فوق الجبين غرّتُهُ

كأنها المشتري أو الزُهَرَهْ

Its pride appears above the forehead

As if it were the Buyer or Venus

وجاء أصحابُهُ وكلُّهُمُ

قد كظَّهُ جَهدُهُ وقد بَهره

And its companions came while all of them

Its effort had narrowed them and confused them

لم يلحقوا شأوهُ ولو فعلوا

أمكن أن يسبِق امرؤٌ قدَره

They did not match its stature and if they had

It was possible for a man to outrun his destiny

ولم يزل يسبق الرجالَ ولا

يشقُّ ذو جُهدهم له غَبَره

And it did not cease preceding men without

One of equal effort to it splitting dust

حتى أقرُّوا وقال قائلُهُمْ

محرَّمُ الحول سابقٌ صَفرَهْ

Until they conceded and its sayer among them said

The sacred month is a preceding yellow

واتخذوا الصدق زينةً لهُمُ

كَرهاً على رغمهم وهمْ صَغره

And they took truth as their ornament

Forcibly despite their youth and smallness

وكان زْيناً لكل من نفر ال

سؤددَ إقراره لمن نَفره

And it was an ornament to everyone who dreaded

The ardors his acknowledging whom it dreaded

ومن أبى الصدق بعد ما قُمر ال

فضل فمن كل جانبٍ قُمِرَه

And whoever refused truth after

Superiority was mooned, from every side it was mooned

أسخطَ حسادَهُ وأرغمهمْ

أنْ سار في الناس فارتضوْا سِيَره

It angered its envious ones and subjugated them

That it moves among people so they approved its way

يا حاسدي سالم أبي حسن

مجداً كساه فَعالُهُ حِبرَه

Oh enviers of Salim Abu Hassan

Glory dressed him so his actions clothed him in ink

إن يرتدِ الحمدَ سالمٌ رجلاً

فإنه قبل حُلمه ائْتزَره

If praise returns a man glory

Then before his dream it girded him

ما زال يُكساه قبل بُغيتهِ

إياه بل قبل خلقه بَدَره

It did not cease clothing him before his prime

But rather before creating him, full

مدَّخَراً في أبٍ له فأبٍ

كانت له الصالحات مدَّخره

Storing in a father of his then a

Father virtues being stored for him

ثم سعى بعد ذاك مكتسباً

للمجد حتى ارتداهُ واعْتَجره

Then after that he strived earning

Glory until wearing it and strapping it

يا رُبّ عُرفٍ أتاه ما طلب ال

حمدَ بإتيانه ولا خَسِره

Oh Lord of a known merit which he attained what

Praise sought in attaining it and did not lose

نوى بإسدائه رضا ملك

نفَّله الحمد بعد ما أجَره

He intended by granting it the pleasure of

A King who ennobled him after ennobling

وتاجرُ البر لا يزال له

ربحان في كل مَتْجَرٍ تَجَره

And the righteous dealer never ceases to have for him

Profit in every dealing he deals

أجر وحمد وإنما قصد ال

أجَر ولكن كلاهما اعْتَوره

Reward, praise, and he only intended

Reward but both of them faltered

كصاحب البذر لا يريد به

شيئاً سوى رَيْعه إذا بَذَره

Like the owner of seed, he wants through it

Nothing but its revenue if he sows it

وهْو إذا لُقِّي السلامة لا

يعدَم لا رَيعه ولا خَضِره

And when he meets wellbeing, it does not

Deprive not its revenue or greenery

كم سرَّني حين ساءني زمنٌ

كم برّني حين عَقَّني البرره

How often troubles made me happy when a time was bad to me

How often righteousness made me happy when righteous ones were few to me

يا سالم الخير يا أبا حسنٍ

يا من وجدنا كوجهه خَبره

Oh Salim of goodness oh Abu Hassan

Oh one whom we found his news like his face

يا حسن الوجه والشمائل إن

ردَّد فيه مردِّدٌ نظره

Oh beauty of face and marks if

A repeater repeated viewing it

يا حسن الهدْي والخلائق إن

كرَّر فيه مُكرّرٌ فِكرَه

Oh beauty of guidance and manners if

A reiterator reiterated reflecting on it

ماذا على من يراك في بلدٍ

أنْ لا يرى شمسه ولا قمره

What is upon one who sees you in a country

That he does not see its sun or its moon

وما على من يراك في زمنٍ

أن لا يرى نوْره ولا زَهره

And what is upon one who sees you in a time

That he does not see its light or its blossom

أنت السراج المنير والكلأ ال

مُمرِع حَفّت رياضُه غُدَره

You are the luminous lantern and the abundant herbage

Whose meadows its oxen have encompassed

لكل قومٍ يُعدُّ مجدُهُمُ

آصال مجدٍ سَهمتهم بُكره

For every people, its glory is considered

Collected glory, fate has mandated it mornings

لا تحمدنّي فما جرى قلمي

إلّا بأشياءَ منك مختَبره

And you have lived in the clothes of wellbeing

With which time fights for you against others

ما زدتُ فيما وصفتُ منك على

ما حصَّلتْهُ صحائفُ البرره

Below you a red dyed robe

Glimpsing from every envious eye

لم أبتدع في ثنائك الحسن ال

منشَر بل كنتُ بعض من نَشره

An adornment of pride if a chief wears it

Competing with a competitor, its pride

لكنني أنظم الثناء إذا

مُثني ثناءٍ على امرئٍ نثره

An amulet of protection if it is armored with it

It rebuked the sayer of abandonment, giggling its nails

وما لمُثنٍ على أخي كرمٍ

حمدٌ ولكنه لمن فَطره

Short of accommodation, while it is perfect

For the desire of listeners, all able

كم فيك من مِدحةٍ تظل على

ألسنة المنشدين مُعتَوره

Like your convenient day your Lord shortened

In your lifetime which He made abundant

واسعدْ ببيت بنيتَهُ أفِدٍ

أُسِّس بنيانُهُ على الخِيَره

It grew long so a perpetual generosity in you

Increased, tremendous, so it was said to summarize it

أُيِّد بالساج والحديد ولم

يوهَن بآجُرّةٍ ولا مَدَره

And if it rose wearing your assets from the

People, it would grow long and show its shortness

بناءُ حزمٍ أبَى لصاحبه

في كل أمرٍ ركوبَهُ غَرَره

Oh son of Umar, glory does not make lonely

From you all, you are more majestic than it

لا يعرف الوهيَ والسقوط ولا

يخذُل ألواحُ ساجه دُسُره

And you have lived in the dress of wellbeing

Which time fights for you against others

وخيرُ بيت بنيتَ مشتبِهٌ

وَفْقٌ ترى مثل سقفه جُدُرَهْ

Below you a robe dyed red

Glancing from every envious eyes

أسمرُ ما شاب لونَه برص ال

جَصِّ ولامس جلدُهُ وضَرَه

An adornment of pride when a chief wears it

Competing against one competing, its pride

هَندسَه رأيك المبرِّز في ال

فضل وأعطته حقَّه النَّجَره

An amulet of protection if armored by it

It scolded the sayer of abandonment giggling its fingers

وعُلَّ من بعد ذاك بالذهب ال

أحمر فاختال لابساً شُهَره

Short in residence while it is perfect

For the desire of listeners completely able

أهدى لك الدهرُ فيه حبْرته

ولا أرى ناظراً به عِبره

Like your pleasant day your Lord shortened

In your lifetime which He made abundant

تَعمرُهُ بالنعيم والنِّعم ال

سُبَّغ ملبوسةً ومنتظره

It lengthened so an abundant generosity in you

Bent, tremendous, so it was said summarize it

قريرَ عينٍ قرين مَغْبطةٍ

تفتضُّ من كل مَنعمٍ عُذَره

And if it rose wearing the assets from you

From the people, it would lengthen and show its shortness

يُسمعك الشدوَ في جوانبهِ

مُناغياتُ البُمُوم والزِّيَرَهْ

Oh son of Umar glory does not make you lonely

Indeed you are loftier than it

في كل يومٍ تراه بُكرتَهُ

وكل ليلٍ تخالهُ سَحَره

And you lived in clothes of wellbeing

Fate fights for you against others

كلاهما لا يزال قاطعُهُ

يدعو بسقياه كلَّ ما ادَّكره

A home good has presented for you in it

And I do not see a viewer in it peregrinating

زلّال بَرٍّ يظلّ يسكنه

بحر بحورٍ يُهلُّ من عَبره

Inhabiting it in bliss and blessing

Which saturated, being worn, and anticipating

بل بيت بِرٍّ تظل كعبتهُ

محجوجةً للنوال معتَمرَه

The comfort of a content, accompanying eyes

That glance over every blessing its excuse

تغشاك فيه عُفاة نائلك ال

غَمر فيمتار مُنفِضٌ مِيَرَه

At its sides the twitter of orioles and bees is heard

Courting you at dawn and dusk

لا الجار يستبطِئُ الجوار ولا

يلعن من جاء نازعاً سَفرَه

Both continually a provider does not cease

Calling to water it whenever it came to mind

كعادةٍ لم تزل لكل أب

يَنميكَ تغشى عُفاتُه حُجَره

Fresh righteousness that a sea of seas shelters

With its goodness overflowing

لا يشتري المال بالثناء ولا

تظل تُفدي صِرارُه بِدَره

But a home of righteousness whose ancient house

Is forbidden, devoted to attainment

يجوز معروفه الغِنى ومُنَى ال

نفس ويلقاك مُلقياً عُذرَهْ

Upon you in it barefoot attainers

Whose totality the sea has drowned

أهدى لك المدح فيه خادمك ال

سابق من أهل بَيْعةِ السَّمُرَهْ

Not the neighbor hastens the neighborhood nor

Curses one who came disputing his travel

أولُ كُتّابك افتتحتَ به

أمرك ثم ارتضيت مختبرَه

Like a custom that did not cease for every

Father your barefoot ones overwhelmed his chambers

أهدى بُنيَّاتِ نفسه ولو اس

طاع لأهدى مكانها عُمُرَه

Goodness is not bought by praise nor

Do its sincere constant efforts remain compensated by pearls

لا أوحش المجدُ يا بني عمر

منكم فأنتمُ أجَلُّ من عَمَرَهْ

Its favor is allowed by sufficiency and the granted

Soul’s purpose and it meets you presenting its excuse

وعشتم في لَبوسِ عافيةٍ

يقاتل الدهرُ عنكُمُ غِيَرَهْ

The early servant presented praise to you in it

Your foremost in the pledge of conversationalists

دونَكها حُلّةً محبرةً

تَطرِف من كل حاسد بصره

The first of your writers you inaugurated

Your matter by him then approved his examination

زينةُ فخرٍ إذا تَلَبَّسها

سيدُ قوم لفاخرٍ فخَره

He presented the intentions of himself and if

Possible he would present his lifetime in their stead

جُنّة حِرْزٍ إذا تدرَّعها

لقائلِ الهُجْر نَهْنَهَتْ ظُفُرَه

Glory in you all does not make lonely oh son of

Umar for you are more majestic than it

قصيرةُ البيتِ وهي سابغةٌ

على هوى السامعين مُقتَدِره

And you lived in clothes of wellbeing

Fate for you against others contends

كَيَوْمِك الأرْيَحيِّ قصّره

ربك في عمرك الذي وَفَره

طالت فألوى بطولها كرمٌ

فيك جسيم فقيل مُختَصره

ولو علت لابساً سوالك من ال

نَاس لطالت وبينت قِصَرَه