مُسْتَقْبِلٌ خَائِفَهُ الصَّفْحُ
مُسْتَقْبٍلٌ آمِنَهُ المنْحُ
The future's pages are fearful
The future's gifts are secure
خِرْقٌ إذا استَنْجَدْتَ معروفه
جاءك نصرُ الله والفتحُ
A breach, if you seek help, its aid is known
God's victory and opening come to you
شاركَ فيه الحُسْنُ إحْسَانَهُ
وزال عنه القُبْحُ والقَبْحُ
Beauty shared its benevolence
Evil and ugliness departed from it
شُؤبُوبُ غيثٍ مُصْعِقٍ مُغْدِقٍ
تهتانُهُ الوابِلُ لا الرَشْحُ
The rain of a loud, pouring, thunderous cloud
Pouring on it, not sprinkling
أُلهُوبُ نارٍ فاستِنرْ واسْتَتِرْ
منه فقد أنذرك اللَّفْحُ
The blaze of a fire, so take light and seek shelter
For the spark has warned you
في بَذْلِه وشْكٌ وفي بطشه
بُطءٌ ولكنْ أمْرُهُ لَمْحُ
In its generosity there is stint, and in its wrath
Slowness, but its affair is a blink
ليس تَأَنِّيهِ وَنَى فَتْرَةٍ
كلا ولا جِرْيَتُهُ جَمْحُ
Its hesitation is not weakness or lethargy
No, its pace is not sluggish
الخيرُ في مَرْضاتِهِ كُلُّهُ
وإنَّمَا سَخْطَتُهُ بَرْحُ
Good lies in all that pleases Him
And only His anger brings harm
كالسَّيف ذو لين لمن مسَّه
صَفْحاً وفي شفرته الذبْحُ
Like a sword, gentle to one it touches
Lightly, yet its blade brings slaughter
فإنْ قَدَحْتَ النارَ من فِكْرِهِ
في ليلِ خَطْبٍ أثْقَبَ القَدْحُ
If you kindle its fire from His thoughts
In a night of peril, the spark grows weighty
أصبح مِنْ حِلْم ومِنْ عِزَّة
لم يَخْلُ من هَيْبَتِهِ كَشْحُ
It becomes, from forbearance and from might
Its awe never lacks severity
كالطَّوْدِ لا يَنْطِحُ لكنه
يُوهِي رُؤوساً شَأنُها النطحُ
Like an unyielding tree, it does not butt
Yet it terrifies heads inclined to butting
مَنْ ذَاكَ ذَاكَ الوائلي الذي
للشِّعْر في أوصافه سَبْحُ
Who is he, that wailing man
Poetry, in describing him, swims
تَبْجَحُ عدنانُ بأيامه
طُرّاً وما مِنْ شأنِهِ البجْحُ
Glorying in his days, nobility circles
Soaring, though its affair is not crowing
ممن إذا قَرَّظَهُ مادحٌ
ساعدَه الإجْمالُ والشَّرْحُ
When a praiser recites his virtues
Succinctness and elaboration assist him
مرهوبُ شَيْبَانَ ومأمُولُها
والجبل الشَّامِخُ والسَّفْحُ
Feared by Sheiban, hoped for by it
The lofty mountain and the low ground
ذو الجود والبأسِ الذي باسمِهِ
جاد الْحَيَا وانْتشر السَّرْحُ
The generous and mighty one, by whose name
Life flourished and cattle dispersed
ذو الرفْق واليُمْنِ الذي باسمه
فُلَّ الشَّبَا وانْدَمَلَ القَرْحُ
The gentle and auspicious one, by whose name
Youth bloomed and wounds were bound
مَنْ مَزْحُهُ جِدٌّ بِمعرُوفِهِ
يَفْدِيهِ قوْمٌ جِدُّهُمْ مَزْحٌ
Whose jesting is earnest, by his benevolence
A tribe ransomed, their earnestness jest
كم عائلٍ ليست له ضيْعَةٌ
ولا بِهِ سعْيٌ ولا كدحُ
How many a family without land
No striving or toil for them
أضحى أبو الصّقر له ضَيْعةً
عُمْرَانُها التَّقْرِيظُ والمدحُ
Abu Al-Saqr has become for it land
Cultivated by praise and eulogy
لولا نداه هلكتْ أُمَّةٌ
لكنْ لها مِنْ رُوحِهِ نَفحُ
But for his support, a people would have perished
Yet from his spirit comes a breath for them
يُعْطِي ويُنْمِي الله أموالَهُ
والبحْرُ لا يُنْضِبْهُ النَّزْحُ
God increases his wealth and makes it grow
The sea, drawing from it cannot exhaust
لا برحَتْ آلاؤُهُ في الورى
مَزْرُوعَةً ما زُرعَ القمحُ
His bounties in the world remain
Sown, as long as wheat is sown
أصبح سَمْحاً باللُّهَا في العُلاَ
فالشِّعْرُ فيه مِثْلُهُ سَمْحُ
Becoming clement, sublime, so poetry about him
Is just like him, clement
لَه نَثا ينْشُر أرْواحَهُ
مَدْحٌ له في مَالِهِ مَتْحُ
He has an offspring spreading his spirit
Eulogy, on his wealth, a reward
كالمسْكِ مَجَّ الوردُ من مائِهِ
فيه وأذكاهُ به الجَدْعُ
Like musk, the flowers soaked up his water
It, and the logs, made fragrant by it
