أصغَى لما قلتُ الأصمُّ الأصلَخُ

حُسْناً وللحقِّ دواعٍ تَصْمَخُ

The deaf and unkempt listened to what I said

Goodness, and the truth has reasons that ignite

أبشِرْ فما قَارَفْتَه مُسبَّخُ

عنك ونيران الصدورِ بُوَّخُ

Rejoice, for what you have done is cooked

Away from you, and the fires of hearts rebuked

إن العلاء للعُلا نِعْمَ الأخُ

لا يفعل السُّوءَى لرضْخٍ يُرْضَخُ

Indeed the sublime are for the sublime, excellent brothers

Who do no evil out of subjugation and coercion

والحسناتُ عنه لا تُمَسَّخُ

تفدِي الكهولُ نفسَه والشُّرَّخُ

And good deeds about them are not erased

The elders ransom themselves and the wretched

في كل دهرٍ يَنْبَرِي ويَنْقخُ

قد أصبحت أنْقَاؤهم تُمَخَّخُ

In every era they rise up and breathe life

Their glories have now become worn out

والرُّوحُ في الأموات منهم تُنْفخُ

مُذْ ساسهم منه أشمٌّ أبلخُ

And the soul within their dead is breathed

Since their foundation from it the redolent smelled

أَغَرُّ لا تُنْكره مُشمْرخُ

آباؤه في المُلْك قِدْماً تُنَّخُ

The most noble not denied by the freed

Their fathers in the kingdom established of old

مُصدَّرٌ بمجدهم مؤرّخُ

ذو همةٍ تسمو وحلم يرسخُ

Exporters of their glory chronicled

Of ambition that ascends and wisdom steadfast

آراؤه الحقُّ الذي لا يُنسَخُ

وعزمه الحتْم الذي لا يُفْسَخُ

Whose views are the truth that does not abrogate

And his resolve is the definite that does not invalidate

فكُّل صعبٍ راضَهُ مُزَيَّخُ

وكلُّ إقليمٍ به مدوَّخُ

So every hardship was humbled before him

And every region by him Razed and mapped

إذا الخطوبُ طفقت تطَخْطَخُ

فاجْتَابَها ظلت دُجاها تُسلخُ

When calamities rumbled and scraped

He confronted them as their darkness peeled and flayed

وعند ذكرى جُوده يُبَخْبَخُ

فالمعتفي جَدواه لا يُوَبَّخُ

And when the memory of his generosity oozed

The praiser of his bounty is not chastised or rebuked

وعِرضُهُ العرض الذي لا يُلْطَخُ

بالطَّيخِ إذ بعضهم مُطَيَّخُ

And his honour is the untainted honour

By any blemish, though some are blemished

بل هُوَ مِنْ طيب الثنا مُضَمَّخُ

كأنه بالمسك محضاً يُنضخُ

But he is of the scent of musk pure and soaked

As if he is sprayed with pure undiluted musk

ما إن تزال قُلُصٌ تُنَوَّخُ

إليه مقطوعاً بهنّ سَرْبَخُ

Care packages are still dispatched

To him cut off, while rivals are late and lagged

قَرْمٌ ترى حسّاده تأخَّخُ

حتى كأن الهامَ منهم تُشْدَخُ

A bank sees its haters tired out and sagged

As if their zeal around him is extracted and dragged

له من المجد جبالٌ شُمَّخُ

يقصر عنها المَضْرَحيُّ الأفْتَخُ

He has mountains of glory smoking

Beyond them the tall and lanky falls short

علتْ ذُرَاها والأصولُ رُسَّخُ

ما أطوع البذْخَ له لو يَبْذَخُ

Their peaks rose as the origins solidified

How obedient is waste if he wastes!