أبا الصَّقْرِ لا تَدْعُني للبِرا

زِ أو استعدُّ كأقْرانِكا

O Abu al-Saqr do not leave me to travel

To you, prepare like your peers.

أرى النفْسَ يْقُعد بي عَزْمُها

إذا ما هممتُ بإتْيانِكا

I see my soul's determination sitting still

When I intend to come to you.

لِما وَضَعَ الدهرُ من هِمَّتِي

وما رفع اللَّهُ منْ شأْنِكا

For what fate has set out from my concerns

And for what God has elevated in your status.

أهابُكَ هَيْبةَ مُسْتَعْظِمٍ

لقَدْرِكَ لا قَدْرِ سُلْطانِكا

I fear you, fearing one held in great esteem

For your merit not the merit of your power.

وبعدُ فما حالتي حالةٌ

أراني بها أهْلَ غِشيانكا

And moreover my condition is not one

In which I see myself worthy of your tent.

فلَيس بعزْمِي نهوضٌ إلي

كَ إنْ لم تُعِنْهُ بأعْوانكا

So it is not in my determination to rise up

Towards you unless aided by your supporters.

ولو شِئْتَ قلت أقِمْ راشداً

فلا ذنبَ لي بل لحرْمانِكا

And if you wished you would say: stay firm guided

So there would be no fault of mine but rather of being deprived by you.

ولكن أبتْ لك ذاك العُلا

وطيبُ عُصارة عِيدانِكا

But you have refused that highness for yourself

And good extract of your limbs' sap.

أزِرْني نوالكَ آنسْ به

وأعتدْ عتادي للُقْيانكا

Help me by giving me your bounty, be intimate with it

And prepare my tools for meeting you.

فلستُ بأولِ من زاره

من الأبعدِين وجيرانكا

For I am not the first who visited him

From the furthermost and your neighbors.

أترغب عن خُلق فاضلٍ

حَمِدْناه عن بعضِ إخْوَانكا

Do you dislike an excellent nature?

We have praised it over some of your brothers.

يسيرُ السحابُ بأثقاله

وليْس له رحبُ أعطانكا

The clouds travel with their heaviness

And they have no expanse of wide plains like yours.

فيسقي منازلنَا صوبهُ

وليس له مجدُ شيبانِكا

So they water where we live on their way

And they have no accumulated honor like your white hairs.

وما كانَ يُمكن شيئاً سوا

ك فهو أحقُّ بإمكانِكا

And whoever was unable to achieve anything but you

Is more rightful for your possibilities.

فقُلْ لسحابِك سرْ نحوه

مُغِدّا فجُدْه بتَهتانِكا

So say to your clouds, travel towards him

Tomorrow, grant it to him with your overflow.

فكم سائلٍ لك أغنيتَه

وأوطانه غير أوطانكا

For how many beggars have you enriched?

And their homelands other than yours.

وكم واهن الركن أنهضتَه

إليك بقوة أركانكا

And how many weak in body have you helped stand

Up right by the strength of your pillars?

وقد كان مثليَ ذا عِلَّةٍ

ولكنْ أُزيحَتْ بإحسانِكا

And the likes of me was afflicted

But it was removed by your benevolence.

وسُنَّةُ مجدِك أن تُستقى

سجالُ نداكَ بأشْطانِكا

And it is the way of your glory to be sought

Drinking from the vessels of your generosity.

برفْدِك ينهَضُ من يرتجِي

لديْكَ الغِنَى وبِحُملانِكا

With your help, he who hopes in you stands up

For with you lies abundance and with your carriers.

لذلكَ يُثْني عليك الورى

بأطيبَ من ريح أرْدانكا

For that the people commend you

With the most fragrant scent of your plains.