فتحٌ يُطاولُ فَتحُهُ الأحقابا

خَضَعَت لَهُ فِرَقُ الضَّلالِ رِقَابا

A conquest whose conquest extends through the eras

The misguided factions submitted to it, necks bent

واستشعَرَ المُرَّاقُ مِنهُ مَخَافَةً

مَلَكَت عليهِم جيئَةً وذهابا

And the guardian felt fear of it

It came upon them, going and coming

وغدا به ما قد صفا من عَيشِهِم

كدراً وما فيهِ الحلاوةُ صَابا

And it made what was left of their life, now pure

Turbid, and bitterness therein sweetened

لِلّه يَومُ الأربعاءِ فإنَّهُ

أحيا النُفوسَ وتمَّمَ الآرابا

Wednesday belongs to God, for on it

He brought souls to life and fulfilled hopes

شَرُفَ الزمان بأن تكون أباً لهُ

ما إن إن جِبابا

The era was ennobled that you would be a father to it

What protection and shelter!

وَسِعَ المُوالي والمُعادِي حُكمُهُ

في كُلِّ أرضٍ رَحمَةً وَعَذابا

Your rule encompassed supporter and opponent

With mercy in every land, and punishment

وَسَمَ ابن إسحاقٍ على خُرطومِهِ

خِزياً يَنالُ حَدِيثُهُ الأحقابا

And it enabled the son of Isaac to place

Humiliation on his snout, his talk traversing the eras

طَمحَ الشَقاءُ بأهلِ قَفصَةَ وارتقى

بِهمُ شواهِقَ صَعبَةً وعِقَابا

Misfortune ambitiously sought the people of Qafsah and climbed

With them the steep and harsh heights

وأبى لهم إصرارُهم من قبلِ أن

رَأوُا العذابَ إنابَةً ومَتابا

And their obstinacy before refused them

That they see the punishment, turning and repenting

لَم يُغن عَنهُم إذ أتاهُم مِن عَلٍ

أن يَحرسُوا الأسوارَ والأبوابا

It did not avail them when there came upon them from on high

To guard the walls and doors

طَلَبتهُمُ تحتَ التُرابِ وفوقَهُ

آجالُهُم فَتَولَّجُوا الأسرابا

Their appointed times sought them below the soil and above it

So they tossed about distractedly

نالتهمُ رُحمى الخليفةِ بَعدَما

نادى الرَّدى بِنُفوسِهِم وأهابا

The rage of the Caliph struck them after

Ruin called for their souls and terrified them

آياتُ نصرٍ بيناتٌ كلها

بهرت بما جاءت بهِ الألبابا

Clear signs of victory, all

Astonished the intellects with what they brought

وسعادةٌ عجبٌ تهدُّ قوى العدا

هداً وتقصِمُ منهمُ الأصلابا

And a wondrous happiness that subdues the strength of enemies

Gently and breaks their determination

خصت إماماً للبريةِ مجتبىً

براً تقياً خاشعاً أوابا

It singled out a rightly-guided Imam for the wilderness

Pious, God-fearing, humble and well-behaved

ملكٌ عليهِ مسحةٌ ملكيةٌ

لبسَ الزمانُ جمالها جلبابا

A king on whom there is a royal anointing

The era put on its beauty like a cloak

بهجوا على الأبصار بهجةَ يُوسفٍ

ويضيء داودُ بهِ المحرابا

They shone joyfully before sights like the beauty of Joseph

And David illuminates the prayer niche through it

مدحُ الإمامِ عبادةٌ نرجُو بها

عزَّ الحياةِ وأن تفوزَ مآبا

Praising the Imam is an act of worship through which we hope

For the honor of life and to attain salvation

ما سافرَت أذهاننا في مدحهِ

إلا وكان لها القصورُ إيابا

Our minds have not travelled in praising him

Except that the palaces were a returning place for it

لم يدرِ حقَّ مقامِهِ من لا يرى

من دُونِ حقِّ مقامِهِ الإطنابا

He who does not see the rightness of his position

Does not know the rightness of his position or its full extent