أَيد اللَه أَسعَد الوُزَراءِ
بِدَوام الإِقبال وَالنَعماءِ
May God strengthen the hand of the most fortunate minister
With continual prosperity and bounty
لا يَعدُّ النَعيم وَالفَخر شَيئاً
غَير تَنفيس كُربة الفُقَراءِ
He does not consider luxury and pride anything
Other than relieving the anguish of the destitute
الرَعايا وَدائع اللَه فيما
جاءَ عِندَ المُلوك وَالأُمَراءِ
The commoners are God's trusts with
Kings and rulers
وَاِحتِكام المُلوك ما زالَ أَولى
مِن دَلال الرَعية الحَمقاءِ
And the rule of kings has always been better
Than the misguidance of ignorant commoners
إِنَّما الهَرج الرَعايا هَلاك
وَبَلاءٌ وَالحُكم كَالأَحياءِ
Indeed, the turmoil of commoners brings
Ruin, affliction, while rule brings life
شَبهوا لمللك مِن قَديم بِجسم
وَالوَزير الطَبيب لِلأَدواءِ
They have long likened the king to a body
And the minister to a healer of ills
وَكَذا الجُند كَالطَبائع فيهِ
أَبَداً وَالكِبار كَالأَعضاءِ
And so too the military like natures within him
Always, and the elite like limbs
كُل صَنف مِن الجُلود كَخَلط
أَن تَعدى فحسمهُ بِالدَواءِ
Each type of rabble like an imbalance
Which, if it exceeds, he cures with remedy
وَتَساويهم اِعتِدال مَزاج
كَتَكافي الصَفراءِ وَالسَوداءِ
And their equilibrium, balance of temperament
Like the equilibrium of yellow and black bile
وَلُزوم الحُدود لِلناس مَعنى
ما يُقال الذِئاب بَينَ الشاءِ
And adherence to limits by people means
What is said of wolves among sheep
كُل ذَنب مِن الزَمان صَفَحنا
عَنهُ إِلّا تَحكم الغَوغاءِ
Every sin of the times we forgave
Except the rule of the foolish mob
أَيد اللَه نَصرَهُ مِن وَزير
أَسبل الستر كاشف لِلبَلاءِ
May God aid his victory, from a minister
Who lets down the curtain, revealing affliction
وَمَحا اِسم العِصيان وَالبَغي لِلشا
م مَقرّ الأَبرار وَالأَصفياءِ
And erased the name of disobedience and insolence, for the elite
The abode of the righteous and the pure
قَد جَلا غَيهب المَكاره عَنا
بِشُموس التَدبير وَالآراءِ
Indeed, the clouds of misfortunes cleared from us
With the suns of wisdom and opinion
سَلَّ سَيفاً مِن غمد حلم رَزين
أَكَلتُهُ سَفاهة السُفَهاءِ
He unsheathed a sword from the scabbard of dignified forbearance
Whose bluntness was consumed by the foolishness of fools
وَرَماهُم مِنهُ بِعَزمة صدق
دَهمتهم بَلَيلة دَهماءِ
And he threw them from it with the resolve of truth
Which overwhelmed them in a pitch-black night
فَمَحا اللَهُ آية اللَيل لَكن
بِشُعاع الحسام لا بِذَكاءِ
So God erased the sign of night, though
With the rays of the sword, not the intellect
آذن اللَه بِالبوار لِقَوم
عاملوا الناسَ بِالأَذى وَالجَفاءِ
God gave tidings of destruction to a people
Who dealt with others with harm and aloofness
بِغُرور مِن بَعضِهم ما تَحاموا
هَتك سَتر الشَريعة الغَرّاءِ
In the delusion of some of them, they did not protect
The sanctity of the honorable Law
كَم شَقيّ قَد اِستَرَق تَقيا
دَولة الجَهل غَصة الأَتقياء
How wretched is the pious man who was robbed
By the state of ignorance, anguish of the devout
خوفوا قَبل يَومِهم فَتَعاشوا
بِخُوف الهَلاك قَبل العَشاءِ
They feared before their day, so they lived
In fear of destruction before supper
وَبريح كادَت تَزيل الرَواسي
وَعظتهم بِهَدمِها لِلبِناء
And by a wind that nearly brought down the foundations
And admonished them by demolishing buildings
ما اِنتِفاع السَفيهِ بِالنُصح إِلّا
كَاِنتِفاع الخَفاش بِالأَضواءِ
No benefit comes to the foolish from advice
Except the benefit bats get from light
خاطَبتُهُم بَلاغة السَيف لَما
أَعرَضوا عَن فَصاحة الفُصحاءِ
I addressed them with the eloquence of the sword when
They turned away from the rhetoric of the eloquent
بِغرار الحُسام بادوا جزاءً
عَن غُرور بِالخَيل وَالخَيلاءِ
With the deceit of the sword they received a reward
For the conceit with horses and horsemen
أَينَ هَذا الخَفاء بَعد ظُهور
أَينَ ذاكَ الظُهور بَعدَ الخَفاءِ
Where is this hiding after appearing?
Where is that appearing after hiding?
وَقعة ذِكرها عَلى الأَرض يَبقى
لاعتبار الأَبناءِ بِالآباءِ
An event whose mention on earth remains
For the children to learn from the fathers
هاكَ تاريخَها إِذا شئت بَيتاً
بَعدَ عَرض الثَناءِ غِب الدُعاءِ
After presenting praise, the prayer comes
He established limits for justice as guidance
قَد أَقامَ الحُدود لِلعَدل هَدياً
وَنَفى النَحس أَسعَد الوُزراءِ
And banished misfortune, the most fortunate minister
