حملت سناكِ مواكبُ الأعوامِ
فَخُذِي سبيلَكِ واضحَ الأعلامِ
The years have carried your sunlit processions,
So take your path, clear of landmarks.
ما أنتِ إلا موكبٌ جَمعَ الهُدَى
فيه جلالَ العلمِ والإلهامِ
You are but a procession that gathered guidance,
In it the majesty of knowledge and inspiration.
سِيرِي على نُورِ الكتابِ فإنَّهُ
لكِ إن أردتِ الرُّشدَ خيرُ إمامِ
Walk in the light of the Book, for it
Is for you, if you want right guidance, the best imam.
أَرْخِي زمامَكِ لا عِثارَ لآخذٍ
من ربّه وكتابهِ بزمامِ
Release your reins, no stumbling for the taker
From his Lord and His Book with reins.
هذي المنازلُ أُزلِفَتْ لكِ فاسحَبِي
بُردَيْكِ من أمنٍ بها وسلامِ
These dwellings have been brought near for you, so pitch
Your tent in safety and peace therein.
وَصِفِي لهذا الجيلِ أيّامَ الأُلى
سبقوكِ من صحبٍ عليكِ كِرامِ
And describe for this generation the days of the loved ones
Who preceded you, the honorable companions.
رَفَعُوا على الحقِّ الحياةَ فأعجزت
أقوَى البُناةِ وأقْدرَ الهُدّامِ
They raised life upon the truth, so the strongest
Of builders and most capable of destroyers were incapacitated.
لمّا أقاموا بالسّيوف أساسَها
جعلوا البناءَ من الطُّلى والهامِ
When they established it with swords they made
The structure from ruins and rubble.
كم رُكنِ مملكةٍ تصدّعَ إذ رمت
آطامَها العُليا بركنٍ دامِ
How many pillars of kingdoms cracked when
Their lofty pillars were pelted with lasting pillars.
زخرت حوالَيْها القتوحُ فغيَّبت
غرقى الممالكِ في العُبابِ الطّامي
Ruins teemed around them, so they buried
The drowned kingdoms in the murky gloom.
تهوِي جوانبُها على الأُمم التي
حَملتْ وما مِن عاصمٍ أو حامِ
Its sides collapse upon the nations that
Carried yet had no defender or protector.
من يَعصِمُ الأقطارَ من دَيّانِها
ويَرُدُّ غارتَهُ عنِ الأقوامِ
Who will protect the lands from their judge
And repel his plunder from the peoples?
يا غارةً تمضِي إلى غاياتِها
تَطوِي المَدى وتَرومُ كلَّ مَرامِ
O plunder that goes to its ends,
Traversing the distance and coveting every goal.
ضاعت ثُغورُ المسلِمينَ فأدرِكي
سُؤرَ الهُدَى وبقيّةَ الإسلامِ
The marches of the Muslims are lost, so overtake
The citadels of guidance and remainder of Islam.
عزّ الذّليلُ من الثعالبِ وانقضَى
عِزُّ الأسودِ وسُؤددُ الآجامِ
The disgraced gained glory from the foxes, and perished is
The glory of the lions and killing of the brave.
ما أكثرَ الأبطالَ إلا أنّهم
أبطالُ وَهْمٍ في سلاحِ كلامِ
How numerous the heroes except they are
Heroes of delusion in the weapon of speech.
لم يَرْقَ شعبٌ بالكلامِ ولم يَقُمْ
مُلكٌ على ضَعْفٍ ولا استسلامِ
No people have ever thrived by speech, nor has
Any kingdom stood on weakness or surrender.
الفتحُ حدّثَنِي وما بحديثهِ
كَذِبٌ وحسبُكَ أن تقولَ حِذامِ
Conquest has narrated to me, and its narration
Contains no lies, and it suffices you to say ruin.
شيخُ الثِّقاتِ له على أعلامهم
حقُّ الولاءِ وواجبُ الإِعظامِ
The Shaykh of trustees, he has over their banners
The right of allegiance and the duty of veneration.
حَكمَ العُقولَ فما استبدَّ ولا رأى
رَأْيَ الأُلى فَسَقُوا من الحُكّامِ
He has judged intellects, so he did not impose
Or see the opinion of the ruined rulers.
اللهُ ألهَمَهُ الصّوابَ وخَصَّهُ
بأعزِّ منزلةٍ وخيرِ مَقامِ
God inspired him right, and endowed him
With the most honorable station and best abode.
نعم الصفيُّ رُزِقْتُهُ من مُنعِمٍ
صافي الصَّنيعةِ صادقِ الإنعامِ
What a fine companion I was granted by a Benefactor
Of pure making, truthful in blessing.
قُلْ يا نجِيَّ النّفسِ ما بالُ الأُلىَ
مَلأوُا المصارعَ من ذوي الأرحامِ
Say, O soul at rest, what ails the ruined ones
Who filled the battlefields, the people of relation?
ألقوا سِهامَ اللهِ من أَيمْانِهم
فتناولوها من يمينِ الرّامي
They cast the arrows of God from their right hand
Yet they received them from the right hand of the Archer.
هل كُنتَ تعرفُ قبل مصرعِ قومنا
لُغَةَ الجراحِ ومنطقَ الآلامِ
Did you know, before the death of our kinsfolk,
The language of wounds and the logic of pain?
باللهِ إن طلبوا الأُساةَ فكن لهم
مَثَلاً من الرُّوحِ البديع السّامي
By God, if they sought comfort, then be for them
An example of the exalted, sublime soul.
بُوركتَ من آسٍ يُترجِمُ طِبُّه
لُغةَ الشفاءِ لحَامِلي الأسقامِ
You were blessed by a healer whose goodness
Translates into the language of healing for the diseased.
احفَظْ بقيَّتَهم وإن هم ضَيَّعوا
ما اسْتحفِظُوا من حُرمةٍ وذمامِ
Protect their remainder even if they wasted
What protections they had of sanctity and covenant.
ما أنتَ بابن العَشْرِ أنت أبو الأُلى
وَلدوا شُيوخَ الصُّحفِ والأقلامِ
You are not the son of the tenth, you are father of the ruined ones
Who birthed the elders of scriptures and pens.
ارفَعْ من الأَعْوامِ صَرْحَ هِدايةٍ
بَرَّ الشُّهورِ مُبارَكَ الأيّامِ
Raise from the years a citadel of guidance
By the blessed, auspicious days.
واجْمَعْ على دين الحقائقِ أُمّةً
عَصَفَتْ بها دُنيا من الأوهامِ
And gather upon the religion of truths a nation
Which scattered dreams have blown about.
