لَكَ في الأَرضِ وَالسَماءِ مَآتِم
قامَ فيها أَبو المَلائِكِ هاشِم
You have glories in the earth and the sky,
In which Hashim's father of angels stood,
قَعدَ الآلُ لِلعَزاءِ وَقامَت
باكِياتٍ عَلى الحُسَينِ الفَواطِم
The family sat for condolences, and
The weeping women cried over Hussein the valiant.
يا أَبا العِليَةِ البَهاليلِ سَل آ
باءَكَ الزُهرَ هَل مِنَ المَوتِ عاصِم
O father of loftiness and splendors, ask
Your forefathers, the flowers, is there an escape from death?
المَنايا نَوازِلُ الشَعَرِ الأَب
يَضِ جاراتُ كُلِّ أَسوَدَ فاحِم
Death is the descent of white hair,
The neighbor of every fierce, dusty old age.
ما اللَيالي إِلّا قِصارٌ وَلا الدُن
يا سِوى ما رَأَيتَ أَحلامَ نائِم
Nights are nothing but short,
And the world is naught but dreams of a slumberer.
اِنحِسارُ الشِفاهِ عَن سِنِّ جَذلا
نَ وَراءَ الكَرى إِلى سِنِّ نادِم
The withdrawal of the lips from the teeth of coquetry
To the teeth of a regretter after the burial.
سَنَةٌ أَفرَحَت وَأُخرى أَساءَت
لَم يَدُم في النَعيمِ وَالكَربِ حالِم
A year made happy then made miserable,
No one stayed permanently in bliss or anguish.
المَناحاتُ في مَمالِكِ أَبنا
ئِكَ بَدرِيَّةُ العَزاءِ قَوائِم
The wings fluttering in the domains of
Your sons are signs of early condolence.
تِلكَ بَغدادُ في الدُموعِ وَعَمّا
نُ وَراءَ السَوادِ وَالشامُ واجِم
That is Baghdad in tears, and Aman is
Behind the gloom, and Syria is solemn.
وَالحِجازُ النَبيلُ رَبعٌ مُصَلٍّ
مِن رُبوعِ الهُدى وَآخَرُ صائِم
And noble Hejaz, a pure quarter
Of quarters of guidance, and the last fasting.
وَاِشتَرَكنا فَمِصرُ عَبرى وَلُبنا
نُ سَكوبُ العُيونِ باكي الحَمائِم
And we shared, so Egypt wept, and Lebanon’s
Eyes poured like the crying doves.
قُم تَأَمَّل بَنيكَ في الشَرقِ زَينُ ال
تاجِ مِلءُ السَريرِ نورُ العَواصِم
Arise and look upon your children in the East,
The crown’s ornament, the throne’s light, and the capitals’ radiance.
الزَكِيّونَ عُنصُراً مِثلَ إِبرا
هيمَ وَالطَيِّبونَ مِثلَ القاسِم
The virtuous ones are a race like Abraham,
And the good ones are like al-Qasim.
وَعَلَيهِم إِذا العُيونُ رَمَتهُم
عُوَذٌ مِن مُحَمَّدٍ وَتَمائِم
And if eyes afflict them,
There is protection from Muhammad and talismans.
قَد بَنى اللَهُ بَيتَهُم فَهوَ باقٍ
ما بَنى اللَهُ ما لَهُ مِن هادِم
God has built their house, so it remains,
What God has built, none can destroy.
دَبَّروا المُلكَ في العِراقِ وَفي الشا
مِ فَسَنّوا الهُدى وَرَدّوا المَظالِم
They managed the kingdom in Iraq and the Levant,
So they instituted guidance and redressed injustices.
أَمِنَ الناسُ في ذَراهُم وَطابَت
عَرَبُ الأَرضِ تَحتَهُم وَالأَعاجِم
People were safe in their homes,
And the Arab lands became prosperous under them, and the non-Arabs too.
وَبَنوا دَولَةً وَراءَ فِلَسطي
نَ كَعابَ الهُدى فَتاةَ العَزائِم
And they built a state beyond Palestine
Like pillars of guidance and resolute determination.
ساسَها بِالأَناةِ أَروَعُ كَالدا
خِلِ ماضي الجِنانِ يَقظانُ حازِم
Its foundation is kindness, it is marvelously beautiful,
Like a garden’s interior, an alert, decisive one.
قُبرُصٌ كانَتِ الحَديدَ وَقَد تَن
زِلُ قُضبانَهُ اللُيوثُ الضَراغِم
Cyprus was iron, but it lowered
Its spears to the valiant lions.
كَرِهَ الدَهرُ أَن يَقومَ لِواءٌ
تُحشَرُ البيدُ تَحتَهُ وَالعَمائِم
Time hated that a banner would rise
Under which beasts and turbans are rallied.
قُم تَحَدَّث أَبا عَلِيٍّ إِلَينا
كَيفَ غامَرتَ في جِوارِ الأَراقِم
Arise, speak to Abu Ali, tell us
How you adventured beside the lean wolves.
لَم تُبالِ النُيوبَ في الهامِ خُشناً
وَتَعَلَّقَت بِالحَواشي النَواعِم
You did not care for the beasts of prey in the sanctum,
And befriended the gentle gazelles.
هاتِ حَدِّث عَنِ العَوانِ وَصِفها
لا تُرَع في التُرابِ ما أَنا لائِم
Come, tell us about al-Awan, describe it,
Do not shy away in the dust, I am not blaming you.
كُلُّنا وارِدُ السَرابِ وَكُلٌّ
حَمَلٌ في وَليمَةِ الذِئبِ طاعِم
We are all headed for mirage, and each of us
Is a morsel in the feast of the wolves.
قَد رَجَونا مِنَ المَغانِمِ حَظّاً
وَوَرَدنا الوَغى فَكُنّا الغَنائِم
We hoped for a share of the spoils,
But we met war, so we were the spoils.
قَد بَعَثتَ القَضِيَّةَ اليَومَ مَيتاً
رُبَّ عَظمٍ أَتى الأُمورَ العَظائِم
Today, you made the issue dead,
Many a bone came to great affairs.
أَنتَ كَالحَقِّ أَلَّفَ الناسَ يَقظا
نَ وَزادَ اِئتِلافَهُم وَهوَ نائِم
You are like truth which united people while awake
And increased their unity while asleep.
إِنَّما الهِمَّةُ البَعيدَةُ غَرسٌ
مُتَأَنّي الجَنى بَطيءُ الكَمائِم
Far-reaching ambition is but a planted seed
With slow-ripening fruits and slow achievements.
رُبَّما غابَ عَن يَدٍ غَرَسَتهُ
وَحَوَتهُ عَلى المَدى يَدُ قادِم
Sometimes it is missed by the hand that planted it
And a coming hand surrounds it through time.
حَبَّذا مَوقِفٌ غُلِبتَ عَلَيهِ
لَم يَقِفهُ لِلعُربِ قَبلَكَ خادِم
You stood at a foiled stand none of the Arabs
Had taken before you, O servant.
ذائِداً عَن مَمالِكٍ وَشُعوبٍ
نُقِلَت في الأكُفِّ نَقلَ الدَراهِم
Defending kingdoms and people
Who were transferred in fists like coins.
كُلُّ ماءٍ لَهُم وَكُلُّ سَماءٍ
مَوطِئُ الخَيلِ أَو مَطارُ القَشاعِم
For them is every water and every heaven
Is a stomping ground for horses or flight for eagles.
لِمَ لَم تَدعُهُم إِلى الهِمَّةِ الشَم
ماءِ وَالعِلمِ وَالطِماحِ المُزاحِم
Why did you not invite them to lofty aspiration,
Knowledge, and encroaching ambition?
وَرُكوبِ اللِجاجِ وَهيَ طَواغٍ
وَالسَمَواتِ وَهيَ هوجُ الشَكائِم
To traversing the seas and their billows,
And the heavens as they angrily shake?
وَإِلى القُطبِ وَالجَليدُ عَلَيهِ
وَالصَحاري وَما بِها مِن حَمائِم
To the celestial pole with ice upon it,
And the deserts and whatever doves are in them?
اِغسُلوهُ بِطَيِّبٍ مِن وَضوءِ ال
رُسلِ كَالوَردِ في رُباهُ البَواسِم
Wash him with the goodly water of ablution
Of the messengers, like a rose in its heavy rain.
وَخُذوا مِن وِسادِهِم في المُصَلّى
رُقعَةً كَفِّنوا بِها فَرعَ هاشِم
And take from their prayer niches
A patch to enshroud the branch of Hashim with.
وَاِستَعيروا لِنَعشِهِ مِن ذُرى المِن
بَرِ عوداً وَمِن شَريفِ القَوائِم
And borrow for his bier from the offspring of the pulpit
A rod, and from the honorable minbar.
وَاِحمُلوهُ عَلى البُراقِ إِنِ اِسطَع
تُم فَقَد جَلَّ عَن ظُهورِ الرَواسِم
And carry him on Al-Buraq if it appears to you,
For he is too noble for ordinary mounts.
وَأَديروا إِلى العَتيقِ حُسَيناً
يَبتَهِل رُكنُهُ وَتَدعو الدَعائِم
Take Hussein beseeching his pillar,
As its corners call out and pillars pray.
وَاِذكُروا لِلأَميرِ مَكَّةَ وَالقَص
رَ وَعَهدَ الصَفا وَطيبَ المَواسِم
And recall for the Prince Makkah, the palace
And the era of intimacy and goodly seasons.
ظَمِئَ الحُرُّ لِلدِيارِ وَإِن كا
نَ عَلى مَنهَلٍ مِنَ الخُلدِ دائِم
The freeman yearns for home though
He is at a never-ending fountain of eternity.
نَقِّلوا النَعشَ ساعَةً في رُبا الفَت
حِ وَطوفوا بِرَبِّهِ في المَعالِم
Move the bier for an hour in the grace of conquest,
And circumambulate his Lord among the landmarks.
وَقِفوا ساعَةً بِهِ في ثَرى الأَق
مارِ مِن قَومِهِ وَتُربَ الغَمائِم
Stand with it for an hour in the soil of edifices,
Of his people, and the dust of clouds.
وَاِدفُنوهُ في القُدسِ بَينَ سُلَيما
نَ وَداوُدَ وَالمُلوكِ الأَكارِم
And bury him in Jerusalem, between Solomon
And David and the generous kings.
إِنَّما القُدسُ مَنزِلُ الوَحيِ مَغنى
كُلِّ حَبرٍ مِنَ الأَوائِلِ عالِم
Jerusalem is only the home of revelation, the darling
Of every scholar from the ancient ones.
كُنِّفَت بِالغُيوبِ فَالأَرضُ أَسرا
رٌ مَدى الدَهرِ وَالسَماءُ طَلاسِم
It is clad in mysteries, so the earth is
A legend forever, and the sky encoded signs.
وَتَحَلَّت مِنَ البُراقِ بِطُغَرا
ءَ وَمِن حافِرِ البُراقِ بِخاتِم
And it dropped from Al-Buraq with amulets
And from the hoofprint of Al-Buraq with a seal.
