Claude 2

  1. قُلْ لِوَلِيِّ الدَّوْلةِ المُرْتَجَى

    والمُتَّقَى في الجُودِ والباسِ

    Say to the guardian of the aspired state,

    The one feared for his generosity and valor,

  2. فُزْتَ بِأَهْلِ الفَضْلِ حتَّى حَكَوْا

    عندَكَ فَوْزَاً عند عَبَّاسِ

    You have won the people of merit, so they told

    Stories of your victory next to Abbas.

  3. لاسِيَّما هذا الأَدِيبُ الّذي

    أتَى مِنَ النَّظْمِ بأجْناسِ

    Especially this literate one who

    Came with poetry of various genres,

  4. النَّابِهُ المُفْلِقُ في مَدْحِهِ

    وهَجْوِهِ والجارِحُ الآسِي

    The eloquent one splitting with his praise,

    Satire, and wounding remarks,

  5. لَمْ أَرَ مِنْ قبل وُقُوفِي عَلَى

    ما قالَ نشَّاباً بِقِرْطاسِ

    I have not seen before my standing upon

    What he said youthfully with paper,

  6. وَنَخْلَةٍ تَشْكُرُ جَدْواكَ مِنْ

    أَصْلٍ ومِنْ فَرْعٍ ومِنْ راسِ

    And a palm tree thanking your rain

    From its roots, branches, and head,

  7. شاهِقَةٍ مِنْ دُونِ مِصْرٍ تُرَى

    وهيَ حَوَالَيْ دَرْبِ دَوَّاسِ

    Towering without Egypt in sight

    While it surrounds the path of crossers,

  8. وَرُقْعَةُ الشِّطْرَنْجِ ثُمَّ انْتَهَى

    ولَمْ أكُنْ لِلفَضلِ بالنّاسِي

    And the chessboard piece then ended

    And I was not forgetful of merit among people

  9. حالِيَةٌ عامِرَةٌ شُبِّهَتْ

    بَيادِقُ فيها بأَفْراسِ

    An inhabited station likened

    To meadows in it with horses

  10. فَقُلْ لنا مَنْ ذا الأَدِيبُ الّذي

    زادَ بهِ حُبِّي وَوَسْواسِي

    So tell us who is this literate one

    Who increased my love and obsession

  11. إن كانَ مِثلِي مَغربِيّاً فمَا

    في صُحْبَةِ الأَجْناسِ مِنْ باسِ

    If he is like me a Maghrebi then what

    Is wrong with the company of different kinds

  12. وَإنَّ مِثْلِي عِندَهْ اليَوْمَ كال

    صَخْرَةِ عندَ الجَبلِ الراسِي

    And the likes of me are to him today like

    The boulder next to the steady mountain

  13. وبَيْنَ دارَيْنا كما بينَنا

    وأَيْنَ مُرَّاكِشُ منْ فاسِ

    And between our two homes is like between us

    And where is Marrakesh from Fez

  14. وإنْ يُكَذِّب نِسبَتِي جِئْتُهُ

    بِجُبَّتي الصُّوف وَدَفَّاسِي

    And if he doubts my origin I came to him

    With my woolen jubba and sandals

  15. وإن يَجِد في لُغَتي رِيبَةً

    أَكتم نبا نازَعْتُ إِفْلاسِي

    And if he finds fault in my language

    I’ll be silent for poverty contested my eloquence