من القومِ طَالتْ في الْمعالي فروعُها
عُلوّاً وطابتْ في المساعي عروقُها
Its branches in glories lengthened loftily
And its roots throve in endeavors
إذا انتَسَبتْ لِلْمكرماتِ بنو العُلى
فأَنت أخُوها دَونَهمْ وشقيقُها
If the noble tie themselves to benefactions
Then you are their brother, less than them not, and their sibling
وكَمْ من ملوكٍ قد ثَللْتَ عروشهَا
وما كانَ لولا أنتَ خلقٌ يُطيقُها
And how many kings have you given shade to their thrones
And was it not for you, a temperament that can handle them
طغَتْ وبَغَتْ فِعْل الفسوقِ وأعرضَتْ
فحاقَ بها طغيانُها وفسوقُها
They tyrannized and did wrongdoing and turned away
So their tyranny and wrongdoings befell them
صمدتَ لَهمْ في كلّ بيداء مَجْهَل
وقد أظْلمتْ تحتَ العجاجِ طريقُها
You stood for them in every obscured plain
And their path darkened under the injustice
وسقيتهم كأسَ الحروبِ كأنَّما
أديرتْ عليهم بالعوالي رحيقُها
And you let them drink the cup of wars as if
You poured over them in the heights its pure drink
وأدْخَلْتَهمْ في الدين كَرهاً وطاعةً
وقد بان مِنْ دين الإِلهِ مروقُها
And you entered them into the religion compellingly and obediently
And the deviance of the religion of God has appeared from it
إلى أن رعوا حقّ الشَّريعةِ وارعوْا
وما كَان لَولاَ أَنتَ تُرعى حقوقُها
Until they pastured the right of Sharia and pastured
And was it not for you, its rights would not be pastured
وما زِلتَ حتَّى انقاد طوعاً حماتها
وحتى استوتْ أملاكُها ورقيقُها
And you did not stop until its protectors willingly surrendered
And until its properties and slaves equalized
وجاءتْك حتَّى انقاد طوعاً حماتها
وحتى استوتْ أملاكُها ورقيقُها
And they came to you until its protectors willingly surrendered
And until its properties and slaves equalized
أَتترعُ يوماً لِلْعُفاةِ موارداً
وأصدُر عنها ظامياً لا أذوقُها
Do I one day pasture resources for the weak
And issue from it a darkness I do not taste?
لك المجد والعلياء غير منازَعٍ
إذا لجَ في دعوى المعالي فريقها
To you belongs the glory and loftiness with no contention
If a band argues the glories’ claim.
