كأنَّ القَنا والمَشْرفيَّةَ بالضُّحى
لدى مأزقٍ غابت بصبحٍ كواكبهْ
The palace and al-Mashrafiyya at dawn
Seem at an impasse where its stars have vanished
تُصَرِّفها أبطالُ وِتْرٍ تَرفَّعوا
عن الشَّنقِ المرذول والعار صاحبه
Ruled by the heroes of a noble lineage
Who spurned the despised strangling and its disgraceful companion
أبَوْا غير ضربٍ في المفارق أرْعلِ
وطعنٍ كولْغ الذئب تدمى ثعالبهْ
They refused anything but a fatal blow in the battlefields
And a stab like a wolf’s fang that bloodies foxes
سُطا شرف الدين الوزير وعزمهُ
على الأمر أعْيا القادرين مطالبُهْ
Suta's honor and determination
Against the matter made the capable weary of its demands
همامٌ كنصل السيف ندبٌ إِلى العلى
جزيلٌ أياديهِ كثيرٌ مَناقبهْ
Aspirations like the sharp edge of a sword, a call to the heights
Abundant are his hands and numerous his virtues
اذا شطَّ مأمولٌ من المجد والعُلى
حوتْهُ له أقلامهُ وقواضِبهْ
Whenever hopes of glory and sublimity brewed
His pens and arrows contained them for him
فماضٍ وهاماتُ الرجالِ غُمودُه
وجارٍ وساحاتِ الطُّروسِ مذاهبه
Progressing while the zeal of men are his pillars
Ongoing while the plains of steeds are his paths
تبارى اليهِ عند سَلْمٍ ومَعْركٍ
حميديْنِ منه كُتبهُ وكَتائبهْ
Racing to him in peace and battle
Are his praiseworthy books and battalions
اذا بخل الجون المُسفُّ بودقْهِ
على مُسْنتٍ أغنتهُ عنه رغائبهْ
When the clouds' rain is stingy with its pouring
His good qualities make him needless of wishes
طليقُ المُحيَّا يسبق البشر جوده
وتتبعُ حُسْنَ الاِعتذارِ مواهبه
Unbound in gallantry, his generosity outpaces mankind
And his excellent apologies are rewarded
كأَنَّ نديَّ الحي عند حديثهِ
مُعرَّسُ داريٍّ تُفضُّ حقائبُهْ
As if the Zephyr's delight in his talk
Were a Dar'i voice revealing its burdens
فلا ناشِقٌ اِلا جَوادٌ وباسِلٌ
تَهزُّهُما أخلاقهُ ومذاهبهْ
No stubborn but magnanimous and valiant
In morals and paths shaken by him
فتىً طابَ ميلاداً وطابَ غريزةً
وطابت مساعيه وطابتْ مكاسبهْ
A lad of blessed birth and nature
And blessed are his endeavors and gains
فجاء كغمرِ الماء يُرْدي مُزحماً
ويُسْبحُ عوَّاماً ويلْتذُّ شاربه
So he came like pouring rain, crowding
Swimming playfully, enjoying its drinker
يُجاهرُ بالضرب العنيفِ بَسالةً
ويكْبُرُ قدراً أنْ تدبَّ عقاربُهْ
Boasting courageously of fierce blows
And excelling, though time creeps slowly
أَبو جعفرٍ غرس الخلافة مصطفى الا
ِمامةِ هادي كل مجدٍ وغاربُهْ
Abu Ja'far has planted the caliphate, Mustafa
The guiding Imam of all glory and its horizons
أباحَ ظلامَ الليلِ والحَظِّ جودُه
ونورُ مُحيّاهُ فزالتْ غَياهبُهْ
His generosity permitted the darkness of night and fortune
And the light of his existence banished its ambiguities
