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The days rejoiced and his sorrows vanished,
And the aid of Muhammad's faith is its sultan.
طرب الزمان وأنجمت أشجانه
وغياثُ دين محمدٍ سلطانهُ
The drinker rejoiced in the meadows flowing to him,
His perfume wafted gently, soothing those grieved.
طرب المُعاقر بالرياض جرى له
نشْر تأرَّجَ موْهِناً حَوْذانُه
Valour destroys the delicate with its glare,
While generosity subdues the living with its blaze.
فالبأس يُردي المرهفات مضاؤهُ
والجودُ يسخرُ بالحيا تهْتانه
His stance is high, soaring the heavens,
Above the stars is his position and place.
لمقام أبلجَ في العَلاء مُحلّقٍ
فوق النجوم مقامه ومكانهُ
His views precede the spears as spears,
And fear before the stab, from it comes the stab.
آراؤهُ قبل الرماحِ رماحهُ
والخوفُ قبل الطعن منه طِعانه
Brave, skilled in speech and in battle,
He destroys the enemies, his teeth and tongue.
شهمٌ كميٌّ في المقالِ وفي الوغى
يُردي الخصومَ سِنانه ولسانهُ
With two states, for fighting the transgressors,
And for speech, its eloquence among souls.
ذو حالتين فللنزال من العِدى
بينُ النفوسِ وللمقال بيانهُ
When a pulpit adorns itself with his insignia,
Its poles tremble from the excess of his pride.
وإذا تحلَّى منبرٌ بشعارهِ
طربْتْ لفرط فخاره عيدانهُ
A torrent, when the sky withholds its rain,
Suffices the children of draught with its springs.
خرقٌ إذا حبس السماء قُطارهُ
أغنى بني الإزَمِ الشداد بنانهُ
His eyelids complain of the lack of gazelles,
And tire of the length of their closure.
تشكو الخُلوَّ من الظُّبى أجفانُه
وتملُّ طولَ الامتلاء جِفانه
The light of his face dispels the darkness of night,
And the flames of dusk expose its horizons.
يجلو ظلمَ الليل نورُ جبينهِ
وتدل طُرّاقَ الدجى نيرانهُ
His panegyrists roam the quaking towns,
Hastening, while his camels roam the towns.
تُزجي نواصفه مدعدعة القِرى
عجْلى وتمشي بالقرى عُبدانه
The cooking pots boil for his guest,
While the year makes milk scarce in the meadows.
وتفي لحامُ المُنقياتِ لضيفهِ
والعامُ تعذرُ بالطَّوى ألْبانهُ
Firm against the calamities of fate, honoured,
Swift to his purpose, speedy his steed.
ثبتٌ لعادية الخطوب موقَّرٌ
وسرعْرعٌ لمِرادِهِ عَجْلانُهُ
When the intellect of the day conceals its light,
The twilight stars cluster thickly.
فإذا ذكاءُ اليوم أضمر ضوءها
نقْعُ الطراد كثيفةٌ أدْجانهُ
The racers spurted over the bare land,
As if they, over it, are locusts.
وتمطَّرتْ بالدارعين سوابقٌ
فوق العراء كأنها سيدانهُ
Or charging she-camels, with Octobers new moons,
As if they, above them, are gardens.
أو عادياتٌ بالصَّريم نوافرٌ
وكأنهم من فوقها جنَانهُ
They plow from the blood of wars with a departing,
Their dunes cascade from their advance.
ينسفن من دمثِ الخبارِ بنازحٍ
تنهالُ من تَعْدائها كُثبانهُ
When his brave camels passed the abundant sands,
Its pearls dried from the excess of their coursing.
وإذا مررْنَ على الغزير جِمامُه
نضبتْ لفرط ورودها غُدرانهُ
And when they raced frightened and terrified,
The granting of rest silenced its spying.
وإذا ركضن بآهلٍ من وحشة
جم النوال سكونه ميطانه
They befriend those who roam, none of their fleeings,
Are safe from them, nor their burrows.
ألَّفْنَ شارده فليس ظِباؤُه
بسليمةٍ منه ولا خِزَّانهُ
An army, black as the Euphrates' forests,
Its heroes and vegetation, its rough husks.
جيشٌ كغاباتِ الفرات أسُودها
أبطالهُ ونباتُها خِرْصانهُ
Sufficient is the aid of faith without an army,
That needs to fast for it or its horsemen.
أغنى غياث الدين عنه بحملةٍ
منْ أنْ تصام عندهُ فرسانهُ
He commanded it by the hills, so its souls rose up,
And its bodies cascaded down.
وقضى عليه بالتَّوى فتصعَّدت
أرواحهُ وتحدَّرْتْ أبدانهُ
The courage of men hesitated in fear of it,
So its boldness in meeting was cowardly.
وتخاذلت نُجدُ الرجالِ لخوفه
فشجاعُه عند اللقاء جَبانهُ
With morning zeal not rejecting its love,
Hoping for it, nor its solicitation.
ذو صبوةٍ بالمجد لا إعراضهُ
عن حُبِّه يُرجى ولا سُلوانُه
Words postponing threats and departing
From promises, twisting its promises.
قَيْلٌ يماطل بالوعيد ونازحٌ
عن وعْدِه بنوالهِ لَيَّانه
The qualities of highness appear in its glances,
And its proof is on the cheek’s secrecy.
تبدو على لحظاته صِفةُ العُلى
وعلى أسرَّةِ وجهه بُرهانُهُ
His awe has filled exalted hearts,
And its proof is on the cheek's secrecy.
عمتْ مهابتهُ القلوبَ العُلى
وعلى أسرَّةِ وجهه بُرهانُه
If one day I had wealth from life,
Remaining, then this is its time and moment.
إن كان لي يوماً من الدنيا غنىً
باقٍ فهذا حينهُ وأوانهُ
