صحا القلب من حُبِّ الرجاء وغودرتْ

ولودُ المُنى لايُستَسلُّ عقيمُها

The heart awoke from the love of hope and its wounds healed,

Yet the birth of desires cannot be appeased in its barrenness.

وبِتُّ كمجهودٍ تَراخى بموتهِ

لحالةِ سوءٍ ما يَبَلُّ سَقيمُها

I remained like one who weakened until his death,

Due to a dreadful state that does not cure its sick.

عشيَّةَ لا يُهدى رشيدٌ لمقْصدٍ

ولا طُرقُ الآراءِ يُغْني عليمُها

On an eve when no guide is granted success in purpose,

Nor do perspectives enlighten the knowledgeable among them.

ولا الحزمُ اِلا طاعةُ الصمت والنُّهى

واِن شَقِيت نفسي وطالتْ همومُها

Neither does wisdom suffice but to obey silence and prohibition,

Even if my soul is wretched and its worries prolonged.

ولو لاك نجَّتْني من الهمِّ عَزْمةٌ

يدقُّ صِحاحَ الذَّابلات حطيمُها

And if not for you saving me from worries with determination,

That shakes the pillars of those gone feeble.

ولكنني قيَّدْتُ منكَ بأنْعُمٍ

زكا حادثٌ مناه وطابَ قديمُها

But I was tied to you with favors,

When an auspicious event occurred, and its old days were wholesome.

فلله ما أولي طِرادٌ من العُلى

بني الدهر والأيامُ فذٌّ كريمُها

So to Allah belongs whatever lofty outcast,

Of eras and days, generous in its bounties.

نماكَ ضَروباً الأكُفُّ رواعشٌ

وَهُوباً اذا الشَّهْباء أكدت غيومُها

You are a haven for the hands when calamities flutter,

And a shelter if tribulations thicken its clouds.

غِنى أنفس العافين ساوها الطَّوى

حِماها اذا ما رامها من يضيمُها

The richness of contented souls has equaled them to the ground,

Protecting them when one who wrongs them seeks them out.

يحدِّث عنك الخيرَ بادٍ وحاضرٌ

مُسافرُ أرضٍ ظاعنٌ ومُقيمُها

An absent one and a present one speak of your good,

A traveler of land, one who flees, and its settlers.

فلا زلت محموداً على البأس والندى

كَسوب العلى ما صاحب النفس خِيمُها

So you have remained praised for valor and high resolve,

Like the stars of highness before the self pitches its tents.