Claude 2

  1. الصبرُ من عُدَدِ الرَّزايا فاصبرِ

    إِنَّ المُطيلَ تلهفاً كالمُقْصِرِ

    Patience is a virtue, so be patient

    The impatient is like the tardy

  2. لن يَفْثَأ الأيامَ عن فَتَكاتِها

    جَزَعُ الجزوعِ وَعَبْرَةُ المُستَعبِرِ

    Days will not cease their havoc

    Nor the anguish of the anguished, or the tears of those who cry

  3. هُنَّ الخطوبُ كما علمتَ وكلُّنا

    من كيدِهِنَّ بمسمعٍ وبمنظر

    Such are calamities, as you know, and we are all

    Witnesses and victims of their plots

  4. تمشي الضَّراءَ فما تهابُ أخا غنىً

    فتحيدُ عنه ولا ترقُّ لمقْترِ

    Hardship walks along, it fears no rich brother

    It turns away from him, and is not softened for the needy

  5. عَصَفَ الزمانُ بِجُرْهُمٍ وسما إلى

    طَسْمٍ ولم يُغْفِلْ مقاولَ حمير

    Time has swept away their glories, aiming arrows

    At a target, neglecting no speech of protectors

  6. أُنْظُرْ أُعافَى تبَّعاً عفَّ عن

    كسرى فَخَلَّدَ أَو عفا عن قَيْصَرِ

    Consider how Tubba spared and forgave

    Chosroes, or how he pardoned Caesar

  7. أأبا محمدٍ الجليلِ مصابُه

    بأبي شجاعٍ صنوِهِ المتخيَّر

    Oh Abu Muhammad the Glorious, his affliction

    Is with Abu Shuja, his carefully selected mate

  8. بشقيقِه من خَلْفِهِ وشقيقِه

    في خُلْقه وشقيقِهِ في العُنْصُر

    His brother after him, his brother

    In character, his brother in lineage

  9. ما كانَ معلوماً بأَنَّ حلوله

    حتمٌ فحلَّ لوقتهِ لو يُنْكَر

    It was not known that his death

    Was certain, so it came at its time though unpleasant

  10. من ذا بأنيابِ الردى لم يُفْتَرَسْ

    أم من بمخلبِ صَرْفِهِ لم يُعْقَر

    Who with the fangs of fate has not been torn

    Or by the claws of destiny been gashed

  11. فالْقَ الأمورَ بقلبِ راضٍ مذعنٍ

    لمدبِّرٍ للأمرِ غيرِ مدبَّر

    Accept matters with a content and obedient heart

    For the Planner of affairs, not the planned

  12. مِحَنُ الفتى يُخْبِرْنَ عن فضلِ الفتى

    كالنارِ مخبرةٌ بفضلِ العنبر

    A young man's trials reveal the worth of the man

    As fire tells the value of amber

  13. يا آل طاروفٍ بكمْ شُهِرَ النَّدى

    فينا ولولا أنتمُ لم يُشْهَر

    Oh House of Tayfur, how generosity

    Has been diffused through us, and were it not for you, it would not have been diffused

  14. كم معشرٍ نالت بكمْ أَيديهمُ

    ما لم تَنَلْهُ قطُّ أَيدي معشر

    How many groups have attained, by your hands

    What the hands of no company attained

  15. قالوا وقد عَدَتِ المنونُ عليهم

    في فارسٍ طولُ البقاءِ بجعفر

    They said, as the days took their turns against them

    In Persia, that long life belongs to Ja'far