أُلقِيَ في حُبِّكَ القناعُ

وصار كالرّؤْيَةِ السَّماعُ

My guise was cast off for love of you,

Hearing became like seeing.

وذاعَ من سِرِّنا الذي ما

كُنَّا نرى أَنَّهُ يُذاع

Our secret, which we never thought

Would spread, was broadcast.

وقد خَلَعْنَا فلا رقيبٌ

يُخْشَى ولا عاذلٌ يُطاع

We have both discarded inhibition;

No watchman is feared, no critic obeyed.

صارتْ مناجاتُنا شفاهاً

وانقضتِ الرُّسْلُ والرِّقاع

Our conversation has become an embrace;

Messages and letters are over.

وأسرعتْ سلوتي وداعاً

فحبَّذا ذلك الوداع

My night visitor hurried away bidding farewell -

How excellent was that farewell!

يا ذا الذي بعتُهُ فؤاداً

لولا الهوى لم يكنْ يُباع

O you whom I sold my heart to,

Had it not been for passion, it would not have been sold.

وَصْلُكَ لي مذ وَصَلْتَ فِرْزٌ

وإنما هَجْرُكَ المُشَاع

Since you joined me, your company has been a treasure;

Only your absence is common.

وكلَّما زاد فيك عَقْدٌ

من كُلَفٍ زاد فيَّ باع

The more knotty problems have built up between us,

the more extensive has my experience become.

لا واتّباعي رضاكَ حتى

لم يبقَ فيما أرى اتّباع

Not at all! I follow your approval until,

of what I see, there is no possibility of further following.

ما إن رأينا سواكَ ظبياً

يموتُ من لحظِهِ السباع

When we look on you as a roe deer that dies under the looks of wild beasts,

A roe deer whose heart is captured by its glance.

ظبيٌ تُراعُ القلوبُ منه

والظبيُ من ظلِّه يُراع

A black doe whose belly is filled with a fetus

and whose uterus contains guile.

ذو وَجْنَةٍ مِلْؤُها عُرَامٌ

ومقلةٍ حَشْوُها خِداع

The delight of beauty for one athirst,

no delight can match it after it.

متاعُ حُسْنٍ لمستشفٍّ

باللحظِ ما بَعْدَهُ مَتَاع

Look, my brother, at his face - you look

at a light for him in the darkness' disclosure.

طالعْ أخي وجهه تُطالِعْ

نوراً له في الدجى اطِّلاع

If you don't believe me, then propose to buy him

and see who it is that can acquire him in the sale.

إن لم تُصَدِّقْ فهاتِ بايعْ

وانظر لمن يحصلُ البياع

For us to neglect a day of joy would be disastrous -

that day which is neglected is lost.

وبعد ذا فالمضيعُ منّا

يومَ سرورٍ هُوَ المضاع

So stand up that we may pluck it like a bride

whose dower follows her in abandon.

فقمْ لنفتضَّها عروساً

تبع في مهرها الضِّياع

A fire appeared blazing in a niche of light

without even a spark leaping out.

نارٌ بَدَتْ في إِناء نورٍ

لها وما شَعْشِعَتْ شُعاع

It plunges the lamps' flame underwater

until it drowns in its own light.

تغمرُ نورَ الصُّوَاعِ حتى

تغرَقَ في نُورها الصُّواع

It is the wine that does not cause headache,

but rather cures headache when it occurs.

ما صدَّع الرأسَ من شرابِ

فهيَ يُداوى بها الصُّداع

The meadows have composed their anklets' jewelry

and spread out their bracelets over the plains.

قد نظَّمَتْ حَلْيَها الروابي

ونشَّرَتْ وَشْيَها البقاع

So for me the flowers in the garden are a carpet

and the clouds in the sky are my sail.

فالزهرُ في الروضِ لي بساط

والغيمُ في الجوِّ لي شراع

Look how the skilled workmanship has disclosed

a scene whose constructor was Grace.

انظرْ إلى منظرٍ تَوَلَّتْ

صَنْعته مُزنَةٌ صَناعُ

The vegetation extends under the dew

and the dew extends over it.

للنَّبْتِ تحتَ الندى اضطجاعٌ

وللندى فَوْقَهُ اضطجاع

Our land has been purified and purified

have its marshes and hillocks.

طابتْ لنا فارثٌ وطابت

وهادُها الخضرُ والتِّلاع

Those songs were gladdened

and those open spaces burst out laughing.

استبشرت تلكمُ المغاني

واستضحكتْ تلكمُ الرِّباع

As for her orchard - my eyes can never

refrain from feasting on its spectacle.

وذاك بستانُها الذي ما

للطَّرْفِ عن أَمْرِه امتناع

Thirsting souls are watered by it,

and hungry eyes are fed.

تروى النفوسُ العطاشُ منه

وتشبعُ الأعينُ الجِياع

The discourse of its birds is shouting

and the playing of its trees is skirmishing.

حديثُ أطيارِهِ صياحٌ

ولعبُ أشجارِهِ صِراع

The sound of its wheel is

music to us when music escapes us.

وصوتُ دولابه سماعٌ

لنا إذا فاتنا السَّماع

O garden! Once it was expanded, well,

no garden can equal its spaciousness.

يا جنةً وُسِّعَتْ فما إِن

لجنةٍ عندها اتِّساع

Neither does rain neglect it for an instant

nor does rain know what dryness is.

لا أزْمَعَ الغيثُ عنكِ بَيْناً

ولا درى الغيثُ ما الزِّماع

Rather, the clouds pour out abundant generosity over it,

quenching arid and desolate terrain.

بل جاد بالريِّ فيك جوداً

تروى به قارةٌ وَقَاع

The generosity of Ali Abu al-Husayn - that gallant man

whose nature is generosity.

جودُ عليٍّ أبي الحسين ال

فتى الذي جودُهُ طِباع

The Sayyid, the patriarch whose candor

causes even the cheekbones of their skulls to shine.

السيدُ القُرْعَةُ الذي عن

سُؤدَدِه ينجلي القِراع

Valiant, expending his utmost vigor

so that his utmost vigor suffices even when efforts redouble.

مماصعٌ في العلى مِصاعاً

يضيقُ ذرعاً به المِصاع

Defending it with a defense

that crashes against the defenders with an onslaught.

مدافعاً دونها دفاعاً

يقرع سنّاً له الدفاع

The prevailing lion - indeed there are no timid cattle

in the eyes of lions.

الأسَدُ المستفاضُ إِنّ ال

أسودَ في عينه ضِباع

For insight, his glance ignites;

for knowledge, his words gather momentum.

للفهم في لحظهِ اتّقادٌ

للعلم في لَفظِهِ التماع

Master of judiciousness, master of resolve,

his undertaking shows complete penetration.

ضليعُ حزمٍ ضليعُ عزمٍ

له بما يعملُ اضطلاع

O Hashimi, O ever-ready hero, may

the Hero, your father, be glorified.

الهاشميُّ اليفاعُ مجداً

يا بأبي مجدُه اليَفاع

O you whose decisions brook no reversal

when resolved and whose orders meet compliance.

حُكْمُ الذي في لهاهُ ماضٍ

وأمرُهُ عندها مطاع

With unwavering determination, whose thrusts admit no recoil,

no falling short of their mark, no fallback.

ذو عزمةٍ ما لها ارتدادٌ

دون مَداها ولا ارتجاع

Thus what he defends cannot be infringed

and what he protects is unviolable.

فما أضاعت فليس يُحمَى

وما حَمَتْه فما يُضاعُ

He who is slow to act frees himself quickly with words

while his words flow rapidly.

يَفديه مَن فِعْلُه بطيءٌ

جداً وأقوالُه سِراع

His gold seems counterfeit in earthenware

just as his ugliness seems handsome in generosity.

دينارُه في الفخارِ فَلْسٌ

وَكُرُّهُ في السماح صاع

O noble lord of probity,

not of probity that began with innovation!

يا سيداً سؤدداً أصيلاً

لا سؤدداً أصْلُهُ ابتداع

You were congratulated throughout your life by a hero

and a hero lived congratulated by you.

غُبِطْتَ ما عشتَ في شجاعٍ

وعاش في غبطةٍ شجاع

The more your two stars rose,

the more impossible it was for stars to rise higher.

وزاد نجماكما ارتفاعاً

ما أمكنَ الأنْجُمَ ارتفاع

You two are inseparable, no distance comes between you -

your joining admits no disjunction.

فأنتما لا عدا اقترابٌ

شملكما لا ولا اجتماع

The eye and the brow accord

in conjugation, as do the arm and the shoulder.

العينُ والحاجبُ اتفاقاً

في الوصل والعَضْدُ والذراع

If there remains a nascent heart for a heart,

between your two hearts there was suckling.

إن يك قلبٌ رضيعَ قلبٍ

فبين قلبيكما رضاع

Ali is the height of every rise of glory,

which has condescension, next to your glory.

عليُّ كلُّ ارتفاعِ عزٍّ

له لدى عِزَّكَ اتضاع

For that you shone brilliant, outstripping every hero

in what no hero could ever attain.

لذلك اسطعتَ من شجاعٍ

ما لم يكنْ قَطُّ يُسْتَطاع

No outstanding horseman has attacked your flank

for him to be the outstanding attacking hero.

فما امترى فاتكٌ شجاعٌ

في أَنَّهُ الفاتكُ الشجاع

You won from him a baby roe deer

whose den and lair the fortresses comprise.

أحْرَزتَ منه ربيبَ وكرٍ

تضمَّنت وَكْرَهُ القِلاعُ

You won from him a baby wild ass

whose natural pasture and stables you blocked off.

أحرزتَ منه ربيب خِدْرٍ

سداهُ واللحمةُ اليراع

If he acquires it by your good graces,

then his acquisition is no loss.

إن يَصْطَنِعْهُ على اختيارٍ

منك فما ضاعَ الاصْطِناع

Or if he profits in your shade,

then that profit is most worthy.

أو يُكسَ في ظلك انتفاعاً

فقد زكا ذاك الانتفاع

Behold him, listening to you attentively!

He lends his hearing obediently to your command.

ها هُوَ مُصْغٍ إليك سمعاً

له إِلى أمْرِكَ استماع

Girded by you with an armor of superiority,

may that armor invigorate him!

مدَّرِعٌ منك درعَ فخرٍ

فليهنِه ذاكَ الادَّراع

So inspire with him the heart of every wagging tongue

to silence, breaking it against their combined image.

فاصدعْ به قلبَ كلِّ لاحٍ

بقلبه منكما انصداع

For you are the towering mountain of glory that has already

settled; assuredly, it knows no convulsion.

فأنت طَوْدُ العلى الذي قد

رسا فما إِنْ له انقلاع

How many quarrelsome people have you directed

to amicable positions, their quarrel evaporating!

كم ذي نزاعٍ إلى محلٍّ

حللتَهُ خانَهُ النِّزاع

None equal you in this

unless the head equaled the shoulder.

فما يساويك فيه إلاَّ

إِذا استوى الرأسُ والكُراع

Our opinion is not nonsense

whether we state it openly or it remains implicit.

وَقَوْلُنا غيرَ ذا جنونٌ

إن نحنُ قلناه أو صُراع

Live safely excelling in the invention of glory,

for how excellent is that invention!

عشْ سالماً لاختراعِ مجدٍ

فإنه نعمَ الاختراع

Your deeds know no end

and our words know no end.

فعلُكَ ما إِن له انقطاعُ

وَقولُنا ما له انقطاع