صلى الإلهُ عليك يا بْنَ رسولِهِ

وهَدى لطاعِتك الوَرَى لسبيلِهِ

May God bless you, O son of His Messenger,

And guide the people through your obedience, to His path.

فبِكَ استقرَّ الحقُّ واتضح الهدى

وأبان للثَّقَلين وجهُ دليلِهِ

Through you, truth has been established and guidance made clear,

And the path has been shown to both mankind and jinn.

يا بنَ الأئمةِ من ذؤابةِ هاشمٍ

شَرَفٌ سَما بفروعه وأصوله

O son of the Imams, from the honorable Hashems,

Whose branches and roots are noble and lofty.

ومبيد مُلْكِ الرومِ بالنصرِ الذي

نَطَقَت به الآياتُ من إنجليه

Vanquisher of the Romans with the victory,

Of which the verses in the Bible speak.

قد شام منه الشامُ أعظمَ بارِقٍ

يمحو الفِرِنْجَة منه بعضُ سيوله

Damascus has been illuminated by it with the greatest of flashes,

That will erase some of the Franks with its torrents.

بادرْ بيومٍ مثلِ بدرٍ إنْ يكن

لأبيك ذاك فإن ذا لسليله

Prepare for a day like Badr, if your father had that,

Then that belongs to his offspring.

قد حان حَيْنُهمُ وكاد لقربه

منهم يُسمِّعُنا صياحَ عَويله

Their time has come and is nearing,

Its nearness almost makes us hear their wailing.

للهِ جيشٌ مثلُ جيشك مُعْلَم

فالنصرُ يرحل دائبا برحيله

God has an army like yours, glorious,

So victory constantly accompanies it.

لولا الضجيجُ لكادَ يسمع ناصِتٌ

صوتَ المَلائكِ فيه من تهليله

If not for the clamor, a scout would almost hear

The angels' voices in it, glorifying.

وأجْرِ الجياد فكلُّ طِرْفٍ سابح

شوقا لهذا النصر جَلّ صهيلُه

And the neighing of the steeds, with every part swimming

Yearning for this great victory, sublime is its neighing.

وشِمِ السيوفَ إذاً فكلُّ مُهنَّدٍ

لرقابِ أهلِ الكفر فَرْطُ نُحوله

And the drawing of the swords, so every sharpened one

Is for the necks of the disbelievers, overflowing their pools.

فليَثْبُتِ الإفرنجُ منه لقَسْوَرٍ

بعث الحُتوف إليهمُ من غِيله

So let the Franks beware, for there is a lion

Who has sent the brave warriors against them from his den.

ما مالهم وحريمهمُ ودماؤهم

إلا وَديعته بكفِّ وكيله

Their wealth, women, and blood,

Are nothing but a trust in the hand of its keeper.

فالبَرُّ مثلُ البحرِ من فرسانه

والبحر مثل البر من أسطوله

The land is filled with its horsemen like a sea,

And the sea is filled with its fleet like land.

جَمْعٌ يَبيت الطيرُ فوق رماحِه

عُدْما لكثرته مكانَ مَقيله

A gathering, above whose spears the birds spend the night,

Unable to find a place to rest for their abundance.

ضاقتْ به الكرةُ التي هو مِلْؤُها

حتى يكادَ يشقُّها برَعيله

The earth whose entirety it fills has been straitened by it,

Almost bursting it with its tremors.

يا أرفعَ الخلفاء قَدْرا يا إما

مَ الحقِّ دعوةُ صادقٍ في قِيله

O highest of caliphs by rank, O Imam

Of truth, the sincere call is in your words.

إن الذي أَهَّلْتَنا لمَديحه

ورفعتَه في المُلْك بعد نزوله

That which you have qualified us for praising

And raised its rank in kingship after its decline.

وأَشعْتَ في الثَّقَليْن موقعَ ذكرِه

فجرتْ به الأفواهُ بعدَ خموله

And spread the status of its mention among both creations

After their indolence, so mouths flow in praise of it.

أنت المُرادُ بقَصْدِ كلِّ قصيدةٍ

بُنِيَت على الأفهام في تَبْجيله

You are the intended in every ode composed

With meanings in veneration of it.

كسجودِ أَملاكِ السماءِ لآدمٍ

وسجودُها لله في تأويله

Like the prostration of the angels of heaven to Adam

And their prostration to God in its interpretation.

أَولَيته نِعَما تعَاظمَ قَدْرُها

شَرَفا فقابَلَها بفَرْطِ غُلوله

You have bestowed blessings upon it, magnifying its prestige

With utmost glory, which it reciprocated with abundant generosity.

نال الثريا في ذَراكَ فحظُّه

تحتَ الثرى الأقصى طِلابُ فُضوله

It obtained the Pleiades, so its fortune

Under the ground is the ultimate seeking of the ambitious.

وجعلتَه كالشمسِ ما بينَ الورى

وفِعالُه تَقضِي بوَشْكِ أُفوله

And you have made it like the sun among the creations

And its actions decide the nearing of its setting.

فاغترَّ بالرأيِ الذي أَوْدَى به

وأَصارَه لقُيوده وكبوله

So it was deceived by the opinion that destroyed it

And surrendered it to its shackles and regression.

ومَطامع الآمالِ تخدع ذا النُّهى

وتُعيد عالمَ عصرِه كجِهوله

The hopes of ambitions deceive the prohibited

And return the knowledgeable man of its time to ignorance.

فاللهُ ناصرُ من أطاعَك صادقا

ومُبيدُه بالذلِّ عند نُكوله

For God supports whoever obeys you sincerely

And destroys him in disgrace at his regression.

فلقد عدلتَ فكِدْتَ تأخذُ رغبةً

بالثأرِ من هابيلَ في قابيِله

You have been just, and have nearly taken

Revenge from Cain for Abel by your hand.

ووهبتَ حتى إنّ جودَك يغمر ال

دنيا ومن فيها ببعض هُموله

And you have granted generosity until your munificence engulfs

The world and all in it with some of its overflow.

وحَلُمت حتى إنَّ عفوك يسبق ال

جاني إلى الغايات من تأميله

And you have been forbearing until your pardon precedes

The sinner in purposes from its delay.

وأَجرتَ من جَورِ الزمانِ فما لَه

صَرْفٌ يخافُ الْحُرُّ من تَنْقيله

And you have been steadfast with the injustice of time, so it has not

A diversion the free man fears its transfer.

غاياتُ مدحِك لا تُنال ونَيْلُها

إفحامُ مُوجزِه وعجزُ مُطيله

The limits of praising you cannot be attained, and attaining it

Is the frustration of the concise and the incapacity of the prolonged.

كالبحرِ لم تبلغ نهايةُ ذي نُهّى

أبداً إلى مَوزونه ومَكيله

Like the sea, the limits of the possessor of guidance

Have never been attained, composed or measured.

ماذا يقول المادحون وقد بدا

بمديحِك القرآنُ في تنزيله

What can the praisers say, and the Quran has appeared

In its revelation with your praise?

أنت الذي بَعث الإلهُ لنا به

آباءَه فتَمثَّلوا بمُثوله

You are the one God has sent us, in whom

Its forefathers have been personified by its arrival.

حتى لقد ودَّ الحجازُ تشوقا

لو زاره برسُومه وطُلوله

The Hejaz has wished, craving,

If only it would visit with its customs and habits.

فيرى لوجهك ما رأى من حَقِّهم

فيما مضى بجماله وجميله

To see your face, which it saw truly in them

In times past, with its beauty and grace.

ولِيُمْسِك البيتُ الحرامُ وحِجْرُه

ومقامُه وحَطيمُه بذُيوله

And so the Sacred House can grab hold of its chamber

And station, and its rubble with its walls.

ويُبادِرَ الْحَجرُ العظيمُ ومالَه

غيرُ استلامِ يديه أو تقبيله

And the Black Stone and its surroundings

Would hasten, if not to touch it or kiss it.

وتقول مكةُ عند ذاك وطَيْبَةٌ

هذا ابنُ حَيْدرةَ الرِّضاَ وبَتوله

And Mecca and Taibah would say at that time:

This is the son of Haydar, Al-Ridha and Batoul.

هذا ضياءُ اللهِ والمعنى الذي

تتَفاضلُ العلماءُ في تعليله

This is the light of God and the meaning

Over which scholars differ in its interpretation.

هذا ابنُ مَنْ أَدْناهُ منه إلهُه

كالقابِ من قَوْسَيْن في تمثيله

This is the son of whom his God has brought him near

Like the bow's length of two bows in its similitude.

هذا ابن من نطق الذراعُ لجَدِّه

إذْ سَمَّه الكفار في مأكوله

This is the son of whom the forearm spoke to his grandfather

When the disbelievers poisoned his food.

من آمنتْ جِنُّ البلاد به وقد

سمعتْ كلامَ اللهِ في تنزيله

The one in whom the jinn of the lands believed

When it heard the words of God in its revelation.

ما زال يَنْقُله الإله مُطهَّرا

عن ظهرِ مثلِ ذَبيحه وخَليله

He continued to transfer it purified

From the loins of sacrifices like Ishmael and Khalil.

وتَوارثتْه الأنبياءُ وسادةُ ال

خلفاءِ حتى حانَ وقتُ حُلوله

The prophets and the master caliphs inherited him

Until the time of its arrival came.

قَسما بمولِده وغُرَّةِ وجهِه

شَرَفا أَناف لعصِره ولجِيله

By his birth and the prime of his face,

It honored the best of its time and generation.

هذا مُذِلُّ الشِّرْكِ بالعَزْم الذي

ما فيه غيرُ أسيره وقتيله

This is the disgracer of polytheism with the determination that

None shall be its captive or killed but its enemy.

أَغنتْ هِباتُك قُطْرَ مِصْر عن الْحَيا

جُودا وأغنى نَيْلُها عن نِيله

Your gifts have made the land of Egypt needless of the Nile

In generosity, and its Nile needless of its flooding.

مَدَّ الحياءَ على الْحَيا حتى انثَنى

عنها ودام النيلُ في تَطْفيله

Bashfulness has covered the snake until it recoiled

From it, and the Nile continues in its winding.

ولقد يُريد تَشَبُّها بك في الندى

وأقلُّ جودِ يديك مثلُ جَليله

It wants to emulate you in dew,

And the least of your hands' generosity is like its deluge.

ونَداك أَدْوم ثم أحلى موقعا

منه فما ينفكُّ عن تخجيله

Your cloud is lasting, then sweeter in place

Than it, so it does not cease in its humiliation.

لو لم يُراعِ له قريبَ جوارِهِ

لرَواه سَيْبُك في عظيم نزوله

If reverence for its proximity were not regarded,

You would see it flooding in your great arrival.

جودٌ يَفيض لمن دَنا ولمن نَأى

فالْخَلقُ بين هُموله وشُموله

A generosity that overflows to the near and the distant,

So creation is between its flood and its rain.

يا طالبا للدين والدنيا معا

يَبْغيهما بوَجيفه وذَميله

O seeker of religion and life together,

Wanting both with his honor and resolution.

مِصراً فبابُ اللهِ فيها سائلُ ال

أفضالِ قد سعد الوَرى بدخوله

Egypt's door of God's bounties within it, the questioner

Of grace has been fortunate by its entrance.

الآمرُ المنصورُ والجبلُ الذي

قامتْ ملوكُ الأرضِ تحتَ سهوله

Al-Mansour the commander, and the mountain upon which

The kings of earth stood beneath its plains.

هو واحدٌ والناسُ طُرّا بعضُه

ما عازَه في الخلق غيرُ عَديله

It is one, and people are amazed, some of it

None reproached among the creations but its equal.

يا غرَّةَ الحقِّ المُنيرةَ للورى

فدليلُها بادٍ على مدلوله

O gem of truth radiating the creations,

So its evidence guides to its meaning.

هذا مقام كنت أَجْهَد دائِبا

في نَيْله وأَجِدُّ في تحصيله

This is a position I have constantly striven

To attain, and put great effort into achieving.

حتى وقفتُ أمامَ دَسْتِك مُنشِدا

ما أنت أعلمُ سامعٍ بمقَولة

Until I stood reciting before your hand,

That which you know best, O listening one, of my words.

فلأَفْخَرَنَّ به لأكِمد حاسدي

حتى يموتَ بغيظه وغَليله

So I will pride myself with it, to spite my enviers

Until they die of rage and agony.

فتَهنَّ هذا العيدَ فهْو مُهَنَّأٌ

فيما لديك بقُربِه ووُصوله

Delight in this feast, for it is gladdened

In your presence by its nearness and arrival.

وافَى فأَدركَ منك فخرا عاجلا

ظَفِر الزمانُ به مِنِ اسْماعيله

It came fulfilling, and so attained pride from you quickly,

The time triumphed by it over Ishmael.

شَرَّفتَنا وزمانَنا فجميعُنا

مُتميِّز في جنسه وقَبيله

You have ennobled us and our time, so we are all

Distinguished in its type and tribe.

فاسلمْ ودُمْ والْقَ السنين بمُبْتدا

عُمرٍ كطيبِ نَدى يَدَيْك وطوله

So be safe and live long, initiating

A lifetime like the sweetness of your hand's dew and duration.