بِكم آلَ وَحْيِ اللهِ يفتخرُ المجدُ

وفيكم يَسوغ المدحُ والشكر والحمدُ

With God's revelation, glory boasts,

And through you, praise, gratitude and laudation are justified.

وما يَنتهِي فيكم ثَنا الشعرِ غايةً

ولكنه حَسْبُ الذي يبلغُ الجُهْد

Poetry extolling you has no limits,

But it is enough what effort can attain.

إذا أنزل اللهُ الكتابَ بمَدْحِكُم

فكم قَدْرُ ما يأتِي به شاعرٌ بَعْدُ

If God sent down the Book praising you,

What more can a poet thereafter bring?

إليكَ أميرَ المؤمنين تَشوَّقْت

معانٍ وألفاظٌ كما انْتَظمَ العِقْد

Longing for you, Commander of the Faithful,

With meanings and words strung like a necklace.

فجاءتْ كما مر النسيم على ندى ال

رياضِ فحَيّا وَفْده الآسُ والوَرْد

So they came like a breeze blowing over the dew of gardens,

Greeted by lilies and roses.

حلاوتُها شِيبَتْ بعطرٍ كأنما

تنافس في ألفاظها المِسْك والشهد

Their sweetness was fragrant with perfume as if

Vying in its words with musk and honey.

فقد سَمِعتْها الصُّمُّ من كلِّ أَخْرسٍ

وأَبْصَرها في حِنْدِسِ الظُّلَمِ الخُلْد

The deaf heard it from every mute,

And the blind saw it in the darkness of eternity.

وذكرُك أَعْلَى قَدْرَها فتشرَّفتْ

ولولا الحسامُ العَضْبُ ما حُلِّى الغِمْد

And the mention of you ennobled it, so it took pride,

Had it not been for the sword, the sheath would not have been adorned.

ومعنى كتاب الله شَرَّف صُحْفَه

فقُبِّلَ منها الحبر والطِّرْس والجلد

The meaning of God's Book ennobled its script,

So its ink, parchment and leather were kissed.

تَهنَّ أميرَ المؤمنين خلافةً

تَشيب أَعاديها وأيامُها مُرْد

You were given the caliphate that made your enemies age

While its days turned young again.

فإنْ يتأخر خيرُها فهْو أولٌ

وبعد توالى الزَّنْد يَضْطرِم الوَقْد

If its best is delayed, that is just the beginning,

And after the flint stone collision, the spark catches flame.

وما الناسُ إلا كالدُّجَى وصَباحُها

أَئِمَّتها والشمسُ آخرُ ما يبدو

People are but like the darkness, and their daybreak

Their leaders, and the sun is the last to appear.

إذا الآمر المنصور كان لأُمةٍ

فلا عَدَمٌ يَقِضى عليها ولا فَقْد

When the Victorious Commander is for a nation,

It has no absence or loss.

فمَنْ عاش أَحْياهُ نَداهُ ومن يَمُتْ

على حبه طَوْعا فمسكنُه الخُلْد

Whoever lives, his closeness gives him life,

And whoever dies loving him, paradise is his dwelling.

إمامٌ تَبدَّى للوَرىمن جبينه

ضياءٌ به تُشْفَى بَصائرُها الرُّمْد

An imam has appeared to all creation with a brilliance on his forehead,

By which their obscured visions are healed.

هو المَفصِد الأقصى هو الغاية التي

بها صَحَّ للمُستمسِك الفوزُ والسعد

He is the ultimate purpose, he is the goal by which

Success and fortune are sound for the steadfast.

هو الحُجَّة العظمى هو الغاية التي

تَأَتَّي به للمبُصِر الحَلُّ والعَقْد

He is the greatest authority, he is the goal which

The insightful reaches through him the solutions and necklaces.

أَطاعْته أسرارُ القلوبِ ديانةً

فما لامرىءٍ لم يعتقد حُبَّه رُشْد

The secrets of hearts obeyed him as a religion,

So no man who did not believe in loving him has sanity.

فيا بْنَ رسولِ الله هذا أَوانُكم

وُعِدتم به والآن يُنْتَجَز الوعد

O son of God’s Messenger, this is your time,

You were promised it and now the promise will be fulfilled.

ستأخذ للإِسلام ثاراته التي

تَقادمَ للكفرِ اللعينِ بها العهد

You will take vengeance for Islam which

Through it the damned covenant against it grew old.

كما فعلتْ في يوم بدرٍ سيوفُكم

وفي الشِّرْك من دُونِ القَليبِ لهاوِرْد

As your swords did in the day of Badr

And plunged into polytheism without hesitation.

لك العَزَمات النافذات إذا انْبَرتْ

إلى مَقْصِدٍ لم تمنعِ البيضُ والسَّرْد

You have resolute decisions, so when they set out

To an objective, neither white nor black prevents them.

وإنْ خَفَتْ راياتُك الحمر سّبَّحتْ

لنَصْرِك أَعلاها ملائكةٌ جُنْد

And if your red flags fear,

The angels glorify your victory, the supreme among them soldiers.

وخَطِّيةٌ سُمْر وبيض صَوارمٌ

ومَسْرودةٌ زَغْفٌ ومُقْرَبة جُرْد

Brown sword blades, white swords,

Polished Dhu Al-Faqar and sharpened Lu'lu.

وقوم مَناياهم مُناهم إذا اقتضتْ

رضاك وفي طِيب الحياةِ لهم زُهْد

And a people whose death place is their glory,

When your satisfaction requires it, and to them good living is asceticism.

فقد شامَ منك الشامُ بَرْقا سيحتوِي

على مُلْك قُسْطَنْطِينَ من سَيْلِه مَدّ

So Damascus smelled from you a lightning that will encompass

The kingdom of Constantine by its torrents.

تزلزل ما خلفَ الفرنجِة هيبةً

له فروَاسِيها تَحِزُّ وَتَنْهَدّ

It shook whatever the Franks possessed mightily

So its foundations quaked and sighed.

وللهِ سرٌّ فيك حانَ ظهورُه

ليُوقنَ مرتابٌ ويرجعَ مُرتدّ

And God has a secret in you which its appearance is due,

So the skeptic may be certain and the apostate may return.

غمرتَ جميعَ الخَلْق بالعدل فانتهى

عنِ الوَحْش والطيرِ الكواسِرُ والأُسْدُ

You covered all creation with justice so aggression ended

Against beasts and birds and tearing lions.

ولو أَسعدتْها من بِساطك خلوةٌ

لَقَبَّله من كل جنسٍ لها وفد

And if an audience with you in your carpet was fortunate for them

Every species would have sent a delegation of loyalty.

وهَذبتَ أفعالَ الزمانِ وأهله

فلا خَطَأٌ فيما يَضُرُّ ولا عَمْد

And you purified the actions of time and its people

So there is no error in what harms nor intention.

لقد غادرتْ آثارُ عزمِك سِنْبِسا

نذيرا لمن قد غَرَّه الجمعُ والحَشْد

Indeed, traces of your determination terrified Sindh

As a warner to whom the crowds and multitudes deluded.

ولما طغى شيطانُها وتأكدتْ

بذاك عليها حُجَّةٌ ما لها رَد

And when its devil transgressed and that

Affirmed against it an indefensible argument.

خَرقَت بأطرافِ القَنا في قلوبها

مَسالكَ حتى ليس يَسْكُنها الحقد

It tore in their hearts passageways

Of hatred, so that hatred cannot reside in them.

فقد شكرتْ آثارَ سيِفك فيهمُ

قَشاعُم تَتْلوها مُحَلْحَلة عِقْد

So its traces of your sword thanked you in them

With skeletons reciting them, writhing necklaces.

فمَن عاش منهم بالفرارِ فإنما

حُسامُك موتٌ فوقَه حيثُما يَغْدو

Whoever lives among them by fleeing,

Your sword above him is death wherever he goes.

لقد كان في أَفْياء عدلِك مَرْتَعٌ

لهم فيه لو لم يَغْدروا عيشةٌ رَغْد

Indeed, there was in the horizons of your justice a pasture

In which, had they not betrayed, there was for them an easy living.

وفي العدل إصلاحُ الخليقةِ كلِّها

ولكنْ من بينها يَفْسد الوغد

And in justice is the reform of all creation

But the delinquent corrupts among it.

ولو لم تُغِثْهم رحمةٌ نَبوية

تَوارثَها منكم عن الوالدِ الوُلْد

Had a prophetic mercy not saved them

Bequeathed from you to the son from the father.

لَما عاش من أحياءِ سِنْبِسَ واحدٌ

ولو عاش أفنى عمَره القيد والقِدّ

Not one person of Sindh would have lived

And had he lived, captivity and chains would have wasted his life.

فإنْ عاوَدوا فالعَيْر يأتي بنفسه

ليَفْرِسه في خِيسه الأسد الوَرْد

So if they repeat, the lesson will come itself

To examine it in its burrows, the lion tears the flowers.

لأَنَتَ الإمامُ الآمر العادل الذي

به يُعضَد الدينُ الحَنيف ويَشْتدُّ

You are the Imam, the Just Ruler by whom

The upright religion is supported and strengthened.

له أَرْبَعٌ في الناس نِيطَتْ بأَرْبعٍ

فما لامرىءٍ عنها فكاكٌ ولا بُدّ

Binding on the people are four things:

So no person has release or escape from them.

فطاعتُه فرضٌ وخدمته تُقىً

ونُصرته دِين ومَرْضاته جَد

His obedience is a duty, serving him is piety

Supporting him is religion, and pleasing him is resolve and determination.

لك الأرضُ مُلْكٌ باكتسابٍ ومَوْرثٍ

وما حَملتْ مالٌ ومن جَمعتْ عَبدُ

To you belongs the land, by earning and inheritance

And however much property it carried and people it gathered.

ثناؤك ما تُهدى الرياضُ لناشِقٍ

ولولاه ما فاح الخُزام ولا الرَّنْد

Your praise lasts as long as meadows bloom

And were it not for it, neither chamomile nor anemones would emit fragrance.

ونورك ما يُهدى الصباح لناظرٍ

ولولاه ضلّ الناس وامتنع القصْد

And your light lasts as long as the morning appears to the viewer

And were it not for it, people would be lost and goals unattained.

فضائلك الدُّرّ الذي لو تجسَّمتْ

قلائده لم يبق في الأرض مسْوَدّ

Your virtues are the pearls which if

Its necklaces materialized, no polished surface would remain on earth.

وهَيْهاتَ أنْ يستكمِلَ الوصفُ بعضها

إذا ما تَناهَى أو يحيطَ به حَد

Alas! The description cannot fully capture some of it

When it aspires or comprehends a limit.

وكيف يُكالُ البحرُ أم كيف تُوزَن ال

جبالُ وهل تُحْصَى الرمالُ وتَنْعَدّ

How can the sea be measured? Or how can mountains be weighed?

Or can grains of sand be counted and grouped?

وغيرُ غريبٍ منك فضلٌ وإنما

حَياتُك دُنْياهُ وراحُتك المَهْد

And it is not strange you have exceeding virtue, but rather

Your life in the world is bliss and your comfort is infancy.

سَينفُق مدحى فيك علما بأنه

إليك انتهى في جوهر الحِكَم النَّقْد

My praise of you will be spent knowing that it

Reaches you at the essence of refined jewelry.

أجاد ابنُ هاني في المُعِزِّ مَدائحا

هَداه إليها ذلك الفضلُ والمجد

Ibn Hani has excelled in praise of al-Mu'izz

Guided to it by that honor and glory.

وقد جاد مَدْحِي فيك لما رأيتُ ما

رأى فاسْتَوىَ المدْحَان والإبنُ والجَدّ

So too my praise of you flowed when I saw what

Al-Qadi's son saw, and the two praises equated, the son to the grandfather.

ليَهْنِكَ عيدٌ جاء شوقاً لنظرةٍ

إليك له من أَجْلِها سنةٌ يَغْدو

May you have an Eid that came yearning for a glance

At you, for which sake a year goes by.

يُفيد بها منك الذي جَلَّ قَدْرُه

فَضائلَ شتى ماله غيرَها وُكْد

Informing through it the one whose worth is lofty

Of various merits, none other has fatigue like it.

فيُبِصر وجهاً كلُّ نورٍ شُعاعُه

ويلثم كفّا كلُّ جودٍ لها زَنْد

So he sees a face every light is its rays

And kisses a palm every generosity for it has splendor.

ويبدو له منك الكمالُ الذي حَوَى

مَحاسنَ لا تُحْصَى على أنه فَرْد

And the perfection appears to him from you which contained

Innumerable beautiful attributes as if singular.

ويَعلم أنّ اللهَ شَرَّف أرضَه

بكَوْنِك فيها فاعْتَلَىَ الكوكبَ الوَهْد

And he knows that God ennobled His land

By your existence in it, so the bright star took pride.

هَنيئاً لعيدِ الفِطْر أنّك سامعٌ

تُهنَّى به لفظاً يُصيخ له الصَّلْد

Congratulations on the Blessed Eid for you have heard

Greetings for it loudly rustling the coat of mail.

تَهُزّ القَوافِي منك رَضْوى وَيَذْبُلا

كما اهتز من ريح الصَّبا القُضُب الملد

It shakes rhymes of pleasure and vigilance from you

As the twigs swayed from the eastern breeze and bowed down.

فلا زلتَ تَلْقَى كلَّ عيدٍ وموسمٍ

ومُلكُك بالتوفيق والسعد مُشتَدّ

So you still receive every Eid and season

While your empire remains supported, aided and strong.

ودمتَ لها مستقبِلا ومُشَيِّعا

بَقاءً يُبيد الحاسِدين ويَمْتدّ

And you lasted for it coming and going

A remaining that eliminates enviers and extends.