لَقَد عَلِمتُ وَعِلمُ المَرءُ أَصدَقُهُ

مَن عِندَهُ بِالَّذي قَد قالَهُ الخَبَرُ

I have known and a man knows his most truthful one

Is he who has the news to verify what he said

أَن لَيسَ يُجزِئُ أَمرَ المَشرِقَينِ مَعاً

بَعدَ اِبنِ يوسُفَ إِلّا حَيَّةٌ ذَكَرُ

That the matter of the two horizons cannot suffice

After the son of Joseph except a male snake

بَل سَوفَ يَكفيكَها بازٍ تَغَلَّبَها

لَهُ اِلتَقَت بِالسُعودِ الشَمسُ وَالقَمَرُ

Rather, a falcon that overpowered it will suffice her

When the sun and moon met with as-Saud

فَجاءَ بَينَهُما نَجمٌ إِذا اِجتَمَعا

يُشفى بِهِ القَرحُ وَالأَحداثُ تُجتَبَرُ

So between them came a star, when they gathered

With it, wounds are healed and events are mended

أَغَرَّ يَستَمطِرُ الهُلّاكُ نائِلَهُ

في راحَتَيهِ الدَمُ المَعبوطُ وَالمَطَرُ

It made the annihilator hope for its attainment

In its palms, shed blood and rain

فَأَصبَحا قَد أَماتَ اللَهُ داءَهُما

وَقَوَّمَ الدَرءَ مِن مَصرَيهِما عُمَرُ

So Allah made their disease die

And corrected the prevention of their death, the life

حَتّى اِستَقامَت رُؤوسٌ كانَ يَحمِلُها

أَجسادُ قَومٍ وَفي أَعناقِهِم صَعَرُ

Until heads straightened that a people carried

And in their necks ruggedness

إِنَّ لِآلِ عَدِيٍّ أُثلَةً فَلَقَت

صَفاةَ ذُبيانَ لا تَدنو لَها الشَجَرُ

Indeed, Adey’s family has peers so it met

The loftiness of lions, trees do not come near it

مِنها الثَرى وَحَصى قَيسٍ إِذا حُسِبَت

وَالضارِبونَ إِذا ما اِغرَورَقَ البَصَرُ

From it is the soil and pebbles of Qais, when reckoned

And the strikers when the eyes dazzle

فَلا يَكَذَّبُ مِن ذُبيانَ فاخِرُها

إِذا القَبائِلُ عَدَّت مَجدَها الكُبَرُ

So it is not belied by its proud youth

When the tribes enumerate its greatness

أَبى لَها أَن تُدانيها إِذا اِفتَخَرَت

عِندَ المَكارِمِ وَالأَحسابُ تُبتَدَرُ

It refused for them to come near it when it took pride

In virtues and pedigrees are investigated

إِنَّ لِآلِ عَدِيٍّ في أَرومَتِهِم

بَيتَينِ قَد رَفَعَت مَجدَيهِما مُضَرُ

Indeed, Adey’s family has in its men

Two houses that raised their glories, Mudar

بَيتٌ لِآلِ سُكَينٍ طالَ في عِظَمٍ

وَآلِ بَدرٍ هُما كانا إِذا اِفتَخَروا

A house of Sukain which lasted in greatness

And a house of Badr they were when they took pride

بَيتَينِ تَقعُدُ قَيسٌ في ظِلالِهِما

حَيثُ اِلتَقى عِندَ رُكنِ القِبلَةِ البَشَرُ

Two houses Qais sits in their shades

Where mankind met at the corner of the Qibla