وَلَم تَكُ تَخشى جَعفَرٌ أَن يُصيبَها
بِأَعظَمَ مِنّي مِن شَقاها فُجورُها
Nor did Ja'far fear that his debauchery
Would strike her with greater woes than I.
وَلا يَومَ بِريانٌ تُكَسِّعُ بِالقَنا
وَلا النارَ لَو يُلقى عَلَيهِم سَعيرُها
Neither the day of Buwayn when the spears drank deep,
Nor the fire itself, had it been cast upon them.
وَقَد عَلِمَت أَعداؤُها أَنَّ جَعفَراً
يَقي جَعفَراً حَدَّ السُيوفِ ظُهورُها
Her foes knew well that Ja'far
Would ward off Ja'far however the keen swords smote.
أَتَصبِرُ لِلعادي ضَغابيثُ جَعفَرٍ
وَثَورَةِ ذي الأَشبالِ حينَ يَثورُها
Can the whelps of Ja'far bear with patience
The onslaught of him whose cubs are lions?
سَيَبلُغُ ما لاقَت مِنَ الشَرِّ جَعفَرٌ
تِهامَةَ مِن رُكبانِها مَن يَغورُها
Soon shall Ja'far attain the goal
Of her who was wronged, even to Tuháma's sands.
إِذا جَعفَرٌ مَرَّت عَلى هَضبَةِ الحِمى
تَقَنَّعُ إِذ صاحَت إِلَيها قُبورُها
When Ja'far passed the ridge of Al-Himá
The tombs cried out to him till he answered.
لَنا مَسجِدا اللَهِ الحَرامانِ وَالهُدى
وَأَصبَحَتِ الأَسماءُ مِنّا كَبيرُها
Ours are the Holy Mosques twain, and the Kaaba moot,
And theirs but names which we have made the greater.
سِوى اللَهِ إِنَّ اللَهَ لا شَيءَ مِثلَهُ
لَهُ الأُمَمُ الأولى يَقومُ نُشورُها
Save God alone! He has no likeness,
To Him belong the nations of the absent past.
إِمامُ الهُدى كَم مِن أَبٍ أَو أَخٍ لَهُ
وَقَد كانَ لِلأَرضِ العَريضَةِ نورُها
The Imam of the Faith! How many a sire and brother
Has he whose light once lit the broad earth!
إِذا اِجتَمَعَ الآفاقُ مِن كُلِّ جانِبٍ
إِلى مَنسِكٍ كانَت إِلَيها أُمورُها
When the East and West have met from every side
In some consecrated place where all concerns are thine.
رَمى الناسُ عَن قَوسٍ تَميماً فَما أَرى
مُعاداةَ مَن عادى تَميماً تَضيرُها
Man shot his arrows at the people of Tamm, but I see not
That hatred of Tamm can harm his people.
وَلَو أَنَّ أُمَّ الناسِ حَوّاءَ حارَبَت
تَميمَ بنَ مَرٍّ لَم تَجِد مَن يُجيرُها
Had Mother-of-Men Eve attacked
Tamm ibn Murr not a protector could she find.
بَنى بَيتَنا باني السَماءِ فَنالَها
وَفي الأَرضِ مِن بَحري تَفيضُ بُحورُها
The Lord of the Heaven built our House and exalted it,
And in the Earth made oceans flow from our Bahrayn.
وَنُبِّئتُ أَشقى جَعفَرٍ هاجَ شِقوَةً
عَلَيها كَما أَشقى ثَمودَ مُبيرُها
And I was told that Ja'far raged in his bastardy
As the Thamúd in their subversive work.
يَصيحونَ يَستَسقونَهُ حينَ أَنضَجَت
عَلَيهِم مِنَ الشِعرى التُرابَ حَرورُها
They cry aloud beseeching drink of him,
When on them from es-Shi'rá the dust-storms lowered.
تَصُدُّ عَنِ الأَزواجِ إِذ عَدَلَتهُمُ
عُيونٌ حَزيناتٌ سَريعٌ دُرورُها
They turn aside from womankind whose eyes
Are hapless and downcast for that the times are evil.
