طلعتَ كبدر دُجى تزفُّ سُلافها
يا حيِّ طلعتَها وحيِّ زفافَها
You emerged like the full moon in the dark night, perfuming its procession,
O most alive of its rising and most alive at its wedding!
بيضاء ناعمة الشبيبة أقبلت
تُثني بنشوةِ دلها أعطَافَها
White, soft, and youthful, she came happily
swaying with the tenderness of her ribs and sides.
تطأ الحريرَ ولو تُطيقُ ذوو الهوى
فَرشتَ لها فوقَ الحرير شغافَها
She stepped on silk though if she could endure those who love
you had laid above the silk her carpets.
يُهنيك أنَّ العامريَّة عن هوًى
ألفت حِماكَ ونافرت أُلاَّفَها
Good fortune is yours since Al-Amiriyya for love
found your protection and turned away her affiliations.
طرقتكَ زائرةً بأسعدِ ليلةٍ
قد كادَ يرفع نورُها أسدافَها
She came visiting you on the happiest night,
its light nearly lifting up its screens.
وجلت بأنمُلِ فضَّةٍ ذهبيَّةً
خَضبَت بلون مدامها أطرافَها
She came with silver and golden fingers
dyed with the color of its red wine on their edges.
فاشرَب على الورد النَدِيّ بخدِّها
صهباءَ مُقلتِها تُديرُ سلافَها
Drink the dew of roses on her cheek
turning its cup with her curled hair.
وتملُّ عيشَكَ ناعماً بغريرةٍ
كالريم أُرهفَ خصرُها إرهافَها
And make your life easy with a soft giggle
like a gazelle, slender at its waist and neck.
وبمسقَطِ العلمين شائقة الهوى
ضربُوا على مِثل المَهاةِ سِجافَها
And at Masqat Al-Almayn, passionate with love,
they beat the drums celebrating her arrival.
ثُعليَّةٌ لكن لها من حاجبٍ
قوسٌ غدا أهلُ الهوى أهدافَها
With a cheek yet she has an eyebrow for those who love
which became for them a bow and they its targets.
نشأت معَ الآرامِ إلاَّ أنَّها
لا شيحَها ترعى ولا خِذرافَها
She was raised with the Arabs but she has
neither herds to graze nor sheep to herd.
وبذي الأراكةِ ربعُها لكَ جنَّةٌ
غِيدُ الظباءِ تفيَّأت ألفافَها
At Dhi Al-Arakah her abode is a paradise for you
whose gazelles have spread out in its crescents.
ألفتهُ فارتبعت بأطيب ملعبٍ
منهُ وكانَ لطيبه مُصطافَها
She loved it and settled in the most fragrant place
and its fragrance became her place of rest.
أرجت بريَّاه رُباهُ وقد مشت
عَطرى البرود فضوّعت أخيافَها
She rode its freshness, it raised her, and she walked
with scented winds in her robes.
يا ربعَ شوقي هل تُضيفُ حشاشةً
نزلت ظباكَ بربعها فأضافَها
O my dear country, will you host a lover
who came down to you with her steps?
دِيست بأخفاف المطيِّ لأنَّها
شوقاً إليك تقدَّمت أخفافَها
She was mounted on a gentle ride since
she went to you in yearning with her steps.
حيَّتك من نَور الثُريَّا حُفَّلٌ
حلبت عليك يدُ الصبا أخلافَها
She greeted you with Pleiades' light, crowned
with the hand of morning anointing you.
من كلّ صادقةِ المخيلةِ حلّقت
مِن نحو نجدٍ واغتديتَ مطافَها
From every honest imagination she flew
from Najd and frequented its plains.
طارت بأجنحة النسيم وأقبلت
تحدُو الرعُود ثقالَها وخِفافَها
She flew on the wings of the breeze and came
running with thunder in her heaviness and lightness.
قد حلّلت كفُّ البروق نطاقها
فغدت تُريقُ بعِقوتَيكَ نطافَها
Lightning unleashed its knot
so it drips on you with its droplets.
نثَرت عليك عشيَّةً بردَ الحيا
نَثر اللآلئ فارَقَت أصدافَها
She sprinkled on you one evening the coolness of life
separating her pearls from her necklaces.
أمشبّباً بالغيد زِدني مازجاً
في وَصفِ مَجلسِ أُنسنا أوصافَها
Join me, perfumed with musk, mixing
the description of our circle of intimacy.
هو تُحفةُ الدنيا لنا قد أحسَنت
فيه بريحان الهوى إتحافَها
It is the treasure of life perfected for us;
in it the basil of love astonished with its gifts.
قد بتُّ أقطفُ من حديقة زَهرِهِ
أزهارَ بشرٍ ما ألذَّ قِطافَها
I started plucking from the garden of its flowers
the most delicious petals of joy.
ونديمتي هيفاءُ وُشّح خصرُها
بمذهَّب شَغفت به وصَّافَها
My companion Haifa, a belt hugging her waist
with what enchanted me and enticed me.
جلت المُدامَ لنا فقلتُ لصاحبي
مَنحتكَ ساقيةُ الطلى أسعافَها
She served us the wine so I said to my friend,
“The cupbearer of drinks handed you her palms.”
وَشَدَت وقد أرخت ثلاثَ ذوائبٍ
بيد الدلال فأطرَبت أُلاَّفَها
And she let down three braids
held by the hand of the tender, enchanting with her harmony.
ودعوتُ يا بُشراكَ إنَّ لياليَ ال
تشريقِ تلك فبادر استينافَها
And I called you good news for the nights of
no dawn are yours so start them again.
وصدقتك البُشرى فعرسُ محمدٍ
عيدٌ على الدنيا أدارَ سُلافَها
And you made the good news true, and Muhammad’s wedding
is a celebration for the world adorning it.
ضحكت بها الدنيا سُروراً واكتست
للزَهوِ من حبراتها أفوافَها
The world laughed with joy at it and dressed
in its splendor the plumage of its happiest clothes.
فاليومَ قرَّت عينُ هاشمَ في الثرى
وسقتهُ أنواءُ السرور نِطافَها
Today the eye of Hashim is delighted in the earth
and the breezes of joy watered it with its droplets.
وسرت إلى أبناء عبدِ مُنافها
نفحاتُ بشر أطربت مُستافَها
The breezes of glad tidings came to the descendants
of Abdul Manaf, enlivening its plains.
وصلتهم البُشرى بعرس مُهذَّبٍ
أحيت مآثرُ جدّه أسلافَها
The good news reached them of a refined wedding
that revived the feats of its ancestors.
يُنميه من مَهديّ آل محمدٍ
هذا الذي نَعَشَت يَداه ضعافَها
This, which his hands enlivened, grows it
from the cradle of the family of Muhammad.
وَرِثَ الإِمامة علمَها وصلاحَها
علمَها وإباءها وعفافَها
He inherited the leadership, its knowledge and righteousness,
its knowledge, its resoluteness, and its chastity.
يتدارسُ الملأُ المقدَّسُ عنده
حِكماً بَهرنَ من الورى عرَّافَها
The sacred scholars study with him
wisdoms that dazzled the people with its skill.
ربّ القدورِ الراسياتِ موائلاً
كالبُرك أرحبَ مالئاً أجوافَها
Lord of the space of settled abodes
as vast as plains, sheltering their expanses.
هدَّارةً تحت الدجى فكأنَّما
تدعو بحيّ على القِرى أضيافَها
A guide in the darkness as if it calls
to the villages, “my guests,” with life.
ولوَ انَّ يأجُوجاً ومأجوجاً أتت
مغناهُ تلتمس القِرى لأضافَها
And if Gog and Magog came to it
its singing would make the villages host them.
يا مَن مكارم شيبةِ الحمدِ انتهت
إرثاً إليه وزادَها إضعافَها
O you in whom the noble traits of praise culminated
as inheritance and multiplied it manifold!
علمت قريشٌ أنَّ قومك خيرُها
كرماً وإن منعتهُم إنصافَها
Quraish learned that your people are its best
in generosity though it denied their fairness.
فإذا قريشٌ في المكارم طاوَلَت
غلبت بطَولِ المُطعمينَ عِجافَها
So if Quraish competed in generosity
it would defeat with the generous their misers.
بالراحلينَ بها وقد أخذُوا لها
عهدَ الأمان وسل بهم إيلافَها
With those who sought peace and took
the covenant of security, so it mixed with them.
بالمُنشقين أُنوفَها عَرف العُلى
والمُرغمينَ على الهُدى آنافَها
With those who split its noses to the heights
and forced its ignorance to guidance.
من أعتقوها في المُحول وأرهنوا
في السبق حتَّى استعبدوا أشرافَها
With those who freed it in hardship and pledged
in racing until they subdued its nobility.
فبكم أعزَّ المؤمنينَ إِلهها
وكفى بواحد جمعكم آلافَها
With how many did its God honor the faithful!
And one of you sufficed for its thousands.
واليوم إن شكتِ الشريعةُ قرحةً
فسواك ليس بمُدملٍ إقرافَها
And today if the way faltered from a wound
none but you can dress it and heal it.
ما أيقنت ببقاءِ مهجتها لها
حتَّى دعاكَ اللهُ قم فتلافَها
It did not believe its intestines would remain for it
until God called you: “Rise and mend it!”
فمنعت حوزَتها وصنتَ حريمها
وحميتَ بيضتها وحِطتَ سِجافَها
You then protected its courtyards and protected its sanctums
and guarded its core and lowered its screens.
يابن النبيّ وتلك أشرفُ دعوةٍ
طرباً تهزُّ لها العُلى أعطافَها
O son of the Prophet, and that is the most honorable call
that stirs with joy the heights rustling its edges.
أنت الذي ارتضع النبوَّة درَّها
وله الإِمامةُ مهّدت أكنافَها
You are the one who suckled the milk of his prophecy
and for him is the leadership that wrapped him in its folds.
من حلَّ داركَ ظنَّ تربةَ قدسها
كافورةً خلديّةً فاستافَها
Whoever settled in your abode thought the soil of its holiness
was eternal camphor, so he reveled in it.
ونعم هي الفردوسُ إلاَّ أنَّها
رضوان بِشرك خازن إلطافَها
Paradise it is, though it has Ridwan
and the keeper of kindness companioning his bounty.
هي باحةُ الشرف المقدَّسة التي
ولدت بها منك العُلى أشرافَها
It is the courtyard of sacred honor in which
the heights were born to you from it.
ولدتهم علماءَ يكشفُ هديُهم
عن ذي القلوب الغافلاتِ غِلافَها
It gave birth to scholars whose guidance
uncovers the heedless hearts from their veils.
شفّوا طباعاً لا تميل مع الهوى
من حيث طهَّر ربُّها شفّافَها
They have a nature that does not incline to passions
from where their Lord purified their essence.
فإذا بجعفرها ارتفدتَ مجدتَه
فرَّاج كلِّ عظيمةٍ كشَّافَها
When Ja’far sought you, you honored his glory,
a lamp between celestial spheres.
قمرٌ توسَّط دارةً فلكيَّةً
جمع الكمالُ على النهى أطرافَها
Perfection gathered at its limit to guidance;
were it not for the envy of foes touching his slipper for glory,
لولا اكتسابُ الحاسدينَ بنعله
شرفاً لقالَ المجدُ طأ آنافَها
majesty would have said: “It touched the heights.”
Wherever he turned he found tongues of praise
حيث التفتَّ وجدتَ ألسنةَ الثنا
والمدحِ تعلن في علاه هِتافَها
and eulogy proclaiming aloud his ascendance.
He comprehended the world’s patience and disciplined its ignorance
وَسَع الورى حلماً وأدَّب جهلَها
غضباً فآمن خوفها وأخافَها
so it felt safe from its fears and he frightened it.
And it is enough for the children of hope to ask
وكفى بني الأمل السؤال وطالما
ملّت بساحة غيره إلحافَها
while they are bored in the field of others begging them.
He is the master of the generous; if generosity is mentioned,
هو سيّدُ الكرماءِ إن ذُكر السخا
وأخو المكارم إن غدوا أحلافَها
he is the brother of generosity even if they disagree.
The people claimed their souls were his mother's
زعم الأنامُ بنانهُ أمّ الحيا
كذبوا وإن رضع الحيا أخلافَها
they lied though she suckled the snakes.
I would not say his fingers are stingy, for to him belong the dew
لا قلتُ أنملَهُ لأنَّ لها الندى
طبع تُنيلك دائماً إسعافَها
of nature that always comes to your aid.
I said to the misers since the source of dew dried:
قد قلتُ للبخلاء مُذ عُقر الندى
وبنو المكارم حرّمت إيجافَها
“Be Thamud, for Ja’far is righteous
for hosting the delegations overwhelming them with dew.”
كونوا ثمودَ فإنَّ جعفرَ صالحٌ
للوفد يغمرُ بالندى مُعتافَها
This is the father of guidance whom if the clouds neighbored
his hands, they would be stingy towards him.
هذا أبو الهادي الذي لو جاورت
يده الغيومَ لبخّلت وكّافَها
Between the imamate and the prophecy is a position
ascended by the heights reaching its highest peak.
بين الإِمامةِ والنبوَّة رتبةٌ
بعلى السيادة قد علا أعرافَها
The angels stand in awe of the light of his glory
bowing down so their aspirations towards him multiplied.
تقفُ الملائكُ دون نور جلالها
خُضُعاً فتكثر نحوه استشرافَها
His fathers protected the law in difficult
times when his opinion was no longer describable.
آباؤُه حمت الشريعةَ في ضُباً
لم يعد حاسمُ رأيه أوصافَها
It is as if his views were from its swords
and as if his views were its unsheathed swords.
فكأَنَّ من أسيافها آراؤه
وكأَنَّ من آرائه أسيافَها
An opinion that turns back the times' arrows
until its calamities become its targets.
رأي يردُّ على الزمان سهامَه
حتَّى تبيتَ صروفُه أَهدافَها
The tolerant whose palms if folded
sight cannot encompass the edges of his fingers.
جذلانَ يبسطُ راحةً لم يعقد الإِ
مساكُ لمحةَ ناظرٍ أطرافَها
What can his enviers say when they saw
in his abundant generosity its destruction?
ماذا حواسدُها تقولُ وقد رأت
في المكرمات لوفرها أَتلافَها
Can they say, “wasteful”? But it follows in its waste
its ancestors in their generosity.
أتقول مسرفةٌ بلى هي تقتفي
بالجود في إسرافها أَسلافَها
It is as if his mouth contained deadly poison
that he breathes into the chests of his opponents.
وكأَنَّما فمه حوى نضناضةً
للخصم ينفثُ في حشاه ذُعافَها
He is Muhammad in the tongue of generosity
and Muhammad collected all its types.
هو في لسان المكرمات محمدٌ
ومحمدٌ هو جامعٌ أصنافَها
A master of creation: if it spilled in the cup,
it would intoxicate the one who drinks it.
مولًى خلائقه حلت فلوَ انَّها
في الكأس تُسكب أسكرت رشَّافَها
He and Hussein in his glory are moons
each rose above the world and rose above its horizon.
هو والحسينُ بمجده قمرا عُلاً
كلٌّ عن الدنيا جلا أسدافَها
The gardens of his perfection were watered by the water of guidance
so they dazzled in their flowers and fruit.
سقيت رياضُ كماله ماءَ النهى
فبهرن في أَزهارها قطَّافَها
A group of lineage that rivals the heights
together entwining their shoulders.
فئةٌ لها حسبٌ تكافا في العُلى
طرفاهُ قد وطَّا معاً أكتافَها
So, O people of revelation and messengers in the world
and on you did God extend its edges.
فلكم بني الوحي الرسالة في الورى
وعليكم مدَّ الإِلهُ طِرافَها
If you favor in nobility the angels of the sky
God served your grandfather the noblest of them.
إن تفضلوا شرفاً ملائكةَ السما
فالله أَخدَم جدّكم أَشرافَها
If a description of your ascendance did not come in the Scripture,
by God, the world would not have known its qualities.
لو لم يجئ في الذكر وصف عُلاكم
تالله ما عرف الورى أوصافَها
For every time the channels twist
an imam of guidance from you straightens its culture.
ولكلِّ آنٍ في الأنام إذا التوت
منكم إمامُ هُدًى يقيم ثِقافَها
The imam of this time, your father stood in it
gently performing its duties with strength.
وإمامُ هذا العصر قام أبوكم
فيها فراضَ برفقه إعسافَها
Its scholars did not disagree on an issue
but he returned its disagreement to the truth.
لم تختلف علماؤُها في مُشكلٍ
إلاَّ وردَّ إلى الصواب خِلافَها
O son of the ascended ones, they rode the lead horses of ascendance
and walked the path of glory with determination.
يابن الأُلى ركبوا سوابقَ من عُلاً
عقدوا بناصية السهى أعرافَها
O son of those whom if the steeds carried
fiercely stood their ground with their chests.
وابن الذين إذا الجيادُ حملنهم
لوغًى وقوا بصدورها أردافَها
Take her as loyalty proposed, escorted
with your beautiful mention, delighted at her wedding.
خُذها كما اقترحَ الوفا مزفوفةً
بجميل ذِكرك تستطيبُ زفافَها
She sends her greetings exerting herself
and from modesty shows hope for your acceptance.
تهدي التهاني جُهدَها ومن الحيا
تبدي رجاءَ قُبولك استعطافَها
You are the one whose glories blossomed
among the stars and the noblest radiated their brilliance.
أنت الذي زهرت مناقبُ مجده
بين النجوم وأشرقت إشرافَها
The law softened from your eloquent tongue
so what frightened it before now calmed it.
نضت الشريعةُ من لسانك مرهفاً
فمخيفها بالأمس ها هو خافَها
The delegations saw in your palms its comfort
from all those whose sufficiency she sought from them.
ورأت بنائلك الوفودُ غناءها
من كلِّ مَن طلبت لديه كَفافَها
So when the intimate paths blame another
your generosity is praised by the intimate paths.
فإذا لغيرك ذمَّ موجفها السرى
حمدت إليك بنو السرى إيجافَها
You have immortalized knowledge in the world
and your name fills its pages and notebooks.
فخلدت في الدنيا بعلمك في الورى
ونداكَ يملأُ صحفَها وصِحافَها
