أحسنتَ في تدبير أمرك يا حسن

وأجدت في تحليل أخلاط الفتنْ

You have done well in managing your affairs, O Hasan,

And succeeded in analyzing the dispositions of strife.

ما كنتَ بالنزق بالعجولَ إِلى الاذى

عند النزاعِ ولا الضعيف أَخا الوهنْ

You were not impetuous in harming the weak,

During conflict, nor the feeble, O brother of frailty.

تمسيى ورأيك عن هواك معوق

والغرّ ملقٍ في يد الأهوا الرسنْ

You go to bed while your opinion is detached from your passion,

And harm lies in the hands of vain desires that weaken resolve.

دآء الرياسة في متابعةِ الهوى

ودواؤها في الدفع بالوجه الحسن

An illness of leadership is following desires,

And its cure is rejection, with a pleasant demeanor.

وإِذا الفتى استقصى لنصرة نِفسه

قلبَ الصديقِ لحربه ظهرَ المِجَنّ

And if a young man examines too much in defending himself,

He turns his friend into an enemy for his war.

لا تصغِ إن شرٌ دعا فالشر أَن

تنهض له ينهض وإِ تسكنْ سكنْ

Do not listen if evil calls you, for evil is

To rise up for it so it rises up, and if you are still, it is still.

وسديدُ رأي لا يحرك فتنةً

سكنت وإن حركته الفتن اطمانْ

And the opinion of the righteous does not stir up strife,

It calms down, even if strife stirs it up it becomes reassured.

ردُّ العدو إِلى الصديق حكمة

صفت من الاكَدار عيش ذوي الفطنْ

Returning an enemy to a friend is wisdom

That clarifies the life of the wise from bitterness.

بالسيّفِ والإِحسان تقتنص العلا

وحصولها بهما جيمعا مرتهنْ

With the sword and benevolence you seize glory,

And obtaining it through both together is dependent.

لا خير في منن ولا سيف لها

ماضٍ ولا في السيف ليس له مننْ

There is no good in favors, nor a sword that

Passes by, nor in the sword that has no favors.

في السيف جور فاجتنب تحكيمه

ما يضع أمر المهيمن أو يهنْ

There is injustice in the sword, so avoid making it the arbiter

In what undermines the order of the Supreme and demeans Him.

أما حلي فإن خوفك لم يدع

أهلاً بها للزائرين ولا وطن

As for your adornments, your fear has not left

A family for them among the visitors or the inhabitants.

أَخليتهم عنها وحسبك وادع

في مكة لم يحوجوك إِلى ظعن

You have deprived them of it, and it is enough for you to be satisfied

In Mecca, they did not make you need to commit transgression.

تركوا لك الاقطاع غير مدافعٍ

وتعلقّوا بذرا الشوامخِ والقنن

They left you donations without resistance,

And held on to the branches of palm trees and spears.

حفظوا نفوساً بالفرار آَظلها

سيفٌ على الأرواح ليس بمؤتمن

They protected themselves by fleeing, a sword

Upon souls that is not entrusted.

ولحفظها بالفر أكبر شاهد

لك بالعلى فلم التاسفَ والحزن

And protecting it by fleeing is the greatest witness for you

Of the Most High, so why the regret and sorrow?

فاغمد سيوفك رغبةً لا رهبةً

ما في قتيل فرّ مرعوباً سمن

So sheathe your swords out of desire, not fear,

There is no goodness in one who flees terrified slain.

واكرم سيوفك عن دما طردائها

فالحر يكرم سيفه أن يُمتهن

And honor your swords against the blood of those who flee from them.

For the free man honors his sword if it is disgraced.

قد كان لا يرضى يحط بسيفه

في ظهر من ولى ابَوك أبو الحسن

He would not be pleased to debase his sword

Upon the back of one whose father your father is Abu Al-Hassan.

وقد اقتدرت وباقتدار ذوي النهى

تنحلُّ أحقادَ الضغائن والإِحَنْ

And you have become capable, and with the capability of people of restraint,

You dissolve the rancor and malice of resentments.

موسى هزبرٌ لا يطاق نواله

في الحرب لكنْ أين موسى من حسن

Musa ibn Zubayr cannot be withstood in war,

But where is Musa compared to Hasan?

هذاك في يمنٍ وما سلمت له

يمن وذا في الشام لم يدعِ اليمنْ

That one is in Yemen, and did not leave Yemen to him,

And this one is in Syria and did not leave Syria.

فانظر إِلى موسى فقد ولعت به

لما سخطت عليه أحداثَ الزمنْ

So look to Musa, for youthful times have become inflamed with him

When it was angry with him over events of the times.

ذاق المرار لفرقة أوطانه

فقد المراة فرقة الروح البدنْ

He tasted bitterness over the separation of his homelands,

So he lost the wife and the separation of body and soul.

لو شئتَ وهو عليك سهل هين

لجمعت بين الجفن منه والوسن

If you willed, and it is easy and simple for you,

You could have brought together his eyelids and canine tooth.

بع منه مهجتهُ وخذ ما عندهُ

عوضاً يكن منه المثمن والثَّمنْ

Buy from him his brain and take what he has

In exchange, let there be from him the things of value and the price.

هذي مساومةُ الفحول ومن يبع

ما بعت لم يعلق بصفقته الغبنْ

This is the bargaining of heroes, and whoever sells

What was sold, no deception clings to his deal.

جئنا بحسن الظن نسألك الرضا

والعفو عنه فلا تخيب فيك ظنْ

We came with good thoughts to ask you for acceptance

And pardon for him, so do not disappoint the good thoughts about you.

فالحرُّ يكرم سائليه يرى لهم

فضلاً إذا ابتدؤه بالظنّ الحسنْ

For the free man honors his questioners, he sees for them

Virtue when he starts with them with good thoughts.

ويهين سائله اللئيم لظنه

في مثله خيراً وذلك لا يظنْ

And the ignoble belittles his questioner because of his assumption

About the likes of him, something good, and that is not assumed.

لازلت بالشرف المخلد بانياً

شرفاً ومجدا ثانياً لبني حسن

I still continue building with the immortalized nobility

More nobility and glory secondary to the sons of Hasan.