حَفَّت بِحَضْرَتِكَ الفُتوحُ جُيوشَا

تَسْبِي مُلُوكاً أَوْ تَثُلُّ عُرُوشا

Your presence was accompanied by conquering armies

That capture kings or demolish thrones

وَثَوَتْ مَقِيلاً وَسْطَها وَمُعَرِّساً

أَبَداً لِتَبْرِيَ وفْقَها وَتَرِيشا

And it settled as a place of rest amidst them and dwellings

Forever to grant it success and feathering

أَعْيَتْ عَلَى نَثْرِ الكَلامِ وَنَظْمِهِ

مِمَّا يَجِيشُ بِها الوُجود جُيوشا

It exhausted both prose and poetry

With what existence was fermenting as armies

فَظُهُورُها فِي كُلِّ عَصْرٍ آيَةً

مَنْقُوشَةً خَفِيَ العِدَاةُ نُقُوشا

So its emergence in every era is a sign

Engraved while the enemies hid engravings

فَلَكَم مِخَشٍّ أَو مِحَشٍّ قادَهُ

قَهْراً إِلَيكَ حِمَامُهُ مَخْشُوشا

So how many distinguished or vile were led

By his pigeons forcefully flocking to you

وَلَكَمْ جِبَالٍ في مَجَالٍ صُيِّرَتْ

كالعِهْنِ تَسْفِيهِ الصَّبَا مَنْفُوشا

And how many mountains in an open space were made

Like carded wool, scattered by the blowing wind

أَنْتَ المُؤَيَّدُ في الأَئِمَّةِ عزْمَةً

كالعَضْبِ ماضِيَةً وقَلْباً حُوشا

You are the supported among the imams in resolve

Like a hot branding iron and a burning heart

وَجَدَتْ بِكَ الأَيَّام مَا نَشَدتْ فَما

جَشَّمتَها بَحْثاً وَلا تَفْتِيشا

The days found through you what they sought so you did not

Inflict them with any burden or investigation

يا دَعْوَةً نُقِش الهُدى بِمَكَانِها

لا زالَ مَرْصُوصُ البِنَا مَنْقُوشا

O call to guidance whose place is engraved

While the constructed edifice remains engraved

ثَبَتَت بِيَحْيَى المُرْتَضَى فِي فَخْرِها

ما لاحَ فِي وَجْهِ الزَّمَانِ خُمُوشا

Through al-Murtada, Yahya its pride was affirmed

What appeared with a cheerful face in times obscure

قَدْ بَصَّرتْ حَتَّى الضَريرَ وأَسمعتْ

حتَى الأَصَمَّ صِماخُهُ الأُطْرُوشا

It made the blind see and made the deaf

Whose hearing was impaired hear even faint sounds

مَلِكٌ تَبَوَّأَ والكَواكِبُ دُونَهُ

بَيْتاً عَلَى أَفْلاكِها مَعْرُوشا

A king who assumed his throne while the planets are below him

A house built above their orbits furnished

قَضَتِ السَّعادَةُ أنْ تَصونَ لَهُ المُنَى

بِيد المُنَى مُنْقَادَةً وَتَحُوشا

Destiny ordained to protect his wishes for him

Subjugated to fate and timid

لاَ تَتَّقِي وَهُو المُبَارَكُ سُنَّةً

سنَةً لَحُوساً لِلنَّبَاتِ مَحُوشا

It does not fear, though he is blessed, an inauspicious years

A year of scarcity for vegetation dry

مَا بَيْنَ آراء تُدارُ ورَايَةٍ

نَلْقَاهُ حِلْفاً لِلْقِراعِ بَهُوشا

What is between views revolving and a flag

We found him a confederate for the casting of lots sincere

أَنْأَى الصوائِفَ لِلفَلاةِ تَقرُّباً

وَرأَى رَغيبَاتِ الكَلُومِ خُدُوشا

He distanced the henchmen to the wilderness, approaching

And saw the desires of the stunted, malformed

بِسُعُودِهِ يُضْحِي البَكِيُّ مُفَوَّهاً

وَبِيُمْنِهِ يُمْسِي النَّضِيُّ مَرِيشا

Through his good fortunes the weeping becomes elated

And through his blessings the happy becomes feathered

تَرَكَتْ كَتَائِبُهُ العِمَارَةَ بَلْقَعاً

وَالنَّجْدَ وَهْداً وَالجِبَالَ جَشِيشا

His troops left the buildings a ruin

The Najd desolate, and the mountains bare

مِنْ كلِّ مَرْهوبِ الشَّكِيمَةِ مُتَّقىً

إِقْدَامُهُ يَلْقَى الكَمِيَّ كَمِيشا

From every feared despot he is avoided

His courage meets the coward like a moth-eaten rag

مَتْنُ الجَوادِ النَّهد آثَرُ فُرْشِهِ

لا يُؤْثِرُ الخَوْدَ الكَعَابَ فَرِيشا

The horse's soft neck preferred its saddle

It did not prefer the mule's itchy coat a perch

جَاءَتْ بِهِ العَليَا علَى حُكْمِ الوَغَى

ضَرْباً لِطَعْنِ كُمَاتِها مَنْهُوشا

The most high brought him to rule over turmoil

A blow to pierce itsstab of calumny perforated

فَلَها يَعِيب مَعَاشَهُ وَرِيَاشَه

أَلِفَ الفَلا فَيَرَى الأَنِيس وُحُوشا

So none faults his life and feathering

He who frequented the emptiness sees it inhabited

وَإِذَا تَعُوجُ علَى امْتِشاش كَفُّهُ

تَخِذَتْ سَبيبَ الأَعْوَجِيِّ مَشُوشا

And if his palm was bent in receiving

It assumed the path of the crooked winding

وَيَخُطُّ بالخَطِّيِّ ما لا تَدَّعِي

مَعهُ اليَراعُ الرَّقْمَ والتَّرْقِيشا

And he traces with the line what the unsteady hand does not claim

Nor the etching, the pattern, and the scraping

للَّهِ حِمْصُ وَفَوْزُها بِسَعادَةٍ

هَدَتِ الجَزِيرَةَ نَحْوَها وَشَرِيشا

For God, Hims and its good fortune happily

Guided Syria towards it and its outskirts

وَالقَصرُ ساعَدَ عِنْدَها مَكْنَاسَةً

ليَفِيضَ غَوْرُ أَمَانِها وَيَجِيشا

The palace assisted it as a street sweeper

That its shelter's downpour may surge and flood

أَمَّتْ إِمَامَ العَدْلِ خَالِعَة بِهِ

مَنْ أَعْمَلَ التَّأْرِيثَ وَالتَّحرِيشا

It affirmed the imam of justice abdicating to him

He who corrupted and ruined

وَإلَيْهِ خَفَّت وَالرَّجَاحَةُ في الهَوى

أَنْ يَجْعَلَ الآوِي لَهُ وَيَطِيشا

And the scale inclined in passionate love to him

To make him a refuge and take him under its wing

دَارُ السَّلامِ دَعَتْ قَرَارَةَ مُلْكِهِ

لا تُونُساً عَرَفَتْ وَلا تَرشِيشا

The abode of peace called for the stability of his rule

Not pleasure it knew, or vanity

وَبِحَبْلِهِ اعْتَصَمَتْ علَى حُبّ لَهُ

مُنْحَاشَةً لا تَبْتَغِي تَهْوِيشا

And it held fast to his rope, loving him

Disheveled, not seeking to be combed or groomed

ثِقَةً بِأَنْ تَحيا جَمِيعاً أَمْرُها

فِي وَارِفَاتِ ظِلالِهِ وتَعيشا

Trusting that all its affairs will live

In the shade of branches, and find life