لِرَأْيِكَ كانَتِ الأَزْمَان تُصغِي

وَإِيَّاها غَدَا الإيمَانُ يَبْغِي

For your opinion, time used to be attentive,

And for it, faith used to seek in the morning.

لكَ الأقْدَارُ أنْصارٌ وَجُنْدٌ

عَلَى إِمضاء ما تَبْغِي وتُلْغِي

For you, fate was an ally and soldiers

To fulfill and erase what you want and cancel.

أَلَمْ تَرَ أَنَّ دَعْوَة كُلِّ داع

لِنَسْخٍ لَيْسَ يُنْسِئُها وَنَسْغِ

Don't you see that every supplicant's prayer

Is to erase what does not delay it or divert it?

وَأَنَّ الحَقَّ يَدْمَغُ ما سِوَاهُ

فَيُودِي رَهْنَ إِدْغَامٍ وَدَمْغِ

And that the truth damnifies all else,

So it fulfills the mortgage of incorporation and damnification.

عِدَاكَ مِنَ اللَّيالِي بَيْنَ ضَغْمٍ

بنَابِ النَّائِباتِ وبَيْنَ مَضْغِ

Your enemies, among nights of oppression

And the gluttony of adversaries and gluttony.

وَإن أَطْغَاهُمُ الإغْضَاءُ عَنْهُمْ

وَفِي الإغْضَاءِ لِلسُفَهاءِ مُطْغِي

And if ignoring them has gone astray from them

And ignoring is seductive to fools.

فَقَدْ ردَّ الملائِكُ في رَدَاهُمْ

شَياطِيناً لنَزْوٍ أوْ لنَزْغِ

So angels have pushed back their rejection

As devils for marriage or divorce.

وأَضْحَتْ في دِمَائِهم العَوالِي

لهَا وَلَعٌ بوَلْغٍ بَعْدَ وَلْغِ

And the heights have become in their blood

Passionate for a flood after a flood.

أسَاوِدُ بَيْدَ أنَّ الأُسْدَ مِنْها

مُجَدَّلَة بِطَعْنٍ دُونَ لَدْغِ

Lions with the lions, though the lions among them

Are lacerated with a stab without a bite.

لَئِنْ كفَرُوا مِن الجَدْوى برَغْد

لَقَدْ نَشَبوا مِنَ البَلْوى برَدْغِ

If they disbelieved in fortune out of satisfaction

They were firmly attached to misery by piercing.

كُبُودُهُمُ لنَفْرٍ أوْ لبَعْجٍ

وَهامُهُمُ لِفَلقٍ أو لِفَلْغِ

Their sulking is for alienation or boredom,

And their perplexity is for splitting or splitting.

ولَوْ علِقُوا بِيَحْيَى دُونَ غَمْصٍ

لَما قُلِعُوا جَميعاً قَلْع صَمْغِ

Had they clung to John without diving,

They would not have been uprooted altogether like gum extraction.

فَأَقْصَرَ مُسْتَطيلٌ بَاتَ يَهْذِي

وأَقْهَرَ مُشْرَئِبّ ظَلَّ يَبْغِي

So the arrogant persisted babbling,

And the grim persisted seeking.

لخَيْلِ اللَّهِ إذْ أقْبَلْنَ وَلَّى

خَضيبَ الدَّمعِ عَنْ دَمها بصَبْغِ

When God's horses approached, they fled

Wiping their bloody tears with dye.

وفِي أَرْساغِها أرَنٌ إلَى مَنْ

طَلَبْتَ بِها ولَوْ يَأْوِي لِسَرْغِ

And in their sheaths a bellowing to whoever

You wanted even if he takes refuge in a crevice.

هَنِيئاً مَطلَعٌ لِلنَّصْرِ وافَى

بِرَفعٍ لا كَفاءَ لَهُ وَرَفْغِ

A greeting, a sunrise of victory has arrived

With an incomparable raising and lifting.

فَرَغتَ لكلِّ جَبَّار عَنِيد

فَمِنْ هَدرٍ نَجِيعُهُم وفَرْغِ

So you have relented for every stubborn tyrant.

We shall retaliate against them all and drain them.

وَبُلِّغْتَ الأَمَانِي في الأَعادِي

فَمَا يَغْدو سَبيلُكَ غَيْرَ بَلغِ

You have achieved wishes in the enemies.

So your path is nothing but communication.

أَغَبَّ الفَتْحُ كَيْ يَزْدَادَ حُبّاً

وَهَبَّ مُبَشِّراً والدَّهْرُ مُصغِي

Victory was absent so love would increase

And it gave good tidings while time was listening

كَإمْساكِ السَّحابِ لطُول سَحٍّ

وَإِجْبَالِ البَليغِ لِفَرْطِ نَبْغِ

Like holding back rain for long pouring,

And flooding the eloquent for excessive talent.

وَدُونَكه مَديحاً لا لِعِطْفٍ

تَعَرَّضَ بالنَّسيبِ وَلا لِصَدْغِ

And without you, praise not for kindness,

That fondles with lineage or cheek.

سُقِيتَ حَيَا المَنَازِلِ مُسْتَهِلاً

كَطَعْنَتِكَ المُنازِل ذَاتَ فَرْغِ

You were given the first homes being initiated

As your conquests, those with leisure.