لِمَنْ وَقْعَةٌ بالغَرْب ضَعْضَعَت الشَّرْقَا

أَراقَتْ نَجيعَ المَارِقِينَ فَما يَرْقَا

For those shaken in the West, the East itself was shaken,

And it flooded the Moroccans, yet it did not flood them.

وَأَزْجَتْ مِن النَّقْعِ المُثَارِ سَحَائِباً

تَأَلَّقَ مَصْقُولُ الحَديدِ بِهَا بَرْقَا

And it drew from the commotion clouds

With which the polished iron flashed lightning.

مُطَبِّقَةً عَرْضَ البِلادِ وطُولَها

فَلا وَجْهَ إِلا واجَهَتْهُ وَلا أُفْقَا

Encompassing the breadth and length of the country,

Such that there was no face that it did not confront, no horizon.

كأنَّ شِيَاتِ البُلْقِ تَحْمِل شِرَّةً

لِقَلْبِيَ بلْ أوْضَاحُها تُشهِر البُلْقَا

As if the happinesses of good news bear calamities

Upon my heart - but their lights expose happiness.

تَطَاوَحَ فيها مَنْ بَغَى كَيْفَما انْبَغَى

وَحاقَ الرَّدَى إِلا بِمَنْ دَافَعَ الحَقَّا

In it friends attacked however they wished,

And destruction went to none but those who defended what is right.

فَمِنْ أَصْيَدٍ جيداً لفيهِ مُجَدَّلٍ

وَمِن أشْوسٍ طَرْفاً وَمنْ أهْرَتٍ شَدْقَا

Among them some had supple coats of mail donned,

Some had elegant sidelocks, some had tender cheeks.

أُسُودُ ولَكِنَّ الأُسُودَ حَقيقَةً

سُقاتُهُمُ صَرْفَ المَنِيةِ والزّنْقَا

They are as lions - but lions in truth -

Quenching them the draft of death and piercing cold.

أَدَارُوا عَلَيْهِم كُلَّ حَمْرَاءَ ضُمِّنَتْ

بَشَاشَةَ مَنْ يَسقِي وإِجهاشَ مَنْ يُسْقَى

They turned upon them every red complexion that was hidden

With the cheer of one who gives drink and the enthusiasm of one made to drink.

عُصاةٌ أَطَاعَ اللَّهَ فيهِمْ مُبيرُهُم

فَحَصَّهُمُ قَدّاً وَعَنَّتَهُم دَقَّا

Rebels whom Allah made obedient through their elders,

So He picked them off one by one and refined their stubbornness.

أَخامِسُ تَنمِيهِم زَنَاتَةُ لِلوَغَى

وحُقَّ عَلَى الأَغْصَانِ أَن تُشْبِه العِرْقَا

The fifth who nourished them were the Zanata for mischief,

And it is the right of branches to resemble the origin.

تَرَى بِهِم مِنْ قَامَةٍ واستِقامَةٍ

رُدَيْنِيَّةً ذُبْلا وهِنْدِيةً دُلْقَا

You see in them audacity and decency,

Worthlessness yet trickery, weakness yet cunning.

ومنْ عَجَبٍ أنْ ليْسَ تُعْديهُمُ الظُّبَى

فَما منْهُمُ مَنْ لانَ طَبْعاً وَلا رَقَّا

And it is wondrous that gazelles do not escape them,

For there is none among them who is soft in nature or gentle in disposition.

غِلاظٌ فِظَاظٌ ما لعُذْرَةَ عِذْرَةٌ

لَدَيْهِمْ إِذَا هُمْ أحْدَثوا مَوْتَهُم عِشْقَا

Boorish, rude - not an excuse excuses them -

When they start their killing, they do it out of passion.

وَأَخْرَقُ خَلقِ اللَّهِ حتَّى إِذا رَدَوا

لِسَقي الرَّدى أَقْرَانَهُمْ بَهَروا حِذْقا

The most wicked of Allah’s creation, such that when they return

To give the destruction its counterpart, they dazzle with skill.

أتَتْهُمْ جُنودُ اللَّهِ تَصْمُدُ صَمْدَهُمْ

فَحَقَّ عَلَيْهِم صَبْحَةَ السَّبْتِ ما حَقَّا

The armies of Allah came to them standing firm.

So the morning of Saturday had the right upon them for what it had the right for.

دَنَتْ غَمَراتُ المَوْتِ منْ يغْمُرَاسِنٍ

فأَحْفَلَ كالخَرْقَاءِ يَعْتَسِفُ الخَرْقَا

The seas of death came close to their hot-tempered men,

So it stirred like spinning wool, raveling the thread.

وَمنْ خُبْثِهِ يَوْمَ الهياجِ سَليقَةً

تَسَلُّقُهُ مِنْ بَيْنِ آسَادِهِ سَلْقَا

And the one whose wickedness on a day of commotion is inherent,

His climbing from between his companions is slick.

رَمَاهُ فأَصْمَاهُ بِأَقحَافِ رَأسِهِ

إِمامُ هدىً لقَّى الضلالة ما لَقَّى

He shot him, deafening him with the skulls of his head,

An imam of guidance who confronted misguidance like none other confronted it.

وأَعْدَمَهُ المُلكَ الذي اعْتَادَ غَضْبَهُ

فَرَاجَعَ تَحْتَ الذَّلَّةِ المِلْكَ والرِّقَّا

And the king whom he used to anger destroyed him,

So he retreated under humiliation to the possession and chains.

وواثقَهُ صَفْحاً وَمنْحا بِمَا غَدا

يُوثِّقُ الاسْتِمْسَاكَ بِالعُروَةِ الوُثْقَى

And his ties were severed in pardon and gift for what would come,

To strengthen clinging to the firmest handhold.

فَأَيْنَ الذِي كانَ ادَّعَى مِنْ زَعَامَةٍ

لِمَعْشرِهِ يَا شدَّ مَا اجْتَنَبَ الصِّدْقَا

So where is the one who pretended to have leadership

Over his people! Very intensely he avoided honesty.

قُصَارَاهُمُ أنْ خوَّدُوا في نَجَائِهمْ

رِئالا يَجوبونَ الشَّقيقَةَ والبَرْقَا

The least of them is that they entrenched themselves in their salvation

Wandering the plateau and lightning.

وَأَنْ لَفَظُوا حَتَّى السِّلاح تَخَفُّفا

فَكَمْ ذابِلٍ مُلْغىً وَكَمْ صارِمٍ مُلْقَى

And they even dropped their weapons lightening their load,

So how many weakened and disabled, how many unsheathed and discarded!

لَعَمرِي لَقَدْ هانُوا وَكانُوا أَعِزَّةً

وَمَنْ ذا يُقَاوِي السُّمْر والبيض والزُّرْقَا

By their lives they were disgraced though they had been mighty,

And who can endure ochre and white and blue?

وفَرُّوا وَكانَ الكَرُّ مِنْهُم سَجِيَّةً

وَمَنْ ذا يُطيقُ الطَّعْنَ والضَّرْبَ والرَّشْقَا

They fled while fleeing was inherent in them,

And who can withstand a stab, a blow, and a pelt?

بِأَرْجُلِهِم وَافَوا مَوارِدَ حَيْنهم

فَبُعْداً لَهُم بُعْداً وَسُحْقاً لَهُمْ سُحْقَا

On their feet they arrived at the places of their homes.

So - far from them! Far from them and crushed be them, crushed!

وَمِنْ دُونِهم بِالسَّمْهَرِيةِ خَنْدقُوا

فَعَبَّدت الأَسْيافُ نَحْوَهُمُ طُرْقَا

And below them at Smâra they dug in,

So towards them the swords paved roads.

وَفي الفَيلَقِ الجَرَّارِ جاؤُوا سَفاهَة

فَجَرَّ عَلَيهم ذَلِكَ الفَيلَقُ الفَلقَا

And in the formidable cavalcade they foolishly came,

And that formidable cavalcade so split them.

لَقَدْ خَسِروهَا صَفْقةً يَومَ فتَّحَت

عَلَيْهِم سُيوفُ الحَقِّ ما أَشَّبُوا صِفقَا

They made a losing deal the day

The swords of truth unsheathed upon them and did not sheathe.

وقُطَّتْ بإِتْيانِ الجَرَائِمِ هامُهُمْ

نَكَالاً كَما قَطَّت يَدُ الجَارِمِ العِذْقَا

And by the bringing of crimes their zeal was cut off

As the hand of a criminal is cut off when he commits theft.

هُو اليوْمُ أَضْحَى مُكْفَهِراً عَصَبْصَباً

وأَمْسَى بِسِيمَا الفَتْحِ مُسْتَبْشِراً طَلْقَا

It - today - has become dejected, downcast,

And it has become, with the mark of victory, joyful and pleasant.

تَرَاكَمَ في جوِّ السَّماءِ عَجَاجُهُ

سَحَاباً هَمَتْ منْهُ دِمَاءُ العِدَى وَدْقَا

Its clouds have gathered in the atmosphere,

From which the blood of enemies and striking dripped.

ومُدَّت بِحارٌ للحَديدِ فَلَمْ تَؤُلْ

إلَى الجَزْر إِلا وَالطغَاةُ بِهِ غَرْقَى

And seas were extended to iron which did not withdraw

To ebb except that the tyrants in them drowned.

وَهَلْ سَكَنَتْ فَاسٌ وَسَبْتَةٌ بَعْدَهُ

أَم اصطَكَّتَا كالخَافِقِين لهُ خَفْقَا

Have Fes and Sabta settled after it

Or have they shifted like two race horses for it?

لَقَدْ بَاتَ أَهْلُوها بِلَيْلَةِ مَاخِضٍ

وَقَدْ عَضَّلَتْ وَضْعاً وَمَا فَتَرَتْ طَلْقَا

Have the people of Rome in the peninsula taken heed

Of the abhorred sedition that would crush them with crushing?

وَهَلْ أَخَذَتْ رُومُ الجَزيرَةِ حِذْرَهَا

مِنَ الفَتْكَةِ النَّكْراءِ تَمْحَقُهُمْ مَحْقَا

Do they not know that the obstacles before them

Are few in following up the destruction of those who build?

أَلَمْ يَعْلَمُوا أَنَّ العَوائِقَ دُونَهُم

قَلائِلُ فِي عُقْبَى إِبادَةِ مَنْ عَقَّا

And that the Raiser of their land will soon satisfy

Every sincerely stalwart believer with truth?

وأَنْ سَوفَ يُرضِي اللَّه خاسِفُ أَرْضِهِم

بِكُلِّ صَدُوقِ البَأْسِ مُعْتَقِدٍ صِدْقَا

With the opening of Tlemcen to polytheism by force

He has burdened the wretched from it with the compulsion of power.

بِفَتْحِ تِلمسَانٍ علَى الشِّركِ عنْوَةً

أَشَقَّ بِحُكمِ القَسْرِ مِنْهُ علَى الأَشْقَى

The protectors have surrounded it and stared fixedly,

Like the Helpers of prophethood at the dawn.

أَحَاطَ بِها أَهْلُ الحِفَاظِ وأَحْدَقُوا

إِحاطَةَ أَنصَارِ النُّبُوَّةِ بِالبَلْقَا

And they pressed upon it intensely until it surrendered to them,

And it is the habit of faith to wipe out sin.

وَشَدُّوا عَلَيها شَدّةً أَذْعَنُوا لَها

وَمِنْ عادَةِ الإِيمَانِ أَنْ يمحُوَ الفِسْقَا

Hotbeds of war galloping to the fray

Confronting the Persians resembling them in emancipation.

مَسَاعِرُ حَرْبٍ يَرْكُضونَ إِلَى الوَغَى

مُقَابَلةَ الأَعْراقِ تُشْبِهُهُم عِتْقَا

When they pierce their peers their spears leave

Tears in the garb of the coffin that describe rending.

إذا مَشَقُوا الأَقْرانَ أَبْقَتْ رِماحُهُمْ

فُوَيْقَ ثِيَابِ السَّرْدِ مَا يَصِفُ الشَّقَّا

As if in their grip for provisions through overpowering

Are the souls of the enemies of truth to expand sustenance.

كأَنَّ علَيهِم لِلعَوافي بِقَبْضِهِمْ

نُفوسَ عُدَاةِ الحَقِّ أَنْ يَبْسطُوا الرِّزْقَا

They met it with assault, so its locks opened for them,

And the seriousness and meticulousness made them own its heights and passes.

لَقُوها بِسَطوٍ فَضَّ أَغَلاقَها لَهُمْ

وَمَلَّكَهُم أَعْلاقَهَا الجدَّ والدِّقَّا

And they marched to it confident of its opening

As if good tidings inform the army or lightning strike.

وَسَارُوا إِلَيْها واثِقِينَ بِفَتْحِها

كأَنَّ سَطِيحاً يُنْبئُ الجَيْشَ أَو شِقَّا

It gestured leadership to the desired imam, so he obtained it as booty and expanded its emancipation.

Ask without cease since the cloud overshadowing it

رَمَتْ للإمَامِ المُرْتَضَى بِقِيَادِها

فأَحْرَزَها عِلْقاً وأوْسَعَها عِتْقَا

Which emerged over Marrakesh bearing thunderbolts.

And its people went beyond bounds in disobedience that brought destruction,

سَلا عَنْ سَلا مذْ ظلَّها العَارِضُ الذِي

أَطَلَّ عَلَى مَرَّاكش يحْمِلُ الصعْقَا

So I would not increase anything but sorrow and remaining.

It is as if the architect of the wall wanted its collapse

وَأَسْرَفَ أَهْلوهَا مَعَاصِيَ أَوْبَقَت

فَما زَادَ أَنْ أَغْضَى حَنَاناً وأَنْ أَبْقَى

In order to make the most wretched triumph at his hand the most pious.

Otherwise, how did it crumble from every side

كَأَنَّ مَشيدَ السُّورِ شَاءَ انْهِدَادَهُ

ليظْفَر بالأَشْقَى عَلَى يَدِهِ الأَتْقَى

As if the dunes collapsed and the rivers gave way?

Is it not the divine hand that repelled the projectiles and the catapults

وَإِلا فَكَيفَ انْهَالَ مِنْ كُل جانِب

كَما انْهَالَت الكُثْبَانُ وانهَارَتْ الأَنْقَا

Without their being rent or rending any rents?

Lo! It is only the divine hand that came to it.

أَليْسَ الذِي رَدَّ القَنَابِل والقَنَا

وَما رَتَقَتْ فَتْقاً وَلا فَتقَتْ رَتْقَا

So there is no crevice that did not collapse in awe and split.

And He opened from its gates every barred one,

أَلا إنَّما الأَيْدُ الإلَهِي جَاءَها

فَلا شِقَّ إِلا انْهَدَّ بالهَوْلِ وانْشَقَّا

So there is no shattering that did not crash down in toppling and caving in.

The tongues of fire have within it eloquence

وَفَتَّح مِنْ أبْوابِها كُلَّ موصَدٍ

فَلا كِسْرَ إِلا انحَطَّ بِالصَوْلِ وانْفَقَّا

Even if they do not understand letters or speaking.

And O wellspring of its iron melting midst!

لأَلْسِنَةِ النِّيرَانِ فيها بَلاغَةٌ

وَإنْ هِيَ لَمْ تَفْهَمْ حُروفاً وَلا نُطْقَا

That which expanded beyond any expanse exhaled.

The opposites met within it without repulsion,

وَيا نَبْعَ أَمْواهِ الحَديدِ خِلالَها

بِما ضَاقَ عَنْهُ كُلَّ مُنْفَسِحٍ فَهْقَا

And whoever is given success is not deprived of suitability.

Tidings of its opening which stained the atmosphere with their perfume

تَلاقَتْ بِها الأَضْدادُ دُونَ تَنَافُرٍ

ومَنْ أُعْطِيَ التَّوْفيقَ لَمْ يُمْنَعِ الوَفْقَا

So that horizons do not cease to expand its fissures.

It prides over Saturday the day of the wedding night

أَحادِيثُ فَتْحٍ ضَمَّخَ الجوَّ طيبُها

فَمَا تَفْتأُ الآفَاقُ تُوسِعُهُ نَشْقَا

And it was only from its fruits in truth.

The meteors threatened shooting stars and were cautious,

يُفَاخِرُ فيهِ السَّبتَ يَوْمُ عرْوبَة

وَما كانَ إِلا مِنْ نَتَائِجِهَا حَقَّا

And events in the blackest dark came rhythmically.

There the sword disseminates for the spear its dissemination,

تَنَاذَرتِ الصُّهْبُ السبَال وَحاذَرَت

وَقائِعَ في السودِ الكُبُودِ أَتَتْ نَسْقَا

And you see a cavalryman conversing with an infantryman.

They realized that Allah’s cavalry moves towards them

يَبُثُّ هُناكَ السَّيْفُ للرُّمْحِ بَثَّهُ

فَتُبْصِرُ مُنْفلاً يُحادِثُ مُنْدَقَّا

To destroy them with killing and tie them up with shackles.

And invade them in the midst of their homes and you see

دَرَوْا أَنَّ خَيْلَ اللَّهِ تَنْهَدُ نَحْوَهُم

لِتُوبِقَهُم قَتْلاً وتُوثِقَهُم رِبْقَا

None but their defeated gangs as prey.

When the lion of the thickets meets the destruction say,

وَتَغْزُوَهُمْ في عُقْرِ دَارِهمُ فَلا

تَرَى غَيْرَ عَقْرَى مِنْ كَتَائِبِهِمْ حَلْقَى

“The wolves of the barren valley, what do they meet?”

Blessed is He who revived religion and worldly life

إذَا لَقِيَتْ أُسْدُ الغيَاضِ الرَّدَى فَقُل

ذِئَابُ الغَضَا مِنْ صَائِلِ البَأْسِ مَا تَلْقَى

For the state of Yahya the Desired and guided creation.

And He brought out from his sons the blossom of a star

تَبَارَكَ مَنْ أَحْيَا الدِّيَانَةَ والدُّنَى

لدَوْلَةِ يَحْيَى المُرْتَضَى وَهَدَى الخَلْقَا

That competes in its lights with the sunset and the sunrise.

Zakariyya, the prince, recited the欢,

وَأَطْلَعَ مِنْ أَبْنَائِهِ زُهْرَ أَنْجُم

يُنَافِسُ في أنْوارِها المَغْرِبُ الشَّرْقَا

And after him Ibrahim put forth precedence.

And Abu Bakr came last with the foremost

تَلا زَكَرِياءَ الأميرُ مُحَمَّدٌ

وَبَرَّزَ إبْراهيمُ بَعْدَهُما سَبْقَا

In virtue, reaching up to their rank.

Sufficient for him is the guardian heir apparent,

وَجاءَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ أَخِيراً بِأَوَّلٍ

مِنَ الفَضْلِ يَسْتَوْلِي علَى شَأْوِهِمْ لحْقَا

So from a firm handed judge comes one firm and piercing.

We see him with them in every absence and witnessing,

كَفَاهُ وَلِيّ لِعَهْد كَافِي أَبِيهِمُ

فَمِنْ باسِلٍ ذِمرٍ يَلِي بَاسِلاً دَرْقَا

Secrets given or enemies not confronted.

They characterized for him determination, wisdom, and piety

نَرَاهُ بِهمْ في كلِّ غَيْبٍ ومَشْهَدٍ

رَغَائِبَ تُعْطَى أَوْ ضَرَائِبَ لا تُعْقَى

And they bequeathed to him guidance, manners, and creation.

An imam who encompassed the superiority of the imams before him

هُمُ وَصَّفُوه العَزْمَ والحَزْمَ والتُّقَى

وَهُم وَرَّثُوهُ الهَدْيَ والخُلْقَ والخَلْقَا

And he increased in knowledge, clemency, and kindness.

To justice and beneficence he guides and is guided,

إِمامٌ حَوَى فَضلَ الأَئِمَّةِ قَبْلَهُ

وزَادَ إلَيْهِ العِلْمَ والحِلْمَ والرِّفْقَا

So he resembles Al-Fârûq and there is no difference.

He was named with a word for life and the living,

إِلَى العَدْلِ والإِحْسَانِ يَهْدِي ويَهْتَدِي

فَتَأتَمُّ بالفَارُوقِ منْهُ ولا فَرْقَا

So what a noble name from which he was derived and coined!

In his right hand purity drips sweetly like the Euphrates,

تَسَمَّى بلَفظٍ لِلْحَيَاةِ ولِلْحَيَا

فَيَا شَرَفَ اسْمٍ منْهُما صِيغَ واشْتُقَّا

Not salty or bitter or piercing.

So the days have congratulated the fulfilling times

تَسُحُّ النَّدَى عَذْباً فُرَاتاً يَمِينُهُ

لِعَافِيهِ لا مِلحاً أُجَاجاً وَلا طَرْقَا

That dawned like rain clouds, now summoned to be sated.

And they turned over the religion of Abraham with protection,

فَهَنَّأتِ الأَيَّامُ أَوْبَةَ غَانِمٍ

أَطَلَّ كَوَبْلِ الغَيْثِ أصْبَحَ يُسْتَسْقَى

Upon which truth has stamped its manifestation and guidance its path.

And the world continues to be through his glory a garden,

وآلَتْ علَى الدِّينِ الحَنيفِ إيَالَةً

سَمَا الحقُّ فيها مَظْهَراً والهُدَى مَرْقَى

Its children singing his praises with tender necks.

وَلا زَالَت الدنْيا بجَدْوَاهُ رَوْضَةً

وأبْنَاؤُها تَشْدُو بأمْدَاحِهِ وُرْقَا