أَبْدَى لِدَاعِي الْفَوْزِ وَجْهَ مُنِيبِ
وَأَفَاقَ مِنْ عَذْلٍ وَمِنْ تَأَنِيبِ
He showed favor to the caller of success with a submissive face,
And recovered from blame and remorse.
كَلِفُ الْجَنَانِ إِذَا جَرَى ذِكْرُ الْحِمَى
وَالْبَانِ حَنَّ لَهُ حَنِينَ النِّيبِ
The cheeks blush when the love is mentioned,
And the front teeth yearn for it with a sigh.
وَالنَّفْسُ لاَ تَنْفَكُّ تَكْلَفُ بِالْهَوَى
وَالشَّيْبُ يَلْحَظُهَا بِعَيْنِ رَقِيبِ
The soul cannot give up pursuing passion,
While gray hair watches it with a vigilant eye.
رَحَلَ الصِّبَا فَطَرَحْتُ فِي أَعْقَابِهِ
مَا كَانَ مِنْ غَزلٍ وَمِنْ تَشْبِيبِ
Youth departed, so I cast behind it
Whatever was of flirting and foolishness.
أَتَرَى التَّغَزُّلَ بَعْدَ أَنْ رَحَلَ الصِّبَا
شَأنِي الْغَدَاةَ إِذِ الْمَشِيبُ نَسِيبِي
Do you see me flirting after youth has gone?
It was my habit in the mornings when gray hair is my companion.
أَنَّي لِمْثِلِيَ بِالْهَوَى مِنْ بَعْدِ مَا
لِلْوَخْطِ فِي الْفَوْدَيْنِ أَيُّ دَبِيبِ
How can someone like me still have passion
When the gray hair between my temples rebukes me?
لَبِسَ الْبَيَاضَ وَحَلَّ ذِرْوَةَ مِنْبَرٍ
مِنِّي وَوَالَى الْوَعْظَ فِعْلَ خَطِيبِ
He has worn white and assumed the highest pulpit,
And turned to preaching, doing the work of the preacher.
قَدْ كَانَ يَسْتُرُنِي ظَلاَمُ شَبِيبَتِي
وَالْيَوْمَ يَفْضَحُنِي صَبَاحُ مَشِيبِي
The darkness of my youth used to cover me,
While today the dawn of my old age exposes me.
وَإِذَا الْجَديِدَانِ اسْتَجَدَّا أَبْلَيَا
مِنْ لِبْسَةِ الأَعْمَارِ كُلَّ قَشِيبِ
When the two newly appeared gray hairs whitened,
They were worn out by the garment of lifetimes, every gray hair.
سَلْنِي عَنِ الدَّهْرِ الْخَؤونِ وَأَهْلِهِ
تَسَل الْمُهَلَّب عَنْ حُرُوب شَبِيبِ
Ask me about fate and its people,
Like one skinned asks about the wars of youth.
مُتَقَلِّبُ الْحَالاَتِ فَاخْبُرْ تَقْلِهِ
مَهْمَا أَعَدْتَ يَداً إِلَى تَقْلِيبِ
Ever-changing circumstances, so tell of their overturning,
However much you prepare a hand for toppling.
فَكِلِ الأَمْورَ إِذَا اعْتَرَتْكَ لِرَبِّهَا
مَا ضَاقَ لُطْفُ الرَّبِّ عَنْ مَرْبُوبِ
Leave all matters to their Lord when they afflict you,
The Lord’s bounty does not narrow for the sought.
قَدْ يَخْبَأَ الْمَحْبُوبَ فِي مَكْرُوهِهَا
مَنْ يَخْبَأَ الْمَكْرُوهَ فِي الْمَحْبُوبِ
The beloved may hide in its hated aspects,
Who hides the hated in the beloved?
وَاصْبِر عَلَى مَضضِ اللَّيَالِي إِنَّهَا
كَحَوَامِلٍ سَتَلِدْنَ كُلَّ عَجِيبِ
Be patient with the distress of nights, they
Are like pregnant women who will each give birth to wonders.
وَاقْنَعْ بِحَظٍّ لَمْ تَنلْهُ بِحِيلةٍ
مَا كُلُّ رَامٍ سَهْمُهُ بِمُصِيبِ
Be content with a share you did not obtain through trickery,
Not every archer’s arrow hits the target.
يَقَعُ الْحَرِيصُ عَلَى الرَّدَى وَلكَمَ غَدَا
تَرْكُ التَّسَبُّبِ أَنْفَعَ التَّسْبِيبِ
The greedy falls prey, and how often in the mornings
Abandonment of devices is more beneficial than their use.
مَنْ رَام نَيْلَ الشَّيْءِ قَبْلَ أَوَانِهِ
رَامَ انْتِقَالَ يَلَمْلَمٍ وَعَسِيبِ
Whoever desires obtaining something before its time
Seeks the transition of something unripe and difficult.
فَإِذَا جَعَلْتَ الصَّبْرَ مَفْزَعَ مُعْضِلٍ
عَاجَلْتَ عِلَّتَهُ بِطِبِّ طَبِيبِ
So when you make patience the refuge of predicaments,
You promptly heal its cause with the physician’s medicine.
وَإِذَا اسْتَعَنْتَ عَلَى الزَّمَانِ بِفَارِس
لَبَّى نِدَاءَكَ مِنْهُ خَيْرُ مُجِيبِ
And when you seek aid against fate with the knight,
He will answer your call, the best respondent.
بِخَلِيفةِ اللهِ الَّذِي فِي كَفِّهِ
غَيْثٌ يُرَوِّضُ سَاحَ كُلِّ جَدِيبِ
By God’s Caliph whose hand
Contains rain to water every barren plain.
ألْمُنْتَقَى مِنْ طِينَةِ الْمَجْدِ الَّذِي
مَا كَانَ يَوْماً صِرْفُهُ بِمَشُوبِ
The chosen from the clay of glory, one who
Was never an alloyed day with impurities.
يَرْمِي الصِّعَابَ بِسَعْدِهِ فِيقُودُهَا
ذُلُلاً عَلاَ حَسَبِ الْهَوَى المَرْغُوبِ
He guides tribulations with his good fortune, leading them
Tamed, atop the hoped for destination.
ويرى الحقائق من وراء حجابها
لا فرق بين شهادة ومغيب
And he sees realities behind their veils,
No difference between witnessing and the unseen.
مِنْ آلِ عَبْدِ الْحَق حَيْثُ تَوَشَّجَتْ
شُعَبُ الْعُلاَ وَرَبَتْ بِأَيِّ كَثيِبِ
From the family of Abdel Haqq, where
The channels of sublimity sprouted on every dune.
أُسُدُ الشَّرَى سُرُجُ الْوَرَى فَمَقَامُهُمْ
للهِ بَيْنَ مُحَارِبٍ وَحُرُوبِ
The lion of nobility, the horseman of honor, thus their position
Is with God between warrior and wars.
إِمَّا دَعَا الدَّاعِي وَثَوَّبَ صَارِخا
ثَابُوا وَأمُّوا حَوْمَةَ التَّثْوِيبِ
Whether the caller called and the shouter shouted persistently
They responded and brought about repeated reward.
شُهْبٌ ثَوَاقِبُ وَالسَّمَاءُ عَجَاجَةٌ
تَأَثِيرهَا قَدْ صَحَّ بِالتَّجْرِيبِ
Meteors of impact whose effect
Is proven through experimentation.
مَا شئْتَ فِي آفاقِها مِنْ رَامِحٍ
يَبْدُو وَكَفٍّ بِالنّجيعِ خَضِيبِ
Whatever piercing stars you wish in its horizons
Appear with a white forearm made red with blood.
عَجِبَتْ سُيُوفُهُمُ لِشِدَّةِ بَأْسِهمْ
فَتَبَسَّمَتْ وَالْجَوُّ فِي تقْطِيبِ
Their hardened swords smiled
While the atmosphere was frowning.
نُظَمُوا بِلَبَّاتِ الْعُلَى واسْتَوسَقُوا
كَالرُّمْحِ أَنْبُوباً عَلَى أنْبُوبِ
They are threaded with necklaces of loftiness and seek rainwater
Like spears, spout atop spout.
تَرْوي الْعَوَالِي فِي الْمَعَالِي عَنْهُمُ
أَثَرَ النَّدَى الْمَوْلُودِ وَالْمَكْسُوبِ
It waters the heights through them
The effect of newborn scattered rain.
عَنْ كُلِّ مَوْثُوقٍ بِهِ إِسْنَادُهُ
بِالْقَطْعِ أَو بِالوَضْعِ غَيْرَ مَعِيبِ
Every reliable source, its origin
Is definitively or hypothetically flawless.
فَأبو عِنَانٍ عَن علِيّ غضَّةً
لِلنَّقْلِ عَنِ عُثْمَان عَنْ يَعْقُوبِ
So Abu Inan from Ali a connection
To relay from Uthman from Yaqub.
جَاءُوا كَمَا اتَّسَقَ الْحِسَابُ أَصَالَةً
وَغَدَا فَذَالِكَ ذَلِكَ الْمَكْتُوبِ
They came as accounts matched originally
And so it went, thus is what is written.
مُتَجَسِّداً مِنْ جَوْهَرِ النُّورِ الَّذِي
لَمْ تُرْمَ يَوْماً شَمْسُهُ بِغُرُوبِ
Embodied from the essence of the Light that
Its sun was never subjected to setting.
مُتألِّقا مِنْ مَطْلَعِ الْحَقِّ الَّذِي
هُوَ نُورَ أَبْصَارٍ وَسِرُّ قُلوبِ
Radiant from the horizon of Truth that
Is the light of insights and secret of hearts.
قُلْ لِلزَّمَانِ وَقَدْ تَبَسَّم ضَاحِكاً
مِنْ بَعْدِ طُولِ تَجَهُّمِ وَقُطُوبِ
Say to time, as it smiled laughing
After long frowning and bleakness:
هِيَ دَعْوَةٌ الْحَقِّ التَّي أَوْضاعُهَا
جَمَعَتْ مِنْ الآثَارِ كُلَّ غَرِيبِ
This is the call to truth whose codes
Collected from traces every wondrous matter.
هِيَ دولة الْعَدْلِ الَّذِي شَمَلَ الْوَرَى
فَالشَّاةُ لاَ تَخْشَى اعْتِدَاءَ الذِّيبِ
It is the state of justice that encompassed the world
So sheep no longer fear the oppression of wolves.
لَوْ أَنَّ كِسْرَى الْفُرْسِ أَدْرَكَ فَارِساً
أَلْقَى إِلَيْهِ بِتاجِهِ الْمَعْصُوبِ
If the Persian Kisra glimpsed this knight
He would cast his usurped crown to him.
لَمَّا حَلَلْتُ بِأَرضَهِ مُتَمَلِّياً
مَا شِئْتُ مِنْ بِرٍّ وَمِنْ تَرْحِيبِ
When I lodged in his land reveling
I wished for righteousness and welcoming.
شَمَلَ الرِّضَى فَكَأَنَّ كُلِّ أَقَاحَةٍ
تُومِي بِثغْر لِلسَّلاَمِ شَنِيبِ
It encompassed acceptance, as if each field
Smiled with a mouth for peace, every cheek.
وَأَتيتُ في بَحْرِ الْقِرَى أَمَّ الْقُرَى
حَتَّى حَطَطْتُ بِمَرْفَإِ التَّقْرِيبِ
And I came in the sea of towns, the mother of towns,
Until I docked at the harbor of kinship.
فَرَأيْتُ أمْرَ اللهِ في ظِلِّ التُّقى
وَالْعَدْلَ تَحْتَ سُرَادِقٍ مَضْرُوبِ
So I saw God’s order under the shade of piety
And justice beneath an established canopy.
وَرَأيْتُ سَيْفَ اللهِ مَطْرُورَ الشَّبَا
يَمْضِيِ الْقَضَاءُ بِحَدِّهِ الْمَرْهُوبِ
And I saw God’s sword sharpened and swift
Judgment takes its course by its feared blade.
وَشَهدْتُ نُورَ اللهِ لَيْسَ بِآفِل
وَالدِّينَ وَالدُّنْيَا عَلَى تَرْتيبِ
And I witnessed God’s light, an unsetting
Religion and world upon arrangement.
وَوَرَدْتُ بَحْرَ الْعِلْمِ يَقدِفُ مَوْجُهُ
لِلنَّاسِ مِنْ دُرَرٍ الْهُدَى بِضُرُوبِ
And I reached the sea of knowledge, its waves
Gift people pearls of guidance in types.
للهِ مِنْ شِيَمِ كَأَزْهَارِ الرُّبَى
غِبَّ انْثِيَالِ الْعَارِضِ الْمَسْكوبِ
To God belong praiseworthy traits like meadow flowers
Whose gathered fragrance is poured out.
وَجَمَالِ مَرْأَى فِي رِدَاءِ مَهَابَةٍ
كَالسَّيْفِ مَصْقُولِ الْفِرنْدِ مهِيبِ
And the beauty of an awe-inspiring garment
Like a polished Frankish sword, revered.
يَا جَنَّةً فَارَقْتُ مِنْ غُرُفَاتِهَا
دار القرار بما أقتضته ذنوبي
O paradise I departed from its rooms
The abode of settledness through what my sins necessitated.
أَسَفِي عَلَى مَا ضَاعَ مِنْ حَظِّي بِهَا
لاَ تَنْقَضِي تَرْحَاتُهُ ونَحِيبِي
I grieve over what I lost of fortune through it
Its comforts will not cease, and neither will my lament.
إن أشرقت شمس شَرِقتُ بِعَبرَتي
وَتَفِيضُ فِي وَقْتِ الْغُرُوبِ غُرُوِبي
If the sun rose my tears rose in mourning
And pour at sunset in my times of setting.
حَتَّى لَقَدْ عَلَّمْتُ سَاجِعَةَ الضُّحَى
شَجْوِي وَجَانِحَةَ الأَصِيلِ شُحُوبِي
I taught the night visitor my lament and the dove at dawn my sorrows,
While the witnessing of sincerity assures my return
وَشَهَادةُ الإِخْلاَصِ تُوجِبُ رَجْعَتِي
لِنَعيمِهَا مِنْ غَيْرَ مَسِّ لَغُوبِ
To its bliss without soiling by sins.
O supporter of the estranged land and its people,
يَا نَاصِرَ الثَّغْرِ الْغَرِيبِ وَأهْله
أَنْضَاءُ مَسْغَبَةٍ وَفَلُّ خُطُوبِ
Shelter for one feeling alienated and distraught.
Realize the hopes of your children in you, for they
حَقِّقْ ظُنُونَ بَنِيهِ فِيكَ فَإِنَّهُمْ
يَتَعَلَّلُونَ بِوَعْدِكَ الْمَرْقُوبِ
Take pretext in your promised return.
Darkness of disbelief shadowed their horizons,
وَدَجَا ظَلاَمُ الْكُفْرِ فِي آفَاقِهِمْ
أَوَ لَيْسَ صُبْحُكَ مِنْهُمُ بِقَرِيبِ
Is not your dawn near to them?
So observe with the eye of might from the border of tomorrow,
فَانْظُرْ بِعَيْنِ الْعِزِّ مِنْ ثَغْرِ غَدَا
حَذَرَ الْعِدَا يَرنُو بِطَرْفِ مُرِيبِ
Beware the enemy lies in wait with a dubious glance.
Andulus called you and your glory guarantees
نَادَتْكَ أَنْدَلُسٌ وَمَجْدُكَ ضَامِنٌ
أَنْ لاَ تَخِيبَ لَدَيْكَ فِي مَطْلُوبِ
Not to disappoint what is sought from you.
The enemy usurped its land and your hardened sword
غَصَبَ الْعَدُوُّ بلاَدَهَا وَحُسَامُكَ الْ
مَاضيِ الشَّبَا مُسْتَرْجِعُ الْمَغْصُوبِ
The old untarnished blade restoring what was seized.
Show it the swimming horses in battle, in reality,
أرِهَا السَّوَابِحَ فِي الْمَجَازِ حَقِيقَةً
مِنْ كُلِّ قُعْدَةِ مِحْرَبٍ وَجَنِيبِ
From every sitting enemy and adjacent foe.
The trained horse yearns over it
يَتَأَوَّدُ الأَسَلُ الْمُثّقَّفُ فَوْقَهَا
وَتُجِيبُ صَاهِلَةٌ رُغَاءَ نَجِيبِ
And the mare answers the neigh of the noble.
And victory smiles at each glimpse of dawn
وَالنَّصْرُ يُضْحِكُ كُلَّ مَبْسِمِ غُرَّةٍ
وَالْفَتْحُ مَعْقُودٌ بِكُلِّ سَبِيبِ
And opening is guaranteed by every cause.
And you presented the enemy’s spoils, then another
وَالُّرومَ فَارمِ بِكُلِّ نَجْمٍ ثَاقِبٍ
يُذْكِي بِأَرْبُعِهَا شُوَاظَ لَهِيبِ
For the obligation of victory, necessary.
And when the separation of your sword came between them,
بِذَوَابِلِ السَّلْبِ التَّي تَرَكَتْ بَنِي
زَيَّأنَ بَيْنَ مُجَدَّلٍ وَسَلِيبِ
Your measurement’s two halves, you obtained what you sought.
And Satan denounced when he saw
وَأَضِفْ إِلَى لاَمِ الْوَغَى أَلِفَ الْقَنَا
تَظْهَرْ لَدَيْكَ عَلاَمَةُ التَّغْلِيبِ
The party of truth from his defeated party.
The land is inheritance and ambitions are all
إِنْ كُنْتَ تَعْجُمُ بِالْعَزَائِمِ عُوَدَهَا
عُودُ الصَّلِيبِ الْيَوْمَ غَيْرُ صَلِيبِ
Coveting, each pouncing to seek a share.
And the Caliphs of piety are its inheritors
وَلَكَ الْكَتَائِبُ كَالْخَمَائِلِ أَطْلَعَتْ
زَهْرَ الأَسِنًّةِ فَوْقَ كُلِّ قَضِيبِ
So to you belong the fortune and inheritance.
It is as if I see you left its expanse
فَمُرَنَّحُ الْعِطْفَيْنِ لاَ مِنْ نَشْوَةٍ
وَمُوَرَّدُ الْخَدَّيْنِ غَيْرُ مَرِيبِ
Desolate by advance and pursuit.
And you held a funeral in it, but it
يَبْدُو سَدَادُ الرَّأيِ فِي رَايَاتِهَا
وَأَمُورُهَا تَجْرِي عَلَى تَجْرِيبِ
Is a wedding to scatter in the wilderness and wolf.
You left it behind with an obligatory heart,
وَتَرَىَ الطُّيُورَ عَصَائِباً مِنْ فَوْقِهَا
لِحُلُولِ يَوْمِ فِي الضَّلاَلِ عَصِيبِ
Ruined, a cheek by evening invited.
Its mourning caravans weep and transmit footsteps
هَذَّبْتَهَا فَالْعَرْضُ يُذْكِرُ يَوْمُهُ
عَرْضَ الْوَرَى لِلْمَوْعِدِ الْمَكْتُوبِ
From the disability of an oppressor to the disability of a cross.
God made the house a station for those praying through you,
وَهيَ الْكَتَائِبُ إِنْ تُنُوسِي عَرْضُهَا
كَانَتْ مُدَوَّنَةً بِلاَ تَهْذيِبِ
And you are the best rewarder.
When you are mentioned, it is as if the breeze of morning
حَتَّى إِذَا فَرَضَ الْجَلادُ جدَالَهَا
وَرَأيْتَ رِيحَ النَّصْرِ ذَاتَ هُبُوبِ
Swayed gently with a pleasing fragrance.
If not for the universe's connection to the meaning
قَدَّمْتَ سَالِبَةَ الْعَدْوّ وَبَعْدَهَا
أخْرَى لِغِزَِّ النَّصْرِ ذَاتُ وُجُوبِ
Too lofty for minds to reach its hidden secret,
We would say to your world you ennobled
وَإذَا تَوَسَّطَ فَصْلُ سَيْفِكَ عِنْدَهَا
جُزْأَيْ قِيَاسِكَ فُزْتَ بِالْمَطْلُوبِ
That the simple envied the merit of the complex.
And for your drop its sun and its stars
وَتَبَرَّأَ الشَّيْطَانُ لَمَّا أَنْ رَأَى
حِزْبَ الْهُدَى مِنْ حِزْبِهِ الْمَغْلُوبِ
Inclined from dawning to setting.
It dawns from its horizon silvery
الأَرْضُ إِرْثٌ وَالْمَطَامِعُ جَمَّةٌ
كُلَّ يَهَشُّ إلَى الْتَمَاسِ نَصِيبِ
And sets by you while melting away.
My master, my longing for you shakes me
وَخَلاَئِفُ التَّقْوَى هُمُ وُرَّاثُهَا
فَإِلَيْكَهَا بِالْحَظِّ وَالتَّعْصِيبِ
And the fire exposes the passion of perfumed wood.
I prolonged them with your ornaments and rectified them,
لَكَأَنَّني بِكَ قَدْ تَرَكْتَ رُبُوعَهَا
قَفْراً بِكَرِّ الْغَزْوِ وَالتَّعْقِيبِ
Though many are prolonged but not improved.
I tasked my thoughts with the duty of their obviousness,
وَأَقَمْتَ فِيهَا مَأتَماً لَكِنَّهُ
عُرْسٌ لِنَسْرٍ بالْفَلاَةِ وَذيِبِ
So they fulfilled with immediate order and arrangement.
I made it easy although I introduced it gently
وَتَرَكْتَ مُفْلَتَهَا بِقَلْبٍ وَاجبٍ
رَهَباً وَخَدٍّ بِالأَمَسى مَنْدُوبِ
From everything uncouth with every well-mannered.
It feared your station so I tamed its difficulties
تَبْكِي نَوَادِبُهَا وَيَنْقُلْنَ الْخُطَى
مِنْ شِلْوِ طَاغِيَةٍ لِشِلْوِ صَلِيبِ
Until it became tame through training.
If I came close in adjusting it
جَعَلَ الإِلاَهُ الْبَيْتَ مِنْكَ مَثَابةً
لِلْعَاكِفِينَ وَأَنْتَ خَيْرُ مُثِيبِ
Approaching is needed in adjustment.
My excuse for my shortcoming and incapacity negates
فَإِذَا ذُكِرْتَ كَأَنَّ هَبَّاتِ الصَّبَا
فَضَّتْ بِمَدْرَجِهَا لَطِيمَةَ طِيبِ
And grace from you overlooks reproach.
My excuse did not draw near to God through you in devotion
لَوْلاَ ارْتِبَاطُ الْكَوْنِ بِالْمَعْنَى الَّذِي
قَصُرَ الْحجَا عَنْ سِرِّهِ الْمَحْجُوبِ
It is from proximity to God, not nearing.
By God I did not conceal my love out of fear
قُلْنَا لِعَالَمِكَ الَّذِي شَرَّفْتَهُ
حَسَدَ الْبَسِيطُ مَزيَّةَ التَّرْكِيبِ
Except my breaths about me speak of me.
My poetry in you is the poetry of a lover
وَلأِجْلِ قُطْرِكَ شَمْسُهَا وَنُجُومُهَا
عَدَلَتْ عَنِ التَّشْرِيقِ لِلتَّغْرِيبِ
Though composition is inspired and talent a noble steed.
So accept it between refined and refinement
تَبْدُو بِمَطْلَعِ أُفْقِهَا فِضِّيَّةً
وَتَغِيبُ عِنْدَكَ وَهْيَ فِي تَذْهِيبِ
Although I presented it simply and gently
From everything uncouth with utmost civility
مَوْلاَيَ أَشْوَاقِي إِلَيْكَ تَهْزُّنِي
وَالنَّارُ تَفْضَحُ عَرْفَ عُودِ الطٍّيبِ
It feared your station, so I accustomed it to training
Until it became compliant to direction
بِحُلَى عُلاَكَ أَطَلْتُهَا وَأَطَبْتُهَا
وَلَكَمْ مُطِيلٍ وَهْوَ غَيْرُ مُطِيبِ
If I came close in arranging it
Approaching is required in organization
طَالَبْتُ أَفْكَاري بِفَرْضِ بَديِههَا
فَوَفَتْ بِشْرطِ الْفَوْرِ وَالتَّرْتِيبِ
My shortcoming and incapacity are absolving
While grace from you rises above rebuke
مُتَنَبِّيءٌ أَنَا فِي حُلاَ تلكَ الْعُلَى
لَكِنَّ شِعْري فِيكَ شِعْرُ حَبيبِ
I did not come near God through you in devotion
That is from God's closeness, not nearing
وَالطَّبْعُ فَحْلٌ وَالْقَرِيحَةُ حُرَّةٌ
فَاقْبَلْهُ بَيْنَ نَجِيبَة وَنَجيبِ
By God, I concealed not my love out of fear
Except my breaths about me speak of me
لَكِنَّني سَهَّلْتُهَا وَأَدَلْتُهَا
مِنْ كُلِّ وَحْشِيٍّ بِكُلِّ رَبِيبِ
I proclaim in your loftiness, but my poetry in you
Is the poetry of a lover, though inspired art
هَابَتْ مَقَامَكَ فَاطَّبَيْتُ صِعَابَهَا
حَتَّى غَدَتْ ذُلُلاً عَلَى التَّدْرِيبِ
Nature is fertile, and talent a noble steed
So accept it between refined and refinement.
إِنْ كُنْتُ قَدْ قَارَبْتُ فِي تَعْديِلِهَا
لاَبُدَّ في التَّعْديِلِ مِنْ تَقْريبِ
عذري لتقصيري وعجزي ناسخ
ويجل منك العفو عن تثريب
عُذْري لَمْ يَدِنْ للهِ فِيكَ بِقُرْبَةٍ
هُوْ مِنْ جَنَابِ اللهِ غَيْرُ قَريبِ
وَاللهِ مَا أَخْفَيْت حُبَّكَ خِيفَةً
إِلاَّ وَأَنْفَاسِي عَلَيَّ تَشِي بِي
