شَهِدَتْ لَكَ الأَعيادُ أَنَّكَ عيدُها
بكَ حَنَّ مُوحِشُها وآبَ بَعيدُها
The feasts have testified that you are their feast,
With you, the lonely one yearned and the distant one drew near.
وأَضاءَ مُظلِمُها وأَفرَخَ رَوْعُها
وأَطاعَ عاصِيها ولانَ شديدُها
Its darkness was illuminated, its fright took wing,
The disobedient obeyed, the severe softened.
وصَفَتْ لنا الدُّنيا فَشَبَّ كبيرُها
فِي إِثْرِ مَا قَدْ كَانَ شابَ وليدُها
The world has described to us its prime long passed,
In the wake of its exuberant youth.
ما كَانَ أجمدَ قَبلَ يَوْمِكَ بحرَها
فالآنَ فُجِّرَ بالنَّدى جُلْمُودُها
The sea was never as frozen as the day before yours,
Now its frigidity melts with the dew.
والرِّيحُ للإِقْبالِ تُزْجِي للمُنى
دِيَماً تَدَفَّقُ بِالحياةِ مُدُودُها
The winds blow favorably with wishes,
Its downpours perpetually cascading with life.
ولَقَدْ تَغِيمُ وَمَا لنا من وَدْقِها
إِلّا خواطفُ برقِها ورُعودُها
It may storm, yet we have of its lightning and thunder
Only the passions of its flashes and its rumbles.
وارتاحَ بيتُكَ فِي أباطِحِ مَكَّةٍ
لمعادِ أَيامٍ دنا مَوْعُودُها
Your home found comfort on the plains of Mecca
For the advent of days, their promise drawing nigh-
لِمواكِبٍ صَهَلَتْ إليكَ خُيولُها
وكتائِبٍ خَفَقَتْ عَلَيْكَ بُنودُها
Of processions whose steeds hastened to you
And brigades whose standards fluttered high,
شَغَفاً بدَعْوتِكَ الَّتِي قَدْ طالَما
عَمَرَتْ تهائِمُها بها ونُجُودُها
Yearning for your call which their zealots have long
Sustained, and their altruists spent themselves thereby.
وأَهَلَّ مُحرِمُها ولَبَّى ركبُهَا
وتلاحَقَتْ حُجَّابُها ووفودُها
It consecrated those in pilgrim garb, and its riders converged,
Its pilgrims and delegations flocked and vied.
فالآنَ أنجَزَ مَوْعِدُ الدُّنيا لَنَا
ولَها وأَخْلَفَ رَوْعُها ووَعِيدُها
Now the world has fulfilled for us its promise,
And for it, its fright and threats subside.
حينَ استَقَلَّ بكَ السَّريرُ وفَوْقَهُ
بأسُ الخلائِفِ مُنْجِبِيكَ وجُودُها
When the throne was rightfully yours, and atop it
The champions of your appointers, their might and pride,
وبهاؤها وسَناؤها ووَفاؤها
وصُفُوفُها وسيوفُها وجُنودُها
Their brilliance, glory, loyalty, regiments and swords,
When the caliphate adorned itself with its crown bedight.
وتلبَّسَتْ منك الخِلافةُ تاجَها
وتلألأتْ لَبَّاتُها وعُقودُها
Its ornaments glittered, greatest of boons you were given,
Crown prince of the Muslims, their increase and their guide.
أعظِم بِهَا نِعَماً وَفيتَ بشُكْرها
فَوَليُّ عهدِ المسلمينَ مزيدُها
You surpass horizons so he grasps and contains them,
You scale lofty peaks so he scales and provides.
تاليكَ تحْتازُ المدى فَيَحُوزُه
وتَؤودُ شاهِقَةَ الرُّبا فَيَؤودُها
If you plant kindness it is a cloud, if you begin
Blessings their source is he, if you unlatch prosperity he steers it,
إِنْ تَزرَع المعروفَ فهو غَمامَةٌ
أَوْ تَبدَأ النَّعْماءَ فَهوَ مُعيدُها
If you inaugurate fortune he facilitates it,
If you build eminence he builds it stride by stride.
تستفتِحُ السَّرَّاءَ وَهْوَ يُسيرُها
وتُشَيِّدُ العَلياءَ وَهوَ يَشِيدُها
And if a blossom of praises ornaments a garden,
He tends it, and if aggressors trespass refuges,
وإِذا ازدَهَتْكَ من المحامِدِ زَهْرَةٌ
فِي رَوْضَةٍ غَنَّاءَ فهو يَرُودُها
He is the excellent defender, fending them off.
His nature was birthed from the celestial pole on high,
وإِذا تَقَحَّمَتِ العُداةُ مَوارِداً
فَلَنِعْمَ طَعَّانُ الكُماةِ يَذُودُها
The steeds were assigned to him, he leads them by.
The full moon destined him with a lineage
فطَرَتْهُ من قُطْبِ النجومِ وِلادةٌ
وكَلَتْ إِلَيْهِ الخيلَ فهو يقودُها
That ruled over all lords, they will be led thereby.
From you, charms crept to entrance him in horizons,
واختصَّهُ بدْرُ السَّماءِ بنِسبَةٍ
حَكَمَتْ عَلَى السَّادَاتِ أنْ سَيسُودُها
He spent generously, which they provide.
You adorned him in the garbs of fervor and leadership
وسَرَتْ إِلَيْهِ من يَدَيْكَ شَمَائِلٌ
أَغرَتْهُ بالآفاقِ فهوَ يَجُودُها
On which swords and armor glittered, pridefully bedight.
Days wherein the countries shone as stars
وكَسوْتَهُ ثَوْبَيْ وَغىً ورياسةٍ
زُهِيَتْ عَلَيْهِ سُيُوفُها وبُرُودُها
With the domes of your armies, hope their obedient guide,
For three unmarred pilgrimages, their precincts yearned
أَيَّامَ أزهَرَتِ البلادُ كواكِباً
بقبابِ جُندِكَ والرَّجاءُ عَبيدُها
For you, unperturbed by separation's divide.
The pavilion of glorious victory over you both
حِجَجاً ثلاثاً مَا تَأَنَّسَ حَضْرُها
شوقاً إليكَ ولا تَوَحَّشَ بيدُها
Is raised, piloting the righteous, its ropes untied
Until you ascended the pulpits to a rank
وسُرادِقُ النصرِ العزيز عَلَيْكُمَا
مرفوعُ أَرْوِقةِ الهُدى مَمْدُودُها
Tempting the great souls of men, their envy and their pride,
In the dome of the kingdom which sturdy pillars support,
حَتَّى ارتقَيْتَ من المنابِرِ رُتْبَةً
غَرَّتْ بِهَا غُرُّ الرجال وَصِيدُها
Its columns, panels, galleries, halls and giants abide.
Its elite and allies and loyalists,
فِي قُبَّةِ المُلك الَّذِي صِنْهَاجَةٌ
و زِنَانَةٌ أَطنابُها وعَمودُها
Its daughters, mothers and lionesses stride.
They shone upon you the night of every misguidance
وسَراتُها ودُعاتُها ورُعاتُها
وبُناتُها وحُماتُها وأُسودُها
A radiant silver, its gloom will never subside.
A light for those loyal to you, their guide it will be
هُمْ نَوَّرُوا لَكَ ليلَ كلِّ مُضِلَّةٍ
سُمْراً وبيضاً مَا تَجفُّ غُمُودُها
Or fire for those opposing you, their fuel thereby.
You overwhelmed it with your ascent beyond
نُورٌ لِمَنْ وَالاكَ فَهْيَ وَقِيدُهُ
أَوْ نارُ مَنْ عاداكَ فهوَ وَقُودُها
What its fathers and ancestors bequeathed during their time.
And by your offspring it is compensated
أَذْهَلْتَهَا بِعُلاكَ عَمَّا أَوْرَثَتْ
من مُلكِها آباؤُهَا وجدُودُها
For its homelands, the yearning of souls thereby residing.
The days of battle, swords proved true to you,
وتَعوَّضَتْ بذَرَاكَ من أَوْطانِها
أُمْنيَّةً حَسْبُ النُّفُوسِ وُجُودُها
On the day of assembly, their pacts thereby abiding.
An hour wherein kinship is severed, neither righteous
صَدَقَتْكَ أَيَّامَ النِّزَالِ سُيُوفُها
ضَرْباً وَفِي يوم النِّفارِ عُهودُها
Witnessed nor acts witnessed, thereby coinciding.
A day wherein the honorable were abased to the vile
في ساعَةٍ مقطوعةٍ أَرْحامُها
لا البِرُّ شاهِدُها ولا مَشْهُودُها
And the noble stewed with slaves thereby presiding.
Its stalwarts despaired amidst adversity in which
يومٌ أُذِلَّ كِرامُهُ لِلئامِهِ
وَسَطَت بأحرارِ الملوكِ عبيدُها
Its masters and lords were exhausted thereby biding
No guide to salvation could its course determine
وتوَاكَلَتْ أَبطالُها فِي كُرْبةٍ
أعيَتْ بِهَا سادَاتُها ومَسودُها
Bewildered, nor paragon of propriety its course decide
Until you rose for them at the fairest of days,
لا يَهْتَدِي سَمْتَ النَّجاةِ دَليلُها
دَهَشاً ولا وجه السَّدادِ سديدُها
Upon them your fortunes in the sky rose, thereby riding
So they inhaled the breath of life for souls
حَتَّى طَلَعْتَ لَهُم بأسعدِ غرَّةٍ
طَلَعَتْ عَلَيْهِم فِي السَّماء سُعودُها
Who now sipped from the basin, its drafts thereby gliding.
Evident became the confused one's delusions,
فَتَنَسَّمُوا نَفَسَ الحياةِ لأَنْفُسٍ
قَدْ حانَ من حَوْضِ الحِمام وُرُودُها
And the right-minded one now rested in reason residing.
They hastened to pledge allegiance to you
وتبيَّنَ الغيَّ المُبيرَ غَوِيُّها
وارتاحَ للرُّشْدِ المبينِ رَشيدُها
Eroding time, and the new replacing thereby.
In it, their Lord's hand was over their hands
وتبادَرُوا يُمْنى يَدَيْكَ ببَيعَةٍ
يَبلى الزمانُ ويَستجدُّ جديدُها
The writers and keepers bore witness thereby.
They fulfilled it, so it united their throng
يَدُ رَبِّهِمْ فِيهَا عَلَى أيديهِمُ
والكاتِبُونَ الحافظونَ شُهُودُها
In a state whose progress the future will guide
It assured them it would not loose its swords
أَوْفَوْا بِهَا فوفَتْ بأُلْفَةِ شملِهِمْ
فِي دولةٍ مستقبَلٍ تأْييدُها
In any fray until its pacts came undone thereby.
It quenched them with cups of kindness extinguishing
ضَمِنَتْ لَهُم أَلّا تُسَلَّ سُيُوفُها
فِي مَعْرَكٍ حَتَّى تُسَلَّ حُقودُها
Among them flames, their blaze could not subside.
With its peace, eyes were intimate with slumber,
وسَقَتْهُمُ بكُؤوسِ عَطفٍ أَخْمدَتْ
منهم ذُحُولاً لا يُرَامُ خُمودُها
With its safety, gazes gently rested thereby.
And they clasped hands after the swords in harmony
فَبِسَلْمِها أَصْفى السلامَ أَبيُّها
وبأمنِها أَلِفَ العُيونَ هُجودُها
Reconciled, affectionate and friendly thereby.
It is an invitation with their swords as its proof,
وتصافَحُوا بعْدَ السيوفِ بأوجُهٍ
مُتقارِضٍ مَوْدودها ووَدُودُها
In an allegiance their oaths verify.
And tenets for a law Their struggle realized
هي دعوةٌ بسيوفِهِمْ تثبيتُها
فِي بَيعَةٍ أَيْمانُهُمْ توكيدُها
Their valor and resolve will fortify.
That they struggle in God a true struggle
ومعالِمٌ لشريعةٍ بجِهادِهِمْ
وجيادِهم وجِلادِهم توطيدُها
And for their Lord their souls purify.
To increase might through struggle, its mighty one,
أَن جاهدوا فِي الله حقَّ جهادِهِ
وَعَلَى النُّفُوسِ لِرَبِّها مجهودُها
And its prospered one through conviction magnify.
They swore by their Lord to honor the caliphate
لِيزيدَ عزَّاً بالجهادِ عزيزُها
ويزيدَ سَعداً باليقِينِ سَعيدُها
Whose bonds he instructed them not to untie.
And by it the rulers of their enemy nations bowed
حَلَفُوا بربِّهِمُ لعقد خلافَةٍ
أَوْصَاهُمُ أَلّا تُحَلَّ عقودُها
And its tyrant and stubborn thereby comply.
And they entrusted a precipice the battle
وبها اسْتَقَادَ لهم مُلُوكَ عُدَاتِهِمْ
وعنَا لهم جَبَّارُها وَعنيدُها
That felled mountains, their summits thereby razed high.
They trekked to Shabwa whose harvest was nigh
واستَوْدَعُوا جنبَيْ شَرَنْبَةَ وَقعَةً
هدَّ الجبالَ الراسياتِ وَئيدُها
The necks of armored men its harvest thereby reaped.
And the valleys of Qantish mustered against them
دلَفوا إِلَى شَهباءَ حان حَصادُها
بظُبىً رُؤوسُ الدَّارعين حَصيدُها
Hordes of rebels, their number cannot quantify.
Their hearts it seems were sickly partial to them
وشِعابُ قَنتيشٍ وَقَدْ حَشَرَتْ لَهُمْ
أُممٌ بُغاةٌ لا يُكتُّ عديدُها
So they engaged them with spears accustomed thereby.
They left the plain with its bellies eviscerated
فكأنَّمَا مَرِضَتْ قلوبُهُمُ لَهُمْ
غِلّاً فجاؤوا بالرِّماحِ تَعودُها
And the rebels' corpses the topsoil thereby blanketed.
And the Frankish brigades, as they conspired against you
ترَكُوا بِهَا ظَهْرَ الصَّعيدِ وَقَدْ غَدا
بطناً وأَجسادُ الغُواةِ صعيدُها
In their factions - God from you defends thereby -
With vessels in a tumultuous sea's swell
وكَتائِبُ الإِفْرَنج إِذ كادَتْكَ فِي
أَشياعِها والله عنكَ يكِيدُها
Flooding the earth's expanse, their cords stretched thereby.
They added its eagle and crow, their patriarch
بسوابحٍ فِي لُجِّ بحرِ سَوابِغٍ
فاضتْ عَلَى الأَرض الفضاءِ مُدُودُها
And paragon - their tyrant and pillar thereby.
A mob for their Armenia, mustered thereby
ولقد أَضافُوا نسرَها وغُرابَها
وقِراهُما طاغوتُها وعَميدُها
To march and thence to hell herded enmasse thereby.
They approached under sharp blades
شِلْوٌ لأَرْمَنْقُورها حُشِرَتْ بِهِ
للزَّحفِ ثُمَّ إِلَى الجَحيمِ حُشُودُها
And the Muslim's glory was proclaimed thereby.
After they had crushed spears and settled
ودَنَتْ لَهَا فِي آرُ تَحْتَ صَوارِمٍ
وَرِيَتْ بعزِّ المسلمينَ زُنودُها
A dispute, its justice broadcast thereby.
As if their crosses lofted in the shadow
من بعْدِ مَا قَصفُوا الرِّماحَ وأصلَتُوا
بيضاً يُشيِّعُ حدَّها توحيدُها
Of their crumbling, prostrating thereby.
And beside the west as you boldly approached
فكأَنَّما رُفِعتْ لَهَا صُلبانُها
فِي ظِلِّ هَبوَتِها فَحَانَ سُجُودُها
It unkempt, conquests were announced thereby.
They struck Uhud until it surfaced
وبِجانِب الغَرْبيِّ إِذْ أَقْدَمتَها
شَعثاءَ بُشِّرَ بالفُتُوحِ شهيدُها
As a belly, the rebels' corpses its topsoil thereby.
In a fray absolved by their swords that if
ضَرَبُوا عَلَى الأُخدودِ هامَ حُماتِهِ
حَتَّى عَبَرْتَ وجِسرُهُنَ خُدودُها
Their steel melted from intense heat thereby
And in it excuses fell short of a crime
في وَقعةٍ قامت بعُذرِ سيوفِهِمْ
لَوْ ذابَ من حَرِّ الجِلادِ حديدُها
Disgraceful, which your palm did not flourish thereby
By it we saw glory wherever you sought it
ويضيقُ فِيهَا العُذْرُ عن خَطِيَّةٍ
سمراءَ لَمْ يُورِقْ بكفِّكَ عُودُها
And perpetuity of bounty wherever you steered it
Save your magnanimity which ennobled
فبِها رأَينا العزَّ حَيْثُ تودُّه
وسوابِغَ النَّعماءِ حَيْثُ تريدُها
Its dangers and its ancestors thereby
Panicked that the Days of Ignorance might see it
إِلّا كرائِمَ من كرائِمكَ الَّتِي
بكَ كُرِّمَتْ أخطارُها وجُدُودُها
Interred in dirt, forgotten thereby
Ceding those whose deaths it held
ذُعِرتْ بحُكمِ الجاهليَّةِ أَن ترى
قَدْ دُسَّ فِي تُرْبِ الثَّرى مَوْؤُودُها
While withholding those granted eternity thereby
So welcome it, for the virtuous have presented
أَن مَلَّكتْ مَنْ فِي يديهِ مَماتُها
ونأت عَلَى مَن فِي يَديهِ خُلودُها
Their worthy praises, no flaw thereby marring it
Innovative compositions whose jewels resemble each other
فاقبلْ فقد ساقَتْ إليكَ مُهورَها
أَكْفاءُ حمدٍ لا يُذَمُّ حميدُها
Therein pearls and unmatched verses coincide
And let our days of glory altogether be
بدْعاً من النظمِ النفيسِ تَشابَهَت
فِيهَا الجواهِرُ دُرُّها وفَريدُها
A feast, and you to those who obeyed, their feast thereby
Time does lapse over your heir apparent
وَلتَهْنِنا أَيَّامُ عِزٍّ كُلُّها
عِيدٌ وأنتَ لِمن أَطاعكَ عِيدُها
Among intimates, their bereavement thereby abiding
If homelands are shrouded he travels captive
ولقَد يَحولُ عَلَى وَلِيِّكَ حُوْلُها
فِي مُشفِقِ الأَهْلِينَ وَهْوَ فَقِيدُها
Or if enemies know, hunted thereby
Without sanctity preventing, nor ordained days
إِن يَطرُقِ الأَوطانَ فهو أَسِيرُها
أَوْ يُشعِرِ الأَعْدَاءَ فهو طريدُها
Known, nor numbered thereby biding
From a Muslim slain by a transgressor, nor
لا حُرْمَةُ الرحمنِ ناهيةٌ وَلا
معلومُ أَيَّامٍ ولا مَعدُودُها
An inviolate soul, the enemies lie in ambush thereby
They defied the Merciful in His sanctuary
عن مُسْلمٍ ضَحَّى بِهِ غاوٍ وَعَن
نَفْسٍ حرامٍ والعُداة تَصيدُها
To violate the sanctities of Muslims, His law thereby rescinding
The swords' edges are kindled white hot for me through you
قد عَانَدُوا الرَّحمنَ فِي حُرُمَاتِهِ
أن تُعتدى فِي المُسْلِمينَ حُدودُها
Inflaming entrails, their darkness surges thereby
This is an outrage and a raid witnessed
بيضُ السُّيوفِ عَليَّ فيكَ حِدَادُها
مُتَوَقِّدُ الأَكبادِ نحوِيَ سُودُها
Its impartiality the Musta'sin's love called thereby
And it suffices you from a soul you sufficed its hope
هذا جَنايَ وغارَةٌ مشهودةٌ
عَدَلَتْ بِحُبِّ المُسْتَعينِ شُهُودُها
A provision demeaned, its plucking facile thereby
It was the singular in its age for calamity
وكَفاكَ من نَفْسٍ كَفَيْتَ رَجاءها
ذُخراً فَهانَ طَريفُها وتَليدُها
Befallen, fate's outcast, its loneliness thereby abiding
And if the envious feigns a flaw to me
كَانَتْ وَحيدةَ دَهرِها من نَكْبَةٍ
مَنْكوبُها فذُّ الدهورِ وحيدُها
For invoking you in a renewed favor thereby
I am not one from whom time's eyes desist
وَلَئِنْ أَجَدَّ ليَ الحَسودُ نَفاسةً
أَن قَدْ دَعاكَ لِنِعمةٍ تَجديدُها
From blessings or curses while the envious sleeps thereby
And so around my neck are its fetters intact
فأنا الَّذِي لَمْ تُغضِ عيْنُ الدَّهْرِ عن
نُعمى ولا نُقمى يَنامُ حَسودُها
Remaining, and around my legs its shackles thereby
وَلِذَاكَ فِي عُنُقي مُوَثَّقُ غُلِّها
باقٍ وَفِي القَدَمين بعدُ قُيُودُها
