قَدْ عادَتِ الشمسُ فِي أَعلى مطالِعِها
ولُجَّةُ البحرِ فِي أَعلى مَشَارِعها
The sun has returned to the heights of its rising,
And the swell of the sea to the peaks of its surging,
وعزَّ نَظْمُ الهدى فِي كَفِّ ناظِمِهِ
وراقَ مُجْتَمَعُ الدنيا بِجامِعِها
And the splendor of guidance to the palm of its arranger,
And the world community has prospered under its uniter.
وعادَ نُورُ جفونٍ فِي نواظِرِها
بِهِ وقَرَّتْ قلوبٌ فِي مواضِعِها
The light has returned to rejuvenated eyes,
And hearts have settled in their proper stations,
وقابَلَتْها اللُّهى فِي كَفِّ باذِلِها
وحوزَةُ الملكِ فِي أَكنافِ مانِعِها
And the divine gifts into the hands of their giver,
And the kingdom’s territory into the arms of its protector.
وحطَّ رَحْلَ الوغى عن ظهرِ صائِفَةٍ
شابَتْ رؤوسُ الأَعَادِي من وقائِعِها
The burden of turmoil has dismounted the back of the storm-rider,
The heads of enemies have turned white from its events,
كادَتْ تَهُدُّ الصخورَ الصُّمَّ روعَتُها
لولا تَمَكُّنُ وَقْرٍ فِي مَسامِعِها
Its awe has nearly cleft deaf rocks asunder,
Had it not been for composure permeating their hearing.
هَوْلٌ نَفى الجِنَّ عن أَخفى مَلاعِبِها
وأَوْحَشَ الوحشَ فِي أَقْصى مَرَاتِعِها
It has banished jinn from their most secretive haunts,
And frightened the wild beasts in the depths of their lairs,
تقودُها دعوةُ التوحيدِ قَدْ أَخَذَتْ
عَهْداً من اللهِ فِي تشفيعِ شافِعِها
Led by the call of divine oneness which has taken
A pledge from God as its interceding advocate,
وغُرَّةٌ أَشرَقَتْ فِي كُلِّ مُظْلِمَةٍ
بثاقِبِ الهَدْيِ والأنوارِ ساطعِها
And a dawn has shone in every darkened night
With the penetrating light and rays of its risings,
بِريحِ نصرٍ إِلَى الأَعداءِ تَقَدُمُها
كَرِيحِ عادٍ جَلَتْها عن مَصانِعِها
With a breeze of victory advancing against the foe
Like the wind of Aad which tore them from their dwellings.
فإِن يعوذُوا بآنافِ الجِبالِ فقد
جاءَتْ أُنُوفُهُمُ فِي سَيْفِ جادِعها
If they seek refuge in the cliffs of mountains,
Their noses have come against the sword that cleaves them.
أَو عَلَّلُوا بِفِرارٍ أَنفُساً عَلِمَتْ
أَنَّ الفِرارَ دواءٌ غَيْرُ نافِعِها
Or they have excused themselves with fleeing lives
That know well that flight is no use to them.
فَما النجاةُ تَمارى فِي تَفَكُّرِها
ولا الحياةُ تَرَاءى فِي مَطامِعِها
Salvation does not deceive itself in their thinking,
Nor life make itself seen in their hopes.
بلِ الرَّدى منكَ مكتوبٌ عَلَى مُهَجٍ
قَدْ أَصْبَحَتْ بارِزاتٍ فِي مَضاجِعِها
Rather, ruin from you is decreed for them, engraved
Upon a folk who have become uncovered in their beds.
ولا بِسَيْفِكَ عَجْزٌ عن معاقِلِها
ولا سِنانُكَ نابٍ دُونَ دارِعِها
Your sword is not helpless against their forts,
Nor does your blade miss what opposes it.
وَمَا تَرَجَّلْتَ إِلّا ريثَما نَزَلُوا
عَلَى الأَحِبَّةِ فِي أَدْنى مَصارِعِها
You have only dismounted for a time until they descend
Upon your loved ones in the basest of fields.
وأَنتَ جارٍ من العَلْيا عَلَى سُنَنٍ
تَدَارُكُ الحربِ من أَزْكَى شرائِعِها
While you, exalted, follow the ways
Of rushing to war from its purest laws,
واللهُ جارُكَ فِي حِلٍّ ومُرْتَحَلٍ
وسَاحَةِ الأَرْضِ دانيها وشاسِعِها
With God as your protecting neighbor, both settled and unsettled,
In the expanse of the land, both its near and its distant reaches,
حَتَّى يُثيرَ لَكَ الآفاقَ مُؤْتَنِفاً
كواكِباً تُسْعِدُ الدنيا بطالِعِها
Until He stirs for you horizons in succession,
With stars that bring joy to the world with their rising.
