تُناضِلُ عنكَ أًقدارُ السماءِ

وتبطِشُ عن يَدَيْكَ يدُ القضاءِ

The heavens' destinies strive for you,

And the hand of fate rages for your hands,

وسعيٌ لا يَعُوجُ عَلَى حُلُولٍ

وشأْوٌ لا يفوتُ إِلَى انْتِهاءِ

Pursuit that does not swerve from solutions,

And an endeavor that does not miss completion,

فما قَصُرَتْ رِماحُكَ عن عَدُوٍّ

ولَوْ أَعْيا بِهِ أَمَدُ التَّنائِي

Your spears did not fall short of an enemy,

Even if he wearied the extent of stretching,

إِذا أَشْرَعْتَها فِي إِثْرِ غاوٍ

فَقدْ ضاقَتْ بِهِ سُبُلُ النَّجاءِ

When you unleashed them after a strayer,

The ways of salvation were too narrow for him,

ولو طارَتْ بِهِ أَلفا عُقابٍ

يَرُمْنَ بنفسِهِ خَرْقَ الهواءِ

And if a thousand falcons flew with him,

Piercing the air with themselves,

وأَيْنَ يَفِرُّ عَنْ دركِ المنايا

وأَيْنَ يَشِذُّ من تحتِ السماءِ

And where can he flee from the grasp of death,

And where can he deviate under the sky,

فَيَهْنِ الدينَ والدنيا بشيرٌ

بِغَرْسِيَةِ الأَعادِي والعَدَاءِ

So the religion and world became happy through Bashir,

With the perdition of enemies and enmity,

بصُنْعٍ أَعْجَزَ الآمالَ قِدْماً

وقَصَّرَ دُونَهُ أَمَدُ الرَّجاءِ

With work that has disabled hopes from before,

And fell short of its term the reach of hope,

أَلذَّ عَلَى المسامِعِ من حياةٍ

وأَنْجَعَ فِي النفوسِ من الشِّفاءِ

Sweeter to hearing than life,

And more beneficial to souls than recovery,

فيا فَتْحاً لمُفْتَتِحٍ وبُشرى

لمنتظِرٍ ويا مَرْأَىً لِراءِ

So oh opening for an opener and good tidings,

For one waiting, and oh sight for one seeing,

أَسِيرٌ مَا يُعادَلُ فِي فكاكٍ

وعانٍ مَا يُساوَى فِي فِداءِ

A prisoner that cannot be equaled in ransom,

And a helper that cannot be matched in sacrifice,

هُوَ الدَّاءُ العَياءُ شَفَيْتَ منهُ

فما لِلدِّينِ من داءٍ عياءِ

It is the manifest illness you have healed from it,

So the religion has no manifest illness,

لقد كادَتْ سعودُكَ منهُ نَجْماً

منيعَ الجَوِّ وَعْرَ الإِرْتِقاءِ

Your rise against it was almost a star,

Insurmountable and rough in ascent,

وأَعْظَمَ فِي الضَّلالَةِ من صليبٍ

وأَعْلَى فِي الكتائِبِ من لِواءِ

And greater in misguidance than a cross,

And higher in disasters than a banner,

حَمى شِيَعَ الضَّلالِ فأَهَّلَتْهُ

لِمِلْكِ الرِّقِّ منها والولاءِ

It protected the followers of misguidance so it made them,

For the slavery of it and loyalty,

زعيمٌ بالكتائِبِ والمَذَاكِي

ثِمالٌ للرَّعايا والرِّعاءِ

A leader of calamities and trackers,

Covering the subjects and shepherds,

مُباري سَيْفِهِ قَدَماً وبأْساً

ومشفوعُ التجارِبِ بالدَّهاءِ

Challenging his sword forward and might,

And proven by experiences in cunning,

وهَلْ للحزمِ والإِقدامِ يوماً

إِذَا عَنَّتْ سُعُودُكَ من غَناءِ

And does the resolution and daring have a day,

When aided by your singing,

تعاطى فِي جنودِ اللهِ كَرَّاً

وَقَدْ نَبَذَتْ إِلَيْهِ عَلَى سَوَاءِ

He undertook among God's soldiers a trick,

And he had cast to him equally,

وَمَا للنَّصْرِ عنها من خِلافٍ

وَمَا للفَتْحِ منها مِنْ خَفاءِ

And victory has no disagreement from it,

And conquest has no concealment from it,

فساوَرَ نحوَها غَوْلَ المنايا

وجُرِّعَ دُونَها مُرَّ اللقاءِ

So he rode toward it the injustice of death,

And was made to drink before it the bitterness of meeting,

وأَجْلَتْ عنه مُنْجَدِلاً صريعاً

مَصُونَ الشِّأْوِ مَحْمِيَّ الذَّماءِ

And it dismissed him rolling slain,

Protected in repute and guarded in blame,

وأَسلَمَهُ إِلَى الإِسلامِ جيشٌ

أَغَصَّ بِجَمْعِهِ رَحْبَ الفَضاءِ

And surrendered him to Islam an army,

That crowded the expanse of space with its masses,

لئِنْ خَذَلَتْهُ أَطرافُ العوالي

لقد آساهُ إِعوالُ البُكاءِ

If its lofty sides have forsaken him,

His mourners have comforted him with crying,

بكُلِّ مُرَجِّع للنَّوْحِ يُشْجِي

بَوَاكِيَهُ بتَثْوِيبِ النِّداءِ

Every returner of wailing laments him,

His weepers with the call of calling,

نَعاءِ إِلَى ملوكِ الرُّومِ طُرَّاً

ذَوي التِّيجانِ غَرْسِيَةً نَعاءِ

Crying to the kings of Rome hastily,

Wearers of crowns, crying cries,

وهَلْ للرومِ والإِفْرَنْجِ منهُ

وَقَدْ أودى سِوى سُوءِ العزاءِ

And do the Romans and Franks have from him,

When the evil of mourning has ruined besides mourning,

فملكُ الكُفْرِ لَيْسَ بِذِي وَلِيٍّ

وثأْرُ الشِّرْكِ لَيْسَ بذي بَوَاءِ

So the kingdom of disbelief does not have an ally,

And the revenge of polytheism has no enduring,

لقد أَرْضَتْ سيوفُكَ فِيهِ مولىً

كريم العَهْدِ مَحمود البَلاءِ

Indeed your swords have pleased in him a Master,

Honorable in covenant and praised in affliction,

فما أَغْنَتْ بظهرِ الغَيْبِ إِلّا

وَقَدْ أَغنى بِهَا كرَمُ الوَفاءِ

So the unseen did not benefit behind the back except,

And the generosity of loyalty had sufficed,

ولا أَسَرَتْ لَكَ الأَملاكَ إِلّا

وَقَدْ أَلْبَسْتَها سِيما السَّناءِ

And the angels did not capture for you except,

And you have clothed them in the mark of brilliance,

ولا خَطَفَتْ لَكَ الأَرواحَ إِلّا

وَقَدْ أَرْوَيْتَهُنَّ من الدِّماءِ

And they did not seize the souls for you except,

And you have quenched them with the blood,

وَقَدْ أَبلَيْتَ فِيهِ اللهَ شُكْراً

تواصِلُهُ بإِخلاصِ الدُّعاءِ

And you have done God gratitude continually,

With the sincerity of supplication,

وسِعْتَ عبادَهُ صَفْحاً وفَضْلاً

عليماً أَنَّهُ رَبُّ الجزاءِ

And you have been good to His worshipers with pardon and favor,

Knowing that He is the Lord of reward,

فوالى بالمزيدِ من الأَماني

وضاعَفَ بالجزيلِ من العطاءِ

So entrust with more of wishes,

And double with plenty of gifts,

وأَتْبَعَ فَلَّ غَرْسِيَةٍ عجالاً

يسوقُهُمُ الرَّدى سَوْقَ الحُدَاءِ

And make the perdition of the Ghassanids soon follow,

Driving them to the abode of separation,

فأَسْأَلُ من بَرَاهُمْ للمنايا

بسيفِكَ أَن يَخُصَّكَ بالبقاءِ

So I ask the One who destroyed them for death,

With your sword that He favor you with survival,

قريرَ العَيْنِ مشفوعَ الأَمانِي

سعيدَ الجَدِّ محبورَ الثَّوَاءِ

Delight of the eye, endowed with wishes,

Happy in grandfather, perfumed in reward,

لِمُلْكٍ لا يُراعُ بِرَيْبِ دَهْرٍ

وسَعْدٍ لا يحورُ إِلَى انقضاءِ

For a kingdom not shaken by any doubt of time,

And bliss not declining into expiration.