أقْدَمتَ دونَ مَعالِم الإسلامِ

فاقْدَمْ بخيرِ تحية وسَلامِ

You came without the signs of Islam

So proceed with the best greetings and peace

متقلِّداً سيفَ الغناءِ وفوْقَهُ

حَليُ البهاءِ وحُلَّةُ الإعْظامِ

Wearing the sword of glory over you

The ornaments of splendor and the dress of reverence

سامٍ إلى مرآكَ أبصارُ الورى

قَلقاً إليكَ مُبارَكُ الإكرامِ

The sights of creation look hopefully towards your abode

Eagerly towards you, O blessed one of honor

فوزاً بأسنى القِسمِ من مَلِكٍ حَوى

من صِدْقِ سَعيِكَ أجزَلَ الأقْسامِ

You have succeeded in obtaining the best share

From the sincerity of your efforts, the Most Generous of Dividers

فَجَزَاكَ من كَرَمِ القُدومِ وفاءَ ما

أبليتَهُ من صادِقِ الإقدامِ

May He reward you for your loyalty in coming

With what you have endured of true determination

بمواقفٍ لكَ فِي الوغى سُمْنَ العِدى

طَيْشَ العقولِ وزَلَّةَ الأقدامِ

With positions where you had, during turmoil, steadfastness of principle

Confusing intellects and faltering steps

ومناقبٍ لولا دُنُوُّكَ للنَّدى

لأرَتْكَ فِي جَوِّ السماءِ السَّامي

And merits - were it not for your coming closer to us -

Would have placed you in the lofty heavens

رُتَباً رفَعْتَ ثناءها وسَناءَها

بِشَبا الرِّماحِ وألسُنِ الأقلامِ

Ranks which you raised their praise and glory

With the youth of spears and the tongues of pens

وحمائِلٍ فِي طَيِّ مَا حَمَّلتَها

ذُلَّ الضَّلالِ وعزَّةُ الإسلامِ

And loads which you carried in the fold of what you took on

The humiliation of misguidance and the honor of Islam

للهِ منه صارمٌ لَكَ كُلَّما

نَجَمَ الشِّقاقُ دَنا لَهُ بِصِرامِ

For God a sword for you whenever

Discord appeared, it came to it with a cutting edge

نَكَصَتْ سيوفُ الغَي عنهُ وانْحَنَتْ

فَهِيَ الأهِلَّةُ وَهْوَ بَدْرُ تَمامِ

The misguided swords recoiled from it and bent

So they are the crescent and it is the full moon

تَمَّتْ لَهُ وبهِ الرَّغائِبُ وانْجَلى

منهنَّ ليلُ الظُّلمِ والإظلامِ

Desires were fulfilled for it and by it the darkness

Of the night of injustice and blindness cleared

سارٍ إلى الأعداءِ فِي سَنَنِ الدجى

حَتَّى يُقِيلَ عَلَى مَقيلِ الهامِ

Traveling to the enemies in the paths of nightfall

Until it unloads upon the place of determination

فبه حَلَلْتَ بلادَ حِلِّكَ وانثنى

حَرَمَاً عَلَى الغاوينَ كُلُّ حَرَامِ

By it you made your countries permitted

And forbidden to the lost every sanctuary

وحَكَمْتَ بالحقِّ المبينِ لأهلِهِ

عَدلاً من الأقدارِ والأحكامِ

And you judged the clear truth for its people

With justice from fate and judgments

أرضاً أنَرْتَ الحَقَّ فِي أعلامِها

بخوافِقِ الرّايات والأعلامِ

A land which you illuminated the truth in its flags

With the standards of flags and banners

ومَطَرْتَ عاليَها صواعِقَ بارقٍ

أغدَقْتها بسوابِغِ الإنعامِ

And you rained on its heights lightning bolts

Which you poured out in full generosity

سقياً لَهَا بِحَيا الحياةِ وكاشِفاً

عنها غَرَامَ الغُرْمِ والإرْغامِ

Watering it with the life of life and revealing

From it the heat of debt and coercion

غادرتها للغدرِ دارَ إزالةٍ

وأقمتَها للأمن دارَ مقامِ

You abandoned it to betrayal, a house of removal

And established it for safety, an enduring abode

ونَظَمْتَ دُرَّ عُقودِها وعهودِها

فِي سِلْكِ هَذَا المُلْكِ أيَّ نِظامِ

And you strung the pearls of its covenants and pacts

In the thread of this kingdom - what an organization!

وأقَمْتَ حَدَّ اللهِ فِيمَنْ ضامَها

ضَرْباً بِحَدِّ الصارِمِ الصَّمْصامِ

And you carried out the limit of God among those who wronged it

Striking with the edge of a cutting, piercing sword

باغٍ أصابَ بِبَغْيهِ وبنكثِهِ

نَفساً عليها يَتَّقي ويُحَامِي

Seeking oppression in his rebellion and betrayal

A soul which is guarded and protected

ولِئنْ خَتمْتَ عَلَيْهِ سِجنَكَ قاهِراً

فَغَدَا وأمْسى منكَ رَهْنَ حِمامِ

And even if you sealed your prison upon him vanquished

He lives morning and eve as your captive

في بَطْنِ أمٍّ بَرَّةٍ لَقِحَتْ بِهِ

يومَ الوغى من ذابِلٍ وحُسامِ

In the belly of a dutiful mother made pregnant by him

The day of turmoil, from the faded and the swords

فلقد تَمَخَّضَ عنه منكَ بروعَةٍ

تُوفي فتُسْقطُهُ لِغَيرِ تمامِ

For from it you painfully delivered, by your power

One who completes but you make miscarry before maturity

ولقد نَدَبْتَ لِحَرْبِهِ فِي بَطْنِها

قَرْعَ الظُنونِ ومُرْجِفَ الأوْهامِ

And you summoned for his war in her belly

The clatter of suspicions and the turbulence of delusions

ولَو اسْتَجَزْتَ لَهُ المَنامَ لَرَدَّهُ

كي لا يَرى عينَيْكَ فِي الأحلامِ

And if you asked for sleep for him, you would return him

So that he does not see your eyes in dreams

ولقد مَلأتَ عليهِ أجوَازَ المَلا

برَوَابِضِ الآسادِ فِي الآجامِ

And you filled his surroundings in the refuge with

The paws of lions in the pits

مُتَرَبِّصينَ جَنى ثمارٍ قَدْ أنى

منها إليكَ تَفَتُّحُ الأكمامِ

Lying in wait for the harvest of fruits which

Ripening to you the bindings of sleeves

فَابْشِرْ بِهَا من نِعْمَةٍ مشكورَةٍ

فِي دَوْلَةٍ موصولَةٍ بِدَوَامِ

So receive good news of an obligation fulfilled

In an everlasting state

وافْخَرْ فأنتَ لكلِّ مجدٍ مَفْخَرٌ

واسْلَمْ فأنتَ ذخيرةُ الإِسْلامِ

And boast - for you are the pride of all glory

And submit - for you are the provision of Islam

سعياً بِهِ أعْدَمْتَ مِثلَكَ فِي الورى

فَحَوَيْتَ مفخر ذلِكَ الإعدامِ

Striving by it you destroyed your equal in existence

Thus you contained the pride of that destruction

ولَئِنْ رَعَيْتَ الدِّينَ والدنيا فَما

أَنْسَتْكَ رَعْيَ وسائِلي وذِمامي

And even if you shepherded religion and worldly life

My implements and reins did not make you forget

يومَ اطَّلعْتَ مشارِبي فرأيتَ فِي

عُقْرِ الحِياضِ الوُفْرِ خِزْيَ مقامي

The day you observed my watering places and saw

In the bosom of meadows, disgrace of my position

وأنِسْتَ من نَظَري تَذَلُّلَ موقفي

ووَجِسْتَ فِي الأَحشاء حَرَّ أُوامي

And you sympathized with the humiliation of my stance from watching me

And felt in your inner depths the heat of my burning coal

ورأيتَ فِي أنيابِ عادِيَةِ العِدىْ

لَحْمِي وظُفْرُ الظُلْمِ مِنِّي دامي

And you saw in the fangs of my hostile enemy

My flesh, and the claws of injustice from me, blood

وعَلِمْتَ إن أبْطَأَتَ عنّي أنَّني

مِمَّا أُلاقِي لا أَشُدُّ حِزامي

And you knew that if you tarry from me

I am not firmer than my situation from what I face

فَسَبَقْتَ خَشْيَةَ أن تَحينَ مَنِيَّتي

وبَدَرْتَ خِيفَةَ أنْ يُحَمَّ حِمامي

So you preceded out of fear that my death would come

And hurried out of dread that my refuge would be sealed

ونَكِرْتَ من جَوْرِ الحوادِثِ أنَّني

ظامٍ وبَحْرُ الجودِ فَوْقِيَ طَامِ

And you disliked from the tyranny of events that

I am oppressed and the sea of generosity flows over me

وحَرِجْتَ مِنِّي أن أهيمَ بغُلَّتي

سُقماً وَفِي سُقْياكَ بُرْءُ سَقامي

And you felt embarrassed that I roam with my worry

Ill while in your watering is the cure of my illness

وبَصُرْتَ من خَلَلِ التَجمُّلِ خَلَّتي

وفَهِمْتَ من صمتِ الحياءِ كلامي

And you observed through pretentious adornment my deficiency

And understood from the silence of shame my speech

فَفَتقْتَ أنهارَ الجَدَا لحدائِقي

ونَصَبْتَ أغراضَ المُنى لِسِهامي

So you opened rivers of generosity for my gardens

And set up purposes of desire for my arrows

وفَتحْتَ نحوَ الماءِ ضِيقَ مَوَارِدِي

وفَسَحْتَ فِي المَرْعى لِرَعْي سَوَامي

And you opened towards water the narrowed place of my resources

And broadened in the pasture for grazing my herd

وأنِفْتَ للآدابِ أنْ يَسْطُو بِهَا

جَهْلُ الزَّمانِ وعَثْرَةُ الأيَّامِ

And you refused to let the ignorance of time

And stumbling of days to overpower etiquette

رَحِماً من العِلْمِ اقتضى ليَ رَحْمَةً

من واصِلِ الآمالِ والأرْحامِ

Mercifully from knowledge which required for me mercy

From the joiner of hopes and wombs

فَلأَهْتِفَنَّ بحمدِها وثنائها

وجزائها فِي مُعْرِقٍ وشَآمِي

So I will proclaim its praise and glory

And its reward in vigil and my poetry

ولأَرْجُوَنْ بتمامِها من مُنْعِمٍ

لا يَرْتَضِي النُّعْمى بغيرِ تمامِ

And I will hope for its completion from a Bestower

Who does not approve blessing without completion