نقل الغرام حديث دمعي مرسلا

وحكاه عن جفني القريح مسلسلا

I conveyed the passion of my teary message

And my talent recounted it in succession

وروى النسيم حديث ذياك الحمى

وسألت منه متى اللقا فتعللا

The breeze narrated the words of that fever

I asked it when we will meet but it excused

يا ليته لي كان حملا طيبا

وشذا حماه إل المشوق تحملا

I wish it was a good omen

With aroma it takes to the longing one

ارض اذا الوسمي باكرها ربت

وشممت منها عنبرا وقرنفلا

A land, if the brand marks it in the morning

I sensed ambergris and carnation from it

واذا غريب الدار حل بها غدا

من اهلها في رفعة وتأهلا

And if a foreigner of the land stays there tomorrow

He is treated with glory and nobility by its people

وبها منازله فليس يشوقه

من بعدها ذكرى حبيب لا ولا

And it has dwellings so he doesn't yearn

After it for the memory of a beloved or kin

بلد بها طفلا نشأت ولم ازل

ابدا على ابياتها متطفلا

A land I was raised as a child and still

Forever intruding upon its verses

في ذكر عاصيها يروق اذا جرى

ويزيد في الدولاب فيه تغزلا

Mentioning its disobedient one is pleasant when it flows

And it increases in the spinning wheel its twisting

لله ما احلاه دولابا لقد

ابدى لنا دورا به وتسلسلا

By God, how beautiful is its spinning wheel

It has shown us eras with it and succession

سقيا لهاتيك النواعير التي

في كل روض قد ارتنا جدولا

Watered for these springs that

We have planted in every garden a stream

واها لايام لنا مرت بها

من بعدها والله عيشي ما حلا

Oh, the days we had passed by

After them, by God, my life did not sweeten

قسما بما قضيت بين شطوطها

لا ملت يوما عن شريعتها إلى

I swear by what I spent between its banks

I never deviated a day from its path

كلا ولا من بعد كوثر مائها

يشتاق قلبي في الموارد منهلا

Never, even after its abundant waters

Does my heart yearn for another spring

لولا بقاياه وحقك في فمي

ما قلت شعرا بعدها وترسلا

If not for its ruins and your right over my mouth

I would not have recited poetry after it and corresponded

يا ساكني مغنى حماة نعمتم

وليهنكم دار السعادة منزلا

O inhabitants of Magna Hamah, you are blessed

And fortunate, the house of happiness is your abode

لا تحسبوا عنكم تبدل في الهوى

قلبي وحاشا ان اقول تبدلا

Do not think in passion my heart changes for you

And far from me to say it changes

او غبتم عن ناظري فخيالكم

ابدا بقلبي لا يزال مخيلا

Or you disappeared from my sight but your apparition

Remains forever imagining in my heart

لكن عليّ الدهر اخنى واعتدى

ظلما وبالغ في البعاد وطولا

But time has wronged me and transgressed

Unjustly, distancing extremely

وشربت كأس البين منه منزعا

صبرا لعل الدهر ان ينتقلا

And I drank the cup of separation from it forcibly

Hoping time would transition

ما ضر لو جاد الزمان بها كما

قد كنت قبل اليوم فيها اولا

No harm if time yielded it as it was

Before this day, my first in it

وعلى اليسير جعلت ما ملكت يدي

عند التلاقي مجملا ومفصلا

And I made little into what my hand possessed

When we met, wholesome and detailed

والعين كنت لها بذلت دماءها

ذهبا جرى وعلى الخدود تسلسلا

My eyes, I would have spilled its blood

As gold flows and drips on cheeks in succession

وارى الربوع المشرقات وبدرها

وبها جلال الدين مشكاة العلا

And I see the blossoming meadows and its full moon

In it is the glory of the religion, lantern of the high

قاضي القضاة وواحد العصر الذي

كم غامض ابدى وأوضح مشكلا

The judge of judges and unique of an era

He clarified many ambiguities and elucidated problems

نجل الكرام الطيبين ومن حوى

نسبا ومجدا عاليا ومؤثلا

The son of the kind nobles, who contained

A high lineage and celebrated origin

بحر سريع الجود الا انه

طابت مصادره ومورده حلا

A sea swift of generosity except

Its sources and springs are sweet

لا عيب فيه غير ان يمينه

تولي النوال سجية وتفضلا

No fault in him but his hand

Takes to bestowal congenitally and preferentially

واذا اتى يوما اليه سائل

ابدى سرورا وجهه وتهللا

And if a beseecher comes to him one day

He shows happiness, delight on his face

اوفى واوفر في الندى من حاتم

جودا وفي الامثال اضحى امثلا

More fulfilling and abundant in gifts than Hatim

In generosity, and in proverbs most ideal

واذا تلا وعظ فقسٌ فصاحة

وتراه من سحابن ابلغ مقولا

And if he recites advice, listen to his eloquence

You see him rain clouds, most effective utterance

ان قلت ليث فهو اعظم سطوة

او قلت غيث فهو منه اجزلا

If I say lion, he is greatest in might

Or say rain, from it most copious

ايامه اضحت ربيا كلها

فلذاك طاب زمانها وتعدلا

His days have become plentiful

Thus, his era is pleasant and just

هو روضة العليا وبهجة دوحها

لمن اجتنى روض المعالي واجتلى

He is the garden of the highest and joy of its valley

For whoever avoids the garden of highness and is purified

نالت به آل النصيبي رفعة

وسمت به شرفا إلى درج العلا

Through him the Al-Nusaybi family attained elevation

And he labeled them with honor to the level of highest

مولاي دعوة تخلص وافى بها

يرجو ويسأل ان تجاب وتقبلا

My patron, an honest prayer he fulfilled it

Hoping it is answered and accepted

فلقد جنى دهري علي وخانني

يا ليته مما جناه تنصلا

For time has wronged me and betrayed me

If only from what it did, it retreated

وأضر بي مر السؤال وقبله

قد كان حالي حاليا فتعطلا

The bitterness of begging harmed me and before it

My state was disabled and hindered

وغدوت من بعد الموالي لا ارى

بيضا ولا صفرا لديّ ولا ولا

I have become after wealth seeing

No white or yellow, neither money nor belongings

فامدد إلى نحوي يمينا طالما

جادت علي تفضلا وتطولا

So extend to me a hand for as long

As it has bestowed favors and been generous

فلعل صبح نداح تشرق شمسه

وارى ظلام الفقر ولى وانجلى

Perhaps the dawn of daylight will rise, its sun

And I see the darkness of poverty leave me and clear out

لا زال ذكرك بالمحامد نشره

مسكا يضوع لنا شذاه ومندلا

The mention of you continues spreading musk

Its aroma emanating to us and writhing

وإلى سما العلياء ترقى صاعدا

والضد يهبط نازلا يهوي إلى

And to the sky of the highest it ascends

While the opposite descends, falling to the lowest