Claude 2

  1. بِي إِنْ عَزَزْتَ عَلَيَّ ذُلُّ

    وَلَكَ الرِّيَاسَةُ والمَحَلُّ

    If you strengthen power over me, though I'm humiliated,

    You possess leadership and high standing,

  2. يَا ابْنَ الخَلاَئِفِ والغَطَارِفِ

    وَالأُلَى عَقَدُوا وَحَلُّوا

    O son of caliphs and glory,

    While the exalted tied and untied,

  3. وَنَمَتْهُمُ العَلْيَاءُ مِنْ

    عَدْنَانَ وَالشَّرَفُ المُطِلُّ

    And the lofty tree grew for them

    From Adnan, and the noble lineage flows,

  4. بَيْنَ النُّبُوَّةِ وَالخِلاَفَةِ

    حَلَّ مَجْدُهُمُ فَحَلُّوا

    Between prophecy and the caliphate

    Their glory settled, so they untied,

  5. إِنْ كَانَ إِدْلاَلٌ بَدَا

    مِنِّي فَمِثْلي مَنْ يَدِلُّ

    If any favor appeared

    From me, who is like me to favor?

  6. آنَسْتَنِي وَغَدَوْتَ بِي

    جَذِلاً أُرَاحُ وَأَسْتَهِلُّ

    You made me intimate and then went out early with me

    As one diminished, to rest and relax,

  7. وَتُقِلُّ مِنْ حَالِي وَأَنْتَ

    لِذَاكَ نَاسٍ مُسْتَقِلُّ

    And you disparaged my state while you

    Are to some people self-sufficient,

  8. وَمَدَدْتُ ظِلاً مِنْ ذُرَاكَ

    عَلَيَّ وَالإِحْسَانُ ظِلُّ

    And I extended a shade from your sunlight upon me

    While kindness is shade,

  9. وَبَسَطْتَ خُلْقَاً لاَ يُعَابُ

    وَلاَ يُذَمُّ وَلاَ يُمَلُّ

    And you have an admirable character that

    Cannot be blamed or found tedious,

  10. فَهَفَوْتُ هَفْوَةَ غَلْطَةٍ

    وَالحُرُّ يَهْفُو أَوْ يَزِلُّ

    So I swooned in a swoon of error

    And the free swoons or stumbles,

  11. والصًّارِمُ العَضْبُ المُهَنَّدُ

    فِيْهِ آثَارٌ وَفَلُّ

    With the cutting blade anger pierces

    In which there are effects and declines,

  12. والطِّرْفُ يَعْثُرُ ثُمَّ

    يُدْرِكُهُ النَّجَاءُ فَيَسْتَقِلُّ

    And the glance stumbles then

    Salvation reaches it, so it straightens,

  13. وَهَمَمْتُ عَنْكَ بِنَبْوَةٍ

    فَطَفِقْتُ عَنْ رُشْدِي أَضِلُّ

    And I thought of turning away from you in prophecy

    So I began to stray from my rectitude,

  14. وَذَكَرْتُ مَا أَوْلَيْتَنِي

    فَظَلِلْتُ مِنْ عَزْمِي أَحُلُّ

    And I remembered what you made me accustomed to

    So I lingered in my determination, confused,

  15. فَرَجَعْتُ رَجْعَةَ شَاكِرٍ

    بِحُقُوقِ وَدِّكَ لاَ يُخِلُّ

    Then I returned the return of a grateful one

    By your dues of affection that does not fail,

  16. وَعَلِمْتُ أَنَّ فِرَاقَ مِثْلِكَ

    لاَ يَجُوزُ وَلا يَحِلُّ

    And I knew that separation from your like

    Is not proper or permitted.