تَبارَكَ فاطرُ القَمَرِ اقتدارَا
أصاغَك صيغةَ القَمَرِ المُنِيْرِ
Blessed and exalted is the moon’s Creator in sovereign power!
He fashioned you in the likeness of the radiant moon.
لَطُفْتَ فَجُزْتَ حدّ اللُّطْفِ حتى
كأنك بعضُ سكانِ الأَثِيْرِ
So subtle were you that you passed refinement’s furthest bound,
as though you were one of the dwellers in the ether.
فَضَحْتَ الزّهْرَةَ الزَّهْرَاءِ نُوراً
وقدْ أزريت بالشِّعْرَى العَبُورِ
You put radiant Venus to shame in brightness,
and made even Sirius the Crosser seem paltry.
وعالمُنَا الصّغِيرُ أَقَلُّ قدراً
ولكنّا نَرَاكَ مِنَ الكَبِيْرِ
Our little world is lower in degree,
yet we behold you as belonging to the greater world.
ومن يشْنَاكَ أو يَبْغِيْكَ سوءاً
ظلاميُّ الطباعِ وأنْتَ نُوري
Whoever hates you or seeks you harm
is dark by nature, while you are my light.
وقال عطاردُ كُنْ لي نَظِيْراً
فَكُنْتَ لَهُ أجَلَّ من النّظِيْرِ
Mercury said, “Be my peer,”
yet you stood too exalted to be his mere equal.
كَمُلْتَ بَرَاعَةً وجَمَعْتَ ذِهْناً
ومعرفَةً بأَسْرارِ الأمُورِ
You attained perfection in ingenuity and possessed a keen mind,
and knowledge of the secrets of all things.
Sol 5.6