Sol 6.1

  1. الحَمدُ لِلَّهِ عوفِيَ الكَرَمُ

    وَاِنبَعَثَت بِالخَواطِرِ الهِمَمُ

    Praise be to God: generosity has been restored to health.

    And aspirations have awakened within minds.

  2. وَاِستَأزَرَ الإِسلامُ وَاِبتَهَجَ ال

    مُلكُ وَأَوفَت بِنَذرِها الأُمَمُ

    Islam has gained strength, and the

    realm has rejoiced; the nations have fulfilled their vows.

  3. وَاِستَبَقَت مِن غُمودِها دُلُقاً

    إِلى الأَعادي الصَوارِمُ الحُذُمُ

    And out of their scabbards raced, unsheathed,

    toward the foes, the keen-edged swords.

  4. تَكامَلَت لِلوَزيرِ صِحَّتُهُ

    فَالجَورُ باكٍ وَالعَدلُ مُبتَسِمُ

    The minister's health has been fully restored;

    so injustice weeps, while justice smiles.

  5. عافِيَةً لِلحَسودِ مُمرِضَةٌ

    وَصِحَّةٌ وَهِيَ لِلعِدى سَقَمُ

    A recovery that makes the envious ill,

    and health that is sickness to his foes.

  6. هَذا هَناءٌ لِلخَلقِ قاطِبَةً

    يَشتَرِكُ العُربُ فيهِ وَالعَجَمُ

    This is joy for all creation,

    shared by Arabs and non-Arabs alike.

  7. فَاليَومَ شَملُ العُلى جَميعٌ وَشَع

    بُ المَجدِ وَالمُكرِماتِ مُلتَئِمُ

    Today the ranks of loftiness are united, and the rift

    in glory and noble deeds is healed.

  8. أَسفَرَ وَجهُ الزَمانِ مُبتَسِماً

    بِماجدٍ لِلعُفاةِ يَبتَسِمُ

    Time's face has shone forth, smiling,

    because of a noble man who smiles on petitioners.

  9. وَاِمتَلَأَ الدَستُ مِن سَنا قَمَرٍ

    يَنجابُ عَن نورِ وَجهِهِ الظُلَمُ

    And the seat of state is filled with a moon's radiance,

    before the light of whose face darkness parts.

  10. وَجهٌ يُصَلّي إِلَيهِ بِالأَمَلِ ال

    رَاجي وَكَفٌّ كَالرُكنِ تُستَلَمُ

    A face toward which, with hope, prays the

    hopeful seeker; and a hand touched like the sacred Corner.

  11. أَبلَجُ رَعيُ العُهودِ شيمَتُهُ

    يُخفَرُ إِلّا في دينِهِ الذِمَمُ

    Radiant of face, his nature is to honor covenants;

    pledges are broken everywhere except within his creed.

  12. مُغرىً بِحِفظِ العَهدِ القَديمِ إِذا

    أَضاعَهُ عِندَ غَيرِهِ القِدَمُ

    Devoted to preserving an old covenant, when

    age has caused others to neglect it.

  13. يَرَى مِنَ العارِ أَنَّ ذا أَدَبٍ

    يُضامُ في عَصرِهِ وَيُهتَضَمُ

    He deems it shameful that a man of letters

    should be wronged in his age and deprived of his due.

  14. أَقسَمَ لا خابَ سائِلوهُ وَلا

    ضاعَت لَدَيهِ الحُقوقُ وَالحُرَمُ

    He swore: his petitioners shall not be disappointed, nor

    shall rights and sacred obligations be lost in his keeping.

  15. مُتَوَّجٌ تَخضَعُ الجِباهُ لَهُ

    إِذا اِنتَدى لِلسَلامِ وَالقِمَمُ

    Crowned, before him foreheads bow,

    when he holds court for greetings—and lofty heads likewise.

  16. طَودُ حِجىً راسِخٍ خِضَمُّ نَدىً

    تَيّارُهُ بِالسَماحِ مُلتَطِمُ

    A mountain of steadfast wisdom, an ocean of bounty,

    whose current surges with generosity.

  17. بَدرُ سَماءٍ لَهُ الكَواكِبُ أَف

    لاكٌ وَلَيثٌ لَهُ القَنا أَجَمُ

    A full moon of heaven, for whom the stars are

    orbits; a lion for whom the spears are thickets.

  18. حاسِمُ داءِ الدُنيا العُضالِ وَما

    خِلناهُ لَولا الوَزيرُ يَنحَسِمُ

    He ends the world's intractable illness; we did not

    think it could be ended without the minister.

  19. أَضحَت بِتَدبيرِهِ البِلادُ وَأَم

    رُ الناسِ فيهِ بِالعَدلِ مُنتَظِمُ

    Under his governance, the lands—and the affairs

    of their people—are now ordered with justice.

  20. عادَت لِبَغدادَ مِن مَكارِمِهِ

    وَقَد تَوَلَّت أَيّامُها القُدُم

    Through his noble deeds, back to Baghdad have come,

    though they had passed away, its days of old.

  21. وَأَصبَحَت مِن جَميلِ سيرَتِهِ

    كَعبَةَ جودٍ وَأَرضُها حَرَمُ

    And through the beauty of his conduct, it became

    a Kaaba of bounty, and its land a sacred precinct.

  22. لا يَنتَحي أَهلَها الخُطوبُ وَلا

    يَحِلُّ فيها السِنونَ وَالإِزَمُ

    Calamities do not assail its people, nor

    do years of drought and hardship settle there.

  23. إِذا اِشتَكى الناسُ جَدبَ عامِهِمُ

    أَشكاهُمُ سَيلُ جودِهِ العَرِمُ

    When people complain of their year's drought,

    the raging torrent of his bounty relieves their complaint.

  24. أَو صَرَّدَ الباخِلُ القِرى فَهِقَت

    مُكَلَّلاتٍ جِفانُهُ الرُذُمُ

    Or when the miser stints on hospitality, brim over

    his overflowing bowls, heaped high.

  25. تَرى وُفودَ النَدى بِساحَتِهِ

    عَلى بُحورِ العَطاءِ تَزدَحِمُ

    You see the delegations seeking bounty in his courtyard,

    crowding upon the seas of giving.

  26. يا عَضُدَ الدينِ أَنتَ أَكرَمُ مَن

    داسَت بَسيطَ الثَرى لَهُ قَدَمُ

    O ʿAdud al-Din, you are the most generous of those

    whose foot has trodden the earth's broad expanse.

  27. أَنتَ نَبِيُّ السَماحِ أَرسَلَكَ ال

    لَهُ غِياثاً وَالناسُ قَد لَؤُموا

    You are generosity's prophet, sent by

    God as succor, when people had grown base.

  28. وَأَصبَحَ البُخلُ دينَهُم يُعبَدُ ال

    دينارُ فيهِم كَأَنَّهُ صَنَمُ

    And miserliness became their creed; worshipped is

    the dinar among them, as though it were an idol.

  29. خَلَفتَ قَوماً بِالجودِ ذِكرُهُمُ

    باقٍ وَهُمُ في قُبورِهِم رِمَمُ

    You succeeded a people whose renown for generosity

    endures, though they are decaying remains in their graves.

  30. صَغَّرتَ أَفعالَهُم وَلا حاتِمٌ

    يُذكَرُ في دَهرِهِم وَلا هَرِمُ

    You dwarfed their deeds; neither Hatim

    is recalled in their age, nor Harim.

  31. وَحَدَّثَت فيهِمِ الرُواةُ فَما

    بُعِثتَ إِلّا مُصَدِّقاً لَهُمُ

    And the storytellers told of them; you were not

    sent except to bear them out.

  32. يا مَن تَصِحُّ العُلى بِصِحَّتِهِ

    وَيَشتَكي لِاِشتِكائِهِ الكَرَمُ

    O you whose health restores loftiness to health,

    and at whose illness generosity ails;

  33. وَمَن لَهُ راحَةٌ أَنامِلُها

    تَفعَلُ فينا ما تَفعَلُ الدِيَمُ

    and you who have a palm whose fingertips

    do for us what steady rains do.

  34. يَكادُ لِلبَأسِ وَالسَماحِ يَذَو

    بُ السَيفُ فيها وَيورِقُ القَلَمُ

    Through valor and generosity, almost melts

    the sword in that palm, while the pen puts forth leaves.

  35. إِلَيكَ مَدحاً أَملَت بَدائِعَهُ

    عَلَيَّ مِنكَ الأَخلاقُ وَالشيمُ

    Here is praise for you, its wonders dictated

    to me by your character and dispositions.

  36. مَدائِحاً كَالرِياضِ أَسلَمَها ال

    خَطُّ وَقامَت بِنَصرِها الكِلَمُ

    Praises like gardens, forsaken by

    the script, while the words rose to their defense.

  37. تُعَدُّ في الشِعرِ وَهِيَ مُنقَصَةٌ

    لَو أُنصِفَت قيلَ إِنَّها حِكَمُ

    They are classed as poetry—and that belittles them;

    were justice done them, they would be called words of wisdom.

  38. لا عَدِمَتكَ الدُنيا وَلا بَرِحَت

    مُنيخَةً في عِراصِكَ النِعَمُ

    May the world never lose you, and may blessings never cease

    to make their encampment in your courtyards.

  39. وَلا كَبا يا بَني الرَقيلِ لَكُم

    زَنّدٌ وَلا أُزلِقَت لَكُم قَدَمُ

    And may there never fail you, O sons of al-Raqil,

    a fire-stick; nor may a foot of yours be made to slip.