الطعن والضرب منسوبان للعرب
بالسمهرية والهندية القضب
Thrusting and striking are ascribed to the Arabs,
Thrusting and striking are the Arabs' province,
with supple spears and keen Indian blades.
With Samhari spears and keen Indian blades.
والحرب تبعث منها كلَّ معترك
حفائظاً تترك الأعداءَ في حرب
From these, war awakens in every fray
And war rouses from them, on every battlefield,
fierce rancors that leave the enemy in distress.
Protective passions that leave their enemies destitute.
حازوا الوفاء إلى الأقدام وانتسبوا
إلى خلال المعالي كلَّ منتسب
They joined fidelity to valor, and laid claim
They joined loyalty to courage, and claimed kinship
to every noble trait to which one may aspire.
With the qualities of nobility in every way.
تجشمت جشمٌ نصر المعد لها
أسنى الجوائز من مال ومن نشب
Jusham shouldered the defense of Maʿadd, and for it received
Jusham undertook to aid the one who prepared for them
the most splendid prizes, in wealth and possessions.
The richest rewards in wealth and property.
وجاءت الخلط المشكور مقدمها
كالأسد تبدو عليها سَورَةُ الغضب
And al-Khalt came—praised was its advance—
And al-Khalt came, their advance acclaimed,
like lions, the fury of wrath plain upon them.
Like lions, the surge of wrath apparent upon them.
خَفُّوا إلى نصر حزب الله واحتفلوا
في عسكر صخب أو جحفل لجب
They hastened to aid the party of God and mustered
They hastened to aid God's party and mustered in force,
in a clamorous army, a roaring host.
In a clamorous army or a tumultuous host.
كتائب ضابت الأرضُ الفضاءُ بها
في ظلّ ألويةٍ منشورةِ العذب
Battalions so thronged the open land that it grew straitened,
Battalions that crowded the wide-open earth,
beneath unfurled standards with streaming tassels.
In the shade of banners with unfurled streamers.
فمن صوارمَ مثل النَّار في صعد
ومن سوابقَ مثلِ الماءِ في صبب
Some bore swords like fire blazing upward,
With keen swords, like fire rising upward,
and some rode coursers like water rushing downhill.
And swift steeds, like water rushing downhill.
بحرٌ على البرِّ مرتَجٌّ غواربُهُ
من فوقه قِطَعُ الراياتِ كالسُّحُب
A sea surging over the land, its billows heaving,
A sea upon dry land, its crests heaving,
with patches of banners above it like clouds.
Above it, swathes of banners like clouds.
شواهدٌ صدقت فيهم مخايِلُهَا
بما لهم من صميم الدِّين والحَسَبِ
They were proofs whose promise proved true in them,
Signs whose promise was borne out in them,
through their deep-rooted faith and noble lineage.
Because of their genuine faith and ancestral honor.
تَذَكَّرُوا مِنَنَ المنصور فاعترفوا
لنجلِهِ بعد كَرَّاتٍ من الحقبِ
They remembered al-Manṣūr’s favors and acknowledged them
They recalled al-Mansur's favors and showed gratitude
to his son, even after age upon age had passed.
To his son, after successive turns of time.
والفضلُ يبدو على الأحرار رونقُهُ
وليس يخفى على الباقي من العقب
The luster of virtue shows itself upon the freeborn
The luster of beneficence shines upon the noble,
and is not hidden from the posterity who remain.
Nor is it hidden from the descendants who remain.
أما هلال فقد أوفى بذمته
وفاء راع لحقّ الدين والأدب
As for Hilāl, he fully discharged his pledged duty,
As for Hilal, he fulfilled his pledge,
with the fidelity of one who guards the claims of faith and honor.
With the loyalty of one guarding the claims of faith and propriety.
رأى الخلافة حلَّت غير موضعها
فأدركته عليها غيرةُ العرب
He saw the caliphate lodged somewhere not its rightful place,
He saw the caliphate settled where it did not belong,
and Arab honor stirred his jealous zeal for it.
And Arab zeal for its honor seized him.
وقال لا سلم حتى يُستقاد لها
من ظُلمِ مستلبٍ أو جور مغتصب
He said, “There shall be no peace until redress is won for it
And he said: no peace until retribution is exacted for it
against the injustice of a despoiler or the tyranny of a usurper.”
For a despoiler's injustice or a usurper's oppression.
وسلم الأمر للأولى الأحق به
بالرُّغم من أنف أهل الغدر والكذب
He delivered authority to the one with the foremost right to it,
And he entrusted rule to the one worthiest and most entitled to it,
in defiance of the treacherous and the false.
Humbling the noses of those given to treachery and lies.
وافت مصرِّحةً بالودِّ بيعته
طليعة بجزيل النصر والغلب
His oath of allegiance came openly declaring devotion,
His pledge of allegiance came, openly declaring affection,
a herald of abundant victory and triumph.
A harbinger of abundant victory and triumph.
جمعا لفضلين يلقي الحسنيين به
نصر الكتائب في الهيجاء والكتب
Together they joined two excellences, through which he gains both fairest prizes:
A union of two merits, through which he offers both blessings:
the triumph of battalions amid battle, and of books.
The aid of battalions in battle, and of writings.
صبراً أبا النجم صبراً إنها قَحَمٌ
تُجلى وتمحى بفضل الله عن كتب
Patience, Abū al-Najm, patience—these are ordeals
Patience, Abu al-Najm, patience: these are perils
that, by God’s grace, are cleared away and erased from the record.
To be dispelled and erased by God's grace before long.
ودم على حالةِ تجني عواقبها
أذكى من المسك في أحلى من الضَّرب
Remain steadfast in a state whose fruits will prove
And remain in a state whose fruits you reap—
more fragrant than musk, amid sweetness surpassing honey.
More fragrant than musk, amid what is sweeter than honey.
وعندنا لك إيثار ومرتبة
تنحطُّ عنها مزايا ساير الرتب
With us, you enjoy special favor and a station
With us, you hold a place of favor and a rank
beneath which the distinctions of every other rank descend.
Below which lie the distinctions of all other ranks.
وسوف تلقى بعون الله مأثرة
تحظى براحتها من ذلك التعب
And with God’s help you shall attain a glorious deed
And with God's help you shall attain a glorious deed,
whose ease will recompense you for that toil.
Whose relief from that toil you will enjoy.
Sol 6.1