Sol 6.1

  1. أَأَحبابَنا ما خنتُ عهدكم قطُّ

    فهَل بعدَ هذا القبضِ يحصل لي بسطُ

    O our beloved ones, I have never betrayed your covenant.

    Then, after this constriction, will expansion come to me?

  2. وَلي مِن أماني الدهرِ أعظم منيةٍ

    إِذا قلتُ قَد حانت أرى الدهرَ يشتطُّ

    And among life's wishes, I have one supreme desire—

    Whenever I say, 'Its time has come,' I see fate go too far—

  3. أَزورُ أَبا الزهراءِ في تختِ مُلكهِ

    وَيُغرقُني من بحرِ إِحسانه شطُّ

    To visit the father of al-Zahra upon the throne of his dominion,

    And be drowned by a shore of the sea of his kindness.

  4. وَمَن ذا يُطيقُ الفيضَ مِن بحرِ جودهِ

    وَحسبُ جميعِ الخلقِ من غيثه نقطُ

    And who can withstand the flood from the sea of his generosity?

    Drops of his rain suffice for all creation.

  5. بهِ زيّن اللَّه الوجودَ بخاتمٍ

    لأعظمِ أفلاكِ السما نعلهُ قرطُ

    With him, as with a signet ring, God adorned existence;

    His sandal is an earring for the greatest of heaven's spheres.

  6. أَجلُّ ملوكِ الأرضِ مسكينُ بابه

    وَليثهمُ في يوم سطوته قطُّ

    The most august of earth's kings is a beggar at his door,

    And their lion, on the day of his onslaught, is a cat.

  7. وَأَفرادُ آسادِ الوغا في حروبهِ

    نعاجٌ وأهلُ الجود في بحرهِ بطُّ

    And the peerless lions of battle, in his wars,

    Are ewes, and the generous are ducks in his sea.

  8. لَقَد عمَّ كلّ العالمين بعلمهِ

    وَما مِن سَجاياه القراءة والخطُّ

    He has indeed encompassed all the worlds with his knowledge,

    Yet reading and writing are not among his traits.

  9. بهِ العربُ نالوا كلّ عزٍّ وسؤددٍ

    وَدان إليهِ الفرسُ والروم والقبطُ

    Through him the Arabs attained all honor and eminence,

    And the Persians, Romans, and Copts submitted to him.

  10. وَسادَ جميعَ الناسِ بالمجدِ رهطهُ

    بنو هاشمٍ ما مثلهم في الورى رهطُ

    And his clan surpassed all people in glory:

    The sons of Hashim—no clan among humankind is their equal.