Sol 6.1

  1. هو الفتحُ أعيا وصفُهُ النظمَ والنثرا

    وعمَّت جميعَ المسلمينَ به البُشرى

    This is the victory whose description defies verse and prose;

    and through it, glad tidings reached all Muslims.

  2. وأنجدَ في الدنيا وغارَ حديثُهُ

    فراقَت بهِ حُسناً وطابَت بهِ نَشرا

    News of it reached the world's highlands and lowlands,

    so the world grew fairer in beauty and sweeter in fragrance through it.

  3. تميَّزَ بالأحجالِ والغُرَرِ التي

    أقَلُّ سناها يَبهُرُ الشمسَ والبَدرا

    It stood apart with white fetlock-marks and blazes whose

    faintest radiance dazzles the sun and the full moon.

  4. لقد أوردَ الأذفنشُ شيعتَهُ الردى

    وساقَهُم جهلاً إلى البطشة الكُبرى

    Indeed, Alfonso led his followers to death,

    and ignorantly drove them toward the great onslaught.

  5. حكى فِعلَ إبليسٍ بأصحابهِ الأُلى

    تبرأ منهم حينَ أوردهُم بَدرا

    He imitated Iblis's treatment of his companions, whom

    he disowned when he brought them to Badr.

  6. أطارَتهُ شدَّاتٌ تولى أمامها

    شريداً وأنسته التعاظُمَ والكِبرا

    Fierce assaults sent him fleeing; before them he turned away,

    a fugitive, and they made him forget arrogance and pride.

  7. رأى الموتَ للأبطالِ حوليهِ ينتقي

    فطارَ إلى أقصى مصارِعِه ذُعراً

    He saw Death selecting the champions around him,

    so in terror he fled to the farthest of his places of death.

  8. وقد أوردته الموتَ طعنةُ ثائرٍ

    وإن لم يفارِق من شقاوتِهِ العُمرا

    An avenger's thrust had already brought him to death,

    though, to his misery, he had not parted with life.

  9. ولم يبقَ من أفنى الزمانُ حُماتَهُ

    وجرَّعَه من فقد أنصارِهِ صبرا

    Nor did the man remain whose defenders Time had destroyed,

    and made him swallow bitter aloes for the loss of his supporters.

  10. ألوفٌ غدت مأهولةً بهمِ الفَلا

    وأمست خلاءً منهُمُ دُورُهُم قَفرا

    Thousands—the wilderness grew peopled with them,

    while their homes became empty of them, desolate.

  11. ودارَت رحى الهيجا عليهم فأصبحوا

    هشيماً طحيناً في مَهبِّ الصبا مُذرى

    War's millstone turned upon them, and they became

    chaff ground to powder, scattered in the east wind's path.

  12. يطيرُ بأشلاءٍ لهُم كلُّ قشعمٍ

    فما شِئتَ من نسرٍ غدا بطنُهُ قَبرا

    Every aged vulture flies off with their torn limbs;

    so, as many vultures as you please—their bellies have become graves.

  13. فكيف رأى المُغترُّ عقبى اغترارِهِ

    وكيف رأى الغدارُ في غيهِ الغدرا

    How, then, did the deluded man find the outcome of his delusion?

    And how did the traitor find treachery amid his waywardness?

  14. وكان يرى أقطارَ أندلُسٍ لَهُ

    متى يرمِ لم يخطئ بأسهمِهِ قُطرا

    He had thought the regions of al-Andalus his own:

    whenever he shot, his arrows would miss no region.

  15. فَسلاه يومُ الأربعاءِ عن المُنى

    فما يرتجي ممَّا تملكَهُ شبرا

    Then Wednesday made him forget his hopes,

    so he hopes for not a handspan of what he once possessed.

  16. إذا عزلتهُ الرومُ كانت نجاتَهُ

    وقد أحرقت جمرُ المنايا بهِ غَدرا

    If the Rūm depose him, that will be his salvation,

    while death's embers have treacherously scorched him.

  17. فتعساً له ما دامَ حياً ولالعاً

    وكسراً له ما دام حياً ولا جبرا

    Woe to him as long as he lives, and no recovery!

    And may he be broken as long as he lives, and never mended!

  18. وسهلتِ المرقى إليه صوارِمٌ

    كثيرٌ بها القتلى قليلٌ بها الأسرى

    Keen swords made the ascent to it easy,

    with many slain by them and few taken prisoner.

  19. وأثمرَه الصبرُ الذي لم تزل بهِ

    حُماةُ الهدى والدينِ تستنزلُ النصرا

    Steadfastness brought it to fruition, the steadfastness through which

    the defenders of guidance and faith have always called down victory.

  20. وأسلمَ مما أثلثهُ جُدودهُ

    نجومَ قِلاعٍ تزحَمُ الأنجمَ الزُّهرا

    He surrendered, from what his forefathers had built up [uncertain reading],

    star-like fortresses that crowd the shining stars,

  21. من النيراتِ الزهرِ ضوءاً ورفعَةً

    وإن لم يسموها سماكاً ولا نسرا

    among the radiant luminaries in light and height,

    though they did not call them Simak or Nasr.

  22. تعوذَ بالركضِ الحثيثِ من الردى

    فلو سابقَ الأرواحَ غادرها حسرى

    He sought refuge from death in swift galloping;

    had he raced the winds, he would have left them exhausted.

  23. وما صبرُ من أفنى الزمانُ حماتهُ

    وجرعَهُ من فقدِ أنصارِهِ صبرا

    What patience has one whose defenders Time has destroyed,

    and made him swallow bitter aloes for the loss of his supporters?

  24. حكت أخت صخرٍ في الرزايا نساؤُهُم

    كما قد حكى أبطالهم في الردى صخرا

    Their women, amid calamity, resembled Sakhr's sister,

    as their champions in death had resembled Sakhr.

  25. تضحضح في وقتٍ من الدهرِ بحرُهُ

    وقد ضاقتِ الآفاقُ من فيضِهِ دهرا

    His sea grew shallow in a single moment of time,

    though for an age the horizons had been too narrow for its flood.

  26. معزُّ الهدى معلبه حامي ذماره

    يُجيرُ على أعدائِهِ البرَّ والبحرا

    The exalter of guidance, its uplifter [uncertain reading], the defender of its honor,

    shelters land and sea from his enemies.

  27. معانٌ بأمدادِ الملائكِ منزلٌ

    من المعقلِ الأسمى مناوِئه قسرا

    Aided by the angels' reinforcements, he casts down

    his opponent by force from the loftiest stronghold.

  28. رأى السبلَ شتى فاتقاها تورعاً

    وسار على المثلى فيسرَ لليُسرى

    He saw the paths diverge and shunned them out of piety,

    and followed the best, so he was enabled to take the way of ease.

  29. ومن قامَ للإسلامِ مثلَ مقامِهِ

    يَكُن شُكرُهُ فرضاً وأمداحهُ ذِكرا

    Whoever stands for Islam as he has stood,

    gratitude to him is a duty, and his praises an act of remembrance.

  30. تحلى بصدقِ السرِّ والجهرِ شيمَةً

    حباهُ بها من يعلمُ السرَّ والجهرا

    He adorned himself with truthfulness in private and public, a trait

    bestowed on him by the One who knows the secret and the open.

  31. له عسكرُ مجرٌ من الصبرِ والتقى

    يردُّ على أعقابِهِ العسكرَ المجرا

    He has a vast army of steadfastness and piety

    that drives the mighty army back on its heels.

  32. أغاث به اللَه البلادَ وأهلها

    وصيَّرَ غايات الفتوحِ له ذخرا

    Through him God succored the lands and their people,

    and made the pinnacles of conquest his treasure.

  33. يقصرُ فيهِ كُل مثنٍ وإن غلا

    وأجرى إلى أقصى نهايته الفِكرا

    Every panegyrist falls short in praising him, however extravagant,

    even if he drives thought to its utmost limit.

  34. بيُمنِ الإمامِ الصالحِ المُصلح الرِّضا

    نضى سيفَهُ الإسلامُ فاستأصَلَ الكُفرا

    By the blessing of the righteous, reforming, well-pleasing imam,

    Islam drew its sword and uprooted unbelief.

  35. فلا زالَ بالنصرِ الإلهيِّ يقتضي

    بشائِرَ تحصي قبلِ إحصائها القطرا

    May he ever, through divine victory, receive

    glad tidings—you would count the raindrops before counting them.