1. لك النصرُ حزبٌ والمقاديرُ أعوانُ

    فحسبُ أعاديكَ انقيادٌ وإذعانُ

    Victory is your ally, and fate's decrees your helpers.

    So obedience and submission must suffice your foes.

  2. وما تعصم الأعداءَ منكَ حصونها

    ولا الأسدَ خفانٌ ولا العصم ثهلانُ

    Their fortresses do not shield your enemies from you,

    nor Khaffan the lions, nor Thahlan the ibex.

  3. أنابت إلى أمرِ الإلهِ مَيُرقَةٌ

    فليسَ عليها للشقاوةِ سُلطانُ

    Majorca has submitted to God's command,

    so wretchedness has no dominion over her.

  4. هنيئاً لك الإعلان بالحقِّ بعدما

    تمادى لها بالزورِ والإفكِ إعلانُ

    Joy to you in proclaiming the truth, after

    falsehood and lies had so long been proclaimed there.

  5. غرائب سنتها السعادة لم يكن

    ليحسبها تجري على الفكر إنسانُ

    Wonders ordained by good fortune—never

    could anyone have imagined them crossing the mind.

  6. فبعداً وسحقاً لابن إسحاقَ إنهُ

    مطيعٌ لأحلامِ الكرى وهو يقظانُ

    Away, then, and perdition to Ibn Ishaq! He

    obeys the dreams of sleep, though he is awake.

  7. سواءٌ لديهِ من غباوةِ طبعه

    هلاكٌ ومنجاةٌ وربحٌ وخسران

    Through his nature's dullness, he sees no difference

    between ruin and deliverance, profit and loss.

  8. فمن حيث رام العزَّ جاءته ذلةٌ

    ومن حيثُ رامَ الحظَّ لاقاه حرمانُ

    Where he sought honor, humiliation came to him;

    and where he sought good fortune, deprivation met him.

  9. يرى الأرض ذات الطول والعرض حلقةً

    وكان له فيها مكانٌ وإمكان

    He sees the earth, with all its length and breadth, as a ring,

    though once he had standing and opportunity within it.

  10. ويهوى لقاءَ الموتِ لما أضافهُ

    إلى نوبٍ تنتابُهُ وهي ألوانُ

    And he longs to meet death, driven as he is

    into calamities that beset him in many hues.

  11. به لا بظبيٍ بالصريمةِ أعفرٍ

    فقد طاحَ منهُ مارِدُ الإنسِ شيطانُ

    Let it befall him, not a tawny gazelle on the dune!

    For in him a rebel among men—a devil—has fallen.

  12. تصامَمَ عن وعظِ الزمانِ بقلبهِ

    ومن دونهِ عندِ الألباءِ سحبانُ

    He made his heart deaf to time's admonition,

    which, to the discerning, surpasses Sahban.

  13. وكان له فيمن تقدم زاجرٌ

    ولكن ذوُو الأهواءِ صُمٌّ وعميانُ

    And in those who went before he had a warning,

    but followers of passion are deaf and blind.

  14. وهل هوَ إلا من أناسٍ تهافتوا

    فراشاً على أسيافكم وهي نيرانُ

    And is he anything but one of those who flung themselves

    like moths upon your swords, which are fires?

  15. عصوا دعوة المهدي وهي سفينةٌ

    فأغرقهم طغيانهم وهو طوفانُ

    They disobeyed the Mahdi's call, though it was a ship,

    so their rebellion drowned them, for it was a flood.

  16. رغا فوقهم سقب السماءِ فأصبحوا

    كأنهمُ في عالم الأرضِ ما كانوا

    The sky's camel-calf bellowed above them, and they became

    as though they had never existed in the earthly world.

  17. وما الجنُّ ممن يرعوي عن تمردٍ

    على حالةٍ لولا النبيُّ سليمانُ

    Nor would the jinn desist from rebellion

    under any circumstance, but for the prophet Solomon.

  18. ولما دهى من سحرِ فرعونَ ما دهى

    أتيحت عصا موسى له وهي ثعبانُ

    And when Pharaoh's sorcery wrought its havoc,

    Moses' staff was brought against it, a serpent.

  19. لقد ألبسَ اللَهُ الخلافةَ بهجةً

    بملكٍ به يُزهى الوجودُ ويزدانُ

    God has indeed clothed the caliphate in splendor

    with a king in whom existence glories and through whom it is adorned:

  20. بأبلجَ أما شيمُ نورِ جبينهِ

    فيمنٌ وأما حبهُ فهوَ إيمانُ

    a radiant man—beholding the light of his brow

    brings good fortune, while love for him is faith.

  21. تعمُّ أياديهِ ولكن نجارُهُ

    تُخَصُّ بهِ دُونَ البريةِ عدنانُ

    His benefactions embrace all, but his lineage

    is Adnan's alone among all creation.

  22. مدائحُهُ في الحالِ عزٌّ ورفعةٌ

    وفوزٌ عظيمٌ في المآلِ ورضوانُ

    Praising him brings honor and exaltation now,

    and great triumph and divine approval in the end.

  23. تهللَ وجهاً واستهلَّ أنامِلاً

    فأرضى المعالي منهُ حسنٌ وإحسانُ

    His face beamed, and his fingertips poured like rain;

    so his beauty and bounty delighted the heights of glory.

  24. إذا ما تجلى أو جرى ذكرُ مجدِهِ

    فللهِ ما تعطى عيونٌ وآذانُ

    Whenever he appears or his glory is spoken of,

    what gifts, by God, are given to eyes and ears!

  25. كأن جميعَ الحُسنِ خَطَّ بوجهِهِ

    كتاباً له في صفحةِ البدرِ عُنوانُ

    It is as though all beauty had inscribed upon his face

    a book whose title is on the full moon's page.

  26. إذا ما تروى ناظرٌ من روائه

    تمنى إليه عودةً وهو ظمآنُ

    Whenever an onlooker drinks his fill of his loveliness,

    he longs to return to him, still thirsty.

  27. أنا السابقُ المربي على كل سابقٍ

    وللشعرِ ميدانٌ رحيبٌ وفرسانُ

    I am the forerunner who surpasses every forerunner,

    and poetry has a spacious arena and its horsemen.

  28. وإني مع الإحسانِ عنكم مقصرٌ

    ولو كان في عوني زيادٌ وحسانُ

    Yet, for all my skill, I fall short of doing you justice,

    even if Ziyad and Hassan were there to help me.

  29. وما الشعر إلا السحر غير محرمٍ

    وإلا فما تغني قوافٍ وأوزانُ

    Poetry is nothing but magic, though not forbidden;

    otherwise, what use are rhymes and meters?

  30. وما كل نجمٍ كالدراري شهرةً

    ولا كلها في رفعة القدر كيوانٌ

    Not every star rivals the brilliant ones in renown,

    nor is each a Saturn in loftiness of rank.

  31. سعودُكَ من يرتابُ فيها وللورى

    عليها دليلٌ كل يومٍ وبرهانُ

    Your stars of good fortune—who doubts them, when humankind

    has evidence and proof of them every day?