Sol 6.1

  1. يهنَ الجزيرة منك أيُّ حسام

    للذبّ دون شريعة الإسلام

    May the Peninsula be blessed with you—what a sword

    For defending the law of Islam!

  2. وبجيدها في السلم منك وفي الوغى

    سلكان من جود ومن إقدام

    And upon its neck, from you, in peace and in battle,

    Are two strands: one of generosity and one of daring.

  3. خلقان ما كانا سواك لقائد

    سيب الغمام وبطشة الضرغام

    Two qualities no commander but you possessed:

    The rain cloud's bounty and the lion's fierce assault.

  4. وغدوت للقوّاد ناظر مقلة

    وسنان خطيّ وحدّ حسام

    Among commanders you became the pupil of the eye,

    And a Khatti spear's point and a sword's edge.

  5. ورآك سيدُنَا الإِمامُ أحقَّهُم

    بقيادة الأعلام والأعلام

    Our lord, the Imam, judged you the worthiest of them

    To lead the banners and the eminent men.

  6. فكساك من خلع الولاية حلة

    جلت عن السّوام والأسوام

    So he clothed you in an honorary robe of office,

    Beyond appraisal and prices.

  7. وحمى بك الثغر القصي ودونه

    شيع الصليب تروم كل مرام

    Through you he guarded the distant frontier, before which

    The factions of the Cross pursued every ambition.

  8. فولجت ما بين الأسنة والظُّبا

    حتى فرجت إليه كل زحام

    So you plunged between spearheads and sword blades,

    Until you cleared every throng to reach it.

  9. وغدوت سهماً في نحور ثغورهم

    والأمر قوس والإمام الرّامي

    You became an arrow in the throats of their frontier forts,

    With the command as bow and the Imam as archer.

  10. وشننتها كالسيل في عرصاتهم

    والنار تحت الريح فوق ضرام

    And you unleashed it like a torrent across their grounds,

    And like fire beneath the wind, over kindling—

  11. من كلِّ ذمر حنكته يد الوغى

    فرأيت رأى الكهل سنَّ غلام

    Of every valiant man whom battle's hand had seasoned,

    So you saw an elder's judgment at a young man's age.

  12. يلقى الأسنة حاسراً فيردّها

    متهلل الصفحات كالصمصام

    He meets spearheads unarmored and drives them back,

    Radiant of cheek, like a keen-cutting sword.

  13. ومعود ألاَّ تنام كماته

    حتى يوسدّ هامهم بالهام

    And one who trains his warriors not to sleep

    Until he pillows their heads upon heads.

  14. ومجدل أقرانه لم تنتقل

    أقدامه إلاَّ إلى الإقدام

    And a slayer of his peers, who never moved

    His feet except toward the charge.

  15. زمن العدوّ بهم ظلام كلُّه

    ليلان ليل دجى وليل قتام

    Through them the enemy's time is all darkness:

    Two nights—a night of gloom and a night of battle-dust.

  16. قوت العدات إلى الكماة وإنما

    أغديت أسد الغاب بالأنعام

    The foes were food for the warriors; you merely

    Fed the forest's lions on livestock.

  17. وملأت أعينهم بهم وقلوبهم

    رعبين في اليقظات والأحلام

    Through them you filled their eyes and hearts

    With twin terrors, in waking hours and dreams.

  18. فالروم قد ألقت إليك قيادها

    إلقاء إسلام أو استسلام

    So the Romans have cast their reins to you,

    A yielding through Islam or surrender.

  19. وتيقنت أن الفناء يعمّها

    بيديك إن لم تنصرف بسلام

    And they knew for certain that annihilation would engulf them

    At your hands, unless they withdrew in peace.

  20. فتدرّعوا ثوب الفرار مذلة

    فأسل بهم أقصى دروب الشام

    So they armored themselves in flight's garment, humiliated;

    Then flood the farthest passes of al-Sham with them.

  21. حاكمتهم يوم الجلاد إلى الظِّبا

    وهي التي جارت على الحكام

    On the day of swordplay you submitted their case to the blades,

    And it was they that dealt unjustly with the judges.

  22. ورددتهم والموت دون مردهم

    رغماً على الأعقاب وهي دوامي

    You drove them back, with death barring their retreat,

    Against their will, upon their bleeding heels.

  23. وسطوت بالأذفنش سطوة واثق

    في أمره بالواحد القيام

    And you assailed Alfonso like one who relies,

    In his undertaking, on the One, the Ever-Sustaining.

  24. من شأنه عجب الظهور ولا رأي

    من نفسه حكماً من الأحكام

    Wondrous triumph is his way; no opinion

    Of his own is counted as a ruling among rulings.

  25. أفنى الدجنة ساهراً متبرعاً

    في ذبّه عن أعين النوّام

    He spent the night's darkness awake, freely offering himself

    To guard the eyes of sleepers.

  26. شرك البرية في وظائف برها

    وله مزية ذابل وحسام

    He shared with humankind the duties of their righteousness,

    With the added distinction of spear and sword.

  27. لم تبق غير بلاقع منهوبة

    وأرامل تحنو على أيتام

    You left nothing but pillaged wastelands,

    And widows bending tenderly over orphans.

  28. يا ابن الصناديد الألى شهدت لهم

    شيم العلا بتواشج الأرحام

    O son of mighty chiefs, for whom

    The virtues of nobility attested to intertwined kinship!

  29. خفّوا إلى صوت الصريخ تجاهلا

    ولدى الرّدى هُم مِن أولي الاحلم

    They rushed to the cry for help as though unheeding,

    Yet in death's presence they are men of sound judgment.

  30. وهُمُ هُمُ لكنَّ هذا مصعبٌ

    يوم الوغى وهُمُ بنو العوام

    They are themselves, yet this man is Mus'ab

    On the day of battle, and they are the sons of al-Awwam.

  31. لَهُمُ جدالٌ في الجلاد بألسن

    للبيض آمنةٍ من الأفحام

    In combat they debate with tongues

    Of gleaming swords, immune to refutation.

  32. ونكاية تدع المعارف للعدا

    في غاية التنكير والإِبهام

    And devastation that leaves the foes' familiar features

    Utterly unrecognizable and obscure.

  33. لله أنت لقد خصصت بفطنة

    تغني فراستها عن استفهام

    God bless you! You have been endowed with discernment

    Whose intuition dispenses with questioning.

  34. ولقد نهجت لمقتفيك طريقة

    ما سنَّها أحد من الأقوام

    You have laid out for those who follow you a path

    That no one among the peoples ever established.

  35. طالت عهود المسلمين بمثلها

    فأعدتها في هذه الأيام

    The Muslims had long been without its like,

    And you restored it in these days.

  36. سارت بها الركبان عنك نوافحا

    ترمي بها الآفاق دون ختام

    Riders carried it from you like fragrant breezes,

    Casting it across the horizons without end.

  37. أعملت سيفك جاهدا ومجاهداً

    في فرقة الأرواح للأجسام

    You put your sword to work, striving and fighting for the faith,

    To part souls from bodies.

  38. فاليوم ألباب العلوج فليلة

    للذعر منك كثيرة الأوهام

    So today the foreign unbelievers' minds are blunted,

    By terror of you, rife with fearful imaginings.

  39. ورئيسهم قد لفَّ ذعر رأسه

    من بعد طول تخمط وعرام

    And terror has wrapped their leader's head,

    After prolonged arrogance and insolence.

  40. فمتى ترحَّل كان أشأم راحل

    ومتى أقام أقام شرَّ مقام

    Whenever he departs, he is the most ill-fated traveler;

    Whenever he stays, he stays in the worst place.

  41. أطغاه أن طمحت إلى أعلامه

    أبصار أهل عبادة الأصنام

    It made him arrogant that his banners attracted

    The eyes of those who worship idols.

  42. فسما إلى الإيمان والطاعات في

    ملمومة للكفر والآثام

    So he advanced upon faith and devotions with

    A massed host of unbelief and sins.

  43. والعجب أظهر عاصماً ومحله

    من دون بسطام على بسطام

    Conceit made him appear an Asim, though his rank

    Was below Bistam, though astride a bridled mount.

  44. قاد الصليب بجهله مستنصراً

    والنصر موقوف على الإسلام

    In his ignorance he led the Cross, seeking victory,

    Though victory is reserved for Islam.

  45. فنجا وكيف نجاة قائد جحفل

    متمطراً بطمرّة ولجام

    He escaped—but what escape is that of a vast army's commander,

    Galloping away on a swift mare with a bridle?

  46. وتركت أسآر الرّدى من جنده

    نحو الجحيم شديدة الأحجام

    And you left the remnants death had spared of his troops

    Facing Hell, shrinking back in dread.

  47. هذي فتوح خليفة شهدت له

    بالسَّعد بين النقض والإٍبرام

    These are a caliph's conquests, bearing witness for him

    To good fortune in unbinding and binding.

  48. ولقد تركت على مناهج سعده

    سيف الهدى في الحلِّ ذا إحرام

    On the paths of his good fortune you have left

    The sword of guidance consecrated, even in unhallowed ground,

  49. مستعبراً متبسماً في حالة

    والشأن في مستعبر البسَّام

    Weeping yet smiling at the same time—

    The marvel is in a smiling weeper.

  50. وملأت أيدي معتفيك مواهبا

    فكأن روض الروض غبَّ غمام

    And you filled your petitioners' hands with gifts,

    As though they were a garden's bloom after rain clouds.

  51. وقسمت دهرك ليله ونهاره

    في ورد ورد بعد سرو صيام

    You divided your time—its night and its day—

    In devotions that come after noble fasting.

  52. وغرست في الأجياد كل صنيعة

    تثني عليك بألسن الأقلام

    You planted upon necks every benefaction

    That praises you with the tongues of pens.

  53. ونظمت في سلك الفخار مناقبا

    حارت لديها فطنة النظام

    You strung virtues upon the thread of glory,

    That bewildered the insight of the poets.

  54. نثني عليك بحالةٍ ومقالة

    والحال ناطقة بغير كلام

    We praise you through our condition and our speech,

    And our condition speaks without words.

  55. كم مشتكٍ خوفاً وعُدماً أنقذت

    كفاك من خوف ومن إعدام

    How many who complained of fear and want were saved

    By your two hands from fear and destitution!

  56. ومؤمل قسماً ولم يظفر به

    غادرته بالبر ذا إقسام

    And one who hoped for a share, yet did not obtain it,

    Your bounty left able to distribute shares himself.

  57. أأخا الحيا وابن الحيا وأبا الحيا

    وكذا الكريم يكون نجل كرام

    O brother of rain, son of rain, and father of rain!

    Thus the generous man is the offspring of generous men.

  58. أرويت أمالي وهن ظوامىء

    ببحار برِّك بِي وهنَّ ظوامي

    You quenched my hopes when they were thirsty,

    With the seas of your kindness to me, while they were parched.

  59. وأنلتني منناً بدات بشكرها

    والعجز قيَّدني عن الإِتمام

    You granted me favors whose thanks I began to offer,

    But inability bound me from completing them.

  60. والحرُّ مثل الجام ما أودعته

    أبصرت باطنه بظهر الجام

    A noble man is like a glass cup: whatever you place within it,

    You see its interior through the cup's outer surface.

  61. لا زلت متصل الرئاسة ساعياً

    ما بين طاعة خالق وإمام

    May you ever remain secure in leadership, striving

    Between obedience to the Creator and to the Imam.