Sol 6.1

  1. أهلاً بغرتك السعيده

    وبقرب غزوتك البعيده

    Welcome to your auspicious brow,

    and to the nearness of your distant campaign,

  2. وبما خُصِصتَ به من الش

    شيم الطريفة والتليده

    and to what you have been specially granted:

    virtues newly acquired and ancestral.

  3. يا ابن الإمامة والخلي

    فة نسبة الشرف المجيده

    O son of the imamate and the caliphate,

    of glorious, noble lineage,

  4. وأخا الندى والبأس وال

    منن العريضة والمديده

    and brother to generosity, valor, and

    favors vast and enduring.

  5. لك في الجهاد مزية

    قامت بها نفس جليده

    Yours is a distinction in holy war,

    upheld by a steadfast soul,

  6. ونكاية ذَلَّ العدوُّ

    لها وَوَطأَتُهُ شديده

    and a grievous blow: the enemy was humbled

    before it, though his onslaught was fierce.

  7. قدَّمت بين يديك قب

    ل الغزو آراء سديده

    You sent ahead of you, before

    the campaign, well-judged plans.

  8. وأزرت أفريقية قِطَعاً

    قطعت بها وريده

    And you strengthened Ifriqiya with detachments,

    with which you severed his jugular vein.

  9. وتركته مترقباً

    بأساً لكرتك المبيده

    And you left him awaiting

    the fury of your annihilating charge.

  10. صاد الكماة مخاتلا

    والسعد يقضي أن تصيده

    He hunted armored warriors by guile,

    while good fortune decreed that you should hunt him.

  11. ولكم أعد مكيدة

    لكم فلم تغن المكيده

    How many a stratagem he prepared

    against you—yet the stratagem availed nothing.

  12. قد ذاق حطمة عزمه

    بدأت وسوف ترى معيده

    He has tasted a resolute assault's crushing force;

    you began it, and will be seen repeating it.

  13. آثار من هجر الحفا

    ظ قصوره أنفا وغيده

    He who forsook honor preferred [reading uncertain]

    his palaces, in disdain, and his lovely maidens;

  14. ورأى عن القعدي عن

    حرِّ الوغى سيمى القعيده

    and he saw in the man who stayed back from

    battle's heat the mark of a stay-at-home woman.

  15. يا ضيغم الحرب الذي

    صار الهزبر له طريده

    O lion of war, for whom

    the mighty lion became prey!

  16. أحببت تونس بعد ما

    أودت بها محنٌ عتيده

    You loved Tunis after

    calamities lying ready had laid it waste.

  17. ومحوت إذ كلب العد

    وُّ بصدق وعدكُمُ وعيده

    And, when the enemy grew rabid, you effaced

    his threat with the truth of your promise.

  18. وتركتها كالروض

    بجود راحتك المجيده

    And you left it like a garden

    through the bounty of your glorious palm.

  19. يثني عليك مسوَّمٌ

    بِدَمِ العُلا حَلَّيتًَ جيده

    A marked steed sings your praise;

    with glory's blood you adorned its neck.

  20. ومومٌ لدنُ المهزِّ

    وصارمٌ صافي الحديده

    And [a spear?], supple when brandished,

    and a trenchant sword of pure steel.

  21. وغدت رسوم الدين بعد

    دروسها بكم مشيده

    And the landmarks of religion became, after

    their effacement, rebuilt through you.

  22. أنفقت من سوق التُّقى

    فكأنها بك مستفيده

    You spent from the marketplace of piety,

    yet it seems to profit through you.

  23. واختالت الدنيا بكم

    تيهاً فها هي كالخريده

    And the world strutted through you

    in pride—behold her, like a secluded maiden.

  24. وغدوت في دست العلوم

    ولا عميد له عميده

    And you took the seat of learning,

    with no master to match its master.

  25. ونشرت ما بين الخليل

    من الأئمة وابن سيده

    And you disseminated what lies between al-Khalil,

    among the learned masters, and Ibn Sidah.

  26. شيّت أرجاء العلاءِ

    أبا العلا وعمرت بيده

    You built up glory's realms [reading uncertain],

    O Abu al-Ula, and made its deserts flourish.

  27. الملك ناس ذكره مَأمُو

    نَهُ بك بل رشيده

    Kingship forgets the memory of its Maʾmun

    because of you—nay, even its Rashid.

  28. أنَى يعيد وأنت أنت

    ملوكه ويعد صيده

    How can it recall—when you are who you are—

    its kings, and number its proud lords?

  29. وإذا أردت من الخليَ

    فة المحبة والعنيده

    And if you seek from the caliph

    affection and defiance:

  30. ملك له طعمان لل

    فئة المحبة والعنيده

    a king with two flavors for

    the loving faction and the hostile.

  31. هو للمسالم شهدةٌ

    وعلى الأعادي كالهبيده

    He is a honeycomb to the peaceful,

    and to his enemies like bitter colocynth.

  32. وُجدت به شيمُ السيادة

    بعد أن كانت فقيده

    In him the qualities of sovereignty were found

    after they had been lost.

  33. يهنا الأكارم أن غدا

    ملكاً لهم وَغَدوا عبيده

    May the noble rejoice that he has become

    their king, and they his servants.

  34. وإليك يا نجل الإمام

    وشبهه منِّي قصيده

    And to you, O son of the Imam

    and his likeness, comes a poem from me:

  35. إنشاء مجبول الضمير

    على محبتك الوكيده

    the composition of one whose heart is molded

    upon steadfast love of you,

  36. داعٍ لملكك بالدوا

    م وحظهأن يستزيده

    praying for your kingdom's endurance,

    and whose lot is to seek still more of it.

  37. أناً واحد في نشر ما

    تطوي سيادتُك الوحيده

    I stand alone in unfolding what

    your peerless sovereignty folds away.

  38. قد صار شكركم لديّ

    سجيةًُ لا بل عقيده

    Giving thanks to you has become for me

    second nature—no, rather a creed.

  39. يبلي الزمان وأهله

    ومحبتي أبداً جديده

    Time and its people wear away,

    but my love is forever new.

  40. وافى البشير بقربكم

    فسجدت مراتٍ عديده

    The bearer of good news arrived, announcing your nearness,

    and I prostrated myself many times.

  41. ووهبته نفسي ومن

    حق البشارة أن أزيده

    I gave him my soul; and it is

    the good news's due that I should give him more.

  42. فَليَهنَكَ العيدُ السعيد

    ويهنَهُ أن كنت عيده

    May the happy feast gladden you,

    and may it rejoice that you have been its feast.

  43. واخلد لملك لا تزا

    ل فريد بهجته الفريده

    Live forever for a kingdom where you never cease

    to be the peerless one in its peerless splendor,

  44. والسعد ينشد دائباً

    أهلاً بغرتك السعيده

    while good fortune tirelessly chants:

    Welcome to your auspicious brow!