كاس النوى ملئت الى اصبارها

كاس النوى ملئت الى اصبارها

وتنوعت فحكوا الى اصمارها

وتنوعت فحكوا الى اصمارها

The cup of separation was filled to its brim.

The cup of life filled to the brim with bitterness

And it took many forms; they recounted to its aṣmār [wording unclear].

And diversified so they talked about its hems

فاعجب لها كاسا يشب لها لظى

فاعجب لها كاسا يشب لها لظى

قد لوعت كبدي بلفح اوارها

قد لوعت كبدي بلفح اوارها

Marvel at it—a cup whose blaze flares up!

So strange for it a cup that burns for it heat

It has tormented my liver with the scorching blast of its heat.

It tormented my liver with the touch of its edges

عللت نفسي اليوم وهي عليلة

عللت نفسي اليوم وهي عليلة

بالوصل اذ هو غاية استبشارها

بالوصل اذ هو غاية استبشارها

Today I soothed my soul, though it was ailing,

I blamed my soul today and it was sick

with reunion, for that is the height of its rejoicing.

With connection as it is the ultimate glad tiding

فكانها قد بشرت بحياتها

فكانها قد بشرت بحياتها

او حييت ببشارة استثارها

او حييت ببشارة استثارها

As though it had been given glad tidings of life,

As if it gave glad tidings of its life

or revived by glad tidings that stirred it.

Or revived with the good news of its arousal

لكنها قالت لتلك تعلة

لكنها قالت لتلك تعلة

طالت لياليها كطول نهارها

طالت لياليها كطول نهارها

But it said of that: a mere consolation;

But it said to that cause

its nights have dragged on as long as its day.

Its nights were long like the length of its days

قد طالما منيتني ووعدتني

قد طالما منيتني ووعدتني

فارى عداتك كالعادة فوارها

فارى عداتك كالعادة فوارها

For so long you have fed me hopes and made me promises;

I wished it for long and promised it

so I see your promises as usual—so hide them away.

So I see your promises like an erupting volcano

هذي شهور قد تقضت والذي

هذي شهور قد تقضت والذي

اهواء ليس يلوح في آثارها

اهواء ليس يلوح في آثارها

These months have already passed, and the one

I love, no sign appears in its traces

I love does not appear in their wake,

Though he is the moon and it's not possible

مع انه قمر وليس بممكن

مع انه قمر وليس بممكن

ان الشهور تبين عن اقمارها

ان الشهور تبين عن اقمارها

though he is a moon, and it is not possible

That months show without their moons

for months to part from their moons.

The moon of highness and glory Ahmad Izza

قمر العلى والمجد احمد عزة

قمر العلى والمجد احمد عزة

نسل السيادة مرتد بفخارها

نسل السيادة مرتد بفخارها

The moon of eminence and glory, Ahmad Izzat,

The progeny of sovereignty wrapped in its pride

scion of nobility, robed in its pride.

The most graceful melody, refined

الاروع الندب المهذب من له

الاروع الندب المهذب من له

صيت يباري الريح في تسيارها

صيت يباري الريح في تسيارها

The splendid, gallant, refined man, whose

A call whose fame competes with the wind in its spread

fame rivals the wind in its travels.

He filled Al-Basita with his poems until

ملا البسيطة نظمه حتى غدت

ملا البسيطة نظمه حتى غدت

اشعاره فيها طراز شعارها

اشعاره فيها طراز شعارها

His verse filled the earth, until

His verses in it became the emblem of its slogans

his poems upon it became the embroidery of its garment.

So if we compose after him we don't find

فاذا نظمنا بعده لم نلق من

فاذا نظمنا بعده لم نلق من

صدر لحفظ القول في اقطارها

صدر لحفظ القول في اقطارها

So when we compose after him, we find no

A chest to retain the words in its lands

breast to preserve our verse throughout its regions.

His poems emerged in their empty space

بزغت قصائده على فخلتها

بزغت قصائده على فخلتها

شمسا يحار الطرف من انوارها

شمسا يحار الطرف من انوارها

His odes dawned upon me, and I thought them

Like suns that eyes dazzle from their lights

a sun whose lights bewilder the eye.

So I got drunk with its inebriation and I sipped from

فثملت من اسكارها ولثمت من

فثملت من اسكارها ولثمت من

ابكارها وشممت من ازهارها

ابكارها وشممت من ازهارها

So I grew drunk on their intoxicating power, and kissed some of

Its first fruits and smelled its flowers

their virgins, and smelled some of their flowers.

He was created with keeping promises naturally

جبلت على حفظ العهود طباعه

جبلت على حفظ العهود طباعه

فطباعنا جبلت على اكبارها

فطباعنا جبلت على اكبارها

His nature was formed to keep covenants;

While our natures were created with breaking them

so our natures were formed to revere his.

His pens are from the pillars of religion

اقلامه للدين من اركانه

اقلامه للدين من اركانه

ولدولة الإسلام من انصارها

ولدولة الإسلام من انصارها

His pens are among the pillars of religion,

And supporters of the Islamic state

and among the champions of the state of Islam.

And when he understands the scattered pearls from

ومتى يفه فاللؤلؤ المنثور من

ومتى يفه فاللؤلؤ المنثور من

الفاظه بنظامها ونثارها

الفاظه بنظامها ونثارها

And whenever he speaks, scattered pearls come from

His words are in its system and scattering

his words, strung as verse and strewn as prose.

The secret of chastity appeared from his family

سر النجابة من اسرته بدا

سر النجابة من اسرته بدا

وبذاك ندرك معنيي اسرارها

وبذاك ندرك معنيي اسرارها

The secret of nobility emerged from his family;

And with that we sense the meaning of its secrets

and thus we grasp the two meanings of its secrets.

The whole world boasts of its carpenter

من عترة الفاروق تفتخر الورى

من عترة الفاروق تفتخر الورى

بنجارها وتجل موطن جارها

بنجارها وتجل موطن جارها

He is of al-Faruq's house; mankind takes pride

And reveres the land of its neighbor

in its lineage, and reveres its neighbor's abode.

They were and still are stars of guidance

كانوا وما زالوا نجوما للهدى

كانوا وما زالوا نجوما للهدى

من ثابت منها ومن سيارها

من ثابت منها ومن سيارها

They were, and remain, stars of guidance,

Both fixed and revolving

some fixed among them, and some wandering.

They connected with their guardian blessed connection

وصلوا وليهم حظى وصلوا عدو

وصلوا وليهم حظى وصلوا عدو

هم لظى فالويل من اوغارها

هم لظى فالويل من اوغارها

They bestowed good fortune on their ally, and scorched their enemy

And the enemy's acute agony so woe to its pits

with flame—woe from its searing heat!

The land of Iraq got lost with them and prided

تاهت بهم ارض العراق وفاخرت

تاهت بهم ارض العراق وفاخرت

كل البلاد بتربها وسرارها

كل البلاد بتربها وسرارها

Iraq's land gloried in them and vied in pride with

All countries with its soil and secrets

all lands over its dust and its choicest soil.

The Badia never parted in morals and

ما فارق الحدباء في الاخلاق وال

ما فارق الحدباء في الاخلاق وال

ابداع في نظم حبيب ديارها

ابداع في نظم حبيب ديارها

Al-Hadba has not lost, in character and in

Innovation in composing the beloved of its lands

inventiveness in verse, Habib of its dwellings.

My love for Ahmed lasts as long as I live

حبي لاحمد ما حييت سجية

حبي لاحمد ما حييت سجية

ما ان يحيل البعد من اطوارها

ما ان يحيل البعد من اطوارها

My love for Ahmad is an innate trait as long as I live;

No matter how far the distance in its ways

distance never alters any of its ways.