Sol 6.1

  1. عيدٌ اعادَ الله من بركاتهِ

    لك ما يسرُّ المرءَ طول حياتِهِ

    An Eid—may God renew, from its blessings,

    for you, all that delights a man throughout his life.

  2. وأعاده لك كل يوم هكذا

    ورضاك عادات على عوراتِهِ

    And may He bring it back to you every day like this,

    and your contentment be customary despite its flaws [wording unclear].

  3. للعيد عندك مثلما لك عنده

    عيد كعيدك في جميع صفاتهِ

    Eid has with you, just as you have with it,

    an Eid like yours in all its qualities.

  4. لكن خصصنا بالتهاني منكما

    من أوجب الله ابتغا مرضاتهِ

    Yet of you two, we singled out for congratulations

    the one whose approval God has made it a duty to seek.

  5. فتهنه عيداً يعدك عيده

    وجميع ما يلقاه من فرحاتهِ

    So enjoy an Eid that counts you as its own Eid,

    and all the joys it encounters.

  6. اكرمت مثواه وقمت بحقهِ

    وبرزت فيه معظماً حرماتهِ

    You honored its dwelling and paid it its due,

    and went forth on it, honoring its sanctities,

  7. في موكبٍ كالبحر يركب بعضَه

    بعضاً تلاطم موجه بكماته

    in a procession like the sea, one part surging over

    another, its waves clashing with its armored warriors.

  8. اظهرت فيه قوة الملك التي

    ملأت مهابتها قلوب عداتهِ

    You displayed in it the might of kingship, whose

    awe filled the hearts of its enemies.

  9. تمشى الهوينا خاشعاً متواضعاً

    لله منقاداً إلى طاعاتهِ

    You walked gently, reverent and humble,

    before God, submitting in obedience to Him.

  10. ترضى الإِله وتستزيد بشكرهِ

    من فضله المغني وموهاباتِهِ

    You please God and, by thanking Him, seek more

    of His enriching bounty and His gifts.

  11. والناظرون إليك كلُّ منهم

    قد مدَّ يدعو باسطاً راحاته

    And those looking upon you, every one of them,

    has reached out in prayer, spreading his palms.

  12. والأجر يكتب والخطايا تنمحي

    وانسب إلى قد امرئ حسناتهِ

    Reward is recorded, and sins are erased,

    and ascribe to a man his good deeds [wording unclear].

  13. واعذر مصلى قمَن ألسن حاله

    بنيابةِ الترحيب عن كلماتهِ

    And excuse a prayer ground whose silent tongues are fit

    to offer welcome in place of its words.

  14. فلو استطاع سعى إليك محبةً

    واتاك مشتاقاً ولما تاتهِ

    For, if it could, it would hasten to you out of love,

    and come to you yearning, before you had come to it.

  15. وختمت بالتكبير تكبيراته

    عند الشروعِ تحرماً بصلاتهِ

    And you sealed its acclamations of God's greatness with your own,

    at the outset, entering the sacred state of its prayer,

  16. بادى التخشعِ قائما ومؤدياً

    حق الركوع متمما سجداته

    manifestly reverent, standing and fulfilling

    the due of bowing, completing its prostrations.

  17. ثم انثنيت عن الخطيب موقرا

    لك ما استجاب الله من دعواتهِ

    Then you withdrew from the preacher, held in honor;

    yours was all that God granted through his prayers.

  18. ان الملوكَ هم الرعاة وربنَا

    قد خصنَا منهم بخير رعاتهِ

    Kings are indeed the shepherds, and our Lord

    has favored us with the best of His shepherds among them.

  19. فليهن أهل الأرض ملك عدلهِ

    تدني مقاطفه جني جناتهِ

    May the people of the earth rejoice in his just reign;

    its baskets bring its gardens' ripe fruit near.

  20. وليهن من ألقى السلاح ولم يبتِ

    يخشى الهوى يلقيه في مهواتهِ

    And may he rejoice who laid down arms and did not spend the night

    fearing that passion would cast him into its abyss.

  21. من يرضَ عبدالله يوماً خصمه

    فليرض بيعَ حياته بمماتهِ

    Whoever accepts Abdullah one day as his foe,

    let him consent to sell his life for his own death.

  22. خلّوا عن العلياله وتجانفوا

    فالليثُ لا يؤتى إلى غاباتهِ

    Yield the heights to him, and stand aside,

    for the lion is not approached in his thickets.

  23. لم يستفد منه المنازع في العلا

    إلاّ الردى أو أن يرى حسراتهِ

    His rival in eminence has gained nothing from him

    but death, or the sight of his own regrets.

  24. فاشدد يديك بحبله مستعصماً

    واسبق وكن من محرزي قصباتهِ

    So grip his rope with both hands, seeking protection,

    and race ahead, and be among those who win his prize-reeds.

  25. تأمن غوائل صرف دهرك عندَه

    ويفلُّ عنك نداه حدَّ شَباتهِ

    With him, you are safe from your time's treacherous turns,

    and his bounty will blunt its blades' edge for you.

  26. عادَ الزمانُ به علي كما بدى

    واسودَّ لي ما ابيضَّ من شعراتهِ

    Through him, time returned to me as it first was,

    and for me its whitened hairs turned black.

  27. وسري الرجاء بمطلبي فاناخه

    حيثُ النجاحُ يحل من ساحاتهِ

    And hope traveled by night with my request, then made it kneel

    where success dwells within his courtyards.

  28. فأنالني ما لم أنله وحاشَ ما

    حاولته لي من جميعِ جهاتهِ

    So he granted me what I had not attained, and gathered what

    I had sought, for me, from all its quarters.

  29. وأسام آمالي العريضة وادياً

    من جوده فرتَعنَ في رَوضاتهِ

    And he set my far-reaching hopes to pasture in a valley

    of his bounty, and they grazed freely in its meadows.

  30. فاطلتُ شكري واستعنتُ على الثنا

    بالفكرِ يبدي فيه مكنوناتهِ

    So I prolonged my thanks and sought aid for praise

    from thought, which reveals its hidden treasures in that praise.

  31. وجريت لكن أينَ شكري من مدىً

    لا ينتهى الجاري إلى غاياتهِ

    And I raced—but what are my thanks beside an expanse

    whose limits no runner can reach?

  32. مع أن جود يديكَ اطلق فضله

    عقد اللسان عفاه بعد صماتهِ

    Though the bounty of your hands, through its abundance, has loosened

    the tongue's knot, effacing it after its silence.

  33. فاكففْ قليلاً من ندى متلاطمٍ

    لا تغرق الآمال في غمراتهِ

    So hold back a little of this surging bounty;

    do not drown hopes in its engulfing depths.

  34. لازلتَ تحوى المجد من أطرافهِ

    وتلفُّ شمل الفضل بعد شتِاتِهِ

    May you ever embrace glory from every side,

    and gather excellence together after its dispersal.