مساعيك فرع النجم عنها يفرع

مساعيك فرع النجم عنها يفرع

فحسب العدا ما يصنعون وتصنع

فحسب العدا ما يصنعون وتصنع

From your endeavors the star's highest bough branches forth.

Your efforts are like a branch of a star from which more branches spread

Enough for your foes is what they do and what you do.

It's enough what they do and what you do

اسروا الفلى لكن بمقدار ان رأبوا

اسروا الفلى لكن بمقدار ان رأبوا

بشاشتك الاولى فهشوا واقلعوا

بشاشتك الاولى فهشوا واقلعوا

They crossed the deserts by night, but only long enough to restore

They captured the glorious one, but to the extent that they mended

your former cheerfulness; then they brightened and desisted.

Your first smile, so they became joyful and sailed away

نسوا ان خلا فيك ان خاطب الدجا

نسوا ان خلا فيك ان خاطب الدجا

لا وشك عن بشر الصباح يقطع

لا وشك عن بشر الصباح يقطع

They forgot that a friend, for your sake, if he addressed the darkness,

They forgot that the one who addressed the darkness resides in you

would surely soon be cut off from the morning's cheer [unclear wording].

No doubt you cut off from the human the morning light

طلعت بوجه شاهق البغى دونه

طلعت بوجه شاهق البغى دونه

بثل وعرنين الضلال يجدع

بثل وعرنين الضلال يجدع

You rose with a face before which the towering height of tyranny

You rose with a face loftier than desire beneath it

is razed [uncertain reading], and error's nose is cut off.

With the howling and clamor of misguidance being uprooted

وعدت تجر الذيل كل بنائه

وعدت تجر الذيل كل بنائه

إليك وكل واقف يتخضع

إليك وكل واقف يتخضع

You returned, trailing your robe's hem; every builder of it [unclear reference]

And you came dragging the train of its entire structure

turns toward you, and everyone standing humbles himself.

To you, and every stationary one bows down

وعرضك موفور ووفرك دونه

وعرضك موفور ووفرك دونه

كتدبير حساد الامير مضيع

كتدبير حساد الامير مضيع

Your honor is intact, while your wealth, in its defense,

Your abundance is plentiful and your plenty beneath it

is squandered, like the schemes of the prince's enviers.

Like the management of the jealous prince is lost

وكم صد مات قام مجدك دونها

وكم صد مات قام مجدك دونها

يحامى وجبار السموات يدفع

يحامى وجبار السموات يدفع

How many blows your glory stood against,

And how many who died, your glory rose up protecting them

defending, while the Almighty of the heavens wards them off.

It guards and the Compeller of the heavens pushes away

وحالك في الجلى كحالك قبلها

وحالك في الجلى كحالك قبلها

وقيت الردى من اروى لا يروع

وقيت الردى من اروى لا يروع

Your condition in the great ordeal is as it was before it.

And your state among the glorious is like your state before it

You were shielded from death; whoever quenched thirst is not frightened [uncertain reading].

You warded off vileness from the most quenching without being frightened

فخاركافق ليس يخفى ضياؤه

فخاركافق ليس يخفى ضياؤه

وشمس الضحى من ذلك الافق تطالع

وشمس الضحى من ذلك الافق تطالع

Your glory is a horizon whose radiance is not hidden,

So your superiority matches, its light cannot be concealed

and the forenoon sun looks out from that horizon.

And the sun of the morning from that horizon rises

توقف سامي الفكر عن غورك الذي

توقف سامي الفكر عن غورك الذي

لدى شأوه سيارة الافق طع

لدى شأوه سيارة الافق طع

Lofty thought has halted short of your depth,

Lofty thought stopped short of plumbing your depth

at whose utmost reach the horizon's wanderers [ending unclear].

At which the orbit of the horizon shakes

إذا أجدبت أرض دعتك فعمها

إذا أجدبت أرض دعتك فعمها

سحاب ندى عن مثله تتقشع

سحاب ندى عن مثله تتقشع

When a land grows barren, it calls you; then over it spreads

If a land is stricken with drought, it calls you so its barrenness

a cloud of bounty, before whose like other clouds disperse.

Is clouded with dew that evaporates from its like

كأن لديك المال يمسى ودائعا

كأن لديك المال يمسى ودائعا

إذا ما بقي حتى عليها يوزع

إذا ما بقي حتى عليها يوزع

As though wealth in your keeping becomes entrusted deposits by evening,

As if you own the money that becomes deposits by evening

if any remains, until it is distributed among them.

When there is nothing left for it to be distributed

على وجهك البسام منا تحية

على وجهك البسام منا تحية

تقيم مع النعمى وان سرت تنبع

تقيم مع النعمى وان سرت تنبع

Upon your smiling face, a greeting from us,

Upon your smiling face greetings from us

abiding with good fortune, and springing forth if you travel.

That establish along with bliss even if they spring from pain

عرينك مأمون وشيلك في حمى

عرينك مأمون وشيلك في حمى

وغصنك مياد وواديك مروع

وغصنك مياد وواديك مروع

Your den is secure, and your load is sheltered [uncertain word],

Your den is safe and your shelter protected

your branch sways, and your valley inspires fear.

Your branch lush and your valley awe-inspiring