طوالع السعد قد وافتك بالبشر

وبالهنا بك سرت سائر البشر

The rising signs of good fortune have come to you with glad tidings,

And through you all humankind has rejoiced in bliss.

وشكل سعدك وافى بيت عاشره

وذاك بيت العلا والنصر والظفر

And your good fortune's configuration has reached its tenth house,

And that is the house of high station, victory, and triumph.

وحفك الله بالنصر العزيز وبال

فتح المبين وبالآيات والسور

And God has surrounded you with mighty victory and with the

manifest conquest, and with the verses and the surahs.

ومن يكن ربه الفتاح ناصره

ففي الاقامة محمود وفي السفر

And he whose Lord, the Granter of Victory, is his helper

Is praised both at home and on the road.

لله مسراك والرايات خافقة

والنصر في السر يقفوها على الاثر

How wondrous your night march, with the banners fluttering,

And victory, unseen, follows close upon their tracks.

في بتية للجبال الصم لو صدمت

لم يتركوا حجرا منها على حجر

Amid young warriors [uncertain reading] who, if they struck the solid mountains,

Would leave no stone of them upon another.

اسد لها الحرب غاب والقنا اجم

بالهام تلعب مثل اللعب بالاكر

Lions for whom war is a forest and spears are thickets,

They play with heads as one plays with balls.

سيوفهم ذكرها في السلم لو خطرت

يوما على خاطر امسى على خطر

Their swords—if their memory, in peacetime, should cross

A mind one day, that mind would find itself in peril.

لا يرهبون اذا خاضوا لهيب وغا

مشيا على اللحم او سعيا على الشعر

They know no fear when they plunge into the blaze of battle,

Walking upon flesh or running upon hair.

لو جادلوا حرب كسرى ملكه انتزعوا

ترغو السهام على رغم من الوتر

Had they contended with Kisra in war, they would have seized his kingdom;

The arrows bellow in defiance of the bowstring.

لكن عفوت واهل الحلم ان قدروا

يوما عفوا وعظيم العفو مقتدر

But you pardoned; and the forbearing, if they gain power

One day, pardon—and he who pardons greatly is powerful.

مت يا حسود اسى هذي اوامره

تجري على وفق ما يأتي على القدر

Die of sorrow, O envious one! These are his commands,

Proceeding in accord with what destiny brings.

قصروه يا واحد الدنيا ومن خضعت

له الممالك من بدو ومن حضر

Qasruh, O peerless one of the world, and you before whom have bowed

The kingdoms, both nomad and settled;

قصروه يا من اذا شادت عساكره

يضيق رحب الفلا بالبيض والسمر

Qasruh, O you—when your armies build [their camps],

The broad desert grows cramped with bright swords and dusky spears;

قصروه يا فارس الإسلام يوم وغى

وباتر الكفر بالهندية البتر

Qasruh, O knight of Islam on the day of battle,

And destroyer of unbelief with keen Indian swords;

قصروه يا من إذا لاحت بوارقه

يسيل منها دما الأبطال كالمطر

Qasruh, O you—whenever your lightning bolts flash,

The heroes' blood flows from them like rain;

قصروه يا من به الأمثال قد ضربت

وحسن سيرته تغني عن السير

Qasruh, O you about whom proverbs have been coined,

And whose noble conduct makes chronicles needless;

قصروه يا بحر جود ورد نائله

حلا وقد طاب في ورد وفي صدر

Qasruh, O sea of generosity, a draught of whose bounty

Is sweet, delightful both on coming to drink and returning;

قصروه يا من به جبر لمنكسر

قصروه يا من به عز لمنتصر

Qasruh, O you through whom the broken are restored;

Qasruh, O you through whom victors gain might;

أنت الذي أشرقت أيامه وزهت

حسنا وفي الدهر أضحت غرة الغرر

You are he whose days have shone and grown splendid

In beauty, becoming the brightest brow among time's radiant brows.

وسرّت الأرض والدنيا بمقدمه

وعاد عيش الورى صفوا بلا كدر

And the earth and the world rejoiced at his coming,

And humankind's life grew clear again, without a trace of murk.

وقرت العين بالبشرى وجاد بها

لنا الزمان ووافى الدهر بالنذر

And the eye found comfort in glad tidings, which were lavished

Upon us by Time; and the age came bearing warnings.

وجلّقٌ طربا هزت معاطفها

وبالغدائر قد مالت على الغدر

And Jilliq, in delight, swayed her sides,

And with her tresses leaned over the pools.