Sol 6.1

  1. وكفاك منقبةً إذا ذكر الندى

    كرم لحضرتك العلية ينسب

    And it is distinction enough for you, when generosity is mentioned,

    that munificence is attributed to your exalted presence.

  2. ومواقف مشهودةً لك في الوغى

    حيث المواضي نارها تتلهب

    And your renowned stands in battle,

    where the fire of keen-edged swords blazes.

  3. ومعارف قصرت عليك لأنها

    بك يا أجل ذوي المعارف أنسب

    And knowledge reserved for you, for it

    befits you best, O most august of the learned.

  4. وخلائق عم الخلائق نشرها

    كالروض غب المزن بل هي أطيب

    And virtues whose fragrance has filled all creation,

    like a garden after rainclouds—nay, they are more fragrant.

  5. وشمائل تحكي النسيم وإنما

    هي من صبا نجدٍ أرق وأعذب

    And traits that resemble the breeze, though in truth

    they are gentler and sweeter than the east wind of Najd.

  6. وعزائم يعنو لها ليث الشرى

    في غابه والدهر منها يرهب

    And resolves before which the lion of al-Shara bows,

    in its thicket, and Time fears them.

  7. وبلاغة عربيةً آياتها

    تليت فأضحت عن كمالك تعرب

    And Arabic eloquence whose verses

    were recited and came to proclaim your perfection.

  8. ومراتب في المجد عز مرامها

    بعدت مدى فالنجم منها أقرب

    And stations of glory hard to attain,

    so distant that a star is nearer than they.

  9. وهناك جم مناقب لا تنتهي

    وكواكب الأفلاك أنى تحسب

    And there are many virtues that never end—

    and how can the stars of the celestial spheres be counted?

  10. يا واحد الدنيا وأكرم من له

    جمل المدايح والثنا تتركب

    O peerless one of the world, most generous of those for whom

    phrases of praise and eulogy are composed;

  11. وأبر من رحم الوفود كأنه

    لهم وقد نزلوا بساحته أب

    and kindest of those who show compassion to delegations, as though

    he were a father to them when they alighted in his courtyard.

  12. وابن الألى ملكوا العلى وتسنموا

    مرقىً له ظهر المجرة مركب

    And son of those who possessed the heights and ascended

    an ascent whose mount is the Milky Way's back.

  13. شملت مواهبك العفاة فشرقوا

    بجميل مدحك في البلاد وغربوا

    Your gifts embraced the supplicants, so they traveled east

    with fine praise of you across the lands, and traveled west.

  14. وسرت أياديك الجسام فأخصبت

    رحب الفلا والدهر قفر مجدب

    And your great favors spread, making fertile

    the desert's broad expanses, while Time was a barren waste.

  15. وأنار طالعك الليالي فانجلت

    كرباتها وأنجب عنها الغيب

    And your rising star illuminated the nights, dispelling

    their sorrows, and the unseen lifted from them.