Sol 6.1

  1. حقّاً عزَّ شريعة الاسلام

    كافي الكفاة عصام كل عصام

    Truly, O glory of the law of Islam,

    Ablest of the able, mainstay of every mainstay.

  2. تيار بحرٍ زاخر متلاطم

    طامٍ وراء خليج بحر طامي

    A torrent of a brimming, wave-clashing sea,

    Overflowing beyond the gulf of an overflowing sea.

  3. لك ارض قسطنطين اجمة مخدرٍ

    والليث يرهب وهو في الآجام

    Constantine's land is your thicket, the lair of a lion;

    And the lion is feared while it is in the thickets.

  4. ونظمت قطريها بعين عناية

    فكأنما في النحر عقد نظام

    And you have strung its two regions together with an attentive eye,

    As though a well-strung necklace lay upon the breast.

  5. كم من كتاب ردَّ منك كتيبة

    ويراع مجد جرَّجيش حمام

    How many a letter from you has repelled a battalion,

    And a reed pen of glory has drawn forth an army of death!

  6. قلمٌ لك البيض السيوف تطيعه

    إن السيوف خوادم الاقلام

    A pen of yours is obeyed by the gleaming swords;

    Indeed, swords are servants of pens.

  7. في كل قطر شاسع لك ناظر

    يرعى الرعية منه طرف سامي

    In every far-flung region you have an overseer,

    Whose lofty gaze watches over the subjects.

  8. وبكل ثغر عسكر لك ناظر

    يتلوه آخر خافق الاعلام

    And at every frontier an army watches for you,

    Followed by another with fluttering banners.

  9. والخيل صافنة ازاءك شزَّب

    في حيّز الاسراج والالجام

    And the horses stand poised before you, lean,

    Within the confines of saddles and bridles.

  10. القى اليك الدهر فضل زمامه

    ولحقَّ يلقي الدهر فضل زمام

    Time has yielded you the loose end of its rein,

    And rightly does Time yield its rein's loose end.

  11. ايامك البيض الحسان زواهرٌ

    بك بهجة يا بهجة الأيام

    Your bright, lovely days are radiant,

    Joyful through you, O delight of the days.

  12. وكذا لياليها حكت ايامها

    لما طلعت بهنَّ بدر تمام

    Likewise, their nights have mirrored their days

    When you rose among them as a full moon.

  13. ان قطّب العام العبوس بوجهه

    عشنا بضاحك وجهك البسام

    If the grim year furrowed its brow,

    We lived by the laughter of your ever-smiling face.

  14. جود يصمم ان يعمَّ وبعده

    باس يفلُّ مضارب الصمصام

    Generosity determined to embrace all, and after it,

    Might that blunts the striking edges of the keen sword.

  15. يا أيها الطود العظيم ومن شأى

    عظماً مناكب يذبل وشمام

    O mighty mountain, and you who have surpassed

    In greatness the shoulders of Yadhbul and Shamam,

  16. اخجلت وجه السحب فاستحيا الحيا

    يا مخجلا صوب السحاب الهامي

    You shamed the clouds' face, so the rain grew bashful,

    O you who shame the downpour of streaming clouds.

  17. الكفُّ يصلحها النوال اذا همى

    والسيف يصلحه قراع الهام

    The hand is made worthy by bounty when it pours,

    And the sword is made worthy by striking heads.

  18. فبحرمة الاسلام وهي الية

    فيها تمتُّ بحرمةٍ وذمام

    So, by Islam's sanctity—and this is an oath

    In which you are bound by sacred ties and pledged protection—

  19. للمسلمين رعاية مقدارها

    في النفس فوق رعاية الارحام

    Muslims are owed a care whose worth

    In the soul exceeds the care bestowed on kin.

  20. مأمولهم ابقاء قاضٍ فيصل

    بين الورى بالحكم والاعلام

    Their hope is to retain a judge who arbitrates

    Among humankind through judgment and pronouncement.

  21. تلقاه اما حاكماً او ملزماً

    ما بينها بالنقص والابرام

    You find him either judging or making binding

    What lies between them, through reduction and ratification.

  22. قاض افاض على العراق عدالة

    تعنو القضاة لذكرها بالشام

    A judge who has poured justice upon Iraq,

    At its mention, the judges in al-Sham bow.

  23. طبعٌ يكاد يسيل منه ظرافة

    وحجىً يميل برَّجح الاحلام

    A nature from which refinement almost flows,

    And an intellect that tips the balance, outweighing minds.