مَلِكٌ أَضْرَعَ الْبَرِيَّةَ لَا يُوجَدُ فِيهَا لِمَا لَدَيْهِ كِفَاءُ
Meaning: He is depicted as a king who has brought the people into submission, with no equal to what he possesses of power and standing.
Aḍraʿa is Form IV past tense, meaning “made submissive”; al-bariyyah is its object. Kifāʾ indicates an equal or match, while lā yūjadu expresses absence of an equal in passive form.
The verse is royal panegyric. Its unqualified praise magnifies the king’s status within the poet’s argument; it should not be mistaken for a measured historical comparison of all rulers.