1. Three festivals arrived with a smile
Spring, Nawruz, and Eid al-Adha

2. Three joys that saw you in office
So they came with blessings upon you

3. It is a blessing that you are well
While events slumber and ache

4. Approach them with the rest of the Owner of the Great Office
As my ability reaches the highest part of the line

5. So for Damascus al-Sham you have not ceased
To have provisions distributed therein

6. They saw you and praised God, and remembered
Though from afar, your previous kindness

7. They hurried during the Eid with your blessings
And the crowds gathered, rich and poor

8. And all returned with hands outstretched
To God, that God rewards you for them

9. My friends say to me, “Blessed Eid upon you”
And how are you, I said, “Content”

10. Dew walks in the sickness of my state, so I frown
A scab on its wounds and ointment in its corners

11. As long as the generosity of Daftrī Muhammad remains
For me, each day from him is an Eid and season

12. A youth whom I seated fearing for the Truth a seat
To refine therein his silence and speech

13. He has benefit from it when the zealous preacher gathers anger
And teaches him the manners of dignity so he is forbearing

14. And is affectionate to the criminal until he makes us
Indebted by the hand to him through that which makes him a criminal

15. So generous that absent from him was imagined
While the people said, “Generosity has died”

16. And the garment of linen is not what is above his shoulder
But it is a coat of honor from glory, a banner

17. My hopes follow his kind deeds
So he fulfilled for me what was not imagined

18. I will weave from the beauty of his praise for his glory
A pattern bedecked with stars and seamless

19. Stars of meaning that merit attests
Upon the canine tooth of the highest, a strung necklace

20. If my thoughts reveal him, the mention of him soars
Until I see him competing with the stars

21. The shoulder of the generous inclines to him and bends
And forgets with him all but to protect the critic

22. And I have no merit in what I say, but rather
His hands with me are tongues that speak