1. Seize the freshness of this new time,
Make this festival the best celebration,

2. Do not neglect the day of joy or travel,
Of rest, and good deeds.

3. Start it with a rosy morning, and when you are thrilled,
Its roses appear on your cheeks.

4. Take the cup from the hand of every lovely-eyed one,
With graceful gait and flowing sleeve.

5. Like a spear shaft if it shakes its shoulder,
And like a gazelle in the beauty of its neck.

6. We have not seen faces look beautiful unless
Their beauty is coupled with beauty of manners.

7. Blessed is a gathering where cups are passed around us
Between a flute and lute.

8. Of drink that the virtuous Muslim enjoys
And is coveted by the meanest Jew.

9. May God bless the Caliph during this feast
And every excellent and venerable side!

10. We live in the shade of the most merciful of men toward people
And the most valiant and generous in might.

11. The elite of God and the cousin of the Prophet of God
And the son of the Guided One and the son of Ar-Rashid.

12. Every day we see him in it, safe and sound -
It is for us a day of celebration.

13. He is the sun of the morning when darkness overwhelms,
And the full moon of nightfall, and good fortune of fortunes.

14. O Banu Hashim, the descendants of Abdul Manaf,
Your love comes from Divine Oneness.

15. You are the best masters, O Banu Al-Abbas,
So excel, and we are the best servants.

16. We are your supporters from the people of Khurasan,
The strong and mighty warriors.

17. We are the sons of this esteemed land,
And the people of praiseworthy partisanship.

18. If you are pleased with something, we are pleased, and if you are obstinate,
We obstinately refuse, with the refusal of lions.

19. We will not befriend your enemy,
Nor carry anger toward the loving ally.

20. God and the Caliph suffice us afterward,
And after him the governors of succession.

21. Your hands planted me, O cousin of God's Messenger,
And caused me to grow and flourish.

22. You increased my enviers, though once
I could not be guided to envy.