1. Good fortune attends you with honor in its processions,
And from you the full moon of joy rises in its orbit.

2. You have won a precious honor for a position,
That made eminent by Divine aid his noble forehead.

3. It strove in a springtime whose sunset was
The twenty-first, to fulfill its account.

4. So times were pleasant for you in the shadow of a state,
Wherein each person has the serenity of his drinking-place.

5. And how should it not be so, when he has appointed you to leadership,
By which the noblest of positions are adorned in Egypt?

6. So you stood with the deputies in every assembly,
With a sunna of justice like a lofty cypress.

7. And you were met by him with favor,
As Ahmad to his lordly namesake.

8. And that is a divine guidance which He singled out
For it and for succoring His side.

9. Give glad tidings to the prince and yourself as his servant,
Whose virtues are too numerous to be counted.

10. And glad tidings to my Majdi wherever the historian says,
"Ismail visited the abode of his salary."