1. A year in which the prince's beauty grows
Its arrival makes your own fortunes grow

2. A week, a month, a year, all new
Renewing blessings that continue to flow

3. A year by God's grace fulfilled
With what you hoped for, making your state flow

4. A year spreading joy for you, no flaw
In blessings seen, no breach or lack to show

5. O you for whom a crescent rose that stays
Your face still turned towards fortune's glow

6. You who were guarded, cared for tenderly
Making your wealth freely for rights to flow

7. Meeting desires if they're still, and if
Faced with woes, riding the billows in their flow

8. The prince's comfort that all say of him
Pure words, and deeds in what they spoke and know

9. True is he called Muhammad in his ways
Muhammad in manners and virtues show

10. Abu Hassan here, his kindness healed
The bitterness of life, made sweetness flow

11. Son of increase whose days dressed the lands
With joy and beauty's light and radiant glow

12. Basra's great victory, its security
Gave ageless life, fruitful were means that grow

13. You gentled it, and oft too harsh a hand
Shook its people with earthquakes down below

14. But God fulfilled their hopes through your days
And reached their dreams through you, blessings in tow

15. If they could lower themselves to press their cheeks down
Your feet would be their crowns, though very low

16. Right it would be if they'd thank the blessed one
Who rid their frights and terrors in brave flow

17. Thanks be to God who lifted misery
With your days' fortune, dressing life's good show

18. You respected well the Gift of Majesty
So the Owner of Majesty raised your glory's glow

19. None but you in the countries can be found
Passionate for favor and generosity's flow

20. If your wealth were as your generosity's breadth
You would have spread richest treasure here below

21. If all creation sought you out of greed
They'd be your children and dependants in your glow

22. When the ideal among the ideal are listed
You are the right hand, and other the left to show

23. You surpassed them in discourse and speech
And surpassed in action, truth and real deeds show

24. And when the gatherings contend in virtues
Yours they make the model and example to know

25. Your high traits magnified in each praiser's eye
As they saw your greatness and your glory show

26. Why delay the morn, when its day would bind
Its shape with all beauty, a perfection to show

27. The call of the lawful, you answered days on end
A year, so dawn never missed your brightness glow

28. Our master's ascent in rank reached its summit
Stretching glory upon glorious heights to show

29. This for the prince's fortunes and fate
To gain from it blessings he came to know

30. The prince's blessings came perfect, successive
At the prince's hand trailing their hem's drape and flow

31. Until you stand on pebbles more upright
Seeking your livelihood's amplitude to show

32. Until enviers say in their spite
The prince surpassed in perfection to outgrow

33. Who claims to have seen one to resemble you
Claims the impossible in what he speaks, we know

34. When I praise you, the discerning say
Speak as you wish, for you words apt have shown