1. With you, my dear friend, time has passed
And with you, my friend, time has settled

2. Look at his dignity
For it has grown and straightened

3. Once he was shy and discreet
Now he is proud and stately

4. Who can challenge him
With his towering stature

5. Today he owns everything
Around him a kingdom of passion

6. In a free homeland
Where the free are servants of peace

7. No fault in him except his generosity
That allures the undeserving

8. In him is perfect equality
A nation, and he holds its reins

9. Opportunities for advancement are equalized
Like the abundant clouds

10. It is inevitable that he attracts the stars and embraces eternity
And today he reaps the bounty of the towering, free, and zealous Isa

11. How many stands for truth we recall
Year after year

12. How much advice he dispensed
Like light piercing the darkness

13. Take turns celebrating him
With love, not the fervor of wine

14. For cups of devotion are dearer
Than one who came and left

15. Today is a day of purity, let us celebrate it
And purity is no sin

16. Laughing and jubilant
Our elation shakes the crowds

17. And perhaps slumber has evaded us
As none of us sleep

18. I am among you whenever ill health keeps me away
My poetry is my peer that dwells in my poetry

19. So accept it despite my incapacity, O noble friends
And take inspiration from Scheherazade

20. Love before the plenty of food
For today Isa is like the Rightly Guided

21. And his right is the right of passion