إذا افتخرَ الناسُ يومَ الندى

إذا افتخرَ الناسُ يومَ الندى

بأن يَرشَحوا وبأن يَقطروا

بأن يَرشَحوا وبأن يَقطروا

If people boast on the day of giving

If people boast on a dewy day

of their oozing and their dripping,

That they exude and that they drip

جَرى ما لَو اعتَرضوا جرَّهم

جَرى ما لَو اعتَرضوا جرَّهم

فكانَ نَدى جَعفرٍ جَعفَرُ

فكانَ نَدى جَعفرٍ جَعفَرُ

there flowed what would sweep them away if they stood in its path,

What flows would flow though they hindered it

so Ja'far's bounty was a river.

Thus Jafar's dew is Jafar

ليهنِكَ ماضٍ ومُستَقبلٌ

ليهنِكَ ماضٍ ومُستَقبلٌ

وآخرُ بينَهما يحضُرُ

وآخرُ بينَهما يحضُرُ

May past and future gladden you,

Let the past and future comfort you

and the present that comes between them.

While another between them attends

فبالسعدِ صُمتَ وفيهِ تُتِم

فبالسعدِ صُمتَ وفيهِ تُتِم

مُ عَلى ما مَضى وبِه تُفطِرُ

مُ عَلى ما مَضى وبِه تُفطِرُ

So with good fortune you fasted, and in it you com—

So in your bliss you are silent

—plete your fast as before, and with it you break your fast.

Fulfilling regarding what is past and with it you break fast

كأنَّك سَمعُ الندى إن أَصا

كأنَّك سَمعُ الندى إن أَصا

خَ وناظِره عِندما يَنظُرُ

خَ وناظِره عِندما يَنظُرُ

As though you were generosity's ear, if it lis—

As though you hear the dew when it sounds

—tens intently, and its eye whenever it looks.

And watch it when it watches