1. عظَّمَ الله يُمنَ فطرِك فطرا

    يا ابن أعلى الملوك مجداً وذكْرا

    May God magnify the blessing of your fast-breaking feast,

    O son of the loftiest of kings in glory and renown,

  2. وأهلَّ الشهورَ بالسعد ما عش

    تَ وأبقاكَ آخرَ الدهر عصرا

    and usher in the months with good fortune as long as you

    live, and preserve you until time's final age,

  3. في سرورٍ يُريك شهرك يوماً

    وحبورٍ يريك عامك شهرا

    in joy that makes your month seem a day,

    and gladness that makes your year seem a month.

  4. قلت لما بدا الهلالُ ضئيلاً

    قد كستْه سُرى ثلاثين ضُمرا

    I said, when the crescent appeared slender,

    already clad in leanness by thirty nights of travel:

  5. عجباً للهلال كيف استهلّو

    هُ هلالاً هلَّا استهلوه بدرا

    How strange the crescent! How did they sight

    it as a crescent? Why not sight it as a full moon?

  6. كان لما بدا وأنت أميرٌ

    مستحقاً أن يبهر الشمس فخرا

    When it appeared, with you as prince, it was

    worthy of outshining the sun in glory.

  7. كيف لم يسبق المواقيتَ بدراً

    كيف لم يقهر المقادير قهرا

    Why did it not outrun the appointed times as a full moon?

    Why did it not utterly overpower fate's decrees?

  8. غير أن الأمور تجري على ما

    قدّر الله وهو أحسنُ قَدْرا

    Yet all things proceed according to what

    God has ordained, and He is best at ordaining.

  9. أحمدُ الله إذ أراني عيداً

    لا أرى فيه فوق أمرِك أمرا

    I praise God, for He has shown me a feast

    in which I see no command above your command.

  10. طاب فيهِ نسيمُ ريحك حتّى

    لحسبنا عَجاج خيلِك عِطْرا

    There the breeze of your wind was so sweet

    that we took your horses' dust clouds for perfume.

  11. وتجليتَ ملءَ عينٍ وصدرٍ

    وقديماً ملأت عيناً وصدرا

    And you shone forth, filling eye and breast,

    and long before you had filled eye and breast.

  12. نَذر الناسُ في القديم نذوراً

    إنْ رأوا عيدك المأمَّل شكرا

    In times past the people made vows,

    in thanksgiving, should they see your hoped-for feast.

  13. وتركتُ النذور عمداً لأني

    لا أرى كُفءَ نعمةٍ فيك نذرا

    And I deliberately refrained from vows, for I

    see no vow to match a blessing in you.

  14. فالبَس العيد وانْضُه سالم النف

    سِ وإن لم تسلم ثراءً ووَفْرا

    So don the feast and doff it, unharmed in

    soul, even if you do not emerge unscathed in wealth and plenty.

  15. طُلْتَ مجداً وطلتَ فخراً بني آ

    دمَ طراً فطُلْ كذلك عُمرا

    In glory and pride you surpassed the children of

    Adam, all of them; so surpass them likewise in years.