صيرت نفسيَ بالإحسان مُحسّدة

صيرت نفسيَ بالإحسان مُحسّدة

لولا عطاياك لم يحسدني الناس

لولا عطاياك لم يحسدني الناس

You have made me an object of envy through your kindness.

I have made myself envied through kindness

You have made me the object of envy through your benevolence,

Were it not for your gifts, people would not envy me.

If not for your gifts, people would not envy me

For were it not for your gifts, the people would not envy me.

تردد الشعراء المادحوك بما

تردد الشعراء المادحوك بما

أبدعته فيك والمداح أجناس

أبدعته فيك والمداح أجناس

The poets who praise you echo what

The praising poets repeat what

The poets who praise you do nothing but echo what

I devised in your praise—and panegyrists are of many kinds.

You have perfected in yourself, though praisers are of different breeds

I have invented for you, and praisers are of many kinds.

ما سار مدحك في الآفاق مشتهرا

ما سار مدحك في الآفاق مشتهرا

إلا كما سار غيث منك رجاس

إلا كما سار غيث منك رجاس

Praise of you has spread, renowned, across the horizons

Your praise did not spread through the horizons

Your praise has not journeyed renowned across the horizons,

only as a thunderous rain from you has spread.

Except as your rain spreads from you gently

Except just as a thunderous rainstorm from you has journeyed.

في كل يوم بإقبال خُصصت به

في كل يوم بإقبال خُصصت به

لمن يعاديك إرغام وإتعاس

لمن يعاديك إرغام وإتعاس

Each day, through the good fortune with which you are favored,

In every day you have graced me

Every day, by the prosperity uniquely granted to you,

humiliation and misery befall whoever opposes you.

For those hostile to you, despair and misery

There is humiliation and misery for those who oppose you.