تنقل ايها القمر المنير

تنقل ايها القمر المنير

لقد خُلق السرى لك والمسير

لقد خُلق السرى لك والمسير

Journey on, O radiant moon.

O radiant moon, convey

Indeed, night travel and journeying were created for you.

You were created for the night journey and travel

اذا لم تطو منزلة لأخرى

اذا لم تطو منزلة لأخرى

فما تجدى منازلك الكثير

فما تجدى منازلك الكثير

If you do not pass from one station to another,

If you do not move from one station to another

What use, then, are your many stations?

Then your many stations are of no use

تظن العين أن قد غبت عنها

تظن العين أن قد غبت عنها

وأنت بجفنها بصر ونور

وأنت بجفنها بصر ونور

The eye thinks you have vanished from its sight,

The eye thinks you have disappeared from it

Yet in its eyelid you are sight and light.

While you are in its eyelid, sight and light

وتلتفت القلوب إليك شوقا

وتلتفت القلوب إليك شوقا

فتهديها لموضعها الصدور

فتهديها لموضعها الصدور

And hearts turn toward you in longing,

And hearts turn to you longingly

So bosoms guide them back to their place.

So you guide them to their place in the chests

ومثلك من يضيق الرحب عنه

ومثلك من يضيق الرحب عنه

ويحمله على السعة الضمير

ويحمله على السعة الضمير

And one like you finds the vast expanse too narrow,

And like you, one who finds the vastness too narrow

Yet the heart holds him with room to spare.

And carries him to the expanse of conscience

هنيئا للسراة ولليالي

هنيئا للسراة ولليالي

وللدنيا قيامك والسفور

وللدنيا قيامك والسفور

May night travelers and the nights rejoice,

Congratulations to the night travelers and nights

And the world, in your rising and unveiling,

And to the world for your rising and brilliance

ونورك وهو للداني سبيل

ونورك وهو للداني سبيل

وبشرك وهو للقاضي بشير

وبشرك وهو للقاضي بشير

And in your light, which is a path for those nearby,

Your light guides the close one

And in your cheerful countenance, a herald of glad tidings for the judge.

And your good news brings joy to the judge

أرى دار السعادة قد تجلت

أرى دار السعادة قد تجلت

وعاد لها التأنس والحبور

وعاد لها التأنس والحبور

I see the Abode of Felicity shining forth,

I see the house of happiness has appeared

And companionship and joy have returned to it.

And intimacy and celebration have returned to it

تهللت القلوب وأنت فيها

تهللت القلوب وأنت فيها

فعذرا إن تبسمت النور

فعذرا إن تبسمت النور

Hearts beamed with joy while you were within them,

The hearts rejoiced as you were in them

So pardon the blossoms if they smiled.

So excuse them if the light smiled

أتدرى قدر زائرها المفدَّى

أتدرى قدر زائرها المفدَّى

وإن جلت وجل بها المزور

وإن جلت وجل بها المزور

Do you know the stature of its cherished visitor,

Do you know the worth of its blessed visitor?

Great though it is, and great the host within it?

Though he is exalted, and the visitors exalted through him

يضيف خليفة الرحمن فيها

يضيف خليفة الرحمن فيها

عظيم في خلافته كبير

عظيم في خلافته كبير

There, the Caliph of the All-Merciful has as his guest

The Caliph of the Merciful hosts him

A mighty man, eminent in his vice-regency.

Great in his Caliphate, eminent

اذا اجتمع الصدور به تنحوا

اذا اجتمع الصدور به تنحوا

كما نزلت عن الطغرى السطور

كما نزلت عن الطغرى السطور

When dignitaries gather around him, they step aside,

When the chests gather around him, they lean

As lines of script descend below the imperial monogram.

As the lines descended from the sublime