1. بطالعاتِ السعود والظفر

    أتت تباشير خير منتظرِ

    With the rising signs of good fortune and victory,

    Glad tidings of long-awaited good have come.

  2. السبعة الشهب قد حكمن له

    بالطولِ فينا والطُول في العمرِ

    The seven shining stars have decreed for him

    Bounty among us and length of life.

  3. أشرقت الأرض حين حل بها

    إشراق أفق السماء بالقمرِ

    The earth shone when he settled upon it,

    As heaven's horizon shines with the moon.

  4. غرة دهر أصوله جمعت

    بين حجول الفخار والغرر

    The blaze on an age's brow, whose forebears united

    Glory's white stockings and forehead-blazes.

  5. دليل إقباله مقابلة ال

    أنساب بين الأخبيار والخيرِ

    The sign of his good fortune is the matching of the

    Lineages of the virtuous and the good.

  6. لولا التقىقلت أنه ملك

    لا ملك من سلالة البشرِ

    Were it not for piety, I would say he is an angel,

    Not a king of human lineage.

  7. كم لابيه وجده سير

    في الجود تتلى تلاوة السورِ

    How many tales of his father's and grandfather's

    Generosity are recited like Qur'anic chapters!

  8. مدحته في السرير عن ثقة

    إني له مادع مع الكبرِ

    I praised him in the cradle, certain

    That I would praise him when he came of age.

  9. فيا بهاء الدين الذي سلمت

    صلاته من شوائب الكدرِ

    So, O Baha al-Din, whose

    Gifts are free of every muddy taint,

  10. يا خير خرق أضحى يواصل لل

    وفد عشايا السماح بالبكرِ

    O best of generous men, who now joins for the

    Visitors the evenings of bounty to the mornings!

  11. لله أخلاقك التي خلقت

    كالأنجم الزاهرات والزهرِ

    God be praised for your virtues, which were fashioned

    Like the shining stars and flowers.

  12. بقيت يا بدر كل داجية

    تجود للسائرين بالبدرِ

    May you endure, O full moon of every dark night,

    Lavishing purses of coins on travelers!

  13. وعاش هذا الفتى وعشت له

    مسلما من حوادث الغِيرِ

    And may this youth live, and may you live for him,

    Kept safe from fortune's calamitous turns.