لا زال ربعك للعفاة ربيعا

طلقا ومرعى راحتيك مريعا

May your abode ever be a springtime for seekers of bounty,

welcoming, and the pasture of your two palms lush.

يا واهب الوجناء ملءَ نسوعهِها

والخوف فتلاءَ الوضاحِ شموعا

O giver of the sturdy she-camel, full to her girths,

and fear—strong-limbed, radiant, restive [wording unclear].

لك راحة وطفاء يا ابن محمد

قد رحت ضرارا بها ونفوعا

Yours is a rain-laden palm, O son of Muhammad;

with it you have become mighty to harm and to help.

قسما بهاء الدين إنك لم تزل

بالرفد اغزر منعم ينبوعا

I swear, Baha al-Din, you have ever remained

the benefactor whose wellspring of gifts flows most abundantly.

يا ابن الذي مازال مشفوع الندى

كن لي إليه لا عدِمتَ شفيعا

O son of him whose bounty is ever doubled,

be my intercessor with him—may you never be lost.

فهو الذي غدت البرية طوعه

طراً وأضحى للسماح مطيعا

For he is the one whom creation has come to obey,

all of it, while he himself bows to generosity.

ملك يرق بالندى شمل اللهى

فيريه شمل علائه مجموعا

A king whose store of riches grows thin through bounty,

which shows him his lofty glory gathered whole.

قل فإنه قد كان رب جِرايَةٍ

وقد اغتدى موصولها مقطرعا

Tell him: he once had a stipend,

but now its steady flow has been cut off.

فاكسب لديه الأجر في إجرائها

حاشاك يشبع في زمانك جوعا

So earn merit with him by restoring its payment;

far be it from you that he should be sated with hunger in your time.

فلو انتجعتُ من الأنام سواكما

لبكيتُ من بعد الدموع نجيعا

For had I sought pasture among mortals with any but you two,

I would have wept fresh blood after tears,

أسفا على مدح تضوع نشره

وغدا له ولي الجهول مضيعا

grieving over praise whose fragrance wafted abroad,

while a fool proved neglectful of both it and me.

ابني الرفيل وأنتم من معشر

طابوا أصولا في العلى وفروعا

O two sons of al-Rafil, you come of a people

noble in root and branch upon the heights of honor.

يا لابسي الأحساب يوم كريهة

عوض الدروع السابغات دروعا

O wearers of ancestral honors on the day of battle,

as armor in place of full-length coats of mail,

من ذا يؤمل أن يجاريكم إلى

أَمد أَيلحق تابع متبوعا

who could hope to race you to

a goal? Can a follower catch the one he follows?

فوقيتم صرف الردى وبقيتم

تُغشَون ما هزم الضياء هزيعا

So may you be spared death’s ravages and live on,

sought out as long as daylight routs a watch of night.