1. مذ قيل قِد قدم الهمام

    أسرى إلى جفني المنامُ

    Since it was said, “The noble one has arrived,”

    Sleep journeyed by night to my eyelid,

  2. من بعد ما كانت دمو

    ع العين أربعة سجامُ

    After the eye’s tears had been

    Pouring rains of spring,

  3. شوقا إلى وجه له

    كالبدر طاف به التمامُ

    From longing for his face,

    Like the full moon, with perfection circling it,

  4. وخلائق كالزهررا

    ض رياضة سحرا غمامُ

    And virtues like flowers,

    Nurtured before dawn by a cloud.

  5. يا من نداه لا يغب

    ب ومن عطاياه جسامُ

    O you whose bounty never lapses,

    And whose gifts are great:

  6. ما دام جود يديك مو

    جودا فما مات الكرامُ

    As long as your hands’ bounty remains

    Present, the generous have not died.

  7. لا أوحشت دار السلا

    م من ارتياحك والسلامُ

    May the Abode of Peace never be bereft

    Of your glad generosity—and peace!