سحاب جودك فينا هامر هامي

وطود حلمك سامي المرتقى حامي

The cloud of your generosity pours and streams upon us.

And the mountain of your forbearance towers high, protective.

وأنت بحر سماح غير منتزف

طام يبل غليل الحائم الظامي

You are a sea of generosity, never exhausted,

Overflowing, quenching the burning thirst of the parched wanderer.

لك المساعي التي مثل النجوم غدت

مقيمة أبدا من غير إنجام

Yours are achievements that, like the stars, have become

Established forever, without cessation.

لله أنت إذا سود سماء وغى

وأضحت البيض حمرا من دم الهام

How splendid you are, by God, when battle's sky turns black,

And white swords turn red with the blood of heads,

وجاءت الخيل من أبطالها رسلاً

تحت الوشيج بآساد وآجام

And the horses come as envoys from their champions,

Beneath the spear-shafts, with lions and thickets.

هناك إن زلت الأقدام من رهب

ألفيت ذا قدم ثبت وإقدام

There, if feet slip from terror,

You are found firm-footed and bold in advance.

يوماك يوم نعيم سيبه ديم

ويوم بؤس عبوس سيبه دامي

Your two days: a day of bliss whose bounty is lasting rain,

And a grim day of hardship whose bounty runs with blood.

فأي ملعان حرب أنت في رهج

مرد وفي عام جدب أى مطعم

What a scourge in war you are amid dust

That kills—and in a year of drought, what a giver of food!

لذا يا اخا العدم من يحيى بصوب حيا

للعرف والنكر وصال وصرامِ

Seek refuge, brother of poverty, in Yahya's downpour of rain,

Ever embracing kindness, ever severing ties with wrong.

تراه أعدل في قضيَّته

لما له والأعادى أي ظامِ

You see him most just in his judgment,

Yet toward his wealth and his enemies, what an oppressor!

آراؤه كرواء الصبح مشرقة

إذا أدلهمت خطوب ذات اعتامِ

His counsels are radiant as the beauty of dawn,

When calamities grow pitch-dark with gloom.

ما قال قط لراج يستميح سوى

نعم ويتبعها منه بأنعامِ

Never has he told a hopeful seeker of gifts anything but

'Yes,' and followed it with gifts of his own.

أغرابلج وضاح له خلق

كالروض راضته مزن ذات أسجامِ

Radiant and bright-browed, resplendent, his character is

Like a meadow nurtured by clouds pouring rain.

لباس ما حاكت العلياء أردية

عار من العار ان فتحشت والذام

A wearer of robes woven by lofty glory,

Free of disgrace and reproach, however closely you look.

أبا المظفر عون الدين قد غافرت

منك العفاة بطلق الوجه بسامِ

O Abu al-Muzaffar, Awn al-Din, the petitioners have found

In you one cheerful-faced and ever smiling.

كم حزت بالسيف سيفا كان ممتنعا

وكم فتحت أقاليما بأقلام

How many a once-unassailable sword have you won by the sword,

And how many provinces have you conquered with pens!

أوجدتني بعد أن كد كنت ذا عدم

جودا وبدلت بالإثراء إعدامي

You made me prosperous after I had been destitute,

Out of generosity, replacing my poverty with wealth.

وقمت لي بأمور طال ما قعدت

بي في مضايقها أهلي وأيامي

You stood by me in matters where, for so long,

My family and my days had failed me in their straits.

فلتشكرناه في سر وفي علن

قصائد صنتها عن قصد أَقوامِ

So let him be thanked, in secret and in public,

By poems I have kept from courting other men.

أضحت كجودك في الأفاق سائرة

ما إن تني بين إنجاد وإتهامِ

They now travel, like your bounty, through the horizons,

Never wearying on journeys to Najd and Tihama.

قد كنت أشرك في مدحي سواك ومذ

وجدت فيا مديحي صح اسلامي

I once associated others with you in my praise; but since

I found [you]—O my praise!—my Islam has become sound.

شهر الصيام الذي ولى له زحل

يثني عليا بصوام وقوام

The month of fasting that has passed has Saturn

Praising Ali as devoted to fasting and prayer [reading uncertain].

حظيت فيه بأجر وافر وتقى

وفوز قدح بارفاد واطعام

You gained in it abundant reward and piety,

And a winning lot-arrow through generosity and feeding others.

فاسعد بغرة عيد عائد أبدا

على عادك بالطاف وإكرام

So rejoice in the dawn of an Eid ever returning,

Returning to you with gracious favors and honor.

لا زلت ذا قسمات يستضاء بها

وللمكارم فينا خير قسام

May you always bear features from which light is drawn,

And be among us the finest dispenser of noble gifts.