أزين الدين دمت فأنت غيث

به نحيا إذا شمنا قطاره

O Zayn al-Din, may you endure, for you are rain,

By which we live when we behold its showers.

خلقت ممر حبل الود مرا

على الأعداء معسول العباره

You were created to tighten friendship's cord, bitter

Toward enemies, honey-sweet in speech.

يمينك يمن عاف مستميح

كما يسرا ما برحت يساره

Your right hand is a blessing to a gift-seeking petitioner,

Just as your left has ever been his prosperity.

يصرِّح بشر وجهك بالعطايا

إذا راجيك لوح بالإشاره

The cheerfulness of your face speaks openly of gifts

When one who hopes in you hints with a gesture.

وعودك لا تؤول إلى انتظار

وعودك لا يحول عن النضاره

Your promises never lead to waiting,

And your branch never loses its freshness.

فكارتك الهنية مثل كرّ

وكر سواك عند المطل كاره

So your pleasant bundle is like a kurr of grain,

While another's kurr, when delayed, is merely a bundle.

أما لك غير مالك من عدوّ

فكل ضحى تشن عليه غاره

Have you no enemy other than your wealth?

For every morning you launch a raid against it.

عددت منائحَ الشعراء ربحا

إذا البخلاء عدونا خساره

You reckoned gifts to poets a gain,

When the misers reckoned us a loss.

لعمرك ما يجور الدهر يوما

بحادثة على من بتّ جاره

By your life, Time never inflicts injustice

Through calamity upon anyone whose neighbor you have become.

لقد أصبحت مجمع كل فضل

فأنت لكل سائلة قراره

You have indeed become the gathering-place of every excellence,

So you are a basin for every flowing stream.

بقيت مهنئا بالعيد يا من

ملابس مجده ليست معاره

May you live on, congratulated at the feast, O you

Whose robes of glory are not borrowed.