إليكَ بِالإذْنِ صارَ الناسُ والجُودُ

إليكَ بِالإذْنِ صارَ الناسُ والجُودُ

فَلا عَدِمْنا فَقِيداً فِيكَ مَوجُودُ

فَلا عَدِمْنا فَقِيداً فِيكَ مَوجُودُ

With permission, people and generosity have come to you.

To you, with permission, people and generosity have come

So may we never lack what is absent elsewhere but found in you.

So we never lack a prisoner in you that is present

وَلِلرَّبِيعِ لِسانٌ ظَلَّ يُنشِدُنا

وَلِلرَّبِيعِ لِسانٌ ظَلَّ يُنشِدُنا

النَّبتُ أَغيَدُ والسُّلطانُ مَحمودُ

النَّبتُ أَغيَدُ والسُّلطانُ مَحمودُ

And spring has a tongue that kept reciting to us:

And for spring a tongue that has remained reciting to us

The plants are supple, and the sultan is praised.

The plants are most plentiful and the sultan is praised

وأَقبلَ الغَيثُ منهُ حَاجِباً مَلِكاً

وأَقبلَ الغَيثُ منهُ حَاجِباً مَلِكاً

كَمْ شاعَ يَوماً لهُ بالنَّصرِ مَشهودُ

كَمْ شاعَ يَوماً لهُ بالنَّصرِ مَشهودُ

And rain came forth from him—a chamberlain, himself a king.

And the rain has come from it frowning like a king

How many a day of his, marked by victory, became renowned!

How often has its victory with it been witnessed

والنِّيلُ كَمْ حَسَدَ القاضِي على مَلِكٍ

والنِّيلُ كَمْ حَسَدَ القاضِي على مَلِكٍ

تَصوَّرَ الجُودُ فيهِ بَلْ هُوَ الجُودُ

تَصوَّرَ الجُودُ فيهِ بَلْ هُوَ الجُودُ

And how often the Nile envied the judge over a king

And the Nile, how much has it envied the judge over a king

In whom generosity took form—indeed, he is generosity itself.

Generosity was imagined in it, but it itself is generosity

مَلْكٌ يَصدُّ بِنُعماهُ القلوبَ على

مَلْكٌ يَصدُّ بِنُعماهُ القلوبَ على

ماهَذَّبتْهُ بهِ آباؤهُ الصِّيدُ

ماهَذَّبتْهُ بهِ آباؤهُ الصِّيدُ

A king who turns hearts aside with his bounty, in accordance with

A king who defends hearts with his favors against

That with which his noble forefathers refined him.

What his forefathers had refined with their hunt

فَيَا لَجُدودِ العَوالي والجدودِ معاً

فَيَا لَجُدودِ العَوالي والجدودِ معاً

لِواؤُهُ حَيثُ حَلَّ النَّجْمُ مَعْقُودُ

لِواؤُهُ حَيثُ حَلَّ النَّجْمُ مَعْقُودُ

So marvel at the fortunes of the lofty lances and the forefathers alike!

So for the nobility of ancestors and generosity together

His banner is fastened where the star alights.

Its banner where the star remains bound

لَهُ شَرِيعةُ عَدْلٍ عِنْدَها شَرَعٌ

لَهُ شَرِيعةُ عَدْلٍ عِنْدَها شَرَعٌ

أُسْدُ الفَلا والمَها والشّاءُ والسِّيدُ

أُسْدُ الفَلا والمَها والشّاءُ والسِّيدُ

His is a watering place of justice, where all are equal:

It has a law of justice according to which a legislation

The lions of the wilderness, the oryx, the sheep, and the wolf.

The lion of glory and greatness and esteem and the master

يَا نَاظِمَ الطَّعْن في لَبَّاتِ حُسَّدِهِ

يَا نَاظِمَ الطَّعْن في لَبَّاتِ حُسَّدِهِ

كَصَنعةٍ ما خَلا مِن نَظْمهِ جِيدُ

كَصَنعةٍ ما خَلا مِن نَظْمهِ جِيدُ

O you who string spear-thrusts in his enviers’ throat-hollows,

O composer of censure in the nights of his envious

As in a craft, no neck is bare of his stringing.

Like a craft that did not lack from his composition good

لَقَد أَتيْتُ بها جُهْدَ المُقِلِّ ولل

لَقَد أَتيْتُ بها جُهْدَ المُقِلِّ ولل

سّارِى بها ومُقِيمُ الدَّارِ تَغْرِيدُ

سّارِى بها ومُقِيمُ الدَّارِ تَغْرِيدُ

I have brought it—the best one of scant means can offer—and for the

I have indeed come with it the effort of the impaired and for the

Night traveler with it and the one who stays at home, there is song.

Horseman with it and resident of the house warbling