1. ليوم منك والإقبال يجري

    أحب إلى الورى من الف شهر

    Truly, a day from you, with good fortune flowing,

    Is dearer to humankind than a thousand months.

  2. وكل ليالي في الدهر صارت

    بيمنك في الورى ليلات قدر

    And all my nights throughout time have become,

    Through your blessing, Nights of Decree among humankind.

  3. لعمري إن يوما ظل يعزى

    إليك اليوم سيد كل دهر

    By my life, a day that remains ascribed

    To you is today the lord of every age.

  4. تسابق نحوك الأعياد شوقا

    ويبدر في لقائك كل بدر

    The festivals race toward you longingly,

    And every full moon hastens to meet you.

  5. فمن يظفر من الأعياد يوما

    بقربك نال فخر أى فخر

    Whichever festival one day gains

    Your nearness has won honor—what honor!

  6. وهذا اليوم أبرك كل يوم

    به هني وأيمن كل فطر

    This day is the most blessed of all days

    On which congratulations are offered, and the most auspicious Eid al-Fitr of all.

  7. اتاك مهنئاً وأتا بشيرا

    إليك بطول عافية وعمر

    It came to you offering congratulations, and came as a herald

    To you of lasting health and long life.

  8. فأصبح قد رقا شرفا عظيما

    ونال رفيع منزلة وذكر

    Thus it has risen to great honor

    And attained lofty rank and renown.

  9. مشين لأجله من كل فج

    عجائب كل ذى بر وبحر

    For its sake, from every pass came walking

    The marvels of every lord of land and sea.

  10. أقمت شعائر الإسلام فيه

    بتقوى الله في سر وجهر

    On it you upheld the rites of Islam

    In reverence for God, in private and in public.

  11. فما ضيعت حق الله فيه

    ولا فرطت في خير واجر

    You did not neglect God's due on it,

    Nor were you remiss in goodness and reward.

  12. خرجت إلى المصلى مستظلا

    لملك قاهر وعظيم أمر

    You went out to the prayer ground beneath the shade

    Of overpowering sovereignty and mighty authority.

  13. وحولك فيلق سد الفيافي

    وعم الأرض من سهل ووعر

    Around you an army filled the desert expanses

    And covered the land, level and rugged alike;

  14. وألوية وعقد مستعد

    ورايات خفقن بريح نصر

    And banners, and a battle-ready formation,

    And standards that fluttered in a breeze of victory.

  15. كأنك في جبال من حديد

    تلاطم فوقها أمواج البحر

    As though you were among mountains of iron,

    Above which the sea's waves crashed against one another.

  16. وقد سطح العجاج سما وثارت

    سحائب قسطل في الجو كدر

    The swirling dust had roofed the sky, and there rose

    Clouds of murky dust in the air.

  17. فحين بدوت مبتسماً تجلت

    قساطله وأشرق كل قطر

    Then, when you appeared smiling, they cleared—

    Its clouds of dust—and every region shone.

  18. وحار الناظرون إليك فيما

    يحير كل ذى نظر وفكر

    And those who gazed at you were bewildered by what

    Bewilders everyone endowed with sight and thought.

  19. رأو ملكا يهول وعظم شان

    بحسن تواضع من دون كبر

    They saw a king, awe-inspiring and great in stature,

    With gracious humility, free from arrogance;

  20. ووجها مشرق الإقطار يبدو

    فيخجل من سناه كل بدر

    And a face that appears radiant on every side,

    So every full moon blushes at its splendor.

  21. يسر الناظرين إذا تجلى

    بنور لطافة وضياء بشر

    It delights its beholders when it appears

    With the light of gentleness and the glow of cheerfulness.

  22. له في كل طوق الف نعما

    بها استقصى مودة كل حبر

    In every collar are a thousand of his favors;

    Through them he has won every scholar's full affection.

  23. وما يحلو بعينك مثل وجه

    حباك بفضل إحسان وبر

    And nothing is sweeter to your eye than a face

    That has graced you with bountiful beneficence and kindness.

  24. وإن الناصر الملك المرجا

    لقاه لقاء يسر بعد عسر

    And indeed al-Nasir, the king in whom hopes are placed—

    To meet him is to meet ease after hardship.

  25. صلاح الدين أحمد من تعالى

    عن الاكفاء في بدو وحضر

    Salah al-Din Ahmad, who has risen

    Above his peers in desert and town.

  26. له شرف وأخلاق كرام

    تسر كأنها نشوات خمر

    He has honor and noble qualities

    That delight as though they were the raptures of wine.

  27. فيا ابن السابقين إلى المعالي

    ووارث كل مكرمة وفخر

    So, O son of those who led the way to eminence,

    And heir to every noble deed and glory,

  28. قليل نداك يجرى السحب فيه

    فكيف ترى يكون لديه شكري

    The clouds course through even a little of your bounty;

    How, then, do you think my thanks can stand beside it?

  29. وما يحصى صفاتك من رواها

    وهل يحصى عديد حصى وقطر

    No one who recounts your qualities can number them;

    And can the number of pebbles and raindrops be reckoned?

  30. فعش عيشا يسر به البرايا

    وتشفى فيه غلة كل صدر

    So live a life that brings joy to all creation,

    And in which every breast's burning thirst is quenched.