كساك الصوم أعمار الليالي

وأعقبك العنيمة في المآب

Fasting has clothed you in the lifespans of the nights,

And brought you reward at the final return.

فلا زالت سعودك في خلودٍ

تبارى بالمدى يوم الحساب

So may your good fortunes remain immortal,

Vying in duration with the Day of Reckoning.

أتاك العز يسحب برديته

على ميثاء حالية التراب

Glory came to you, trailing his two mantles,

Over a soft plain whose soil is adorned,

ببدرٍ من بني الزهراء سارٍ

تعرّى عنه جلباب السحاب

With a night-traveling full moon from the sons of al-Zahra,

From whom the cloak of clouds had fallen away.

تفرّع في النبوة ثم ألقى

بضبعيه إلى خير الصحاب

He branched from prophethood, then stretched

Both his arms toward the best of the Companions.

تلاقت لابن عبادٍ فروع ال

نبوة والوزارة في نصاب

For Ibn ʿAbbad converged the branches of

Prophethood and the vizierate in one stock.

فلا تغررْ برقدته الليالي

ولا تشخذْ له الهمم النوابي

So let the nights not be deceived by his slumber,

Nor let faltering ambitions be whetted for him;

فمن خضعت له الأسد الضواري

ترقّع عن مراوغة الذئاب

For he to whom the predatory lions bowed

Rose above the evasions of wolves.