سامَحَت هِمَّتي زَماني وحلَّت

عَزَماتي لَهُ مَسالِكَ طرقِه

My lofty purpose forgave my Fortune, and my firm resolves opened up

for it the courses of its roads.

وأَبو الجَيش حامدٌ فاتِح لي

بابَ حَمدِ الزَّمانِ مِن بَعدِ غَلقِه

And Abu al-Jaysh Hamid has opened for me

the gate of praising Fortune after it was shut.

أيُّ وَجهٍ لذمِّه بَعد ما جا

دَ عَلَينا بِضاحِكِ الوَجهِ طلقِه

What grounds remain for blaming it, after it has be—

stowed upon us one with a smiling, open countenance?

كلُّ مَن عاينَتهُ عَيناهُ داعٍ

بسطَ اللَّهُ كفَّه بَسطَ خلقِه

Everyone whose eyes behold him calls out in prayer:

May God extend his hand to the full breadth of His creation.