سكر الصبا هز قدود الحسان
ام الصبا مالت باغصان بان
The youth has shaken the slender date palms
The mother of youth has bent the branches
جلوا رياض الحسن عن أوجه
هن سواء ورياض الجنان
Revealing the gardens of beauty before me
They are equal, and the gardens of Paradise
فالوجنة الورد واجفانها
النرجس والمبتسم الاقحوان
With roses and buds opening up
Narcissuses and laughing chamomiles
يا من رأى من قبلها جنة
يصلى جحيم الشوق منها الجنان
O the one who saw a garden before
Prays for the hell of passion from it is paradise
من كل ريا الردف ظمأى الحشا
صامتة الخلخال بكر حصان
From every blooming meadow my thirsty soul
With anklets silent, a young horse
قد ضمنت اعينها فتنتي
وما عليها في دمي من ضمان
Her eyes have guaranteed my infatuation
And she is not responsible for what is in my blood
يا سعد أيام الصبا خلسة
يسعد فيها كل طلق العنان
O Saad days of innocent youth
Where everyone is happy and carefree
فاغنم لذيذ العيش واشرب على
نبت عذار الحب بنت الدنان
So enjoy the sweetness of life, and drink
The fresh love, daughter of closeness
شقيق حسن قده رمحه
ولحظه منه مكان السنان
A beautiful one, his statue is his spear
And his glance instead of teeth
اهيف يثني الدل اعطافه
وماله في ترف الحسن ثان
Alluring, he sways the bending branches
And he has no equal in beauty
ومن معاني اللطف في خده
كل بديع حار فيه البيان
And from the subtleties of his cheek
Every eloquence is confused
اضحى الهوى فني لما غدا
له بانواع الجمال افتنان
Passion has become an art when he walks
With all kinds of beauty alluring
وبابلي الطرف اجفانه
عن سحر هاروت بها ترجمان
And his glancing eyes
Of the magic of Harut, are its interpreters
إذا مشى ارتج كثيب النفا
وفوقه من شعره ارقمان
When he walks the sand dunes shake
And above it are two curls of his hair
ورب ليل بت اجني به
من روضة الوصل ثمار الأمان
And many are the nights I spent loving him
In the garden of union, fruits of safety
غاب رقيبي ولها عاذلي
عني فبتنا منهما في أمان
My watcher disappeared, and my lover
We were safe from them both
يسعى بشمس الراح بدر الدجى
قد قرنا في اللهو أحلى قران
The sun of comfort and the full moon shine
We combined in play, the sweetest combine
يزيدها الساقي بالحاظه
سكرا فلحاسي بها نشوتان
The cupbearer increases her share of wine
And I almost lost consciousness from joy
لله ما أحسنها ليلة
بأن بها أنسي والهم بان
What a beautiful night it was
When I had company and worries disappeared
كأنها من حسن إقبالها
ليلة عرس
As if from its good omen
A wedding night
نجل سمى المصطفى المرتضى
قولا وفعلا بالحجا يقرنان
Named Mustafa Al-Murtada
In words and deeds combined with virtue
محقق تلقى به المرتضى
حيا مفيداً ظاهرا بالعيان
A fulfilled one, Mustafa receives
Alive and beneficial, clearly visible
العالم البحر الذي قد روت
في الفضل عنه فضلاء الزمان
The scholar is an ocean that has watered
The virtuous people of all eras
سام كريم الذكر قد حل من
ذرى المعالي الشم اعلى مكان
Exalted in renown, he has reached
The peak of glory, the highest place
بحر ندى تطفح أمواجه
بالبر والمعروف والأمتنان
An ocean of light, its waves overflowing
With righteousness, kindness and grace
ذو القلم الأعلى الذي ان جرى
زان بدر اللفظ لوح البيان
The highest pen, which if it flows
Adorns the full moon, the board of rhetoric
بين الخفيات وايضاحها
مقدار ان يمسكه بالبنان
Clarifying the obscure, and its expressions
Are only grasped by the certain
ملؤ جفون الناس شمس الهدى
وملؤ أجفان الضيوف الجفان
Filling the eyes of people, the sun of guidance
And filling their guests’ eyelids
قال له الله وارشد به
كن علماً بين البرايا فكان
God told him, and guided through him
Be knowledge among people, so it became
فقام بالشرع واحكامه
فاستعصمت منه بعض يمان
So he upheld law and its rulings
And by it, some faith was protected
يستعذب المدح لساني له
وربما مدح يمر اللسان
My tongue tastes sweet praising him
And sometimes praise sticks on the tongue
بدر رفيع السنا
وابناه في أوج العلا فرقدان
A full moon, of high mark
And his two sons at the peak of glory, resting
هذا علي المستهل الندى
اصبح والجود رضيعي لبان
This one the shining star
Who was born and generosity is his milk
ما فيه منعيب سوى انه
له ولوع بالعلا وافتتان
He has no flaws but that
He craves knowledge and is obsessed
خلق وخلق حسنا بهجة
ما أحسن الوصفين إذ يجمعان
Created with excellent character is bliss
How excellent are both descriptions combined
