تحيةً وسلاماً أيها الشادي

وعزةً واحتراماً أيها النادي

Greetings and peace to you, O happy one

And honor and respect, O noble one

أنستَ بالجمع أنسَ العائدين إلى

أمين أوطانهم من وحشة الوادي

You forgot with the gathering the intimacy of those returning to

The faithful of their homelands from the desolation of the valley

واستبقت النغماتُ الروحَ في جسدٍ

أبلاه رائعُ إبراق وإرعاد

And the melodies grasped the soul in a body

Worn down by the splendor of lightning and thunder

عيد الحزين على دنيا مضرَّجةٍ

لو كان يشغل محزونٌ بأعياد

The festival of the sorrowful one over a blood-stained world

If a grieving one was preoccupied with festivals

ذكرتَ قومك بالفاروق ترشدهم

وأنت فيهم لتذكير وإرشاد

You reminded your people of Al-Farooq guiding them

While you are among them for reminding and guidance

أكبرته شكساً في جاهليته

ومسلماً في سجايا الحاضر البادي

You magnified him when he was ignorant in his pre-Islamic era

And a Muslim in the traits of the fading present

وصفتَ سيرةَ من كانت إشارته

تغني الخلافةَ عن جند وقواد

You described the biography of one whose gesture

Sufficed the caliphate instead of armies and leaders

وَمنفذِ الحكم عدلاً من فراسته

ورأيه قبل إقرار وإشهاد

And the executor of just rule from his insight

And his view before ratification and testimony

وطالبِ الحق في عزلٍ وتوليةٍ

يصونه بين تقريب وإبعاد

And the seeker of truth in deposition and appointment

Who protects him between approximation and distancing

واللابسِ الخشنِ البالي على بدنٍ

قوامُه الواهن الواهي من الزاد

And the wearer of the coarse worn-out garment over a body

Whose pillar is the weak and frail provision

يرعى وليس لديه من رعيته

سوى حسيبٍ وعدَّادٍ ونقَّاد

He looks after even though he has nothing of his subjects

Except a reckoner, a counter, and critics

ومن قضى راضياً عن نفسه ثقة

بربه بعد إصدار وإيراد

And he who passed away satisfied with himself certain

Of his Lord after issuance and income

ورب ملكٍ بفرد طال سؤدده

ولم يطل بجماعات وأفراد

And the owner of a kingdom with only one prolonged his debts

And did not prolong with groups and individuals

خير الممالكِ ما يبني على شرفٍ

ورحمةٍ لا على غل وأحقادِ

The best of kingdoms is that which is built on honor

And mercy not on injustice and hatred

وخير محتكمٍ من كان في يده

رد الشعوبِ رفاقاً غيرَ أضداد

And the best arbitrator is one who has in his hand

Returning the peoples as comrades not adversaries

الفتح بالعلم والعرفان لا بدمٍ

يسيل من مهجٍ حرَّى وأكباد

Conquest by knowledge and cognizance not by blood

Flowing from inflamed livers and kidneys

هنا السلام فألق الشعر مبتدعاً

وانشره بين ميامينٍ وأمجاد

And disseminate it among platforms and glories

Perhaps the gentle sweet talk will comfort hearts

عسى يُريح الحديثُ العذبُ أفئدةً

ملتْ أحاديثَ طرَّادٍ ومنطاد

Fed up with the talks of deserters and slanderers

God has exemplified God's kindness in eminent

قد مثل اللّه لطف اللّه في نجب

غُرِّ الشمائل أقمارٍ وآساد

Full moons and luminous stars

The seasons of poetry from their high morals

مواسِمُ الشعر من عالي مكارمهم

مثل الربى والسحاب الرائح الغادي

Like meadows, clouds, and passing winds

The people of Levant which I still recall

بنو الشآم التي ما زلت أذكرها

وفي حشايا إليها غلة الصادي

And in my affections an attachment to the returning one

Whether the Levant draws near to Egypt or distances

والشام إن قربتْ من مصر أو بعدتْ

أهلٌ لمنتَجعٍ سهلٌ لمرتاد

It is inhabited by a resort, an easy place to visit

Suffice with Mekal in his ethics a king

كفى بميكالَ في أخلاقه ملكاً

يسير في مصر سيرَ السيد الغادي

Walking in Egypt the gait of the noble one

He adds to the glories of fathers and ancestors

يضيف كلَّ جميلٍ من مآثره

إلى مآثر آباءٍ وأجداد

Every beauty from his achievements

He restores in the time of Sultan Ahmed what

يعيد في زمن السلطان أحمدَ ما

أحيا الرشيدُ به آدابَ بغداد

Al-Rashid revived with the ethics of Baghdad

He gifted you something precious from his treasures

أهدى إليك نفيساً من جواهره

هو الفخارُ لأقرانٍ وأنداد

It is pottery for peers and equals

Awards which are the exoneration of poetry he attained

جوائزٌ هي برءُ الشعر أدركه

وكم أقامَ بلا آسٍ وعوَّاد

And how much it existed without misery and weariness

And he went on taking from their finest talents

وراح يأخذ من غالي قرائحهم

نفائساً من أماديحٍ وإنشاد

Precious things of praises and recitals

I saw what stirred my poems so give me utterance

رأيت ما هاج أشعاري فأنطقني

وكنت أرجىء أشعاري لميعاد

And my poems were hoped for at the appointment

That is some of what I conceal and hide

وذاك بعضٌ لما أخفي وأكتمه

إن الزمان لأمثالي بمرصاد

Indeed time lies in ambush for the likes of me