اِسعَدْ بيومٍ قد أتاكَ مبكِّرا
بصعودِ جَدِّكَ في العَلاءِ مبشِّرَا
Rejoice in a day that has come to you early
With your grandfather ascending the heights heralding good news
واستقبل العامَ الجديدَ مُحَكَّماً
فيما تراهُ لك العُلى ومخيّرا
Embrace the new year steadfast
In what you see as glory and freedom of choice for you
واستجلِ وجهَ الدهرِ أزهرَ واضحا
والمُلكَ ملتفَّ الحدائقِ أخضرا
And light up the face of time, radiant and clear
The kingdom wrapped in green gardens
ملكٌ أقمتَ قناتَهُ ورفدتَهُ
بالرأي عَضْباً والعديد مجمهرا
A kingdom whose aqueducts you erected and supplied
With opinion as a spring and numerous troops
أسهرتَ ليلكَ في صَلاحِ أمورِه
وكفيتَ ربَّ سريرهِ أن يَسْهَرا
You stayed up your night for the wellbeing of its affairs
And spared your Lord of the throne from having to stay up
قد قال حينَ بلاكَ بعدَ عِصابةٍ
من قبلُ كلُّ الصيدِ في جوف الفَرا
He said when you reached him after a band
Had come before, with all game in the belly of redemption
ما أسعدَ السلطانَ بالرأي الذي
فيك ارتأى مستكفياً مستوزَرا
How happy is the sultan with the opinion in which
He saw you self-sufficiently as minister
حقّاً لقد ولَّى الأمورَ مجرِّبَاً
إنْ همَّ أمضَى أو تدفَّق أغزرا
Indeed, he handed over affairs as an experienced leader
If he intended, he accomplished, or overflowed more abundantly
يتوقَّف القدَرُ المُتاحُ عنِ الذي
لا يشتهي فإِذا أشار به جرَى
Destiny's allotment stops for him who
Does not desire, so when he gestures, it flows
ولي الأمورَ فكان أحسنَ منظراً
ممن تقدَّمهُ وأكرمَ مخبَرا
The minister whose appearance was most beautiful
Than those before him and whose news was most generous
يُنْبِيكَ نورُ جبينهِ عن جُودِه
كالصُّبْحِ دَلَّ على الغزالةِ مسفرا
The light of his forehead reveals his generosity to you
Like the dawn indicating the gazelles bare
يا أيُّها المولَى الذي إنعامُه
شملَ البريةَ مُنْجِداً أو مُغْوِرا
O Master whose favors
Covered the wilderness, enriching or impoverishing
هذا ابنُ عبدِك زارَ بابَكَ راجياً
ظَفَراً لديك فهل ترى أن يَظْفَرا
This is your slave who visited your door hoping
For gain through you, so do you see that he gains?
أَنضى اليك الجُرْدَ يجشِمُها الفلا
عَجِلاً وخاضَ البِيدَ يطوِيها السُّرى
He brought you the horses frothing at the mouth from galloping
And crossed the desert, folding it with travel
هو غرسُ أنْعُمِكَ الجزيلةِ فاسقِهِ
بسِجالِ أنعُمِك الجِسامِ لِيُثْمِرا
He is a sapling of your abundant favors, so water him
With the vessels of your great favors that he may bear fruit
وَاصعَد إِلى درجِ العُلَى متمهِّلا
واسلم على غِيَرِ الزمان معمَّرا
And ascend to the highest rank slowly
And greet time unlike the eternal
