آياتُ مَجدِكَ مالَها تَبديلُ

وَعُلُوُّ قَدرِكَ ما إِلَيهِ سَبيلُ

The signs of Your glory have no change

And the height of Your worth has no access

فاقَت صِفاتُكَ كُلَّ جيلٍ قَد مَضى

في العالَمينَ فَكَيفَ هَذا الجيلُ

Your attributes transcended every past generation

So what of this generation?!

شَهِدَت لَكَ الأَفعالُ بِالفَضلِ الَّذي

كُلُّ الأَنامِ سِواكَ فيهِ دَخيلُ

Actions have testified to You of the grace that

All people other than You are intruding upon

ذَهَلَ الأَنامُ لِكُلِّ مَجدٍ حُزتَهُ

لَم يَحوِهِ التَشبيهُ وَالتَمثيلُ

People were amazed by every glory You took possession of

Which likening and representations does not contain

قَد عَزَّ جَيشٌ أَنتَ مِن أُمَرائِهِ

وَأُمورُ إِقليمٍ إِلَيكَ تَؤولُ

An army has gained might with You as one of its commanders

And affairs of regions end up to You

لا العَزمُ مِنكَ إِذا تُلِمُّ مُلِمَّةٌ

يَوماً يُفَلُّ وَلا الظُنونُ تَفيلُ

No determination departs from You if an affliction intensifies

A day in which it recoils, nor do assumptions fail

وَكَفَفتَ صَرفَ الدَهرِ بَعدَ جِماحِهِ

فَكَأَنَّما هُوَ مارِدٌ مَغلولُ

You held back the course of fate after its audacity

So it is as though it is a chained rebel

يُعزى لَكَ الإِحسانُ غَيرَ مُدافِعٍ

وَالمُحسِنونَ كَما عَلِمتَ قَليلُ

Goodness is attributed to You without a disputant

And good-doers, as You know, are few

لا يَبتَغي الراجي إِلَيكَ وَسيلَةً

إِلّا الرَجاءَ وَأَنَّكَ المَأمولُ

A hopeful seeks no means to You

Except hope, and that You are the Expectation

حَسبُ اِمرِئٍ قَد فازَ مِنكَ بِمَوعِدٍ

فَإِذا وَعَدتَ فَأَنتَ إِسمَعيلُ

It suffices a person who has succeeded with a promise from You

For when You promise, then You are the Fulfiller

يامَن لَهُ في الناسِ ذِكرٌ سائِرٌ

كَالشَمسِ يُشرِقُ نورُها وَتَحولُ

O You whose mention amongst people ongoing

Like the sun whose light emerges and revolves

وَمَواهِبٌ حَضَرِيَّةٌ سَيّارَةٌ

لايَنقَضي سَفَرٌ لَها وَرَحيلُ

And ready gifts ongoing

No journey nor departure ends for them

وَخَلائِقٌ كَالرَوضِ رَقَّ نَسيمُهُ

فَسَرى وَذَيلُ قَميصِهِ مَبلولُ

And traits like a garden its breeze blew gently

So its hem flowed and its train was wet

وَتِلاوَةٌ يَجلو الدُجى أَنوارُها

قَد زانَها التَرتيبُ وَالتَرتيلُ

And a recitation that illuminates darkness with its lights

Adorned with arrangement and measured tone

وَإِذا تَهَجَّدَ في الظَلامِ فَحَسبُهُ

مِن نورِ غُرَةِ وَجهِهِ قِنديلُ

And when he assumed devotion in the darkness, his self-sufficiency

Is from the light of the radiance of his face as a lantern

مَلَأَت لَطائِفُ بِرِّهِ أَوقاتَهُ

فَزَمانُهُ عَن غَيرِهِ مَشغولُ

The subtleties of his righteousness have filled his times

So his era from other than it is busied

هَذا هُوَ الخَرَفُ الَّذي لا يُدَّعى

هَيهاتَ ماكُلُّ الرِجالِ فُحولُ

This is the ultimate which none pretend to have

Alas! Not all men are heroes

أَيّامُهُ كَسَتِ الزَمانَ مَحاسِناً

فَكَأَنَّها غُرَرٌ لَهُ وَحُجولُ

His days cloaked times with beauties

As though for him they are precious jewels

نَفَقَت لَدَيهِ سوقُ كُلِّ فَضيلَةٍ

وَالفَضلُ في هَذا الزَمانِ فُضولُ

The market of every virtue spent away with him

And virtue in this age is excess

مِن مَعشَرٍ خَيرُ البَرِيَّةِ مِنهُمُ

كَرُمَت فُروعٌ مِنهُمُ وَأُصولُ

From a folk, best of creation are they

Branches blossomed from them and roots

مَن تَلقَ مِنهُم تَلقَ أَروَعَ ماجِداً

أَبَداً يَصولُ عَلى العِدى وَيَطولُ

Whoever receives from them receives most glorious nobility

Forever undulating against enemies and everlasting

سِيّانِ مِنهُ قَوامُهُ وَقَناتُهُ

وَرَواؤُهُ وَحُسامُهُ المَصقولُ

Same are his supporters, and his modernity, and his quenching, and his sword polished in a stand

In it the sword's blade bends while the scabbard tilts

في مَوقِفٍ خَدُّ الحُسامِ مَوَرَّدٌ

فيهِ وَأَعطافُ القَناةِ تَميلُ

O You Who when good begins restores it

So Your goodness is linked by Your goodness

يامَن إِذا بَدَأَ الجَميلَ أَعادَهُ

فَجَميلُهُ بِجَميلِهِ مَوصولُ

O my Master, supplication of one who prolonged estrangement from You

And verily unto Your estrangement, he is reaching out indeed

مَولايَ دِعوَةُ مَن أَطَلتَ جَفاءَهُ

وَعَلى جَفائِكَ إِنَّهُ لَوَصولُ

A slave owned prays to You having bored of him

It is I, that slave owned, and that slave given

يَدعوكَ مَملوكٌ أَراكَ مَلَلتَهُ

أَنا ذَلِكَ المَملوكُ وَالمَملولُ

Be however You wish for You are the Most Agreeable

So my passion for You undergoes no change

كُن كَيفَ شِئتَ فَأَنتَ أَنتَ المُرتَضى

فَهَوايَ فيكَ هَوايَ لَيسَ يَحولُ

I am who You have known and I do not increase for You a witness

Is there after Your knowledge any acceptable witness?

أَنا مَن عَلِمتَ وَلا أَزيدُكَ شاهِداً

هَل بَعدَ عِلمِكَ شاهِدٌ مَقبولُ

I blame myself for an era I severed with You

And as though I am a resident of the two (life and death) realms

أَسَفي عَلى زَمَنٍ لَدَيكَ قَطَعتُهُ

وَكَأَنَّني لِلفَرقَدَينِ نَزيلُ

And as though the predawn hours from it are ambergris

And as though the evenings from it are aromatic plants

وَكَأَنَّما الأَسحارُ مِنهُ عَنبَرٌ

وَكَأَنَّما الآصالُ مِنهُ شُمولُ

An era in which cries of grief for its loss are few

Even if my tears were the Tigris River and the Nile!

زَمَنٌ يَقِلُّ لَهُ البُكاءُ لِفَقدِهِ

وَلَوَ اِنَّ دَمعي دِجلَةٌ وَالنيلُ

And when I attributed with my service to You as preceded

Then it is to me an elevated status and tribe

وَإِذا اِنتَسَبتُ بِخِدمَتي لَكَ سابِقاً

فَكَأَنَّها لِيَ مَعشَرٌ وَقَبيلُ

Events recoil to mention to me and as though below me a spear and pincer

This is the discipline I cultivated

تَرتَدُّ عَنّي الحادِثاتُ بِذِكرِها

وَكَأَنَّها دوني قَناً وَنُصولُ

So its blossoming garden left to waste quaked from it

The garden I gained virtue from blossoming

هَذا هُوَ الأَدَبُ الَّذي أَنشَأتُهُ

فَاِهتَزَّ مِنهُ رَوضُهُ المَطلولُ

And I abandoned it until desolation overcame it

I left it thirsty when You were aloof and oft

رَوضٌ جَنَيتُ الفَضلَ مِنهُ يانِعاً

وَهَجَرتُهُ حَتّى عَلاهُ ذُبولُ

I quenched it from the deluge of Your hands

Imposing upon You when You dismissed it

أَظمَأتُهُ لَمّا جَفَوتَ وَطالَما

أَسقَتهُ مِن نُعمى يَدَيكَ سُيولُ

So good is the imposition in Your love

I suspended it when You turned from it

وافاكَ إِذ أَقصَيتَهُ مُتَطَفِّلاً

ياحَبَّذا في حُبِّكَ التَطفيلُ

And deviation is not from my doctrine

And I congratulated an occasion lasting as long as Your Eid returned

عَطَّلتُهُ لَمّا رَأَيتُكَ مُعرِضاً

عَنهُ وَما مِن مَذهَبي التَعطيلُ

And unto it from You is might and acceptance

You remained the Glory of the religion, a thousand substitutes like it

وَتَهَنَّ عيداً دامَ عيدُكَ عائِداً

وَعَلَيهِ مِنكَ جَلالَةٌ وَقَبولُ

And Your Excellent and Expectant Self

The garments of every eulogy are too short for You

وَبَقَيتَ مَجدَ الدينِ أَلفاً مِثلَهُ

وَجَنابُكَ المَأهولُ وَالمَأمولُ

And their trains over others are lengthening

Know that I am incapable of Your attributes

قَصُرَت عَلَيكَ ثِيابُ كُلِّ مَديحَةٍ

وَذُيولُهُنَّ عَلى سِواكَ تَطولُ

And pardon me and whatever he can recite

I am one who blames misers, yet lo upon You I am miserly

وَاِعلَم بِأَنّي عَن صِفاتِكَ عاجِزٌ

وَاِعذِر سِوايَ وَما عَساهُ يَقولُ

This is the jewel from whose sea

You ceaselessly bestow upon us and serve

أَنا مَن يَذُمُّ الباخِلينَ وَإِنَّني

بِنَظيرِها إِلّا عَلَيكَ بَخيلُ

هَذا هُوَ الدُرُّ الَّذي مِن بَحرِهِ

مازِلتَ تَبذُلُهُ لَنا وَتُنيلُ