لا نُؤَدّي لِأَنْعُمِ اللَّهِ شُكْراً

بِكَ يا أَعظَمَ البَرِيَّةِ قَدرا

We do not give thanks to God for His blessings

With you, O greatest of creations in virtue

زَورُ عشرٍ وافى لإِقلاعِ ذا

جَعَلا المنَّةَ المُمنّاةَ عَشرا

Ten full moons have passed since the departure of that one

Who made obligatory charity tenfold

أَمَّ مَغْناكَ ضامِناً أَنَّ أَيّا

مَكَ تُغني الأَحقابَ عَصراً فَعَصرا

Or has your guarantor assured that whenever

You will suffice the ages, age after age

في مَحَلٍّ له السِّماكانِ سَمكٌ

وَجُدودٌ لَها المَجَرَّة مَجرى

In a place for it are the fishes in the seas

And for them the celestial sphere is an orbit

أَيُّها العادِلُ المُظَفَّرُ لا قص

صَت شَبا الدَّهرِ مِن شباتِكَ ظُفرا

O just, victorious one, the youth of time have not

Attained from your youth any victories

جَعَلَ اللَّهُ ما اِستَهَلَّ مِنَ الأَشْ

هُر يَنْهَلُّ في مَغازيكَ نَصرا

God has made whatever months have begun

To flow in your conquests with triumph

أَبَداً يَنشرُ التَّهاني على سا

حاتِكَ الزّهر في المَواسِمِ نَشرا

Forever the flowers in the seasons will spread

Congratulations on your plains, a spreading

أَنتَ أَسرى المُلوكِ نَفساً وَفلساً

وَإِلى أَسرِهِم مِنَ الطّيفِ أَسرى

You are the captor of kings, their souls and property

And to their captivity from you are captives

مَلكٌ عِندَهُ المَشارِبُ تُسْتَمْ

رَى وَأَخلافُ الجودِ تَمرَى فَتفرَى

A king who has drinks that are sipped continuously

And successive generosity that flows copiously

فَلَكَ اللَّهُ مِن مثمِّر بَذْرٍ

يَصطَفي صالِحاً وَيحصدُ أُجرا

So God has for you from a fruitful seed

One virtuous whom He chooses and reaps reward

عِشْ لِمُلْكٍ أَصبحتَ في الدَّسْتِ مِنهُ

فَوقَ كِسرى عَدلاً وَشَعباً وكسرا

Live for a kingdom you have grasped, in it

Above Chosroes, just, populous, and breaking

تفطِرُ الطّيّباتِ لِلفِطرِ فِطراً

وتعمُّ الأعداءَ في النَّحْر نَحْرا

You tear open gifts for Eid, a tearing

And engulf enemies in slaughter, a slaughtering

يَقتَني مَن كَساكَ أَنفَسَ مَلبو

سٍ وَيفنيكَ مِنهُ أَطولَ عُمرا

Whoever dresses you, buys the souls of those adorned

And your existence from him is lengthier life

أَنتَ تُملي وَنَحنُ نَنظمُ ما تَنْ

ثُرهُ الغُرُّ مِن مَساعيكَ نَثرا

You dictate and we compose whatever the war

Scatters of your endeavors, a scattering

صَرَفَ اللَّهُ عَنكَ عَينَ زَمانٍ

بِكَ صارَت بَعدَ الإِصابَةِ عَبْرى

God has diverted from you the evil eye of time

Through you after affliction it became a moral

وَتَوالَت لَكَ الفُتوحُ إِلى أَنْ

تَملأَ الخافِقَينِ نَهْياً وَأَمرا

And the conquests succeeded for you until

You filled the horizons with prohibition and order

كُلَّما أَنهَجتَ مَلابِس نُعمى

وَتَملَّيْتَهُنَّ جَدَّدتَ أُخرى

Whenever you donned fine garments

And wore them, you would replace them with others