كُلَّ يَومٍ لَنا هَناءٌ جَديدٌ

وَسُعُودٌ في إِثرِهِنَّ سُعُودُ

Every day brings us new joy,

And happiness follows in succession.

هَكَذا تَذهَبُ الشَدائِدُ عَن كُل

ل فَتىً رُكنُهُ لَهُنَّ شَديدُ

Thus go the hardships from each

Youth whose pillar against them is strong.

إِنّما المَجدُ يَخدِمُ الجَدّ وَالأَي

يام تَمضي سُعودُها وَتَعودُ

Glory but serves the serious and the earnest;

Days go by and their happiness returns.

عَجَمَت عودَنا اللَيالي فَلَم يَص

لب لَها غَيرَ ذَلِكَ العودِ عودُ

Our nights have accustomed us to the lute; they desired

Naught but that lute continually.

إِن مَلَكنا فَنَحنُ مِن نَبعة المُل

كِ وَمِنهُ لُحُومُنا وَالجُلودُ

If we possessed, we are from the source of sovereignty

And therefrom are our bodies and hides.

ما بَنَينا إِلّا كَما كانَ يَبني

هِ قَديماً آباؤُنا وَالجُدودُ

We built only as our fathers and forefathers

Used to build in early times,

آلُ مِرداسِ أَفضَلِ الناسِ إِن عُدْ

دِدَ لِلفَضلِ طارِفٌ وَتَليدُ

The family of Mirdas, best of men, indeed

If nobility were counted, bright and long-established,

خَيرُ مَن ضَمّهُم جِدارٌ وَمَن قا

مَ لَهُم تَحتَ بَيتِ شَعرٍ عَمودُ

Better is he who gathered them inside a wall,

And he who supported under a house of hair a pillar for them.

إِن تَوالوا عَلى النَدى فَغُيوثٌ

أَو تَوالوا عَلى العِدى فَأُسودُ

If they inclined to softness, clouds bursting;

If they inclined to hardness, lions.

وَرِثُوا الفَخرَ قَبلَ أَن يُخلَق الفَخ

رُ وَجادُوا مِن قَبل يُعرفُ جُودُ

They inherited glory before glory was created

And were generous before generosity was known.

أَطيَبُ الناسِ لَو مَشَوا في صَعيدِ ال

أَرضِ فاقَ العَبيرَ ذاكَ الصَعِيدُ

The sweetest people, were they to walk on the surface of the earth,

Would surpass the perfume thereof.

مَهَّدوا الأَرضَ في المُهودِ فَياللْ

لاه ما تَحتَويهِ تِلكَ المُهودُ

They smoothed the earth into pillows, by God,

What those pillows contain!

أَيُّها المُفضِلُ الجَوادُ الَّذي لَم

يَبقَ في الناسِ غَيره مَهجودُ

O, generous, openhanded one, whom

None but the ignored ignore!

مَدَّكَ اللَهُ بِالسُعودِ وَلا نُكِّسَ

يَوماً لِواؤُكَ المَعقودُ

May God support you with happiness and may

Your banners gathered never be reversed.