جَبَرْتَ بإحسانٍ لمذهب مَالِكِ

قلوباً كَوَاهَا الْكَسْرُ يا خَيْرَ مَالِكِ

With kindness you mended the hearts broken and crushed, O best mender!

And mending them is not attained with worthless trinkets.

وما جَبْرُها نَيْلُ الحُطَامِ وإنّما

بتنوير لَيْلٍ من دُجَى الْحَيْفِ حَالِكِ

But by dispelling the gloomy darkness of injustice that prevailed.

You remedied the people's negligence and lack of care.

تَدَارَكْتَ تفريطاً من النّاس غَفْلَةً

وَكَمْ لَكَ من رأيٍ عزيزِ المدارك

And how numerous are your penetrating insights!

Thus you leveled the ranks of the virtuous,

فَسَوَّيْتَ ما بين الأفاضل رُتْبَةً

فَهُمْ من بِساط العدل فوقَ أرائك

So they, from the carpet of justice, are atop the thrones.

You brought a mighty measure by which the souls rejoiced,

أتَيْتَ بمقياسٍ عزيزٍ تباشَرَتْ

بفرحته الأرواحُ من كلّ ناسك

Every devout worshipper from all mankind.

Were Nu'man to swear by it, he would swear a solemn oath,

يميناً لَوِ النُّعْمانُ قُرِّرَ عنده

لَقُرَّ بِهِ عَيْناً ولست بآفِكِ

And I am no revoker of that oath.

Milk flowed from Ahmad's breast, and by it was satiated

جرى لَبَنٌ من ثَدْيِ أَحْمَدَ فارتوى

به حنفيٌّ في الإخاء ومالكي

A Hanafi in brotherly affection and a Maliki.

By what the Merciful has imparted in him, and what is seen

بما أَوْدَعَ الرَّحْمَانُ فيه وما يُرَى

لِسَيِّدِنا الباشا به من مُشارِكِ

In our lord Pasha of participation with him.

May the Master perpetuate for us the felicity of his grandfather

أدامَ لنا المولى سَعَادَةَ جَدِّه

بوجهٍ وجيهٍ بَاسِمِ الثّغرِ ضَاحِكِ

With a dignified and cheerful face, smiling Basim of the frontier!

And may his days be narrated, the authentic tale of them,

وأيّامُهُ يُرْوى صَحِيحُ حديثِهَا

عن العزّ عن نَصْرٍ له مُتدَارِكِ

Of glory, of support coming to his aid.