بدا للروح نجمٌ يزدهيه

شبيه البدر جاء بلا شبيه

A star began to shine for the soul

Like the full moon, it came unmatched

اخوه الظبي ذاك عليك انَّى

نحاول منك احلى من اخيه

My brother, you who are so wise

We ask from you what's sweeter than your brother

ستطلقه لك الايام عضباً

رهيف شباً لأربع من سنيه

The days will unleash him angrily

A gentle youth of fourteen years

فقل فيه رضيع لبان عز

بثدي الفضل مرتضعا بفيه

So say he is a suckling infant

Suckling the breast of merit contentedly

انبِّه مكمل التاريخ فيه

بسقط الفرد للفطن النبيه

Alert him, the completer of history

With the fall of the individual to the wise prophet

اتى لأب ربيب حجى بعامٍ

به امتاز الحليم من السفيه

He came to a fatherly lord in a year

In which the forebearing was distinguished from the fool

به امُّ العلى ولدت فأرخ

محمدٌ الرضا مولود فيه

The mother of the Most High gave birth, so record

Muhammad al-Rida was born in it