لَنا بِكَ خَيرُ تهنئَةٍ وَبشرِ

بما قد نلتَ من شَرَفٍ وَفَخرِ

We congratulate you with the best wishes and good news

For what you have attained of honor and pride

وَلَو قلنا الهنا لكَ ما اصبنا

فَذَلِكَ لم يزدك سُموَّ قدرِ

And if we said you are our pride, we would not be wrong

For that would not increase your high status

رايتُك بين اهل العَصرِ فَرداً

سما بل مفرداً في كل عصرِ

I saw your flag among the people of the time alone

Soaring not just rising in every time

لانك كامل الاوصاف حتىّ

يصحُّ القول انك مثل بدرِ

Because you are perfect in attributes to the extent

That it is right to say you are like a full moon

جَليل الذات والاوصاف شَهمٌ

حوى من كل فضلٍ كلَّ سرِّ

Of glorious essence and noble traits, a valiant one

Who has embodied all kindness and mysteries

صفاتك تُعجِزُ الشعرآءَ نظماً

فَما يَقضي ثنآءك غيرُ نَثرِ

Your traits make poets incapable in composing poems

So nothing but prose can pay you tribute

وَبحر الشعر نَدعوهُ ببَحرٍ

ولكن فيك نَدعوهُ بنهرِ

And we call the sea of poetry a sea

But for you we call it a river

لَهُ مَدٌّ بغير ثناك لكن

بوصفك ما لديهِ غير جزرِ

It has an expanse without your praise but

When describing you it only has islands

وانك روضَةٌ من كلِّ زهرٍ

حوت حتىّ أَفاحَت كلَّ نشرِ

You are a meadow of every flower

That contained until it spread all fragrance

ونِعم الزَهرُ زَهرُ الفضل يُزري

بزَهر الروض بل بالزُهر يُزري

And the best flower is the flower of kindness that adorns

The meadow’s flower or rather adorns flowers themselves

عُلى وَمَكارِمٌ وكمال ذاتٍ

وَفَضلٌ رائِعٌ وَجَميلُ ذكرِ

Sublimity, virtues and perfect essence

Outstanding grace and beautiful mention

وَعِلمٌ باهِرٌ وَذَكاءُ فكرٍ

اليهِ قد نُسِبت فقيل فكري

And brilliant knowledge and sharpness of thought

To which thinking itself has been ascribed

وَحسنُ مآثِرٍ واثيلُ مجدٍ

وَلطفٌ كالنَسيم غداةَ يَسري

And good legacy and pillars of glory

And gentleness like the morning breeze drifting

وَصدقُ طويَّةٍ وَعَفافُ قَلبٍ

نقيٍّ قد حواهُ رَحيبُ صَدرِ

And true kindness and chaste heart

Pure, contained in the vastness of the chest

وَجودٌ مثل ماءِ المزن لكن

يُعُمُّ فَلَيسَ مَخصوصاً بقُطرِ

And generosity like the water of downpour but

It covers universally, not confined to mere drops

وإِنَّك شاعِرٌ تغدو لديهِ

بحار الشعرِ غارقةً ببحرِ

You are a poet, before whom seas of poetry

Are drowned in an ocean

لَقَدرُمنا الثناءَ عليك لكن

لعمري ما صِفاتُك تحتَ حصرِ

We wished to praise you but by my life

Your traits cannot be confined

صِفاتٌ كيف شئتَ يُقال فيها

من الاحسان والحسن الأغَرِّ

Traits, as you wish, are said about them

Of benevolence and beauty the most wondrous

سأَلنا المَجدَ لما إِن رأَينا

لَهُ شُغلاً كمفتَكرٍ بامرِ

We asked glory when we saw it busy

As if thinking about something

بمن يا مجدُ فكرك في اِشتغالٍ

فَقالَ لنا بعبدِ اللَه فكري

With whom, oh glory, are you busy thinking?

It said to us, with Abdullah are my thoughts