أنت على حالتيك محمودُ

إن كان بخلٌ لديك أو جودُ

You are praiseworthy in your condition

Whether you are stingy or generous

يشقَى ويرضَى بك الفؤادُ كما الطَّ

رفُ إذا ما رآك مسعودُ

The heart becomes miserable or happy with you

Just as the feather when prosperous saw you

يا غُصُناً دهرهُ الربيعُ فما

يفترقُ الماءُ فيه والعودُ

O branch whose spring remained

The water does not separate from it or the stick

فات بك الحسنُ أن تُحَدَّ ولل

بدر بما انحطّ عنك تحديدُ

Your beauty went beyond being bounded

And the full moon has diminished compared to you

قم حدّث الليلَ عن أواخره

إن مَقامَ الصبوح مشهودُ

Stay up, tell the night about its end

For the morning gathering is witnessed

يا ظبيُ لو بتَّ فيه عدتَ وقد

عَنَّ ظباءٌ ببابلٍ غيدُ

O gazelle, if you stayed in it and gazelles from Babylon have left

A place that was once flourishing

أما ترى الفِطرَ صائحاً نَوِرزُوا

حَلَّ حرامٌ وانحلَّ معقودُ

Do you not see the partridges crying out "Set out!"

Sanctity has ended and what was forbidden is now allowed

والبدر يدعو بحاجبٍ حاجبٍ

للعيدِ بشرَى هنالك العيدُ

And the full moon calls out with eyebrows "Eyebrows!"

Announcing the feast, for the feast is there

فاسبق بها الشمسَ أختَها لهباً

بقاؤها في الزمان تخليدُ

So precede its sister sun in illumination

For its existence in time is eternal

صان اليهوديُّ خِدرَها أن يُفَ

ضَّ الخَتمُ أو تؤخذَ المقاليدُ

The Jew protected its vessels from

The seal being opened or the keys being taken

عَدَّ رجالاً من قومه لَهمُ

في فضلها عنده أسانيدُ

He counted men of his people as having

In its virtue, links to him

سنَّ له اللهوُ أن يعظّمَها

فهي له في الدنان معبودُ

Fun made him glorify it

So to him in life it is an idol

حمراءُ ما فازت الأكفُّ به

من لونها في الخدود مردودُ

Red, how hands have failed to attain

Its complexion in cheeks so often turned

من فمِ إِبريقها إلى شَفة ال

كأس عمودُ الصباح ممدودُ

From the mouth of its vessel to the lip of the cup

The pillar of morning is outstretched

دِينٌ من اللهو أنت عن باب إب

ليسَ متى حُدتَ عنه مطرودُ

A religion of fun you are, do not be barred

From its door when you are playful

تغنَّم اليومَ من سرورك والس

اعةَ إن الزمان معدودُ

Seize today in your joy and the hour

For time is limited

ما دام يدعونك الفتى مَرَحاً

والغصنُ فينانُ والصِّبا رُودُ

As long as the youth calls you fun

And the branch flirts and the breeze is gentle

غدا بياضٌ يا قاتل اللّه ما

تنشقّ عنه من بِيضك السودُ

Tomorrow whiteness, O Killer of God, shall not peel

From your radiance however much blackness

لا تجمعُ الشَّيبَ والسرورَ يدٌ

ولا يتمُّ الثراءُ والجودُ

Old age and joy cannot be gathered by a hand

Nor wealth and generosity completed

لا أَخلَفَ المالَ غيرُ متلفهِ

إن الغنيَّ البخيلَ مكدودُ

None but its waster diminishes wealth

The stingy rich man is blamed

يا راكباً لم تُلِحْهُ هاجرةٌ

ولا ترامت بشخصه البيدُ

O rider, no she-camel edged him on

Nor did arrows compete for his person

ولم تَقُدْ حظَّه مخاطَرةٌ

تُنضَى إليها المهريَّةُ الفُودُ

Nor did gambling guide his fortune

To which the noble she-camels are driven

بين مناه وبينه غرضُ ال

رامي سدادٌ منه وتعضيدُ

Between his aim and him is the correctness

Of the shooter and his support

قل لابن عبد الرحيم عشتَ فما

يعدَمُ فضلٌ وأنت موجودُ

Say to the son of Abdelraheem you lived so excellence was not lacking

While you are present

مَلَّكك المجدَ أنّ بابَك مف

توحٌ وبابَ الأرزاقِ مسدودُ

Glory has filled you that your door is open

While the door of sustenance is locked

يزدحم الناس فيه راجين را

ضين وحوضُ الكريم مورودُ

People cram into it hopeful and content

While the generous bowl overflows

وأن عافيك والمكلِّفُ مش

نوءٌ مُرادٌ لديك مودودُ

That your well-being and the Provider are compatible

Something you want is compatible to you

لا هو في الذلّ بالسؤال ولا

بالمنِّ فيما مننتَ مكدودُ

You are not in humiliation by begging or

Indebted by the gifts you have given

يختلفُ الناس من كرامته

عندك مَنْ قاصدٌ ومقصودُ

People differ in your generosity

Some seek and some sought

والبشرُ حتى يقالَ بارقةٌ

والحلمُ حتى يقالَ جلمودُ

And people are described as brilliant

And patience described as solid

يُلبِسك المدحُ كلَّ ضافيةٍ

لها بطول الإخلاق تجديدُ

Praise clothes you in every new garment

Its manners have long renewal

دُرُّ المعالي فيها بوصفك من

ظومٌ ووشيُ الألفاظِ منضودُ

The pearls of glory in it, in describing you

Are strung, and the alignment of words, aligned

تَخْبرُ منه ما أنت ناقده

وأكثر الإنتقادِ تقليدُ

You discern from it what you critique

And most of the critique is imitation

والشعر ما لم توجدك آيتُهُ

إلا القوافي والوزنَ مفقودُ

And poetry, had it not found you as its sign

Would be nothing but rhyme and meter absent

يتعبُ فيه الموفِّرون له

وهو مع المُسْهلين موءود

Those who simplify struggle with it

While with the eloquent it is despised

بَقِيتَ منه لزائرتك بالث

ناءِ غيداً أكفاؤها الصِّيدُ

You remained of it by praising you

A treasure, its like is the hunt

كلّ فتاةٍ مَحْدُوُّها يومَ تب

غي الحظَّ إمَّا أتتك مجدودُ

Every girl whose affection is sought when

She loses favor comes to you esteemed

صديقُها أنتَن والحسود بها

وبي على القرب منك مفؤودُ

Her friend you are, and the envious of her

And I are deprived of nearness to you

في وجهه البشر حين يسمعها

خوفاً وفي قلبه الأخاديدُ

In his face people when they hear her

Are scared, though in his heart are clefts

يَطرَبُ منها للشيء يُحزِنهُ

واسمُ بكاءِ الحَمامِ تغريدُ

He is disturbed by it for something that saddens him

And the name of the dove's weeping is trilling

لا اجتاز عيدٌ إلا عليك وإن

أَجَزْتَ أن تُمطَلَ المواعيدُ

No holiday has passed unless upon you

Even if you decided to delay the promise