يهيم قلبي بمن رقّت شمائله

ويسأل الوصل ممن لا يواصله

My heart is infatuated with one whose beauty is sublime

Seeking union with one who does not unite

فليت شعري وثوب الصبر منخرق

ما ضرّه لو بمعروف يعامله

I wish I knew, my patience worn out

Would it hurt if he were to treat me kindly?

يا مفرداً سحرت قلبي لواحظه

أما ترق لجفن رق وابله

O you who has enchanted my heart with your glances

Will your eyelids not soften with tenderness and its showers?

يا قلب ما لك في نيل المنى طمع

قد صحّ بأسك ممن كنت تأمله

O heart why do you still harbor hopes

Of attaining what you desire from one who has rejected you

فدع هواه وقلد عقد مدحك من

يطوي الزمان ولا تطوى فضائله

So leave your passion and attribute your praise poetry to one

Who will last through times while his merits do not fade

كنز المفاخر بحر الجود وافره

وليس يعلم شخص أين ساحله

A sea of generosity, a treasure of glories

And no one knows where its coast lies

ولا مخافة من محل السنين ومن

تأخر الغيث ما دامت أنامله

Without fear of the passage of years or

The delay of rain as long as his fingers remain

وما دها المجد يتم بعد والده

وكيف يبقى يتيماً وهو كافله

Glory cannot be complete without its father

And how can it remain an orphan when he is its guardian

لله متسم بالعدل مغتنم

للفضل مبتسم من ذا يشاكله

God has marked him with justice, seizing

Every opportunity for kindness, smiling, who can equal him?

كأنه في سماء المجد بدر دجى

وسعده لاح بالبشرى يقابله

As if he were a full moon in the dark night of glory

And his good fortune shone with the glad tidings it brought him

يا مدَّعي جمع ما قد حاز من شرف

أفنيت عمرك فيما لا تطاوله

O you who claim to have gained all the honor

You have wasted your life on what you cannot attain

فكيف تجمع ما في البحر من درر

تحصى الرمال ولا تحصى فواضله

So how can you collect what the sea holds of pearls

When you count the sands but not its waves

عوامل الرفع لا زالت مصاحبة

له ويخفض من عاداه عامله

The means of elevation still accompany him

And he debases those who oppose him

تراه في موكب الشجعان حمزتهم

وظافراً بالذي يرجو ويأمله

You see him in the procession of the brave, their protector

Victorious, attaining what he hopes and desires

لم يشتغل بعلوم عن فرائضه

بل أتعبت كاتب اليمنى نوافله

He did not busy himself with sciences over his religious obligations

Rather, he exhausted the writer of the right hand with supererogations

يا خير من أسس العلياء وافتخرت

به على سائر الدنيا قبائله

O best of those who established supreme merit

And with whom his tribes boasted over all other peoples

يرجو ابن ذكري دعاء منك ينفعه

يفوز بالخير في الدارين نائله

Ibn Dhakir hopes for your prayer to benefit him

To be successful in attaining the good in both abodes

فاسمح فدتك نفوس العالمين بما

رجوت منك فخير البر عاجله

So please, by the souls of all worlds that I ransom

I have sought from you the best of kindness, so grant me it soon