بَدا بِالعُلا في مَصر نجلٌ ضياؤه

بِهِ اِزدادَت الدُنيا صَفاءً عَلى صَفا

A star shone in Egypt, a youth whose radiance

Increased the world's brightness, surpassing the dawn.

وَفي رَجب قَد طابَ مَولده الَّذي

بِمعراج خَير الأَنبياء تَشرّفا

In Rajab was born his auspicious birth

On the night the best of prophets ascended on high.

فَقُلت أَهنِّي بِالولاد مؤرّخاً

أَتى حسن مِن راقم الجُند مصطفى

I wished to congratulate him on the birth, recording

The excellence that came from Mustafa's line.