بحجاه سَما رَفيع العَمادِ

مَركز الفَضل وَالعُلا ذو الأَيادي

With pillars rising high into the sky

A center of virtue, charity and aid

دافع الجدب عَن بحيرة مَصر

وَسِواها بِهمة وَاجتِهاد

Who pushed back drought to fill the Nile

Through effort and deed made the land verdant

جابرٌ كسرَها بِتَوزيع ماء

هُوَ أسُّ الغنى بِها لِلعِباد

Jabir who by water distribution did break

The drought, source of bounty to all who prayed

قائم بِالفُروض للريّ فيها

ناشرُ الخصب في جَميع البلاد

Upholding obligations to irrigate the land

Spreading prosperity throughout its breadth

زادَهُ اللَه بَهجة وَسُروراً

بِأَمين قُطب الذَكا وَالرَشاد

May God increase his joy and delight

Through the trusted polestar of wisdom and guidance

فَهوَ بِالسَبق وَالمَعالي جَدير

وَهوَ أَولى برفعة وَاِزدِياد

For he deserves precedence and ascendance

And is most worthy of stature and rise

وَبِمَدحي لَهُ تشرّف قَدري

وَمِن الدَهر قَد بلغت مرداي

My praise of him adds honor to my verse

And from fate I have reached my goal

حَيث حليت بِالثَناء عَلَيهِ

جيدَ نَظمي في طارف وَتلاد

Since I adorned it with his accolades

The prime of my verse in its valleys and hills

وَالرضا عَنهُ قال لي فيهِ أَرّخ

مَظهرٌ باح مجدُه بِسَداد

And being pleased with him I dated and marked

The appearance of his glory with success