لَكَ المَجد يا صَدر العُلا وَالمَكارمِ

عَلى سَعيك المَشكور أَوّلُ خادمِ

You deserve all glory, O magnanimous one,

For your appreciated efforts, O foremost servant.

فَإِنَّكَ نعم الخادن الفاضل الَّذي

بِهِ يَقتدي في رَأيه كُلُّ حازم

You are indeed the virtuous chamberlain whom

Every wise man takes as an example in his opinion.

وَأَنتَ لمَولانا الإِمام بملكه

معينٌ عَلى تَأييد أَصدق قائم

And you are, in his kingdom, a supporter of our Master the Imam

In strengthening the most truthful pillar.

وَفيكَ مِن الأَوصاف ما لَم يُحط بِهِ

كِتابٌ وَلا دِيوانُ أَبلَغِ ناظم

In you are traits that no book or eloquent anthology

Has fully captured.

وَقَد أَذعَن الأَخدانُ أَنك فائز

بِسبقك في مضمار حسم العَظائم

The brothers have conceded that you are superior

In your precedence in the arena of great feats.

وَإِن وَزير الإِستشارة مصطفى

لطالع رَب الملك أَشرَف باصم

And the Minister of Consultation Mustafa

Is the noblest advisor to the King.

لَهُ اللَه مِن شَهم لَبيب مجرّب

أَمين جَليل القَدر ماضي العَزائم

May God grant him wisdom, experience, and trustworthiness,

A faithful man of great status and firm resolutions.

فَكَم قَد رَأينا في الصَحائف ما له

مِن الهمة العَليا بردّ المَظالم

How much we have seen in the papers of his

High ambitions in redressing wrongs.

وَكَم قَد سَمعنا عَن سَماحته الَّتي

محت جُود مَعْنٍ بَعد كَعب وَحاتم

And how much we have heard of his generosity, which

Effaced the munificence of Ka'b and Hatim after them.

وَكُل وَزير أَلمعيّ بِتُونس

جَدير بِمَدح من فَقيه وَعالم

Every brilliant minister in Tunis

Deserves the praise of scholar and wise man.

وَشكري عَلى طُول المَدى في زِيادة

لِدَولة مَولانا عَظيم المَراحم

And my thanks for the long duration, in increasing

The state of our Master the Most Merciful.