مجدي لدولتك العلية خادمُ

وَلحسنِ صُنعِ أَبيك قَبلك ناظمُ

I give praise and glory for your exalted state, servant

And for the goodness of your father's work before you, composer

أَخذ الذمام هَنيّةً مِنهُ فَعا

ش بِنعمة وَلَهُ الزَمان مسالم

He took the reins happily from him, so he lived

In prosperity, and time was peaceful for him

وَلَكم بحضرته ترنم بِالَّذي

أَثنى بإِخلاص عَلَيهِ عالم

And how much in his presence poems were sung with what

A scholar sincerely praised him for

وَلَكم لَهُ كتب يُحلِّي جيدَها

فيهِ وَفيك قَصائدٌ وَتَراجم

And how much for him books were adorned, their beauty

In it and in you odes and biographies

وَعَليكُما قصَر المَدائح وَاِنتَقى

لَكما الثَناء فَلَم يَلمه اللائم

And on you both the palace of praises was built and chosen

For you two praise, so no blamer blamed it

وَجَرت بمضمار البَديع جِياده

فَقَضى لَهُ بِالسَبق فيهِ حاكم

And its horses raced in the hippodrome of rhetoric

So the judge ruled for it the first place in it

وَلذا غَدا بَين البَرية فيكُما

عَلَماً بشهرته يَهيم الهائم

And thus it became among mankind like you two

A monument, bewildering the wandering

وَأَبوك ميّزه بِأَشرَف خدمة

رفعت لَهُ فيها بمصر دَعائم

And your father distinguished it with the noblest service

Which raised its pillars for it in Egypt

يا أَيُّها الصَدر الَّذي أَيامه

في عَهده للعالمين مَواسم

O breast whose days are

In his era for all people seasons

هَذا غُلامك قامَ قَبلُ بِواجبٍ

لأَبيك يَرحمه الرَحيم الراحم

This is your boy who before stood by the duty

To your father, may the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate have mercy on him

وَبِنَظمه فيهِ وَفيك تَناشدت

فَوقَ الغُصون بَلابلٌ وَحَمائم

And with his writing about him and you the nightingales twittered

Above the branches and doves

وَالمَدح فيهِ مدوّنٌ بِصحائفٍ

لِسطورها قلمُ الصَداقة راقم

And praise is documented in pages about him

The pen of friendship was the drawer for its lines

وَالنَفس قَد كادَت تَذوب لفقده

لَولاك يا نعم السَليل الحازم

And the soul almost melted because of missing him

If not for you, O excellent offspring, wise

وَلَئن مَضى فَالفَخر فيكَ مخلد

تبديه مِنكَ شَجاعةٌ وَمَكارم

And though he passed, pride in you is immortalized

You show it through courage, generosity,

وَمَعارف وَلَطائف وَمَهابة

وَسَداد رَأي للمشاكل حاسم

And knowledge, charms, awe,

And integrity of opinion determining dilemmas

يا ابن السَعيد محمدٍ ملك الوَرى

أَنتَ الَّذي يُنسَى بجودك حاتم

O son of happy Muḥammad, king of all

You are whom his open-handedness makes Hatim be forgotten

لِم لا وَقَد أَحييتَه بِحَماسةٍ

وَسَحاب بذلٍ غَيثُه مُتراكم

Why not, and you revived him with enthusiasm

And clouds of generosity whose rain is accumulating

وَنَشرت بِالأَوطان أَعلام النُهى

في خَير عَصر ثَغرُه لَكَ باسم

And you spread in the homelands the flags of prohibition

In the best era whose wound for you is binding

فَاِختارك الملك العَزيز أَبو الفِدا

عضداً وَصهراً وَهوَ أَمر لازم

So the precious king, Abu al-Fida, chose you

As a pillar and in-law, and that is essential

وَحبا المدارسَ مِنكَ وَالأَوقافَ بال

فَطِنِ الَّذي تَخشى لِقاهُ ضراغم

And you loved schools and endowments without

Ingenuity, whom you fear to meet foes

فَأَتيت في التَدبير بِالأَمر الَّذي

في المَهد مِنهُ بَدَت عَلَيك عَلائم

So you came in management with the matter which

Signs of it appeared on you since the cradle

لا زلت مَحفوظ الجَناب مؤيداً

بِالنَصر ما صَلَّى وَسلم صائم

You still remain protected and supported,

With victory as long as the faster prayed and greeted

أَو ما بَدا شَهرُ الصِيام بما تَشا

وَاِزداد فيهِ لَكَ السُرور الدائم

Or as the month of fasting appears with what you desire

And joy for you is increasing constantly

وَبلغت ما أَمّلت مِمّا تَشتَهي

أَبَداً وَأَنفُ عدوّ دينك راغم

And you attained what you wished for

Forever, and the nose of your religion's enemy is rubbed in dirt

أَو قالَ مَجدي في الهَناء مؤرِّخاً

طوسون بِهِ شَرَف المَعارف قائم

Or Majdi said in congratulations, the historian:

Adorn it, the honor of knowledges remains