بِعودتكَ الحَمرَاء تمَّ لها القصدُ

فَذِي عودةٌ كالشمسِ يقُدمُها السَّعد

With your red return, it was intended for her

So it is a return like the sun brought forward by good fortune

بحَمرائِكَ المُشتَاقُ لُقيَاكَ أهلُهَا

حَللتَ كما قد حلَّ في فصلِه الوَردُ

The longing one for your redness, its people have met you

You have arrived just as the roses arrived in their season

فأَنعشتَهم رُوحا وأفعمتَ قلبَهم

سُرورا تساوَى الشِّيبُ في ذاك والوِلدُ

So you revived them with soul and imbued their hearts

With joy where old and young are equal

بلَى بكُمُ قد أشرقَ القطرُ كلُّه

فإنَّ التهامي في الورى عَلَمٌ فردُ

Indeed with you the whole country has shone

For rising in the land is a singular flag

وأمَّ حمَاك الشعبُ يَطفَحُ قلبُه

سرورا وملءُ القلب حبُّك والودُّ

And the people protected you, their hearts overflow

With joy and their hearts are filled with love and affection for you

لكُم كلَّ يوم في المزَايا تجدُّدٌ

فلم يَخلُ يومٌ من مزايا لكُم تَبدو

For you, each day has renewal in its qualities

So no day passed without merits appearing for you

فذُدتَ عن الفُرقان مَن رامَ كيدَه

ألاَ إنَّ كيدَ المارِقين هُو الكَيدُ

So you blocked from treachery those who intended their plots

Indeed, the plots of the defectors are just plots

ستلقَى من الدَّيَّان ما أنتَ أهلُه

وما أنتَ أهلُه جزاءً هو الخُلدُ

You will face from the Judge what you deserve

And what you deserve is reward, it is eternity

لئن طالَ من مولاي عنا مَغيبُه

فما كان إلا الجزرُ يعقُبه المَدُّ

If the absence of my Master from us grows long

It was just the ebb that follows the flood

تبارت شعوبٌ في ضِيافَة شخصِه

فكم دَولةٍ عُظمَى يُمثِّلُها فردُ

Nations have competed in hosting his person

For how many great states does one person represent?

وكلُّ عظيمِ القدرِ شرقا ومضغرِبا

به عارِفٌ والنِّدُّ يَعرِفه النِّدُّ

And every great person of status in East and West

Is an acquaintance, and equal recognizes equal

إذا عُدتَ عاد الخيرُ للشعبِ كلِّه

وتُكسِبُه إن غبتَ فخراُ كما العَهدُ

When you return, goodness returns to all the people

And if you are absent, it brings them pride as is the custom

تَخَالُه نَشوَانا لِفرطِ سروره

فأنغامُه تشدُو وأقدامُه تَعدُو

It seems to dance from excessive joy

So its tunes sing and its feet run

وقد دام أسبوعُ السُّرور وكُحِّلَت

بطلعَتِك الغرَّاءِ أعيُنُه الرُّمدُ

And the week of joy has lasted, adorned

By your radiant rising, its sleepy eyes kohl'd

وآراؤكَ المُثلَى تُنِير غَيَاهباً

إذا ظِمِىءَ الرأيُ فقد عَذُب الوِرد

And your ideal views illuminate its darkness

When opinion is thirsty, the roses are sweet water

عن أُمِّ الرَّدَى لما سُئِلتَ أجَبتَهم

وكانَ جوابا من عَظيم لهم قصدُ

About Umm Al-Rada you were asked and you answered them

And it was an answer with purpose for them from the eminent

سِلاحُ حَدِيد قد بَدا مثلَما بدا

سِوَاه وسُلحَانٌ ستظهر مِن بعدُ

Weapons of iron have appeared just as

Others appeared, and peace will emerge after

وقد شُدِهوا مِنه جوابا وقد بَدا

لهم غيرَ ما كَانوا يَظنونَه يبدُو

And they were amazed by his answer, and it appeared

To them not as they had imagined it would appear

وتصغُرُ في عين العظِيم عظيمَةٌ

وصُغرَى بأًَعيُن الأصاغِر تَمَتَدُّ

And mightiness seems small in the eyes of the great

While the small seems vast in the eyes of the lesser

كَذَا فَليَكُن مَن رَامَ تَمثيلَ شعبهِ

وَإِلا فلِلإِنسانِ بَيتُه وَالحَمدُ

Thus, let whoever aspires to represent his people be so

Or else for man are his house and praise

هَنيئاً لِمن قد صار في ظِلِّ رَكبهِ

كخادِمه الوَافي وما للهَنا حدُّ

Happy is he who has been in its shadow

Like its loyal servant, and for us to God there is no limit