عَطايا لِلنَدى مِنها شِياتُ
وَبِشرٌ ما تَقومُ بِهِ الصِفاتُ
Gifts from which munificence takes its hallmarks,
And a smiling welcome beyond all description,
لِغَيثٍ مِن غُيوثِ بَني عَقيلٍ
إِذا ما اِنهَلَّ أَخصَبَتِ العُفاةُ
Belong to a rain cloud among the rain clouds of Banu ʿUqayl;
Whenever it pours forth, those who seek bounty flourish.
إِذا باتَ الرَجاءُ بِداءِ مَنعٍ
جَرَت مِن بَذلِهِ فيهِ الحَياةُ
When hope has spent the night afflicted with refusal,
Life flows into it from his largesse.
Sol 5.6