يوم الجلوس الذي سرت به البشر

يومٌ به مهج الحساد تنفطر

The day of ascension when humankind rejoiced,

A day that broke the jealous people's hearts.

قد قام للدين والدنيا به ملك

يجري القضاء بما يهواه والقدر

A just king rose for religion and this life,

Judging as he desires, as fate decrees.

سماه جارُ إلهِ العرشِ والدُه

عبدَ الحميد وأعطاه اسمه القمر

The Lord of the Throne named him Abdülhamid,

And gave him the name of the shining moon.

حقٌّ على اللَه أن يمحو الخطوب به

محو الدجنة لما يسفر السحر

It's right for God to erase troubles through him,

Like the clearing of clouds at dawn's first light.

وأن يساوي به بين العباد فلا

يلامس الصفو في أيامه الكدر

And to make all people equal through him, so no

Sorrows touch the pure in his days.

أعيذه بكتاب اللَه من ملكٍ

قلت أعاديه والحساد قد كثروا

I seek refuge for him in God's book from a king

I said opposed him while enviers grew.

ومن يناوي أمين اللَه في حرجٍ

ومن على سيفه المنصور يقتدر

And from one who threatens God's trustee in straits,

And from one empowered by his victorious sword.

سميذع شاد بالتقوى ممالَكه

فليس يخطر في أبوابه الخطر

May his realms be adorned with the pious,

So no danger knocks on his doors.

كل الذنوب لدى أبواب رحمته

ما لم يكن من حدود اللَه تغتفر

All sins are at the doors of his mercy,

Unless they are beyond God's forgiveness.

من مثلنا وأمير المؤمنين لنا

ظل ظليلٌ به نزهو ونفتخر

One like us, the Commander of the Faithful,

We rest in his shade and pride ourselves on him.

واللَه ما نظرت شمسٌ ولا قمرٌ

مولى حكاه ولا بدو ولا حضر

By God, neither sun nor moon that was extolled

In verse, neither nomad nor city dweller,

فإنه الرحمة العظمى التي وردت

بها الأحاديث والآيات والسور

For he is the greatest mercy that was heralded

In scriptures, verses and suras.

جود ابن زائدةٍ ظلٌ لديمته

وعدل كسرى ولا فخرٌ له أثر

The generosity of Ibn Zaida, a shade for his people,

And justice like Khusraw has no trace left.

راحاته ديمتانِ اِن مسَّتا حجراً

ما مسه الماء يوماً أورق الحجر

His palms, if they touched a rock,

A rock no water ever touched would turn green.