ما تقاضت منَّا ليالي الزَّمان

ما تقاضَى شوَّالُ مِن رَمَضانِ

The nights of time have not demanded from us

What Shawwal demanded from Ramadan

ما ترى بدرَه عَلاه سَقامٌ

كسَقام المحِبِّ في الهِجران

You do not see its full moon, disease has overcome it

Like the sickness of a lover in estrangement

كَسفَتْ نورَه مخافةُ شوَّا

لٍ كُسوفَ الصِّيامِ لِلأَلوان

Its light has been veiled in fear of crescent

Like the fasting's veil from colors

فَعَلتْ في اخترامِه وضَناه

فِعلَه في النُّفوسِ والأَبدانِ

It has done in its reverence and modesty

What it has done in souls and bodies

فبدت فيه ذِلّةٌ حين وَلّت

منه عشرون كُمَّلٌ وثماني

So it appeared in it humiliation when

Twenty full moons and eight turned away from it

يا لشَواَّلَ مِن مُعِينٍ على اللّذْ

ذَةِ والقَصْف تحت خيرِ أَوانِ

Oh Shawwal, what a helper for pleasure and picnic

Under the best of times

حين طاب النسيمُ وانصَرَم القَيْ

ظُ وطَلَّتْ أزاهر الألوانِ

When the breeze was good and the heat receded

And the flowers of colors lengthened

وتغنّت أعاجمُ الطَّيْر في الأغ

صانِ مسرورةً بكلّ بَيانِ

And the foreign birds sang in the branches

Happy with every expression

ما تَرَى الفِطر كيف أَقبل يسمو

ظاهرَ الحُسْنِ شامخَ السلطانِ

You do not see Eid, how it came exalted

Apparent beauty, towering sultan

يتَلقّى العزيزَ بالسَّعد والإق

بالِ والْفَتْحِ والعُلا والأَمانِ

Receiving the dear with happiness and welcome

And opening and elevation and safety

بشَّرَتْنَا بذلِك الطيرُ والزَّجْ

رُ وطَرْقُ الحصا وفأْلُ اللِّسانِ

The birds and trees and pebbles of granite and eloquence of the tongue gave us good tidings of that

Oh Imam of guidance whom loving is a duty upon us like the duty of faith

يا إمامَ الهدى الّذي حُبُّه فَرْ

ضٌ علينا كواجِب الإيمانِ

May God increase you in vastness and elevation

And power over the people of disobedience

زادك الله بَسْطةً وعُلوّاً

واقتِداراً على ذَوي العِصيانِ

You are the light of people in justice and virtue

And the right hand of guidance and the eye of time

أنت نورُ الأنام عَدْلاً وفَضْلاً

ويمينُ الهدى وعَيْنُ الزمانِ

And the brother of elevation which God gave good tidings of

In the recitation of the Quran

وشقِيقُ العُلا الَّذي بَشَّر اللّ

هُ بِه في تِلاوةِ القرآنِ

You have a palm that competes with rain in generosity

And a forehead that is like the two moons

لك كفٌّ تُجاوِدُ الغَيْثَ بَذلاً

وجَبِينٌ كأَنَّه القَمَرانِ

And features sweet in taste and scent

Resembling the concealment of secrets with declaration

وسَجايَا كالشَّهْد طَعْماً وخُبراً

مُشْبهات الإسرارِ بالإعلان

I am from some of the beauty you were adorned with

With kinds of beauty and beneficence

أَنا مِن بعضِ ما تأَنقْتَ فِيه

بضُروبِ الجميلِ والإحسانِ

I have not ceased to be with you between righteousness and nearness

Hands that are seen without ingratitude

لم أَزل منكَ بين بِرٍّ وقُرْبٍ

أَيادٍ تَتْرَى بِغَيرِ امتِنانِ

So if I try to repay you with praise

And with gratitude every tongue of mine falls short

فإذا رمتُ أَن أَكافِيكَ بالمَدْ

حِ وبالشّكر كلَّ عنكَ لِساني