ضعيف الهوى والرأي مَن جدّد البشرى

وهنّا أمير المؤمنين بها وِترا

Weak in passion and opinion is he who renewed the glad tidings,

And the Commander of the Faithful's lute string has snapped.

وما الحق فيها أن يُهَنّا بواحد

ولكنْ بألفٍ ثم تُتبِعها عَشْرا

It is not right that He should be disparaged with one,

But rather with thousands and tens of thousands.

فكيف يهنِّيه المهنِّي بواحد

وقد وَلَد الضِرغامَ والبدر والبحرا

So how can I congratulate with a single one?

When He has sired exile and the full moon and the sea?

ولو لم أكن منه ولم أغد بعده

بعثت التهانِي بعده كُمِّلا تَتْرَى

Even had I not sprung from Him nor lived after Him,

I would have sent congratulations in His wake, of one piece seamless.

لأني إذا هنَّأته كنت في الذي

أهنيه كالمهدي إلى نفسِهِ الشكرا

Because were I to give Him congratulations,

I would be, in the act of congratulating Him, thanking myself.

ولكن أهنيه ليعلم حاجتي

بأن ضميري فيه قد أشبه الجهرا

But I congratulate Him so He may know my need -

That my conscience toward Him resembles frank speech.

وأنِيَ أطوِي من صفاءِ ودادِه

ومن نصحِهِ أضعاف ما يعجِز البشرى

And that my affection's purity for Him, and my counsel to Him,

Surpass what human strength can express as glad tidings.

أَتيْتَ به صَلْتَ الجبينِ مُقابلاً

حسِيباً نسِيبا مالكاً ما جدا غَمْرا

You came with Him, bowing your brow opposite,

A kinsman, close companion, never once ungenerous.

أعدتَ به الدنيا وَلوداً ولم تَزَلْ

عقِيماً وأَنسيت الزمانَ به الغَدْرا

You returned through Him life to new birth,

Barren though it was. You made Time forget its betrayals through Him.

كأنك ضوءُ الصبح أُنكِح شمسَه

فباتَ لها كُفئاً وأَولدها بدرا

It was as if you were dawn light married to its sun,

So you spent the night as mate to it and fathered it a full moon.

فأصبحتِ الدنيا بمنشاه أيِّما

عروساً وكانت قبل مولِدِهِ بِكرا

Thus did the world become, through His advent,

A bride, while before His birth it had been a chaste virgin.

فكيف إذا ما شبّ واشتدّ واستوى

وأظهر فيه اللهُ آياتِهِ الكبرى

So how will it be when He grows up, matures, reaches manhood,

And God reveals in Him His signs, sublime?

وقلَّدْتَهُ أَمرَ الخلافةِ والورى

وصرَّف في تدبيره النهَى والأَمرا

When you delegate to Him mastery of the Caliphate and legacy,

And He disposes, in His rule, of prohibition and command?

وقاد إلى أَعدائه كُلَّ جَحْفَلٍ

تُلين مذاكِيه بأَرجلها الصخرا

And sets out against His enemies every legion -

Their unyielding minds will soften under its feet as if they were rock.

هنالك يسمو بالخلافة أَروعٌ

يقود إِليها الحمدَ والسعدَ والنصرا

There shall He excel in the Caliphate with a nobility

That leads glory, fortune, and triumph to bow down before Him.

فعُمِّر عُمْرَ الدهرِ يُرْجَى ويُتَّقَى

ويَستخدِمُ الإسلامُ في عصرِه الكفرا

He shall give the world length of days, to be feared and hoped for;

Islam, in His time, shall subjugate unbelief.

وتعيا سيوفُ الهند مما يَشِيمها

وَيكْسِر في طعنِ الأَعادي القنا السمرا

He will waken Indian swords from their dormancy,

And shatter in stabbing the foe the slender waists.

يُحيِّيه دينُ الله مِن فَرَحٍ به

وَتَفْدِيه بالأبناءِ فاطمةُ الزهرا

God's faith will revive with joy in Him,

And Fatemah's flowers ransom Him with sons.