ربّ عيشٍ نصبت كأس مدامِهْ

ومليحٍ ضممت غصن قوامِهْ

The chieftain set up a cup of wine

And adorned a slender branch as its stand

تائه أقنع الهلال افتخاراً

أنه قد غدى مثال لثامه

The crescent moon pretends arrogantly

That it has become like the veil on his cheek

عربيّ إلى كنانة معزا

هُ ولكن لحاظه من سهامه

An Arab going to the beloved Kannana

His glances are like arrows from his bow

ضائع العين كلّ سهران فيه

ضيعة القاف في حروف كلامه

With eyes lost, every insomniac in it

The loss of reason in the letters of his speech

هبّ في جامه كخمرةِ فيهِ

وسقاني فوهُ كخمرة جامِه

It bubbles in his cup like a flask in it

Serve me so its mouth is like the lip of his cup

وجفاني بعد اللقاء فيا نا

ر فؤاد المحب بعد سلامه

And he left me after the meeting, so O the one who lit

The heart of the lover after his peace

ويح صبّ يخفي بكمّيه دمعاً

وهو كالزهر لاح في أكمامه

Alas he pours, hiding with his sleeves a tear

While it shone like a flower in his sleeves

سحرته العيون سحر ابن محمو

د بنفث البيان من أقلامه

Eyes enchanted him, the enchantment of the son of Muhammed

With the eloquence flowing from his pen

الرئيس الذي به غنيَ النا

س عن الغيث وارتقاء غمامه

The president with whom people became needless

Of rain and the rising of clouds

وثقوا أن غدوا ضيوفاً لإبرا

هيمَ أن النجاح حول مقامهْ

Be certain that tomorrow they will be guests of Ibrahim

Success is around his abode

لم يقيسوا الحيا بجدواه لكن

بشروه من الحيا بغلامهْ

They did not measure life by its essence but

Gave him good tidings of life with a boy

أكمل العالمين فضلاً فما نس

أل ربَّ العباد غير دوامه

The most perfect of both worlds in virtue, so he did not forget

The Lord of creation other than His permanence

أيّ حرّ لو لم تفضّل ذووه

لكفتْه في الفضل نفس عصامهْ

What free man, had He not granted precedence to his partisans

His own self would have sufficed him in virtue

وجوادٍ لو لم يعمّ سخاه

لحبا من صلاته وصيامه

And a generous one, had he not made his generosity universal

For the love of his prayers and fasting

وبليغ لو قام أهل المعاني

قال أسنى من قولهم في منامهْ

And an eloquent one, had the people of meanings stood up

Would have said better than their words even in sleep

فاض فيض الغمام في الجود لا قص

د مديح الغنى ولا خوف ذامّهْ

The outpouring of the clouds in generosity without intending

Praise of wealth nor fear of blame

وحمى الدين إذ سما فله الفض

ل على كلّ سامِ دهرِ وحامه

And He protected religion when it was sublime so for Him is virtue

Over every pillar of time and its protector

ما روى الناس في التواريخ قدماً

ما روَوْا للسّماح في أيامهْ

What people related in history of old

They related to benevolence in his days

عدّ بالخنصر المقدم إذ أو

ضح وجه البيان من إبهامه

Consider him the first pick when eloquence

Clarified the face of rhetoric from its ambiguity

ودَرى المدح عجزه عنه لكن

خاف عنه الكتمان من آثامه

And praise saw its incapacity from it but

Feared silence from its sins

يا رئيساً نرجو به أدب الدّه

ر لأنَّا نراه من خُدَّامهْ

O president we hope through him the morals of time

For we see him from its servants

دم هنيئاً بألف صومٍ وفطرٍ

مسعد في اقتباله وانصرامهْ

Congratulations in thousands of fasting and feasts

Felicitous in its approach and departure

من غدا طاهراً كطهرك فينا

كانَ كلّ الشهور شهر صيامهْ

Whoever becomes pure like your purity in us

Every month will be like his month of fasting

أو غدا جائداً كجودك فينا

كانَ كل الأوقات أعياد عامهْ

Or becomes generous like your generosity in us

Every time will be like the holidays of his year

فاز حرٌّ أمسيت مغزَى رجاه

وزمان أصبحت صدر منامهْ

A free man has won whom you were the goal of his hopes

And a time that became the chest of his sleep