يا حامدَ الله إذ لم يَكسُهُ نِعَماً

إلا لأوحدَ وقَّاع على النُّكَتِ

O Hameed, though fate did not bestow on you riches

Except to make you solely reliant on subtle wisdoms

يَهْنَئْكَ أنك لم تُنْعِم عليك يَدٌ

دُونٌ وأنكَ لم تُسْلَمْ إلى العَنَتِ

I congratulate you that no hand has favored you

Beside the Most High's, and that you were not surrendered to tribulation

وأنَّ شكرك مرصودٌ بعارفةٍ

أخرى ستأتيك لم تُبخَس ولم تُلَتِ

And that your gratitude is observed with a knowing

Other than what was diminished or twisted for you

وكيْفَ يُبخس من أضحى وليس لَه

إلّا إلى وجهِ بِرٍّ وجهُ مُلْتَفَتِ

And how can one diminish he who became devoted and has

None but the noble face of righteousness to turn to

أعني العلاء الذي لم يجرِ في أمدٍ

إلَّا وفات إلى القصوى ولم يُفَتِ

I mean the Most High who in no era

Faltered from reaching the epitome nor was deficient

فَتىً كليلٌ عن الفحشاء مُنْصَلتٌ

على ابتناء المعالي كلّ مُنْصَلَتِ

A young man purified from lewdness

Bent on cultivating the most virtuous traits

كم مُفلِتٍ بالعلاءِ الخيرِ من عطبٍ

من بعد ما قَالَ إنِّي غير مُنْفَلتِ

How many slips by the most pious were saved

After he said I am not one to slip

وكلَّحَ الدهرُ من نابيْهِ عنْ عَصَلٍ

فيه المنايا ومن شِدْقيْهِ عن هَرَتِ

And fate bit with its fangs instead of gently

In ways that bring death and with its lips not softly

فالله يجزيه في دنيا وآخرةٍ

ذِكراً إذا ما أُميت الذكر لم يَمُتِ

So may God reward him in this world and the next

With a remembrance that when all else is forgotten will not perish

يا من يشكُّ إذا عُدَّتْ مَنَاقِبُهُ

يكفيك ما قدَّمَتْ كفَّاه من ثبتِ

O you who doubt, when his virtues are listed

Suffices you what the Best of Protectors has already established