قَدْ آنَ أَنْ يُنْجَزَ الْوَعْدُ الذِي وَعَدَا

مَنْ لاَ نَرى حَازَ ما قدْ حازَهُ أَحَدَا

The time has come to fulfill the promise made

The time has come to fulfill the promise that was made,

By one unseen, who has attained what no other attained,

By the one who has attained what we see no one else attain,

وَمَنْ حَوى العلمَ والْمَجْدَ الصُّراحَ مَعاً

وَمَنْ رَوى عَنْ أَبيهِ البِرَّ وَالرَّشَدَا

One who attained knowledge and manifest glory,

And he who has gathered both knowledge and pure glory together,

And one who quenched from his father righteousness and guidance.

And who has inherited piety and right guidance from his father.

سَمِيُّ خَيْرِ الوَرى مُفْتِي الْجَزَائِرِ مَنْ

مِنْ بَحْرِهِ اغْتَرَفَتْ أَحْبَارُهَا مَدَدَا

Chief of the best of mankind, mufti of Algiers,

The namesake of the best of creation, the Mufti of Algiers, he

From whose sea its scholars drew endless bounty.

From whose vast ocean its scholars have drawn their ceaseless provision.

مَوْلايَ أَسْرَفْتَ فِي إِنْظَارِ مُنْتَظِرٍ

إِجَازَةً وَهْيَ أَسْنَى ما به اعْتَضَدَا

My master, you have prolonged the wait of one expecting

My master, you have kept a waiting man in suspense too long

A diploma, though it is the strongest staff he leaned upon.

For a transmission license, the most radiant pillar of his support.

لاَ تُمْطِلَنْهُ فَفِي مَطْلِ الْغَنِيِّ أَتْتْ

آثَارُ صِدْقٍ بِأَنَّ الظُّلْمَ فيهِ بَدَا

Delay him not, for in the rich man’s delay there came

Do not delay him, for regarding the procrastination of the wealthy, there have come

Signs of sincerity, that wrong in him appeared.

True prophetic traditions declaring that such withholding is manifest injustice.

وَأَنْتَ أَعْلمُ أَهْلِ العصْرِ قاطِبَةُ

بِهَا وَمَنْ لَمْ يَقُلْ هذَا فَقَدْ جَحَدَا

You know best of all the people of this age in their entirety,

And you are, without exception, the most knowledgeable of the people of this age

This and one who did not say this has indeed denied.

Regarding these traditions, and whoever denies this has rejected the truth.

أَجِزْ وَأَنْجِزْ فَلاَ عُرِّيتَ منْ شَرَفٍ

إِجَازَةً لَمْ تُغَادِرْ لَكُمْ سَنَدَا

Grant and fulfill, lest you be stripped of an honor

Grant the license and fulfill the promise—may you never be stripped of honor—

A diploma you did not deprive yourself of a pillar.

A transmission license that leaves none of your illustrious chains unmentioned.

إِذَا ظَفِرْتُ بِهَا أُنْشِدُ مِنْ طَرَبٍ

بُشْرَى فَقَدْ أَنْجَزَ الإِقْبالُ مَا وَعَدَا

When I obtain it I will recite in joy and rapture

When I attain it, I shall recite out of sheer delight:

Good tidings, for luck has fulfilled what it promised.

"Glad tidings, for good fortune has finally fulfilled what it promised!"

يَا أَيُّهَا الْبَحْرُ إِلاَّ أَنَّ لُجَّتَهُ

تَرْمِي الْفَوَائِدَ وَالأَحْكامَ لاَ الزَّبَدَا

O sea except that its tides hurl forth

O you who are an ocean, save for the fact that your depths

Benefits and rulings, not froth.

Cast forth wisdom and wise rulings, rather than worthless sea-foam.

أَبْقَاكَ رَبِّي ذَا حَالٍ يَغَصُّ بِهَا

مَنْ رَاحَ يُضْمِرُ بَغْضاً لَكُمْ وَغَدَا

May my Lord keep you in a state that chokes

May my Lord preserve you in a state of eminence that chokes

One who came harboring hatred for you and tomorrow.

Those who go about harboring hatred for you, morning and evening.

وَلاَ يَزَالُ سَلاَمٌ كَالْعَبِيرِ شَذاً

يَأْتِيكَ مَا هَاجَ طَيْراً شَجْوُهُ فَشَدَا

And may peace ever come to you perfumed like musk,

And may peace, carrying the fragrant scent of ambergris,

So long as a bird lamented its passion and intensified.

Continue to reach you as long as sorrow stirs a bird to sing.