بِكَِ هَذَا الْمَكَانُ يَا مَنْ فِرَاقُهْ

هَالَنَا زَالَ نَحْسُهُ وَمُحَاقُهْ

With you here in this place, O he whose absence

Through you, this place—O you whose departure

Made it ill-omened and brought it to ruin

Terrified us—has seen its misfortune and waning vanish.

قَدْ أَقَامَ لِكَوْنِكُمْ فِيهِ عُرْساً

فَتَحَلَّتْ بِثََلْجِهِ أَطْوَاقُهْ

You have set up a wedding celebration for your gathering herein

It has hosted a wedding to celebrate your presence within it,

So its circuits shone with its snow

So its collars were adorned with its snow,

وَتَغَنَّتْ رِيَاحُهُ النُّكْبُ لَحْناً

أَرْقَصَ الْغُصْنَ بِالْحُسَيْنِ عِرَاقُهْ

And its winds sang the melody of al-Nuqb

While its fierce, shifting winds sang a melody,

Making the branch dance with al-Husayn's charm

Its 'Iraqi' mode making the branch dance to the 'Husayni'.

مَنْ لِصَنْهَاجَةٍ بِوَصْلِ ابْنِ مَسْعُو

دِالإِمَامِ الذِي دَهَى إِشْرَاقُهْ

Who is there for intimacy with the bringing together of the son of Mas'ud

Who will bless Sanhaja with the communion of Ibn Mas'ou-

The Imam whose dawn shone brightly

-d, the Imam whose radiant light astounds;

وَسَقَى بَحْرُهُ الْمَشَارِقَ مِنْ بَعْ

دِ الْمَغَارِبِ مُنْذُ طَابَ مَذَاقُهْ

And whose sea has watered the East and West

Whose ocean watered the Eastern lands af-

Since the taste of it was pure

-ter the Western ones, ever since its waters grew sweet;

حَسَنُ الْعِلْمِ وَالشَّمَائِلِ وَالأَخْ

لاَقِ حُسْنُ الزَّمَانِ مِنْهُ اشْتِبَاقُهْ

Good in knowledge, noble traits and ethics

Beautiful in knowledge, in traits, and in mo-

The goodness of time longs for him

-rals, the beauty of the age is interlaced with his own.

لاَ تَحَلَّتْ بِحُسْنِهِ غَيْرُ أَيَّا

مٍٍ وَفِي فَاسِنَا يَكُونُ اِئْتِلاَقُهْ

None has been adorned with his goodness except days

May none be adorned by his beauty but these da-

And in our Fez will be his gathering

-ys, and in our Fez may his shining brilliance be.