تنقل ايها القمر المنير

لقد خُلق السرى لك والمسير

O radiant moon, convey

You were created for the night journey and travel

اذا لم تطو منزلة لأخرى

فما تجدى منازلك الكثير

If you do not move from one station to another

Then your many stations are of no use

تظن العين أن قد غبت عنها

وأنت بجفنها بصر ونور

The eye thinks you have disappeared from it

While you are in its eyelid, sight and light

وتلتفت القلوب إليك شوقا

فتهديها لموضعها الصدور

And hearts turn to you longingly

So you guide them to their place in the chests

ومثلك من يضيق الرحب عنه

ويحمله على السعة الضمير

And like you, one who finds the vastness too narrow

And carries him to the expanse of conscience

هنيئا للسراة ولليالي

وللدنيا قيامك والسفور

Congratulations to the night travelers and nights

And to the world for your rising and brilliance

ونورك وهو للداني سبيل

وبشرك وهو للقاضي بشير

Your light guides the close one

And your good news brings joy to the judge

أرى دار السعادة قد تجلت

وعاد لها التأنس والحبور

I see the house of happiness has appeared

And intimacy and celebration have returned to it

تهللت القلوب وأنت فيها

فعذرا إن تبسمت النور

The hearts rejoiced as you were in them

So excuse them if the light smiled

أتدرى قدر زائرها المفدَّى

وإن جلت وجل بها المزور

Do you know the worth of its blessed visitor?

Though he is exalted, and the visitors exalted through him

يضيف خليفة الرحمن فيها

عظيم في خلافته كبير

The Caliph of the Merciful hosts him

Great in his Caliphate, eminent

اذا اجتمع الصدور به تنحوا

كما نزلت عن الطغرى السطور

When the chests gather around him, they lean

As the lines descended from the sublime