أَعطى البَرِيَّةَ إِذ أَعطاكَ باريها
فَهَل يُهَنّيكَ شِعري أَم يُهَنّيها
When the Creator granted you the desert,
Does my poetry make you happy or make it happy?
أَنتَ البَرِيَّةُ فَاِهنَأ وَهيَ أَنتَ فَمَن
دَعاكَ يَوماً لِتَهنا فَهوَ داعيها
You are the desert, so congratulate yourself, and it is you, so who
Ever called you one day to congratulate made the call to it.
عيدُ السَماءِ وَعيدُ الأَرضِ بَينَهُما
عيدُ الخَلائِقِ قاصيها وَدانيها
It is the feast of the sky and the feast of the earth between them
It is the feast of creatures, far and near.
فَبارَكَ اللَهُ فيها يَومَ مَولِدِها
وَيَومَ يَرجو بِها الآمالَ راجيها
So may God bless her on the day of her birth,
And the day hopes are pinned on her by her hopers.
وَيَومَ تُشرِقُ حَولَ العَرشِ صِبيَتُها
كَهالَةٍ زانَتِ الدُنيا دَراريها
And the day her little one shines around the Throne
Like a halo that adorned the world in its infants.
إِنَّ العِنايَةَ لَمّا جامَلَت وَعَدَت
أَلّا تَكُفَّ وَأَن تَترى أَياديها
Providence, when it beautified and promised
Never to stop and to let its hands be seen
بِكُلِّ عالٍ مِنَ الأَنجالِ تَحسَبُهُ
مِنَ الفَراقِدِ لَو هَشَّت لِرائيها
With every nobleman it considers to be
Of its knights, if they drew their swords before its seer.
يَقومُ بِالعَهدِ عَن أَوفى الجُدودِ بِهِ
عَن والِدٍ أَبلَجِ الذِمّاتِ عاليها
It keeps the covenant of the most faithful ancestor,
Of a snow-white faithful father in his high principles.
وَيَأخُذُ المَجدَ عَن مِصرٍ وَصاحِبِها
عَنِ السَراةِ الأَعالي مِن مَواليها
And it takes the glory from Egypt and its lord,
From the exalted party of its loyalists.
الناهِضينَ عَلى كُرسِيِّ سُؤدُدِها
وَالقابِضينَ عَلى تاجَي مَعاليها
Those standing on its chair of joy,
And grasping its crown of glories.
وَالساهِرينَ عَلى النيلِ الحَفِيِّ بِها
وَكَأسها وَحُمَيّاها وَساقَيها
And those staying awake over the Nile, its guard,
Its cup, its wine servant, and its cupbearer.
مَولايَ لِلنَفسِ أَن تُبدي بَشائِرَها
بِما رُزِقتَ وَأَن تَهدي تَهانيها
My Master, it behooves the soul to give its good news
For what you were granted and to present its congratulations.
الشَمسُ قَدراً بَلِ الجَوزاءُ مَنزِلَةً
بَلِ الثُرَيّا بَلِ الدُنيا وَما فيها
The sun is but a sphere, even the Twins but a station,
Even the Pleiades, even the world and what is in it.
أُمُّ البَنينَ إِذا الأَوطانُ أَعوَزَها
مُدَبِّرٌ حازِمٌ أَو قَلَّ حاميها
The mother of boys, when the homelands need
A determined, wise, or even a lesser protector.
مِنَ الإِناثِ سِوى أَنَّ الزَمانَ لَها
عَبدٌ وَأَنَّ المَلا خُدّامُ ناديها
Of females, it has nothing save that time is its slave
And that scholars are the servants of its club.
وَأَنَّها سِرُّ عَبّاسٍ وَبِضعَتُهُ
فَهيَ الفَضيلَةُ مالي لا أُسَمّيها
And that she is the secret of Abbas and his daughter
She is the outstanding quality I will not name.
أَغَرُّ يَستَقبِلُ العَصرُ السَلامَ بِهِ
وَتُشرِقُ الأَرضُ ما شاءَت لَياليها
Most cherished, the age greets peace through it
And the land shines however much its nights.
عالي الأَريكَةِ بَينَ الجالِسينَ لَهُ
مِنَ المَفاخِرِ عاليها وَغاليها
High on the dais between the seated around it
Are its superior, highest glories.
عَبّاسُ عِش لِنُفوسٍ أَنتَ طِلبَتُها
وَأَنتَ كُلُّ مُرادٍ مِن تَناجيها
Abbas, live for souls who long for you
And you are each wish of its confidantes.
تُبدي الرَجاءَ وَتَدعوهُ لِيَصدُقَها
وَاللَهُ أَصدَقُ وَعداً وَهوَ كافيها
It shows hope and calls it to answer truly,
And God is most true to His promise and suffices it.
