أضحت سيوفك للحصون مفاتحا

تردي أخا غش وتبهج ناصحا

Your swords have become keys to fortresses

You attack the deceitful and make the advisor happy

يا قائد الخيل العتاق شوازبا

جرداء سابحة وأجرد سابحا

O leader of free horses with gray hair

Swimming bareback and I am swimming bare

ومضيق البر الفضاء بأُرعن

كالبحر سد سهولة وأباطحا

And the narrow land became spacious

As an ocean, blocking plains and dunes

أيدّت دولة هاشم يا شمسها

بالرأي تحسبه الشهاب اللائحا

The Hashimite state supported you, O its sun

With opinion you count it the shining shooting star

وغدوت بالأماح عنها طاعنا

وأخفت بالرمح السماك الرامحا

And you attacked it with spears

And hid with the spear the thick spear bearer

وأبيك ما جردت بيض صفائح

وقدرت إلا كنت ثم الصافحا

And your father did not unsheathe white swords

Unless you were thereafter the reconciler

يا ابن المطاعين المطاعين الألى

أفنوا عداتهم واقنوا المادحا

O son of the obeyed, the exalted

Who defeated their enemies and silenced the praiser

قوم غدوا بالمكرمات وأصبحوا

في ظلمة الخطب المضب مصابحا

A people who became generous

And in the darkness of sermons, illuminating lamps

أطواد حلم ما برحن رواجحا

وبحور علم لم يزلن طوافحا

Pillars of patience that remained swinging

And oceans of knowledge that kept overflowing

أسنيت أعطية العفاة من اللهى

كرما وأَدنيت الرَّجاء النازحا

I hoped for the generosity of the exalted from God

Generously and approached the fleeing hope

يا غرة الزمن البهيم لقد جلت

منك الدّسوت أغر وجه وأضحا

O beauty of the brutish time, you have exalted

The lowly with a more beautiful and glowing face

روضت لي أملي وكان مصوحا

ذاو ورضت من امتداحي جامحا

You calmed my hopes though frothing

And were pleased with my passionate praise

وصرفت عني الحادثات فلم أجد

يوما لصرف الدهر خطبا فادحا

And turned worldly tribulations from me so I never found

A day when the turns of fate were greatly detrimental

وشمت من كفَّيك يا مسدي النّدى

للعرف والإحسان عرفا فائحا

And I tasted from your hands, O my satisfier

For gentleness and kindness, a widely known gentleness

فلأَ شكرنَّ غيوث نعماك التي

هطلت فأضحت للغيوث فواضحا

So I thank the relief of your blessings

Which poured and made the reliefs clearly manifest

ولأهدينَّ إليك يا بكر العلى

والمجد أبكار الثناء صرائحا

And I dedicate to you, O first of the exalted

And glory, the first fruits of fervent praise

ففداك يا هبة الإله معاشر

لا يعشرون ندي يديك السافحا

So may your given hand, O gift of God, redeem me

A company who cannot equal your pouring hands

ترقى المساند والمطارح منهم

عند اللقاء مساندا ومطارحا

The assistants and wrestlers among them

Become assistants and wrestlers when we meet

أغنيتني عن قصد هم وغمرتني

بمنائح كرمت لديّ منائحا

You have made me needless of worrying care

And inundated me with favors that favour me with favors

تاجرت مدحك يا أبا الفضل الذي

فضل الورى جودا فكنت الرابحا

I have profited from praising you, O Abu Al-Fadl

Who surpassed mankind in generosity and so became the winner

يا خير من طوت الركائب نحوه

وسرت إليه سياسيا وصحاصحا

O best of those who folded the mounts towards him

And traveled to him politically, speaking privately

أقسمت أبصرت يوما طالحا

إلا وعاد وقد رأيتك صالحا

I swore I never saw a deficient day

Unless I saw you turn it sound

لا غمت الأيام منك مملّكا

لولاه لم يك قلب راح فارحا

If the days had not boasted of you as king

No heart would have rested comforted

وبقيت ممتدَّ البقاء ولا جرى

باليمن طير مناك إلا سانحا

You remained eternal

And no bird flew in Yemen unless outstretched

وسلمت مجد الدين تكبت حاسدا

وتسوء ختارا وترغم كاشحا

The glory of religion surrendered to you defeating the envious

And making the insolent concede and silencing the dissenter