يَومٌ أَتى الدَهر فيما حُزتَهُ الخَبرُ

عيد تَهنى بِهِ الأَعياد وَالعَصرُ

A day has come when Fate reveals its tidings,

A feast day that feasts and times celebrate.

وَما مَقامَك بِالعَلياءِ يَفخَرُ بَل

بِكَ المَفاخر وَالعَلياءُ تَفتَخر

Your station in the heights is not made proud -

Nay, but by you the prides and heights are graced.

قَد شَمَر الجَهل عَن سَاقيهِ مُضطَرِباً

يَقولُ ما الحال ما الأَخبار ما السَير

Ignorance bared its leg in perturbation crying,

"What's up? What news? How go events and ways?"

قالوا تَبَدا امام العلم قالَ إِذاً

آن الرَحيل وَطابَ السَير وَالسَفَر

They said: "The chief of learning dawns." Said he:

"Then it is time to travel and go my way."

وَأَصبَح الدَهر لا تَخشى غَوائِلُهُ

وَأَقبَل الخَصب حَتّى أَعشَب الحَجَر

So dawned a day safe from mischances' spite,

And bounty flowed till rocks grew verdure dressed.

وَشَيد الدين دين الهاشِمي بِمَن

عِندَ الإِلَهِ وَعِندَ الناس يَعتبر

Religion - Hashim's creed - was firmly based

Through one the Lord and men see most esteemed,

ما مِن نَهار وَلا مِن لَيلة بِهِما

إِلّا وَتَثني عَلَيهِ الشَمس وَالقَمَر

No day or night but sun and moon invoke

Blessings and peace upon him without cease.

مِن عالم الذر كانَ الجود شيمَتُهُ

حَتّى لَهُ في أَيادي حاتم أَثَر

From the world of particles his nature was

Bounty, whose vestiges remain in Hatim's hand.

يا واحِداً كُلُّ وَصف فيهِ يُعجِزُنا

وَكُلُ مَدحٍ مَع الأَطناب مُختَصَر

O One alone, all praise ascription foils,

And every fulsome ode falls short condensed.

أَولَيتَنا نعماً بِالشام سالِفَةً

في الشَرق وَالغَرب مِنها تَقسم البِدَر

On us before, you conferred gifts in Syria

Shared through east and west - as the moon shares light.

أَبواب غَيرك ما فيها لَنا أَرَبٌ

إِذا اِنتَظَرنا فَسوءُ الظَن يُنتَظَر

Apart from you, no door has meaning for us,

If we hope there, only false hopes can be hoped.