وبيتٍ مثْلِ بَيْتِ اللهِ فَرْدٍ

إليه سُجودُ كلِّ ذوي البُيوتِ

A home like Allah's home, unique,

To it prostrates everyone with homes

أتاني فافتخَرْتُ به جوارباً

فيا نَفْسي حَظيتِ بما حَظيت

It came to me, so I boasted association,

Oh my soul, you gained what you gained

وبِتُّ كمُحصَرٍ في الأرضِ يُمْسي

ويُصبحُ وهْو ذو شَمْلٍ شَتيت

A house as if restricted on earth it spends the night

And rises while fragmented is its gathering

فجاء إليه بَيْتُ اللهِ يَسْعَى

وقال له السَّعادة قد كفِيت

So Allah's house came to it striving

And told it: you have been granted felicity

فيا مَنْ ظَلَّ منعوتَ المعالي

بأشرفَ ما يكونُ من النعوت

Oh you who excel in the most noble traits

Of all traits that can be

ومَن هو قِبلةٌ تُلْوِي إليه

وُجوهُ الخَلْقِ من كلِّ السُّموت

And you who are a direction to which turn

The faces of creation, from all the heavens

إمامٌ رَبُّه آتاهُ حُكْماً

وذلك مَن يَشاءُ اللهُ يُوتي

An imam, his Lord gave him wisdom

And that is what Allah gives whom He wills

حليمٌ في تَواضُعِه مَهيبٌ

لديه الخَصْمٌ يُلْجَمُ بالسُّكوت

Clement in his humility, revered in awe

Before him the adversary is muted in silence

على أحوالِ أحداثِ الليالي

له إقدامُ ذِمْرٍ مُستَميت

In the events of the dark nights

He has the daring of a relentless lion

أخو كرمٍ يَسيرُ بكُلّ أرضٍ

حديثٌ عنه كالمِسْكِ الفَتيت

Brother of generosity walking every land

Talk of him is like musk's diffusion

فتىً يُحيِي عُلاً ويُميتُ مالا

ألا حُيّيِتَ من مُحْيٍ مُميت

A youth who gives life to the lofty, and death to wealth

Was it not you who revived from a deadly revival?

له أُهدِي قَوافِيَ سائراتٍ

أَبِيتُ لنَظْمِها قَلِقَ المَبيت

To him I dedicate the rhymes of my wanderings

Awake all night to compose for him

حِساناً للمُدِلِّ بها لعَمْري

على الكُرَماء حَقٌ ذو ثُبوت

Virtue, by my life, for the generous is a right

Yet excellence may be expected conventionally in time without glory

ولكنْ رُبَّما عُهِدَ اتِّفاقاً

حِسانٌ في الزّمانِ بلا بُخوت

Oh you from whom my strength is in drawing near

And spreading your praise among people is my bread

أيا مَن قُوَّتي منه اقترابي

ونَشْرُ ثنائه في النّاسِ قُوتي

You have rendered me incapable, so I lowered my voice

And you have ennobled me, so you raised my name

لقد أعجَزْتَني فخَفَضْتُ صَوتي

وقد شَرّفْتَني فرفَعْتَ صِيتي

So stay as long as the plains spent the night and morn

Bestowing upon gardens or meadows

فدُمْ ما أصبحَتْ دِيَمٌ وأمسَتْ

تَجودُ على رياضٍ أو مُروت

And what did not avail a canal from censure

Nor what did a string avail from devotion

وما لم يُغْنِ طَعْنٌ عن قنَاةٍ

وما لم يَعْرَ وِتْرٌ من قُنوت