شَيِّد بِفَضلِكَ مُشرِفَ البُنيانِ

لَم يَبقَ إِلّا خاتِمُ الإِحسانِ

With your virtue raise the eminent edifice

Nothing remains but the seal of benevolence

رُدَّ الصَنيعَةَ في ابنِ شُكرٍ طَبعُهُ

نَشرُ الَّذي توليهِ كُلَّ أَوانِ

Repay the favor to the son of gratitude is his nature

He who You have appointed spreads it at all times

أَمّا لِساني في الحِسابِ فَواحِدٌ

وَيَقومُ فيكَ مَقامَ أَلفِ لِسانِ

As for my tongue in accounting it is one

And in you it takes the place of a thousand tongues

لاتُبعِدَنّي مِنكَ نِسبَةُ مَن هُمُ

خُلَفاءُ قَومِكَ مِن بَني شَيبانِ

Do not estrange me from you, the relation of those who are

Your nation's caliphs, the Bani Shayban

نَسَبي لَعَمري في رَبيعَةَ غُرَّةٌ

فيها وَلي قَلبٌ هَواهُ يَماني

My lineage, by my life, among Rabi'a is a badge of honor

In it I have a heart that loves Yemen

ذَهَبَت يَمانٌ بِالمَفاخِرِ كُلِّها

بِكَ دونَ أَهلِ الفَخرِ بِالنُعمانِ

Yemen has taken all the glories

Below the people of pride, below Nu'man

مَرَجَ الإِلَهُ بِسَيبِ كَفِّكَ لِلنَدى

بَحرَينِ بِالمَعروفِ يَلتَقِيانِ

The God has mixed with the palm of your hand the dew

Two seas meeting in benevolence

هَذا يَفيضُ بِفِضَّةٍ وَبِعَسجَدٍ

وَيَفيضُ ذاكَ بِفاخِرِ المَرجانِ

This overflows with silver and worn out rags

And that overflows with the most precious coral

وَاللَهُ أَكسَبَكَ المَحامِدَ مُكمِلاً

لَكَ كُلَّ إِنسانِيَّةِ الإِنسانِ

And God has perfected for you all praise

Completing for you all humaneness of man

رَفَعَ السَماءَ وَمَجدَ فَخرِكَ قَبلَ أَن

يَبدا بِوَضعِ الأَرضِ وَالميزانِ

He raised the sky and glorified your pride before

Laying down the earth and scales

فارَقتُ مُذ زَمَنٍ أَبي فَجَعَلتَ لي

مِن بَعدِ ذاكَ أَباً يَقومُ بِشاني

Since a while back I lost my father, so you made for me

After that a father who attends to my affairs

أَتَصونُ لي شِعراً وَأُخلِقُ قَدرَهُ

في الناسِ ماأُمّي إِذاً بِحَصانِ

I compose poetry and create its worth

Among people, so what is my mother in steeds

مَهما أَهَنتَ الدُرَّ ما أَكرَمتَهُ

فَاِقطَع نَوالَكَ فَهوَ قَطعُ بَناني

However much you debase the pearl, you honor it

So cut off your gifts, for it is my incisors

ماحِصنُ هَذا الحِصنُ لي بِمُعَوِّلِ

أَلجا إِلَيهِ وَأَنتَ حِصنُ أَماني

This fortress does not protect me with a pickaxe

I resort to it while you are the fortress of my wishes

إِنّي أَتَيتُ مُوَدِّعاً وَأَقولُ لَو

لَم آتِ فَضلَكَ طالِباً لَأَتاني

I have come to bid farewell, and I say: Had I not

Come for your grace, it would have come to me

وَإِذا انتَجَعتُكَ بِالرُجوعِ فَغَيرُهُ

أَولى وَأَبعَدُ مِن جَوى الحَدَثانِ

And when I seek you again, another

Is more worthy and farther from the intimacy of the young

فَاشدُد أَبا العَبّاسِ كَفَّكَ بِالعُلا

إِنَّ العُلا مِن أَشرَفِ التيجانِ

So strengthen, Abu Al-'Abbas, your palm with elevation

Indeed, elevation is the most honorable of crowns