إِنّي لِفِعلِكَ يا مُحَمَّدُ حامِدُ

وَإِلَيكَ بِالأَمَلِ المُصَدَّقِ قاصِدُ

Indeed for your act, O Muhammad, I give praise

And to you in aspiration and hope I solicit

توصيكَ بي عَطفُ القَريبِ وَمَذهَبٌ

في الرُشدِ سَهَّلَهُ أَمامَكَ راشِدُ

Your care exhorts me, a close relative, in right guidance

Which you've eased before yourself, an upright guide

وَلَقَد هُزِزتَ فَكُنتَ أَحمَدَ مُنصُلٍ

غَمَدَتهُ لَخمُكَ في العُلا أَو غامِدِ

You were shaken yet you stayed resolutely steadfast

Your scabbard hid your sword, aloft or sheathed

أَدعوكَ بِالرَحِمِ القَريبَةِ إِنها

وَلهى تَحِنُّ كَما تَحِنُّ الفاقِدِ

I call you by the womb’s bond for it

Yearns just as one deprived yearns

وَبِحُرمَةِ الأَدَبِ المُقَرِّبِ بَينَنا

وَالناسُ فيهِ أَقارِبٌ وَأَباعِدُ

And by the sanctity of refined culture between us

Where people are either relatives or strangers

وَقِيامِنا بِالاِعتِقادِ وَنَصرِنا

لِلحَقِّ إِن نَصَرَ الضَلالَ مُعانِدُ

And our creed’s advocacy and our support

Of the truth if one supporting falsehood contends

إِنَّ الأَميرَ وَإِن تَدَفَّقَ جودُهُ

فَجَنابُ جودَكَ كَيفَ شاءَ الرائِدُ

Though the prince’s munificence pours forth

By your munificence’s bounty whatever the guide dictated

أَو كانَ في كَرَمِ السَماحَةِ واحِداً

فَلَأَنتَ في كَرَمِ العِنايَةِ واحِدُ

Or if he equaled generosity’s oneness

You’re singular in care’s generosity

وَلَقَد غَدَوتَ أَخاً وَرُحتَ بِرَأفَةٍ

وَحِياطَةٍ حَتّى كَأَنَّكَ والِدُ

And you started forth as brother, with tenderness,

And heed so it’s as though you're a father

وَبَدَأتَ في أَمرٍ فَعُد إِنَّ الفَتى

بادٍ لِما جَلَبَ الثَناءَ وَعائِدُ

You began a matter—so repeat—the lad

Brings what lauds him while consequences ensue

لَم أَنأَ عَمّا كُنتُ فيهِ وَلَم أَغِب

عَن حَظِّ مَكرُمَةٍ وَرَأيُكَ شاهِدُ

I haven't digressed from what I was in

Nor been absent from a share of honor and your witnessing