بِقدومكم راقَ الزَمان وَفاقا

وَصَحا وَمن سنة المَنام أَفاقا

With your arrival, time became excellent and surpassed

It became healthy and whoever was sleeping, awoke

زُرتُم فَاشرَقت البِلاد بِنوركم

وَبدورها زادَت بِكُم إِشراقا

You visited so the countries shone with your light

And with their full moons they increased more radiance

وَمَلأتُم كُل الوُجود مَسَرة

طابَت فَكُنتُم لِلقُلوب نشاقا

You filled all existence with happiness

It was pleasant, so you were to the hearts a pleasure

يا فتية نَشر الإِله عَلَيهم

مِن لُطفه سَجف الكَمال رواقا

O young men, God spread over them

From His kindness, the cloak of perfect generosity

سالَت عَلى كُل العباد أَكفكم

كَرَماً فَأَصبَح ماؤُها مهراقا

Your palms flowed upon all people generously

So its water became pouring in the morning

وَمَلكتُم رق الرِقاب لأَنَّها

قَد طَوقَت مِن جودكم أَطواقا

And you owned the softness of necks because they

Were encircled by your generosity with collars

وَرَسمتُم صُحف القُلوب ببركم

فَمَلأتُم مِن رَسمِها الأَوراقا

And you outlined the pages of hearts with your blessing

So you filled the sketches of its pages

يا أَيُّها المَولى الَّذي كتب النَدى

في كَفه أَن لا يُطاق لِحاقا

O My Master who wrote the dew

In His palm that cannot be attained or matched

قَد سابقتك عَلى الفَضايل فتية

أَعيتهُم يمنى يَديك سِباقا

The young men surpassed You in virtues

Your right hand exhausted competing with them

فَهُم تَسموا بِالسَخاء تَطفلاً

وَبَذَلت أَنتَ عَلى يَديه صداقا

So they took on generosity insolently

While You spent upon their hands dowries

راموا وَفاقك في الجَميل وَخالَفوا

مَن ذا يُطيق لِما تَروم وِفاقا

They sought to surpass You in beauty and opposed

Who can endure what You aspire to match?

فَإِذا أَتيت وَهُم أَتوا بِفَضيلة

فقت الجَميع بِما فَعَلت وِفاقا

So if You came and they came with a merit

You would defeat all with what You did to match

فَغَدوت عَبد اللَه قرماً سَيداً

وَقُرومهم أَضحَت لَدَيك حقاقا

Thus You became Abdullah an honorable master

While their masters became underlings before You

فَزعوا بِأَضياف عَلَيك تَراسلَت

مثل الغَوادي المُرسلات دفاقا

They prided themselves on guests upon You, corresponding

Like unleashed camels traveling in succession

لَم تَدرِ يا رَب الكَمال عدادهم

بَل ضَيقوا البلد الرَحيب فَضاقا

You did not know, O Lord of Perfection, their number

Rather, they narrowed the spacious country so it confined

أَطعمتهم ما يَشتهون فَأَصبَحوا

لا يَبرَحون وَلَو بَرحت فواقا

You fed them what they craved so they became

Never leaving even if You left early

أَلفتهم بِموائد ما مِنهم

مَن ذاقَ مِنها مِن سِواك ذواقا

You made them love the banquets, none of them

Other than You has tasted the taster of it

فَتَوَطنوا دار الضِيافة مَسكَناً

من ذا يُطيق لما بَسطت فراقا

So they settled in the house of hospitality residing

Who can endure what You offered separation?

وَمَكارم لا أَستَطيع لِبعضها

حَصراً وَما غَيري لِذاك أطاقا

And favors I cannot enumerate some of them

Nor can other than me endure that

وَمَعارف حيزت لصدرك رفعة

فَلِذاك أَضحى نيراً بَراقا

And recognitions that gave your heart loftiness

For that you became a glorious standard

فَنصبت للشرع المطهر حاكِماً

وَأَزلت ظُلماً في الوَرى وَشقاقا

So You appointed the pure Law as Ruler

And removed injustice in the land and discord

وَدعيت بِالحبر الحَكيم وَصاحب ال

جود العَميم وَلا أَقول نفاقا

And You were called the Wise Scholar and the Lord Of

Absolute generosity, I do not say hypocritically

أَصبَحت في دار السَلام مُسلماً

وَلها غَدَوت أَخا العُلى مِصداقا

You became in Dar as-Salam a Muslim

And for it you became brother of the Most High, truly

فَتشرفت بقدومكم وَغَدَت بِكُم

تَزهو وَمَدت نَحوكم أَعناقا

We have been honored by your arrival and through you

It becomes splendid and stretches its necks to you

فَأَقم بِخَير وَالصَديق بِنعمة

وَاملأ وُجوه الكاشحين بصاقا

So stay with goodness and the friend with blessing

And fill the faces of those smiling with juice

واسمع نِظام خريدة زفت لَكُم

لَم تَقترح إلا رضاك صداقا

And listen to the system of my cheap prose I presented to you

It did not suggest other than your approval as its dowry

وَابشر بِطول سَلامة فلأنتم

بِقدومكم فاقَ الزَمان وَرَاقا

And good tidings of lengthy safety so you

With your arrival, time surpassed and became pleasant