إِليك تداعى رائد الجاهِ والقَدْرِ

ومنك استعارَ الفاخرونَ عُرَى الفَخْرِ

To you the pioneer of glory and destiny resorts

And from you the eminent borrowed the ornaments of pride

وأيَّامُكَ الغرُّ اطّلعنَ على الورى

جلاءَ الرِّياضِ الخُضْرِ في حُلَلِ الزَّهر

And your days, O young moon, looked upon the world

As the blossoms in the green gardens in their brightest robes

تسربلْ عبيدَ الله سربالَ نعمةٍ

مُجَدَّدَةٍ تَبْلَى بها جِدَّةُ الدَّهْرِ

Clothe the servants of God in a garment of new bounty

That renews through it the newness of time

وَعِشْ لبناءِ الجودِ والمجدِ آخذاً

بهذا وهذا مأَخَذَ الشَّمْسِ والبدر

And live for building generosity and glory taking

From this and that the rising place of the sun and the moon

طَلَعْتَ على الأَضحى بأَيْمَنِ طالعٍ

فضَحَّى الغنى في وقتِ ضَحَّيْتَ بالفقر

You rose in the brilliant morning with the most auspicious rising

So the plenty smiled in the time you smiled in poverty

فأَصبحتما عيد بن هذا لمجتدٍ

وَجَدْوَى وهذا للصلاةِ وللنَّحْرِ

Thus you both became a feast - this for the striving servant

And bounty - and this for the prayer and the sacrifice

نداكَ إِذا حصَّلْتُهُ سابقُ النَّدى

وشكري إِذا حَصَّلْتَهُ سابقُ الشكر

My praise, when you attain it, precedes praise

And my gratitude, when you attain it, precedes gratitude

ولم أَرَ مثلَ الشِّعْرِ أَجْلَبَ للغنى

إِلى راغبٍ فيه ولا سيَّما شعري

And I have not seen the like of poetry bring bounty

To one longing for it, especially my poetry