لك المجد والفضل الذي ليس يجحد

بل الحمد والمغبون من ليس يحمد

You deserve all the glory and merit, which no one denies

Rather, praise belongs to you, while the ungrateful do not praise

أرى شرف الأخلاق وهي عطية

بها الله يشقي من يشاء ويسعد

I see the nobility of character as a gift

With which Allah makes miserable whom He wills and brings happiness to whom He wills

تفرد نجم الدين منها بسيرة

يحل بها الذكر الجميل ويعقد

The star of religion has been singled out with a conduct

In which beautiful mention comes and is composed

جمال وإجمال وبأس ونائل

وفضل وإفضال ومجد وسؤدد

Beauty and beautification, might and attainment

Merit and bestowal, glory and firmness

وحزم وعزم واتقاء وعفة

وخلق وأخلاق وفرع ومحتد

Prudence and resolve, God-consciousness and chastity

Character and morals, branch and firmly rooted

وما ضم هذا الشمل وهو كم ترى

وتسمعه إلا الأجل المؤيد

That which this group comprises, which you see

And hear about, except for the predetermined fate

كريم إذا كلفت دهرك مثله

فقد سميته إيجاد ما ليس يوجد

Noble one, if your age ever devised the like of him

You would have named it the creation of what does not exist

أجزت على الدار الشريفة بعده

فقلت هل الأيام لي في عود

I bid farewell to the noble household after him

So I said: Will there ever be days of return for me?

وهل ألتقي بدر الدجى منك طالعاً

وأبناؤه في برج سعدك أسعد

Will I ever meet the full moon of darkness risen from you

While his sons are in the ascending constellation of your good fortune, most fortunate?

فلم تمض أيام إلى أن رأيته

وعهد العلى باق كما كنت أعهد

It was not many days before I saw him

And the promise of the Exalted remains as I had hoped

فقلت لها يا دار يهنيكي قادم

رحابك من أنواره تتوقد

So I said to it: O abode, may the arrival

Of your courts be congratulated, set ablaze by his lights

فرحت به حتى كأن قدومه

رحيل بشيب أو شباب يجدد

I rejoiced at his coming as though his arrival

Were a departure of old age or renewing youth

وهنأت حسن الظن منك بمنعم

يصلي له الخطب الجليل ويسجد

And I congratulated the good expectation from you of the Benefactor

For whom the great sermons prostrate and bow down