هَناؤُك ليس يَعْدَمُه زمانُ

كشكْرِك لا يُخِلُّ به لِسانُ

Your joy is never lacking in time

Just as your gratitude never fails from the tongue

وجدك للسعادة في اشتهار

يُنزِّهه عن الخَبرِ العِيان

Finding your happiness in fame

Purifies it from experiential news

إذا البشرى أُتتْك بكلِّ معنى

تُسَرُّ به فما ابتدع الزمان

When you are given good tidings in every sense

You rejoice in it, for time did not originate it

لِتَهْنَ بك الخلافةُ حين أَضحتْ

وأنت لها الكَفيل المُستعان

For the caliphate to congratulate you when you became

Its guarantor and source of help

وأنك سيفُها العَضْب المُحلَّى

تُزان بحُسْنِه وبه تُصان

You are its sharpened, strong sword

Balanced in its beauty and by it you are protected

فرأيُك في مُواليها مِجَنٌّ

وعَزْمُك في مُعادِيها سِنان

So your view towards its loyalists is a shield

And your resolve against its enemies a spear

وأنت لها إذا ضَرَبتْ يَمينٌ

وأنت لها إذا عَزمتْ جَنان

You are its right hand when it strikes

And you are its wings when it is determined

قد اعتمدتْ عليك لكلِّ أمرٍ

كما اعتمدتْ على الكفِّ البَنان

It has relied on you for every matter

As it relied on palms that build

وذللتَ الزمانَ لها ولولا

ساستُك استمرَّ به الحِران

You made time submissive for it, and if not for

Your leadership, discord would have persisted

فصار إذا نَحْوتَ به مُرادا

فأَسْبقُ ما تُجاريه الرِّهان

So when you direct it towards a purpose

You are quicker than what competes with it in the race

لقد سرَّتْ مَسرَّتك الليالي

كما سَرَّت أخا الطربِ القِيان

Indeed your joy has delighted the nights

As the singing of the poetic lute player delighted them

بنورٍ للخلافةِ لاح حتى

له في كلِّ خافقةٍ بيان

With a light for the caliphate that shone until

It had in every heartbeat an explanation

تَفاخرتِ البلادُ به جَلالا

وللأيامِ في الشرق افْتِتان

The countries boasted about it gloriously

And the days in the east were infatuated

سلالةُ من أتى بالحق حتى

تَيقَّنَ صِدْقَه إنسٌ وجان

A lineage from one who came with truth until

His honesty was certain to mankind and Jinn

وعِتْرة صفْوَةِ اللهِ المُسمَّى

إذا بَدتِ الإقامة والأذان

The select family of Allah called

When the call to prayer and standing for prayer appeared

لقد نَظمتْ محاسنَك الليالي

كما نُظم الزمرد والجُمان

The nights have strung your virtues

As emerald and pearls were strung

تَتيه بمُلْكِك الدنيا افتخارا

كما تاهتْ بزينتها الحسانُ

The world wanders proudly in your kingdom

As the beautiful wandered proudly in their adornment

علوتَ ملوك أهلِ الأرض فَضْلا

ولا عُجْبٌ لديك ولا افتتان

You have excelled the kings of earth in merit

There is no wonder or infatuation in you

وأعطيْتَ السياسة حالتيها

بما قَضت الشَّراسة واللِّيان

You have given politics its two conditions

With what severity and leniency have decreed

فسِلْمٌ تُسْلِم الأموالَ فيه

يمينٌ لا يُكَدِّرها امْتِنان

So there is peace in which wealth is secure

A right hand that ingratitude does not spoil

وحربٌ راعَ أفئدةَ الليالي

فأَشجعُها لِخيفتِه جبان

And war that made the hearts of nights tremble

So their most courageous was made a coward by its fear

يُزعزع خوفك ألأبطالَ فيه

فأهونُ ما يمر بها الطِّعان

Your fear makes the heroes in it waver

So the simplest thing that passes through them is a spear

عَظُمتَ فما تُقابلك الأعادي

فَحَرْبُك ما يقالُ له عَوان

You have become great, so enemies cannot match you

Your war is not called unjust

يَذلُّ لك الكَمِىُّ بلا قتالٍ

كأن على الحِصان به حَصان

The ambitious bows to you without fighting

As if the horse has a horse over it

كأنّ الأرضَ من عدلٍ وأمنٍ

وإنعامٍ تُواصله جِنان

As if the land from justice, security

And favor is connected by gardens

لقد ابكاهمُ ضَحِكي وأبدى

هُزالَهمُ مَنائحُك السِّمان

You truly made them cry with your laughter and showed

Their emaciation with your sharp arrows

لقد ظَفِرتْ يداىَ بما توالتْ

به من فضِلك النعم المِنان

My hands have really attained what accumulated

Of your endless grace and favors

ولستُ مكافئا بجميع مدحى

عطاءَك بل اقول عسى أُعان

I am not rewarding all my praise

With your gift, rather I say, may I be helped