إِن هَنَّؤوكَ بِها فَلَستُ مُهَنِّئاً

إِنّي عَهِدتُكَ قَبلَها مَحسودا

If they congratulate you on it, I am not congratulating

I knew you before it, envied

قَد كانَ قَدرُكَ لا يُحَدُّ نَباهَةً

وَسَعادَةً فَغَدا بِها مَحدودا

Your fate was boundless glory

And happiness, yet with it became confined