قَبولُكَ رَيعانُ الشَبابِ فَلا وَلّى

وَبِشرُكَ كَالبُشرى عَلى النَعيِ أَو أَحلى

Your acceptance is the prime of youth, it does not decline

And your good news is like glad tidings over mourning or even sweeter

تُنيرُ لِمُستَهدٍ وَتَعصِمُ خائِفاً

فَحيناً تُرى شَمساً وَحيناً تُرى ظِلّا

You give light to the guided and protect the fearful

You appear like a sun at times, and like shade at others

بَرَعتَ أَبا بَكرٍ فَلَستَ بِمُرتَضٍ

رَوَّيتَهُم شَمساً وَلا طَلَّهُم وَبلا

You excelled Abu Bakr, so you are not to be rejected

You showed them the sun but no begging tired them out

وَلا خَبَّهُم مَشياً وَلا جِدَّهُم وَنىً

وَلا سَيفَهُم سوطاً وَلا تاجَهُم نَعلا

Neither did their pace exhaust them, nor their vigor fail them

Neither was their sword a whip, nor their crown slippers

إِذا نَحنُ مَثَّلناكَ بِالشُهبِ أَطرَقَت

حَياءً وَقالَت بَل لَهُ المَثَلُ الأَعلى

When we liken you to meteors they bow down in shyness

And say: but the highest example belongs to Him

وَبَينَ العَوالي وَاليَراعِ أُخُوَّةٌ

وَفَيتَ لَها وَالشَكلُ لا يَقلَعُ الشَكلا

And between the high and low there is brotherhood

And it is lost between them, a form cannot remove a form

سَأَشكُرُ ما أَولَيتني وَلَو أَنَّني

سَكَتُّ لَكانَت حالَتي مَنطِقاً فَصلا

I will thank what you have granted me, even if I

Stayed silent, my state would have been an eloquent speech

وَما الرَوضُ غَضّاً لِلسَحابِ بِشاكِرٍ

وَلَكِنَّهُ بِالحَقِّ يَكتُبُ ما أَملى

The meadow is not ungrateful to the clouds when it rains

Rather it writes with truth what He dictates