هو البدر في أفلاكه يتنقل

تحل به فيها السعود وترحل

He is the full moon in its orbit moving about

He comes to reside in it, felicity and departure alternate

فإن سار فالعلياء والمجد مركب

وإن حل فالافراج والبشر منزل

If he travels, the heights and glory are his mount

And if he stays, relief and good news are his abode

وتخصب أرض حلها بعد جدبها

وتورق حتى الصخر فيها ويبقل

The land where he stays becomes fertile after barrenness

Even rocks in it sprout and bring forth vegetation

وما ضرها أن السحائب أقبلت

وأنملة فيها تسح وتهمل

It is not harmed that clouds came toward it

And ants in it crawl lazily and become listless

إذا أمطرت ارضا سحائب جوده

فلا القطر مرفوع ولا العام ممحل

When the clouds of his generosity rain on a land

Neither is the rain withheld, nor the year made fruitless

وتحسد أرض فيه أرضا إذا مشى

ومس ثراها من مواطيه انعل

And a land there envies, when he walks, a land

And his trailing robe touches its plains

أبا أحمد قد قدس الله بقعة

تظل المطايا نحوها بك ترفل

O Abu Ahmad! May God sanctify the spot

Where horses yearn toward it with you trotting

هنيئا لأهل الشام إنك رحمة

من الله فيهم من قريب تنزل

Congratulations to the people of Syria! You are

A mercy from God upon them, coming down from near

غدا وخيول العدل منبك مغيرة

على جنبات الجور تسبي وتقتل

Tomorrow the horses of justice with Mughira leading

Will raid the sides of injustice, capturing and killing

يطيرها إن طار في الأفق خلفه

وتحزن في عقباه ركضا وتسهل

It frightens them away if it takes flight in the horizon

And in its tracks they grieve, running and slipping

ولا تأتلي حتى تعفى مكانه

وتغسله والجور بالعدل يغسل

It does not stop until it makes his place vacant

And washes it while injustice is washed away by justice

وتنكشف الغما ويبصر ذو العما

ويفتح باب للندى ليس يقفل

Clouds disperse and the blind see

And a door to clarity is opened, never to be locked

وحسب البرايا منك رؤية طلعة

يرى يمنها في داره المتأمل

It suffices the open expanses to see your rising

One who contemplates sees your blessings in his abode

وظل مديد فيه حبا تفيؤا

إذا حالت الأفيآء لا تتحول

And an extended shade wherein affection took shelter

When the shades move about, it does not change

تجيب على بعد نداء صريخهم

وتحمل من أعبائهم ما تحملوا

You answer from afar the scream of their supplication

And you carry from their burdens what they carried

وأنت بهم أحفى من الأب بابنه

وألين فيهم منه خلقا وأسهل

You are more protective of them than a father of his son

And kinder to them in nature and easier

يمتون من نعماك فيهم بحرمة

إليك بها ما خاب من يتوصل

They live in prosperity through your blessings upon them

To you through it, he who aims does not miss

وحسن ظنون فيك مازلت عندها

تصدق ما ترويه عنك وتنقل

You continued being true to their good assumptions of you

Believing and conveying what is told about you

أبا أحمد تهنيك رؤيتك ابنه

فقرة عين المرء شبل يشبل

O Abu Ahmad! Congratulations on your son seeing you

The delight of a man's eye, a cub that grows up

تفرع من فرع ترعرع ناشئا

فبورك في الفرعين ثان واول

Branching out from a branch that grew

So blessings upon the two branches, the second and the first

وبورك في الميلاد منه وأصبحت

عليه المعالي وهو طفل يطفل

And blessings upon his birth from it, and you woke up

With glories upon it while he is a child playing

ومن كان إسمعيل اصلا لفرعه

نشا نشأة فيها الفلاح موكل

Whoever's origin was Ishmael, was brought up

In an upbringing wherein success is entrusted

وأمست باذن الله في حفظ عهده

ملائكة والروح فيها تنزل

And by the will of God, under your covenant protection

Angels and the Spirit descend upon it

يحوطونه من كل سوء يناله

ويرعونه والله يرعاه من علو

Guarding him from every harm that may touch him

And watching over him while God watches over him from on high

وأنت أبا العباس للخلق كلهم

إذا فزعوا حصن منيع ومعقل

And you, O Abu Al-Abbas, are to all people

A stronghold and refuge when they panic

شغلت الورى عمن سواك من الورى

فليس لهم إلا عليك معول

You preoccupied the creation away from others

For they have no reliance except upon you

وانسيتهم آباءهم وبنيهم

ومثلك محبوبا ينسي ويشغل

And you made them forget fathers and sons

One loved like you makes forget and preoccupies

جرى في مجاري الروح حبك فيهم

فلم يبق عرق لست فيه ومفصل

Your love flowed in their souls' channels

No vein left without you pulsing in it

وفي مهجتي حب وأزعم أنه

يكافىء حب العالمين ويعدل

And in my innermost being is love, and I claim

It equals all the world's love and matches it