يزورك العيدُ والأشواق تحملهُ

وإن نأى عنك لم تحملهُ أرجلُهُ

The feast visits you, and yearnings carry it

And if it stays away from you, its feet do not carry it

كالصوم ما كن مختاراً لنقلته

وإنما الفلكَ الدوار ينقلُهُ

Like fasting, I did not choose to move it

Rather the revolving heavens move it

يجره عنكَ كرهاً وهو ملتفتٌ

إِليك يدعو لك الباري ويسألهُ

It drags away from you unwillingly, while it looks

To you, invoking the Creator for you and asking Him

وودّ طول مُقام حين طاب له

ما أنت فيه من الخيرات تفعلهُ

It wanted a long stay when it was good for it

What you have of goodness that you do

تزاحمت نحوك الأعياد واستبقتْ

شوقا إليك لأمر لست تجهلُهُ

The feasts competed towards you and hastened

Longingly to you for a matter you do not ignore

وما تخلص هذا العيدُ نحوكُمُ

ذلاً وقد كادت الاعياد تقتلُهُ

And this feast does not get to you

Humbled, and the feasts almost killed it

والمرء قد يركبُ الأخطار إِن يرها

إِلى خطير من العلياء توصِله

And a man may embark on dangers if he sees

To a dangerous one of the sublime that takes him

فلا يلامُ من الأعياد حاسدِه

اذ صار لا عيدَ في الأعياد يعدلَهُ

So one is not blamed for being jealous of feasts

When there is no feast among the feasts equal to it

فمن نظرت إليه وهو محتقرٌ

أمسى عزيزاً على العيّوق منزلُهُ

Whoever you looked at while he was despised

Spends the evening honored, his rank raised

فليهنه مِنك هذا الاحتفال به

فما يُهنّى سوى من أنت تحفلهُ

So this celebration demeans him from you

For none are demeaned except those you care about

ركبت فيه وخيلُ الله عاكفةٌ

والجيش جحفلهُ يتلوه جحفلُهُ

You rode in it, and God's horses stand guard

And the army, squadron after squadron

وغرَة الملك تَبدي فضلَ قوتها

لمن تراه وَيزهيها تطوّلهُ

The valor of the kingdom shows the merit of its strength

To whoever you see, and it makes him joyful to look upon it

وعثيرَ الخيلِ مهما ثار ثائِرُه

جلاه من وجهك الآسنى تهلُلُه

And the stumbling of horses, no matter how angry its rider

Its slipping is masked by your beautiful face smiling at it

والخلقُ حولك مشَغوفون قد ذهلوا

لا يسئل المرء عن شيئ فيعقلُهُ

And people around you are passionate, amazed

No one asks about anything to understand it

هذا يشيرُ وهذا باسطٌ يده

يدعو وذا ناقلُّ تِرباً يقبّلُهُ

This one gestures and that stretches out his hand

Invoking, and another kisses the dust

كلٌّ له بك عمن حوله شغلٌ

وفكرة فيك تنسيه وتذهِلُهُ

Everyone is busy with those around because of you

And thoughts of you make him forget and bewilder him

يثنون خيراً ومن يثني عليك به

لا يختشيى ذكر فعل منك يخجلُه

They speak well and whoever praises you

Does not fear mentioning a deed of yours that would shame him

حتى آتيت المصلى خاشعاً وجلاً

وللمصلى ابتهاج حين تقبلُهُ

Until you came to the mosque submissive and majestic

And the mosque rejoices when you face it

يكبرّ الله تكبيرا به افتتحت

منك الصلاة وتعظيما تهلله

God is greatened with a takbeer by which you opened

The prayers from you, and glorifications exalt Him

وأنت مصغ لما يأتي الخطيبُ به

من المقال بسمعٍ لستَ تشغلُهُ

And you listen to what the sermon-giver says

With a hearing you do not busy

وجلُّ همك في صحف تطهرُها

من الذنوبِ وميزانِ تثقّلُهُ

And your greatest worry is in pages you purify

From sins, and a scale you weigh

وفي دعا يخرق السبع الطباق به

إلى الإِله فيرضاه ويقبَلُهُ

And in a supplication that pierces the seven heavens

To God, pleasing and accepting him

يا أيها الملكُ المنصورُ عش أبداً

فيما يسرّك مما أَنت تفعلُهُ

O victorious king, live forever

In what makes you happy that you do

ويا رعاياه لا تقنع بدولتِه

باللبس حرولا بالطعمِ تأكلُهُ

And O his subjects, do not be satisfied with his state

By wearing, or by tastes you eat

ولا يكنْ همه إلاّ بمكرمةٍ

بنيةِ الحمدِ أو مجدٍ يؤثّله

And let his only concern be with generosity

With good intention, or glory that immortalizes him

قد صيّر الملك عبدالله بينكم

خلافة زانهُ فيها تبتّلُهُ

God made Abdullah a just leader between you

His leadership adorned with tribulation, testing him

وعادت السّنةُ البيضا كما بدات

فآخرُ الأمر منها اليومَ أولهُ

And the white tradition returned as it began

So the last of the matter from it today is its first

لا ربح في الملك إلا أن يكون كذا

به رضى الخلق والباري يحصّلهُ

There is no profit in the kingdom unless it is like this

By which the creation and the Creator are pleased

والملك أفضله ما باتَ صاحبه

والملك للملك في الأخرى يؤهّلهُ

And the best kingdom is that which accompanies its owner

And the kingdom for the king qualifies him in the hereafter

لقد ملا الأرضَ عبدُ اللهِ معدلةً

تلقى معاديه في شرٍّ وتخذّلَهُ

Abdullah has certainly filled the land with justice

Receiving his enemies in evil and abandoning them

ما قلل العدلُ مالاً في أوائلهِ

إِلا وعاد كثيراً حين يمهلُه

The justice did not decrease money in its early days

Except it later became plentiful when he gave it time

يبارك إلله فيه ليس يمحقُهُ

وكيف يمحقُ مالا طابَ مدخَلُهُ

May God bless it so it does not destroy him

And why would it destroy money whose entry was good?

نفعَ الأنام مطيل عمرَ صاحبهِ

دليله في كتابِ الله تنقلُهُ

Benefiting the people, prolonging lives of its owner

Evidence for it in God's book they transmit

ما ينفعُ الناسَ يمكث آي يقيم بها

وغيرُ ذاك جفاءٌ ما تخيلهُ

What benefits the people remains, verses to establish

While anything else is barren, do not imagine it

طولَ البقاءِ لعبد الله منحتمٌ

إِذ نفعهُ في الورى لا نفعَ يعدلُهُ

You wished Abdullah long survival

Since his benefit for mankind, no benefit equals it