إلى المَغاربِ تَسعَى الشَّمسُ والقَمَرُ

فذاكَ فَخرٌ بهِ تَزهُو وتَفتَخِرُ

The sun and moon hasten to the west

One prides itself on this and boasts

أرضٌ مُبارَكةُ الأقطارِ صالحةٌ

إذا أتَى الرِّيحُ منها أقبَلَ المَطَرُ

A blessed land of virtuous regions

When the wind blows from it, rain pours down

سل أرضَ مصرَ إذا ما جئتَ ساحتَها

من أينَ فيضُ مياهِ النِّيلِ يُنتَظرُ

Ask the land of Egypt when you come to it

From where the water of the Nile is expected

إن كان في مِصرَ نَهرٌ شابَهُ كَدَرٌ

فضمِنَ تُونُسَ بَحرٌ ما بهِ كَدَرُ

If there is a river in Egypt muddied

Then Tunisia has a sea without turbidity

هُوَ الوزيرُ الذي أضحَى يُشَدُّ بهِ

أزْرُ الكرامِ ويُرجَى عِندَهُ الوَطَرُ

He is the minister who has become the pillar

Of the honorable and hope resides in him at dire times

تَهْوي على ذَيلِهِ الأفواهُ لاثِمةً

كأنَّهُ رُكنُ بيتِ اللهِ والحَجَرُ

Wrongdoers’ mouths drip on his tail

As if he were the pillar of God's house and its stone

مُحمَّدُ الأحمَدُ المحمودُ نائلُهُ

وسَعْيُهُ حيثُ يَرضَى اللهُ والبَشَرُ

Muhammad the most praiseworthy, the lauded, its reacher

And his striving is where God and mankind are pleased

الباسِمُ الثغَرِ والأبطالُ عابِسةٌ

والثابتُ القلبِ والأكبادُ تَنفطِرُ

The smiling faced and the heroes frowning

The steadfast of heart and livers that rupture

إذا انتَضَى يوم حربٍ صارماً ذَكراً

فلَيسَ أفتَكَ منهُ الصَّارِمُ الذَكَرُ

When a day of battle arises, remembering sharply

Then nothing is more deadly than it, the male reminder

أعَزُّ شيءٍ عليهِ مَتْنُ سابحةٍ

تَجرِي وأهوَنُ شيءٍ عندَهُ البِدَرُ

The proudest thing to him is the deck of a ship sailing

Flowing and the lowliest thing to him is the full moon

مُؤَيَّدٌ بِيَمينِ اللهِ مُقتدرٌ

يَرعَى العِبادَ بعينٍ نَومُها السَّهَرُ

Supported by God’s right hand, omnipotent

Shepherding the servants with an eye whose sleep is wakefulness

لو لَمْ يكن صدرُهُ بحراً لما بَرزتْ

لمشهدِ النَّاسِ من ألفاظِهِ الدُّرَرُ

If his chest were not an ocean, there would not have emerged

For people’s sight from his words the pearls

كَرامةٌ في بِلادِ الغربِ مُشرِقةٌ

ونِعمةٌ للرَّعايا ساقَها القَدَرُ

An honor in the lands of the west shining

And a blessing for the subjects brought by fate

تُهدَى إليهِ القوافي وَهْيَ سافرةٌ

مِن مَشرِقِ الأرْضِ يجلوَ وَجهْهَا السَفَرُ

Rhymes are gifted to him while traveling

From the east of the earth, its travel reveals its face

يا ناسِخَ الظُّلمِ مِن أقطارِ دَولتِهِ

كظُلمةِ الليل يمحو جِنْحَها السَحَرُ

O eradicator of injustice from the regions of his state

Like the darkness of night erased by dawn’s wing

قد قُمتَ بالبِرِّ والعدلِ القويمِ بها

كأنَّما أنتَ عبدُ اللهِ أو عُمَرُ

You have stood by righteousness and upright justice through it

As if you are the servant of God or Umar

لَكَ التهانِي بما أوتيتَ من ظَفَرٍ

بل للرَعايا التي أولَى بِها الظَفَرُ

Congratulations to you for what you have attained in victory

But for the subjects who were given victory by it

أنَلْتُهمْ زَهرةَ الدُنْيا فكانَ لهُمْ

عَرْفُ النَّسيمِ وفي الأُخرَى لَكَ الثَمَرُ

You have granted them the flower of the life so for them

Was the fragrance of the breeze and for you in the next are the fruits