هو الجوادُ الذي يلقَاهُ مادحُهُ

وإن غَلا فوقَ ما أثْنَى وما وَصَفَا

He is the generous one whom his praiser meets

Though he surpasses whatever praise or description

مَعذّلٌ في النّدَى لكنَّ راحَتَهُ

تأبَى مع العَذْلِ إلاّ البَذْلَ والسَّرَفَا

A little slow yet his tranquility

Refuses anything but generosity and extravagance

صَعبُ الإِباءِ إذا ما هِجتَ سَورتَهُ

نزرُ الرِّضا فإذا استَعطَفْتَهُ عَطَفَا

Difficult to persuade when you provoke him

Scant with pleasure but if you entreat him he obliges

بَادي الحُقُودِ على أعدائِه فإذا

نَالتْهُمُ قدرةٌ منه حَبا وعَفَا

Harboring resentment against his enemies but if

They gain power over him, he shows love and pardons

نَغْشى مواردَ من أخلاقِه كَرُمتْ

وِرداً ونرتادُ منها روضةً أُنُفَا

We traverse the meadows of his virtues abounding

With streams and roam in a garden most pleasurable

مستَهتَرٌ بالمعالي لا يزالُ على

تقلُّبِ الدَّهرِ مشغوفاً بها كَلِفَا

Indifferent to ideals never ceasing

To pursue them throughout the turns of fate

ُ أخلَفَ الغيثُ لم تُخلِف مواهِبُهُ

أو فَظَّ دهرٌ على أبنائه لَطُفَا

If rain fails, his gifts do not fail

Or if time treats harshly its sons, he treats gently

عَدْلُ القضيّةِ إلاّ في مواهبِهِ

لم يقضِ في المالِ إلا جارَ واعتسفَا

The justice of his cause does not judge wealth

Except with fairness and excess

تَعُمُّ نُعماه ذا نقصٍ وذا شرَفٍ

كأنَّه البحرُ يحوي الدُّرَّ والصَّدَفَا

His bounties encompass the flawed and the noble

As if he were the sea containing pearl and shell

مُنَزَّهُ الخُلقِ عن فعلٍ يُعابُ بهِ

فما تَرى لكمَالٍ عنه مُنْصَرَفَا

Of impeccable morals, no act to be blamed on him

You see no perfection from which he desists