1. محياك منه بارق البشر يلمع

    وكفك غيث يستهل ويهمع

    The lightning of gladness gleams from your face,

    And your hand is rain, beginning to fall and pouring abundantly.

  2. مغانيك فيح للوفود فسيحة

    وصدرك منها للمؤمل أوسع

    Your abodes are broad, spacious for visiting delegations,

    And your breast is broader than they for the hopeful.

  3. إذا صوحت محلا وهبت بليلة

    فروضك بالنعماء والخصب ممرع

    When drought brings withering and a cold, damp wind blows,

    Your meadow is still lush with bounty and fertility.

  4. خضم ولكن ليس لي فيه مورد

    وروض ولكن ليس لي فيه مرتع

    A vast sea, yet I have no watering place in it,

    And a meadow, yet I have no pasture in it.

  5. تسربل كل منك سابغ نعمة

    ترف حواشيه عليه وتنصع

    Everyone has donned an ample robe of your bounty,

    Its hems flutter upon him and gleam bright.

  6. تعودت ان تسدى الجميل تبرعاً

    وان كريم القوم من يتبرع

    You are accustomed to bestowing kindness freely,

    And the noble one among a people is he who gives freely.

  7. وكل جواد يستماح بشافع

    ونفسك في المعروف للناس تشفع

    And every generous man is petitioned for gifts through an intercessor,

    Yet your own soul intercedes for people in matters of kindness.

  8. سجية نفس هذب المجد طبعها

    فطلب وهل ما يطبع المجد يطبع

    The disposition of a soul whose nature glory has refined;

    So it was sought [unclear wording]—can what glory fashions be tarnished?

  9. اجلك رأياً ان تضيع من له

    عليك ثناء نشره يتضوع

    I deem you too wise to neglect one whose

    Praise of you wafts its fragrance abroad.

  10. ولي نفس حر لا تزال مصونة

    يحق لها إلا عليك الترفع

    And mine is a free man's soul, ever kept inviolate,

    Entitled to hold itself aloof from all but you.

  11. وبعض ذوي الحاجات يكتم أمره

    فتعلم ما توحي العصا قبل تقرع

    And some of those in need conceal their plight,

    Yet you know what the staff intimates before it is struck.

  12. وقد ان لي لولا صدودك بارع

    من القول يعلو في الندي ويسطع

    And, but for your rebuff, my time would have come for splendid

    Speech that rises in the assembly and shines.

  13. قواف كامثال النجوم شوارقاً

    لها حول اقمار النبوة مطلع

    Rhymes like stars, rising radiant,

    Their rising-place lies around the moons of prophethood.

  14. ولكن إذا مس الصدا حدّ صارم

    يكل فيجلوه الصقال فيقطع

    But when rust touches the edge of a keen sword,

    It grows dull; the polisher burnishes it, and it cuts again.