ونظمٌ يجاري الناظمين جوادُه

ونظمٌ يجاري الناظمين جوادُه

إذا شاءَ أن يلهو بلحيةِ أحمق

إذا شاءَ أن يلهو بلحيةِ أحمق

And a poem whose noble steed vies with the poets,

His poetry flows smoothly like a generous steed

whenever he wishes to toy with a fool's beard,

When he wishes to toy with the beard of a fool

أتى من إمام منطقي فيه للثنا

أتى من إمام منطقي فيه للثنا

وللحبِّ ما لم يبقَ منِّي وما بقي

وللحبِّ ما لم يبقَ منِّي وما بقي

came from a master logician, for whose praise

He comes from an eloquent Imam, praising him

and love are all of me that is gone and all that remains.

And for love what remains of me and what's left

أبا الفتح لو فاتحت بحراً أو ابنه

أبا الفتح لو فاتحت بحراً أو ابنه

لقامَ مقام المجتدِي المتملّق

لقامَ مقام المجتدِي المتملّق

Abu al-Fath, if you opened talks with a sea or its son,

O Abu Al Fath, had you conquered a sea or its son

it would take the place of a fawning supplicant.

You would have taken the place of the flattering sycophant

ويا من له في العقلِ والنقلِ خاطر

ويا من له في العقلِ والنقلِ خاطر

لعاد له من قال للفلك ارفق

لعاد له من قال للفلك ارفق

And O you with insight into reason and transmitted learning,

And O you who has intellect and tradition in your mind

the one who told the celestial sphere, 'Be gentle,' would return to you.

To whom the celestial sphere gently yielded

لقد جدت حتى جدت في كلّ ناقلٍ

لقد جدت حتى جدت في كلّ ناقلٍ

وحتى أتاكَ الحمد من كلّ منطق

وحتى أتاكَ الحمد من كلّ منطق

Indeed, you gave generously, till every narrator spoke of your bounty,

Indeed I have strived, striving with every transmitter

and till praise came to you from every tongue.

Until praise reached you from every logic

وقلَّدتني شرفٌ من النظمِ نعمةً

وقلَّدتني شرفٌ من النظمِ نعمةً

أنرت بها ما بين غرب ومشرق

أنرت بها ما بين غرب ومشرق

And you bestowed on me, Sharaf, a blessing of verse,

And you granted me the honor of poetry as a blessing

with which you lit all between west and east.

With which I illuminated between West and East

أقول لها إذ صحفت نعت حاسد

أقول لها إذ صحفت نعت حاسد

بعينيك ما يلقى الحسود وما لقي

بعينيك ما يلقى الحسود وما لقي

I say to it, having altered an envier's description:

I say to it, when the eyes of an envier distorted

'Before your eyes is what the envious man suffers and has suffered.'

The attributes of the envied, what the envious face and faced