1. يا ابن الأولى اتّخذوا السماء مطامحاً

    لغريمهم ونجومها خدَّاما

    O son of those who made the sky lofty goals

    for their rival, and its stars servants.

  2. لله أنتَ فما أبرّ مكارماً

    للشائمين وما أجلّ مقاما

    God bless you! How beneficent your noble gifts

    to watchers of lightning, and how exalted your station!

  3. أنتَ الذي أحيى المآثر بعد ما

    أمست عظام المأثرات عظاما

    You are the one who revived noble deeds after

    the greatest achievements had become mere bones.

  4. نعم الشهاب إذا تمرَّد ماردٌ

    من عسرة لاقى لديك حماما

    What a splendid shooting star! Whenever a demon rebels—

    one of hardship—it meets its death in your presence.

  5. لك هوَّة تسع الفضاء ورتبة

    لا تستطيع لها النجوم مراما

    Yours is a chasm that can contain all space, and a rank

    the stars cannot hope to attain.

  6. ومكارم ما لاح بشرك بارقاً

    إلاَّ اسْتهلَّت للوفودِ غماما

    And noble gifts: never does your cheerfulness flash like lightning

    without their pouring down like rain clouds for the delegations.

  7. وفضائل في الروض أودع نشرها

    فترى النسيم لسائل نماما

    And virtues whose fragrance was deposited in the garden,

    so you find the breeze a tale-bearer to anyone who asks.

  8. ذلَّت لعزَّتها الفرائد في الحلى

    عجزاً ولا عجبٌ لذلّ يتامى

    Peerless pearls in jewelry were humbled before their glory,

    helplessly—and no wonder orphans are humbled.

  9. ويراعة حمر الإهاب كأنها

    ألفٌ تقد إذا غضبت اللاّما

    And a red-skinned reed pen, as though it were

    an alif that cleaves the lam when you are angered.

  10. وتواضع كالشمس دانٍ ضوءها

    والقدر أرفع رتبةً ومراما

    And humility like the sun, whose light is near,

    though its stature is loftier in rank and reach.

  11. هي عادة من فضل بيتكم الذي

    خُلقت مناقبه الحسان تماما

    It is a custom born of the excellence of your house, whose

    fair virtues were created complete.

  12. سبحان من عمَّ البلاد ببرِّكم

    في كلِّ معضلةٍ وخصَّ الشاما

    Glory to Him who filled the lands with your beneficence

    in every difficulty, and especially favored al-Sham.

  13. هنئت بالعيد السعيد ودمت ذا

    قدرٍ توقل ما اشْتهى وتسامى

    Joy to you on the happy Eid; may you ever possess

    a stature that has climbed as high as it wished and risen aloft.

  14. قالت صفاتك للأنام دعوا العلى

    ذا ما يخالف في البريَّة ذاما

    Your qualities told mankind, 'Leave the heights!'

    This is what refutes a detractor among mortals.

  15. وغدا الغمامُ يخاطب الكرم الذي

    يجود فقلنا للغمامِ سلاما

    And the clouds began addressing the generosity that

    gives freely; so we said to the clouds, 'Peace.'