يا حبَّذا بدَلٌ أتى عمَّن مضى

يا حبَّذا بدَلٌ أتى عمَّن مضى

من قومِه في الفضلِ والأحساب

من قومِه في الفضلِ والأحساب

Oh, how welcome a successor who came in place of one departed,

O how I wish that in place of the one passed away

One of his people in excellence and noble lineage.

Had come a substitute from his tribe, excelling in merit and rank,

بدَلٌ من الأبدالِ في أوصافِه

بدَلٌ من الأبدالِ في أوصافِه

يعزَى إلى قطبٍ من الأقطاب

يعزَى إلى قطبٍ من الأقطاب

A successor, in his qualities one of the Abdāl,

A substitute for the greatest of men in his attributes,

Ascribed to a Quṭb among the Quṭbs.

One affiliated with a polestar of the spiritual rulers.