دانت لك الدنيا وملت لأرغد

دانت لك الدنيا وملت لأرغد

دارين في يوم تزفّ وفي غد

دارين في يوم تزفّ وفي غد

The world has yielded to you, and you have turned toward the more pleasant

The world has surrendered to you, and two abodes in one day you wed

of two abodes, on your wedding day and on the morrow.

O crown of the faith of God and the world, whom

يا تاج دين الله والدنيا الذي

يا تاج دين الله والدنيا الذي

لاقت مكانته بفرق الفرقد

لاقت مكانته بفرق الفرقد

O crown of God's faith and of the world, whose

His rank has met with the difference of spheres

rank befitted the crown of Farqad.

By God, my love poems have no riddle

لله ما لغزٌ به غزليةٌ

لله ما لغزٌ به غزليةٌ

سجدت لها الدَّالات نوع تعبد

سجدت لها الدَّالات نوع تعبد

God be praised—what a riddle, with a love lyric within it,

The letters prostrated to it, a kind of worship

before which the dāl letters prostrated themselves in a kind of worship.

The tongue testified to it as the Opening Chapter, so a mouth

شهدَ اللسان بها لفاتحةٍ فماً

شهدَ اللسان بها لفاتحةٍ فماً

عذباً إذا ما ذقته قلتَ ازدد

عذباً إذا ما ذقته قلتَ ازدد

The tongue testified that its opening had a mouth

Sweet when tasted, you would say give me more

so sweet that, when you taste it, you say, 'More!'

From every rhyme that arises for every possessor

من كلِّ قافيةٍ تقومُ لكلِّ ذي

من كلِّ قافيةٍ تقومُ لكلِّ ذي

ديوان نظمٍ قبلنا بمجلد

ديوان نظمٍ قبلنا بمجلد

From every rhymed verse that serves, for each possessor

Of a book of poetry before us in a tome

of a collection of verse before us, as a whole volume.

It dispels my worries so I recite its meter

هيَ دافع همِّي فأنشد بحرها

هيَ دافع همِّي فأنشد بحرها

يا نيل مصر قد أتيتَ بمفرد

يا نيل مصر قد أتيتَ بمفرد

It dispels my sorrow, so I sing of its sea:

O Nile of Egypt, you have come in solitary

'O Nile of Egypt, you have brought something peerless!'

Is there other than my words standing with attributes what

هل غير قولي قائمٌ بصفات ما

هل غير قولي قائمٌ بصفات ما

قد قلت يا ابن عليّ لا ومحمد

قد قلت يا ابن عليّ لا ومحمد

Is any speech but mine equal to describing the qualities of what

I have said O son of Ali, no, and Muhammad

I have spoken of, O son of ʿAlī? No, by Muḥammad!