1. بلَّغكَ اللّه أن يهنَّأ مَوْ

    لودُك بابنٍ وأنت شاهِدُهُ

    May God let you live to see congratulations offered to your new-

    born on the birth of a son, while you are there to witness him,

  2. حامِدَ ربٍّ أراك مثلهما

    حمداً يُثاب المزيدَ حامدُهُ

    praising a Lord who has shown you the likes of them both,

    with praise whose giver is rewarded with further bounty.

  3. بحسبنا كاشفاً عواقبَه

    أنَّ شهاب الظلامِ والدُهُ

    Enough to reveal his future to us

    is that his father is the meteor of darkness,

  4. وأن جدَّ الفتى الوزير أبو ال

    قاسم فرْدُ الجلالِ واحِدُهُ

    and that the boy's grandfather, the vizier Abu al-

    Qasim, is singular in majesty, without peer.