يا حلالي بما لقيت

تعبت ولا شقيت

How fortunate I am in what I have found!

I toiled, but did not suffer.

غير من هيت ليدهيت

مثل حيّ ورث لميت

I merely came when called, 'Come hither!' [dialectal reading uncertain].

Like a living man who inherited from a dead one.

شاتمذهب بما اشتهيت

قد حصل كل ما بغيت

I shall adorn myself with gold as I desire.

All that I wanted has been obtained.

موهبه كل ما احتويت

ليس بعت ولا شريت

Everything I possess is a gift.

I neither sold nor bought.

ان لم تصدّق يا جحود جرب

وذق قتالي في النزال واحرب

If you do not believe, O denier, put it to the test.

And taste my fighting in combat—and fight!

مريشي حال الطعان يعطب

ولي مهند للرؤوس مذهب

My feathered lance wreaks destruction when spears clash.

And I have an Indian blade that takes off heads.

في الحسب والنسب رقيت

بيتنا خير كلّ بيت

In honor and lineage I have risen.

Our house is the best of all houses.

كلّ من غاب أو رأيت

يشهدوا لي بما ادعيت

All who are absent, or whom I have seen,

Bear witness for me to what I have claimed.

في المثل عند الامتحان

يكرم المرء أو يهان

As the proverb says, when put to the test,

A man is honored or disgraced.

السباق ان لي حصان

كاد أن يقطب العنان

For racing, indeed, I have a stallion

That almost draws the reins together.

جرّب الطرف يا فلان

كلّ جيد في السباق يبان

Try the steed, O so-and-so.

Every good one shows its worth in the race.

ليت يا منكرين ليت

تنظروا عظم ما وعيت

If only, O deniers, if only

You could behold the greatness of what I have understood!

من بالكون كل يوم له شان

ومن بالأكوان كدرته الأكوان

Whoever in the world has a concern each day,

And whoever, amid the worlds, has been troubled by them—

سلطاننا قاهر كلّ سلطان

إليه هلموا يا جميع الاخوان

Our sovereign overpowers every sovereign.

Come to him, all you brothers.

يا مريدي أما دريت

كم جاء له حميت

O my disciple, have you not learned

How many who came to him I have protected?

ذا وبالعكس كم رعيت

ربّ محجر وما ارعويت

This—and, conversely, how often I grazed

Many a barred enclosure, and did not desist.