قل للأمير الذي فَخرُ الزمان بهِ

قل للأمير الذي فَخرُ الزمان بهِ

ما الدَّهرُ لولاك إلا مَنطقٌ خَطلُ

ما الدَّهرُ لولاك إلا مَنطقٌ خَطلُ

Say to the prince in whom the age takes pride:

Say to the prince whom the time took pride in,

Without you, time is nothing but senseless speech.

Without you, time would be but idle prattle.

كفتكَ آثارُ كَفَّيكَ التي ابتدعت

كفتكَ آثارُ كَفَّيكَ التي ابتدعت

في المجد شاده آباؤك الأُولُ

في المجد شاده آباؤك الأُولُ

Your hands’ original achievements have spared you reliance

The works of your hands whose renown was initiated

on the glory your forefathers of old built.

By the glory your forefathers first erected.

ما زال في الناس اشباهٌ وأمثلةٌ

ما زال في الناس اشباهٌ وأمثلةٌ

حتى ظهرتَ فغاب الشكلُ والمثلُ

حتى ظهرتَ فغاب الشكلُ والمثلُ

Among people there had always been peers and equals,

The people knew pretenders and similarities

until you appeared, and peer and equal vanished.

Until you appeared, the model and the parallel vanished.