1. ايّامَنا وليالي لهونَا عُودي

    بين المُدامِ وربات الأغاريدِ

    O days of ours and nights of our revelry, return,

    Amid wine and the mistresses of song.

  2. لقد دَنا الفطر بالبشرى يخبّرنا

    عمّا يكون لنا من بهجة العيدِ

    Indeed, the Feast of Fast-Breaking has drawn near with glad news, telling us

    Of the festival joy that will be ours.

  3. عيدٌ يعود علينا رفاهية

    بطالعٍ حسنِ الإِقبال مَسعودِ

    A feast that returns to us in ease and plenty,

    Under an auspicious and blessed rising star,

  4. حتى نعلِّل منّا أنفساً ظمئت

    إلى المعتَّق من ماءِ العناقيدِ

    So that we may refresh those souls of ours grown thirsty

    For aged wine from the juice of grape clusters,

  5. بقهوةٍ من سُلاف الكرم صافيةٍ

    كأنها سُفحت من عرق مَفْصودِ

    With clear wine from the choicest juice of the vines,

    As though poured from a vein cut open;

  6. ومجلسٍ حسنِ جمٍّ طرائِقهُ

    بالأنس واللَّهو والندمان مشهودِ

    And a fine gathering, whose diversions are many,

    Well attended, with conviviality, revelry, and drinking companions;

  7. وقينةٍ كقضيب البان تُسْمعنا

    حُسن الغناءِ بإِفصاح وتَجويدِ

    And a singing slave girl, like a bān-tree branch, who lets us hear

    The beauty of singing, with clear diction and skill;

  8. وفتيةٍ وقَتوا في الشَّرب ما عرفوا

    شتَم النديم ولا خُلفَ المواعيدِ

    And youths who timed their drinking, who never knew

    Insults to a drinking companion or broken promises.

  9. نُسقَى بأيمان ولدان ذوي مُلَحٍ

    مُهذَّبين طٍرافٍ كالأماليدِ

    We are served drink by the right hands of boys full of wit,

    Refined and charming, like supple shoots;

  10. وبالفواكه أَلواناً تقابلنا

    عند الولائِد من بيضٍ ومن سودِ

    And with fruits of many kinds we are greeted

    Among slave girls, both white and black.

  11. نُضحي ونمسي نشاوى في بُلهنية

    وبردِ ظلٍ من السَّمراء ممدودِ

    We spend mornings and evenings drunk, in ease,

    And in the cool, spreading shade of the dusky spear.

  12. والعيد بهجتُه عندي وزينتُه

    بسيّدٍ من بني نبهان محمودِ

    And the feast's joy and adornment, for me,

    Lie in a praiseworthy lord of the sons of Nabhān.

  13. له مساعٍ وأخلاق يمانيةٌ

    وراحة خلقت من طينة الجودِ

    His are achievements and Yemeni virtues,

    And a palm fashioned from the clay of generosity.

  14. يسمو بفضل سَجيّات تقيلّها

    من العتيك الكرامِ السّادة الصّيدِ

    He rises through the excellence of qualities he has adopted

    From al-ʿAtīk, the noble lords with heads held high.