نداك العد مما لا يعد

نداك العد مما لا يعد

ونعماك الجزيلة لا تحدُّ

ونعماك الجزيلة لا تحدُّ

Your ever-flowing bounty is beyond all counting,

Your generosity is beyond counting,

and your abundant favors know no bounds.

And your abundant favors know no limit.

لقد كرمت خلالك والسجايا

لقد كرمت خلالك والسجايا

فلم تترك لنا خللا يسد

فلم تترك لنا خللا يسد

Noble indeed are your traits and innate dispositions,

You have honored your nature and disposition,

so you have left us no gap to fill.

Leaving no flaws for us to mend.

وقد أضحى لسائلك المرجي

وقد أضحى لسائلك المرجي

وسائل من سماحك لا تردُ

وسائل من سماحك لا تردُ

And your hopeful petitioner now has

For one who hopes and asks of you,

means of appeal, through your generosity, that are never rejected.

There are means from your magnanimity that do not refuse.

فلا عار على من مدَّ كفّا

فلا عار على من مدَّ كفّا

إلى كف نداها الدهر مدُ

إلى كف نداها الدهر مدُ

So there is no shame for one who stretches out a hand

No shame to one who extends their palm,

toward a hand whose bounty is an everlasting tide.

To the palm of your endless generosity.

نوالك توأم والمجد فذ

نوالك توأم والمجد فذ

وكفك سبطة وثراك جعدُ

وكفك سبطة وثراك جعدُ

Your bounty comes twofold, and your glory stands alone;

Your bestowal is a twin, and glory sublime,

and your hand is open, and your wealth abundant.

Your palm flourishing, your hair curled.

وما ينفكَ رفد منك يسنى

وما ينفكَ رفد منك يسنى

وجود كل يوم يستجدُ

وجود كل يوم يستجدُ

Gifts from you are ceaselessly lavished,

An outpouring flows from you, ever renewing,

and generosity is renewed each day.

Your munificence each day innovating.

وما فيك اقتصاد عند بذل

وما فيك اقتصاد عند بذل

يخيب به لمن يرجوك قصدُ

يخيب به لمن يرجوك قصدُ

And you show no stinting when you give

You have no restraint in your charity,

that would thwart the aim of one who hopes in you.

Disappointing no one who hopes in you.

لك الركن الأشدّ إذا استطالت

لك الركن الأشدّ إذا استطالت

صروف الدهر والرأي الأسدُ

صروف الدهر والرأي الأسدُ

Yours is the strongest bulwark when they grow overbearing—

To you belongs the strongest pillar, when

the reversals of time—and yours the soundest judgment.

The turns of fate and opinion grow long.

وأنت لدى بني العباس ردء

وأنت لدى بني العباس ردء

وخصم دون ملكهم الد

وخصم دون ملكهم الد

You are a support to the sons of al-ʿAbbās,

You are the cloak of the Abbasids,

and an unyielding adversary in defense of their realm.

And a challenger to any ruler but them.

عتادك للوقائع والسّرايا

عتادك للوقائع والسّرايا

وحصد عداتهم حصداء سردُ

وحصد عداتهم حصداء سردُ

Your array for battles and raiding parties

Your weapons are ready for all events and frays,

and for reaping their foes is close-woven, interlinked mail,

While their harvested arms lie scattered.

وبيض ظبي وسمر قنا وجرد

وبيض ظبي وسمر قنا وجرد

تقلهم غداة الروع جردُ

تقلهم غداة الروع جردُ

and bright sword-edges, dark spears, and bare-skinned warriors,

White antelope and brown oryx and zebra—

whom sleek steeds bear on the morning of terror.

At dawn you startle them stripped bare.

حلفت بأنّ عضد الدين فينا

حلفت بأنّ عضد الدين فينا

حيا يحيا به غور ونجدُ

حيا يحيا به غور ونجدُ

I have sworn that ʿAḍud al-Dīn among us

I swear by the life of Al-Adil in us,

is rain that gives life to lowland and upland.

The East and West will live by his glory.

رفيلي لاخفاف المطايا

رفيلي لاخفاف المطايا

إلى أبوابه عنق ووخد

إلى أبوابه عنق ووخد

[Opening unclear]—the padded feet of the mounts

My band, light of step, their riding beasts

have a brisk pace and a swift trot toward his gates.

Rushing to his gates, necks outstretched.

يروي غلة العافي بجود

يروي غلة العافي بجود

له أبدا على الأحشاء بردُ

له أبدا على الأحشاء بردُ

He quenches the petitioner's burning thirst with generosity,

He quenches, with his wellbeing's yield,

whose coolness forever rests upon the heart.

Their thirst forever, their hearts cooled.

يؤجل دائما منه وعيد

يؤجل دائما منه وعيد

ويعجل منه بالإنجاز وعدُ

ويعجل منه بالإنجاز وعدُ

A threat from him is always deferred,

His threats he ever defers,

and a promise from him is hastened to fulfillment.

While his promises he hastens to fulfill.

فكوكب معتد داجاه نحس

فكوكب معتد داجاه نحس

وكوكب مجتد رجاه سعدُ

وكوكب مجتد رجاه سعدُ

Thus the star of an aggressor who feigns friendship with him is ill-fated,

So, he is a rising star whom good fortune exalts,

and the star of a seeker of bounty who hopes in him is fortunate.

And a warrior star whom success aids.

وغيث ورده صاف وليث

وغيث ورده صاف وليث

هزير في فضول الدرع وردُ

هزير في فضول الدرع وردُ

And he is rain whose draught is pure, and a lion,

A rain whose downpour is pure, a lion,

roaring, tawny-red, within the folds of mail.

Bold in the abundance of his coat.

يخف به إلى الهيجاء نهد

يخف به إلى الهيجاء نهد

سبوح ما يجد عليه لبدُ

سبوح ما يجد عليه لبدُ

A powerful steed bears him swiftly into battle,

By him the plump gazelles are humbled

swimming in its gait, with no saddlecloth ever remaining new.

To breasts never still from panting.

من لاقوم الألى شادوا المعالي

من لاقوم الألى شادوا المعالي

بمجد لا يقاسي إليه مجدُ

بمجد لا يقاسي إليه مجدُ

He is of the people who raised lofty honors

Of the exalted folk who raised glories

with a glory to which no other glory can be compared.

With unmatched glory nothing matches.

إذا نزلوا فأقمار وسحب

إذا نزلوا فأقمار وسحب

وإن ركبوا فاطواد وأسدُ

وإن ركبوا فاطواد وأسدُ

When they alight, they are moons and rainclouds;

When they camp, they are moons and clouds,

and when they ride, mountains and lions.

When they ride, they are mounts and lions.

فيا من لا يزال يروح وفد

فيا من لا يزال يروح وفد

إلى أنواء راحته ويغدو

إلى أنواء راحته ويغدو

O you, to whom a delegation ever journeys at evening,

O you whose delegation is never done

toward the rain-stars of your palm, and at dawn.

Going and returning to the climes of his rest,

ويا من ما لد ولته انتهاء

ويا من ما لد ولته انتهاء

ولا لمضا إِمرته مرد

ولا لمضا إِمرته مرد

And O you whose rule has no end,

O you whose rule has no ending,

and whose command's force cannot be repelled.

Whose command brooks no resistance,

إذا وصف الندى أوَحدَّ يوما

إذا وصف الندى أوَحدَّ يوما

فعندك بذل رغد ما يحدُ

فعندك بذل رغد ما يحدُ

If generosity is ever described or defined,

If the dew described him one day, it would say,

then yours is abundant giving that knows no bounds.

“For you is bounty as free as description.”

بقيت تجود ما جادت سماء

بقيت تجود ما جادت سماء

وقهقه من بكاء السحب رعدُ

وقهقه من بكاء السحب رعدُ

May you remain generous as long as the sky gives rain,

You remain generous as the sky pours down,

and thunder laughs aloud at the clouds' weeping.

And lightning thunders from the weeping clouds.