هنيئاًfelicitations لعيدٍto a festival أنتyou شاهدُa witness to يومهِits day
هنيئاً لعيدٍ أنت شاهدُ يومهِ
فانكfor indeed you فيamong غُرِّthe brightest المَناقبِvirtues عيدُهاtheir festival
فانك في غُرِّ المَناقبِ عيدُها
Joy to the festival whose day you witness!
Congratulations on a feast, you who witness its day
For among the brightest virtues, you are their festival.
For you are, in the prime of virtues, its feast
توقَّلْتَyou climbed أشرافَthe heights المعاليglory مُحَلِّقاًsoaring
توقَّلْتَ أشرافَ المعالي مُحَلِّقاً
إِلىto ذروةٍa summit أعيْاexhausted الرجالَmen كؤودُهاits steep ascent
إِلى ذروةٍ أعيْا الرجالَ كؤودُها
You climbed the heights of glory, soaring
You have grasped the noblest of glories, soaring
to a summit whose steep ascent has exhausted men;
To a peak, whose heights make stout men quail
صليباًunyielding علىunder عَجْمِtesting by biting الزمانِtime وغمزهِand its pressure
صليباً على عَجْمِ الزمانِ وغمزهِ
اذاwhen سَرواتٌnobles خارَgave way للخطبbefore calamity عودُهاtheir timber
اذا سَرواتٌ خارَ للخطب عودُها
unyielding under time's biting tests and pressure,
A cross on the ineloquence of time and its wiles
when the timber of nobles gives way before calamity.
When elegies for the epoch turn timid, their odes awry
تَلَذُّis sweet ليto me الأشعارُpoetry فيكabout you صَبابةًardent love
تَلَذُّ لي الأشعارُ فيك صَبابةً
مُقَطَّعُهاits short pieces فيin محْفلٍa gathering وقَصيدُهاand its full-length odes
مُقَطَّعُها في محْفلٍ وقَصيدُها
Out of ardent love, poetry about you delights me—
Poetry in you is ever exquisite to me
its short pieces at a gathering and its full-length odes.
Its verses in gatherings fragmented, its anthems sanctified
فكلُّfor all قَوافٍrhymes صُغْتُهاI fashioned them زيْنبِيَّةٍZaynabī
فكلُّ قَوافٍ صُغْتُها زيْنبِيَّةٍ
يَقُرُّacknowledge رواةُreciters الحَيِّthe tribe أنيthat I مُجيدهاtheir skilled composer
يَقُرُّ رواةُ الحَيِّ أني مُجيدها
For all the Zaynabī rhymes I have fashioned,
So every Zaynab-esque rhyme I have crafted
the tribe's reciters acknowledge that I have composed them well.
The living transmitters acknowledge, I have mastered its art