1. بشراكَ باليمن عليك وَفدا

    من هذه الأفراح ما تجدَّدا

    Glad tidings! With good fortune has come to you

    fresh joy from these celebrations.

  2. مسرّةٌ قد خصّك الله بها

    تملأُ قلبَ الكاشحينَ كمدا

    A delight with which God has singled you out

    fills the hearts of the spiteful with anguish.

  3. وفرحةٌ أقبل يدعو بِشرُها

    يا معشر الحسَّادِ موتوا حسدا

    And a joy whose gladness has come proclaiming:

    O company of the envious, die of envy!

  4. صفت لآل المصطفى برغمكم

    نطافُ هذا البِشر تحلو موردا

    For the Chosen One's family, despite you, run clear

    the waters of this gladness, sweet to drink.

  5. بها اجتلوا وجهَ السرور أبيضاً

    فاستقبلوا وجه النحوس أسودا

    Through it they beheld the white face of joy;

    so face the black visage of ill fortune!

  6. يا سَعد ما أبهجها مسرَّةً

    أُمُّ السرور مثلها لن تلدا

    O Sa'd, how delightful a joy this is!

    The mother of joy will never bear its like.

  7. سرَّ بها الدهرُ بني العليا لم

    يدع لهم قلباً عليه موجِدا

    Through it, Time delighted the sons of eminence, leaving

    no heart of theirs resentful toward it.

  8. إذ بختان فرقدي سمائِها

    لعترة المجد السرورَ خَلّدا

    For, through the circumcision of its heaven's two Farqad stars,

    they made joy endure for the scions of glory:

  9. عبد الكريم وسليمانهم ال

    ذين طابا في العلاءِ مولدا

    Abd al-Karim and their Sulayman, those

    whose birth was noble in the heights of honor.

  10. وغير بدعٍ أن يطيب مولداً

    مَن جدّه أزكى الأنام مَحتِدا

    And it is no wonder that one should be nobly born

    whose grandfather is mankind's purest in lineage.

  11. ذلك أعلا الماجدين همَّةً

    مولًى ببرد الشرف المحض ارتدى

    That one, the loftiest of the illustrious in aspiration,

    a lord clothed in the mantle of unalloyed honor.

  12. ما خلّةٌ صالحةٌ إلاَّ بها

    رأى الأنامُ صالحاً محمّدا

    There is no virtuous trait in which

    mankind has not beheld a righteous Muhammad.

  13. فيه لجبَّار السما عنايةٌ

    أضحى بها بين الورى مؤيّدا

    The Almighty of heaven has care for him;

    through it he stands upheld among mankind.

  14. تَسمى خُطوط راحه أسرَّةً

    لأنَّها نقوشُ أسرار الندى

    His palm's lines are called 'creases'—asirrah—

    for they are inscriptions of generosity's secrets.

  15. من دوحةٍ مثمرةٍ قدماً على

    أُولى الزمان كرماً وسؤددا

    He comes from a tree long fruitful for

    the people of the age in generosity and lordship.

  16. دوحةُ مجدٍ بسقت فروعها

    بحيثُ لا تلقى النجومُ مصعدا

    A tree of glory whose branches have risen high

    where the stars can find no path upward.

  17. نَمت غصونَ كرمٍ ما برحت

    بظلّها تقيل طلابُ الجِدا

    It has grown boughs of generosity; unceasingly

    seekers of bounty take their midday rest in its shade.

  18. حسبك منها شاهداً بمجدها

    أن نمت الهادي فرعاً أمجدا

    Sufficient witness for you to its glory is

    that it nurtured al-Hadi, a most glorious branch.

  19. ذاك الذي أبت سماءُ جودِهِ

    أن تُمطر الوفادَ إلاَّ عَسجدا

    He whose sky of generosity refuses

    to rain upon visitors anything but gold;

  20. ذاك الذي أبت صفايا خلقه

    إلاَّ بأن تَعذُبَ حتَّى للعدى

    he whose pure qualities of character insist

    on being sweet even to his enemies;

  21. ذاك الذي أبت مزايا فخرهِ

    إلاَّ بأن تفوق حتَّى الفرقدا

    he whose distinctions of glory insist

    on surpassing even the Farqad star.

  22. مهذَّبٌ يبصر في أعطافهِ

    شمائلَ المهديِّ مصباحِ الهدى

    A refined man, in whose bearing one beholds

    the virtues of al-Mahdi, the lamp of guidance.

  23. شمائلاً بين الورى أطيبَ من

    أنفاس روضٍ بلَّه طلّ الندى

    Virtues more fragrant, among mankind, than

    the breaths of a garden moistened by soft dew.

  24. أورثه كمالَه وهديَه

    وفخرَه ومجدَه الموطَّدا

    He bequeathed him his perfection and guidance,

    his distinction and his firmly established glory.

  25. وعنه قد ناب بمكرُماته

    يعمرُ فيها بيته المشيَّدا

    And he has taken his place through his noble deeds,

    through which he keeps his lofty house flourishing.

  26. كالشمس إن تغرب بدا البدر ابنُها

    بنورها بأُفقها متَّقدا

    Like the sun: when she sets, the full moon, her son, appears,

    ablaze with her light upon her horizon.

  27. فهو لعمري والحسين بعده

    أسمح أبناء ذوي الجودِ يدا

    So he—by my life—and al-Husayn after him

    are the most open-handed sons of the generous.

  28. هما هلالا الجود مصباحا النهى

    كلاّ عليه يجد الساري هُدى

    They are bounty's two crescents, reason's two lamps;

    by each, the night traveler finds guidance.

  29. فريدتا مجدٍ على جيد العُلى

    زانا بهاءاً عِقدَها المنضَّدا

    Two peerless pearls of glory upon Eminence's neck,

    they adorn her well-strung necklace with splendor.

  30. يا آل بيت المصطفى من قد غدوا

    مأوى الضيوف مُتهماً ومنجدا

    O family of the Chosen One's House, who have become

    a refuge for guests bound for Tihamah or Najd,

  31. ومَن على معروفهم تعاقبت

    بنو الرجاءِ مصدراً وموردا

    and you whose bounty has drawn, in succession,

    the sons of hope, departing and returning:

  32. لتهنكم فرحةُ هادي عزّكم

    بما له من ذا الهنا قد جدَّدا

    may the joy of Hadi, guide of your honor, gladden you

    in this happiness newly renewed for him.

  33. وليهنَ ما غنَّى الحَمامُ هو في

    ختان بدريه ويبهج أبدا

    And may he himself rejoice, as long as doves sing, in

    the circumcision of his two full moons, and be glad forever.

  34. فطائر الأفراح يا سعد به

    أرِّخ أجدّ زاهياً مغرّدا

    So, O Sa'd, by the bird of joys,

    record the date: 'It has begun anew, radiant and warbling.'