1. أهدي إليكَ أخا الفخار تحيَّةً

    رقَّتْ كرقَّة طبعكَ الشفَّافِ

    I offer you, brother of glory, a greeting

    As delicate as your own limpid nature.

  2. وافتكَ تحسبُ أنَّها داريةٌ

    حملتْ شذاكَ لأنفك المستافِ

    It came to you—you would think it a perfumer—

    Bringing your fragrance to your scenting nose.

  3. وفد السرورُ بها لتهنئة العُلى

    فيما حبيتَ به من الألطافِ

    Joy came with it to congratulate your high estate

    On the gracious favors bestowed upon you.

  4. أنت الذي عكفَ الثناءُ بربعه

    وأطافَ فيه الحمدُ أيّ مطافِ

    You are he at whose abode praise has lingered,

    And there acclaim has circled in such wondrous rounds.

  5. شهدتْ لك الفيحاءُ أنَّك زدتها

    شرفاً لأنَّك صفوةُ الأشرافِ

    Al-Fayha bears witness that you have increased her

    In honor, for you are the choicest of the noble.

  6. وبها لك انتهت الرياسة كلُّها

    فرفلتْ في حبراتها الأفوافِ

    And in her all leadership has come to you,

    So she swept proudly along in her fine, striped robes.

  7. وبها قدمتَ فكانَ أيمنُ مقدمٍ

    طرقَ العداة بمرغم الآنافِ

    And you came to her: yours was the most auspicious arrival,

    That struck your foes, grinding their noses in the dust.

  8. كانت أماني أنفسٍ مكذوبةٍ

    دعت الحسود لقلَّة الأنصافِ

    There were hopes harbored by deluded souls

    That drove the envious man to a lack of fairness.