1. دعني أترجم حبي فيك أشعار

    وعنك أروي لأهل الأرض أخبارا

    Let me render my love for you in verse,

    And tell the people of the earth news of you.

  2. قد حاز فعلك إعجابي فألهمني

    بلاغة جاوزت قسا وبشارا

    Your work has won my admiration and inspired in me

    An eloquence surpassing Quss and Bashshar.

  3. لو قورنت بالآلي فاق جوهره

    حسنا وحير ما تحويه أفكارا

    Were it compared with pearls, its essence would surpass them

    In beauty, and its contents would bewilder minds.

  4. عرباء تصغي لها الأسماع عن طرب

    ليست بخرساء إن ما كاشح ما رى

    Eloquent Arabic, to which ears listen in delight,

    Not mute if ever a spiteful foe argues.

  5. إليك أزجي قوافيها معطرة

    عرفا مزجت به مسكاً ونوارا

    To you I send its rhymes, perfumed

    With a fragrance in which I have blended musk and blossoms.

  6. يا رشاد وسبيل الرشد ينهجه

    من آثر الخير دون الشر فاختارا

    O Rashad, the path of right guidance is followed

    By whoever prefers good over evil and chooses it.

  7. ألم تر المرء إن ضاقت به بلد

    إليك يمم أظعاناً وانظارا

    Have you not seen a man, when a land grows too narrow for him,

    Turn his caravans and his gaze toward you?

  8. لان فيك خصالا قد خصصت به

    نعم وأودع فيك الله اسرارا

    For you possess qualities with which you were specially endowed;

    Yes, and God has placed secrets within you.

  9. لذا شددنا إليك الرحل واتجهت

    بنا الركائب ما إن دهرنا جارا

    Thus we saddled up to journey to you, and onward went

    The camels bearing us whenever our times dealt us injustice.

  10. حيث الأمير أبو مكتوم حاكمن

    به بلغنا من الآمال أوطارا

    Where the emir, Abu Maktoum, is our ruler,

    Through him we have attained our hoped-for aims.

  11. بقربه قد حططنا عن رواحلن

    جذلا فلم نفتقد أهلا ولا دارا

    Near him we unloaded our mounts,

    In joy, and so missed neither family nor home.

  12. بل خير دار لنا دار نعز به

    إن الكريم يرى في الضيم إضرارا

    Rather, our best home is one in which we have dignity.

    For the noble person sees harm in injustice.

  13. فكيف أغضي على ضيم ولي شرف

    به أقارع أهوالاً وأخطارا

    How, then, could I overlook injustice, when I have honor

    With which I confront terrors and dangers?

  14. إن شف شعري فعذري فيه أنك قد

    سجلت في صفحات المجد أسطارا

    If my verse is delicate, my excuse is that you have

    Inscribed lines upon the pages of glory.

  15. غرست بين القلوب الحب فامتلأت

    بالحب فانظر تجد للحب آثارا

    You planted love among hearts, and they filled

    With love; look, and you will find the traces of love.

  16. أنى حللت بأرض طاب منبته

    نرى بها وارفات الظل أشجارا

    Wherever you settled in a land, its soil grew fertile;

    We see trees there with luxuriant shade.

  17. نرى البلاد التي صممت نهضته

    ملأت أرجاءها خيراً وإعمارا

    We see the land whose renaissance you planned;

    You have filled its reaches with goodness and development.

  18. كأنها بيد سحرية صنعت

    أو الربيع كساها منه أزهارا

    As though it were fashioned by a magical hand,

    Or spring had clothed it in flowers of its own.

  19. حققت بالفعل لا بالقول كل منى

    لنا فأصبحت الأحلام أخبارا

    Through deeds, not words, you fulfilled every wish

    Of ours, and dreams became news.

  20. بل نهضة كلنا أضحى يشاهده

    نخالها في رحاب الأرض تيارا

    Rather, a renaissance that all of us now witness—

    We imagine it a current across the earth's expanses.

  21. بوركت من نهضة للخير شاملة

    رمى بك الله عهد البؤس فانهارا

    Blessed are you, a renaissance embracing all good;

    God hurled you against the age of misery, and it collapsed.

  22. من رام حصر جميل أنت فاعله

    وعد فضل سواكم عد أصفارا

    Whoever seeks to count the good deeds you perform,

    And tallies the merits of others, counts only zeros.

  23. فمن فؤاد مليء بالولاء لكم

    أهديك شعراً نظير الدر معطارا

    So from a heart filled with loyalty to you,

    I offer you verse like pearls, richly fragrant.