1. أقول للناظم المجيد

    ظفرت بالخير والمزيد

    I say to the accomplished poet:

    You have attained goodness and yet more,

  2. وقابلتك لطايف اللَ

    ه الواحد الماجد الودود

    and God's gentle graces have greeted you—

    the One, the Glorious, the Loving.

  3. أبشر بنور وشرح صدر

    للحق والحفظ للعهود

    Rejoice in light and a breast opened wide

    to truth, and in the keeping of covenants,

  4. واللطف والعون ثم رزق

    مهنا طيب رغيد

    and kindness and help, then sustenance—

    pleasant, wholesome, abundant—

  5. بمدحك القوم صفوة اللَ

    ه ساداتنا زينة الوجود

    through your praise of the people, God's elect,

    our masters, the adornment of existence:

  6. أئمة الدين والأدلا

    على الهدى خيرة المحيد

    imams of the faith and guides

    to right guidance, the choicest refuge;

  7. بحور علم جبال حلم

    أهل المعارف والشهود

    seas of knowledge, mountains of forbearance,

    people of spiritual knowledge and witnessing,

  8. من بضعة المصطفى اليماني

    محمد الحامد المحمود

    sprung from the flesh of the Chosen One, the Yemeni—

    Muhammad, the praiser, the praised.

  9. عليه أزكى الصلاة دأباً

    ما غنت الورق في زرود

    May the purest blessings be upon him continually,

    as long as the grey doves sing in Zarud.