1. اِقْبَلْ ثَناءً وشُكرا

    وازدَدْ بقاءً وعُمْرا

    Accept praise and thanks,

    and increase in longevity and years.

  2. وليَهْنِكَ المَجْدُ لبساً

    والحمدُ كَنْزاً وذُخْرا

    And may glory be a robe you wear with joy,

    and praise, a treasure and a hoard.

  3. فما دَجَا لِيَ خطبٌ

    إِلّا لَمَحْتُكَ فَجْرَا

    For no calamity grew dark for me

    but I glimpsed you as dawn.

  4. ولا دعوتُكَ سِرّاً

    إِلّا وَجَدْتُكَ سِتْرَا

    Nor did I call upon you in secret

    but I found you a protective veil.

  5. وإِنْ تَضَرَّمَ صَدْرِي

    حَرّاً وجدتُكَ حُرَّا

    And if my breast blazed

    with heat, I found you noble,

  6. كما وَجَدْتُكَ حُلواً

    إِذْ ذُقْتُ دهريَ مُرَّا

    just as I found you sweet

    when I tasted the bitterness of my days.

  7. فلا تَزَلْ وفق مَا كُنْ

    تَ لي مَعَ العُسرِ يُسْرا

    So remain as you have been:

    ease for me amid hardship.

  8. وكُنْتَ أَمْسِ سَرِيّاً

    واليَوْمَ أَسْرى وأَسْرى

    And yesterday you were noble,

    and today, nobler and nobler.

  9. وكُنْتَ تعدِلُ واليَوْ

    مَ أَنْتَ بالعَدْلِ أَحْرى

    And you used to act justly, and today

    you are all the more fit to do justice.

  10. فاحكُمْ كَمَا حَكَمَ الل

    هُ حِينَ زادَكَ فَخْرَا

    So judge as God judged

    when He increased your glory.

  11. وزِدْ فَعَالَكَ قَدْراً

    إِذ زادَكَ اللهُ قَدْرَا

    And increase the worth of your deeds,

    since God has increased your worth.

  12. فقد طَلَعْتَ هِلالاً

    واليوم أَمْسَيْتَ بَدْرا

    For you rose as a crescent,

    and today you have become a full moon.

  13. فكيفَ أَرضاكَ بحراً

    كَمَا رَضِيتُكَ نَهْرَا

    How, then, can I be content with you as a sea

    as I was content with you as a river?

  14. وكيف يَجْرِي جوادٌ

    كَمَا جَرى قَبْلُ مُهْرَا

    And how can a noble steed run

    as it once ran as a colt?

  15. وَقَدْ بدأْتَ بِبِرٍّ

    فأَتْبِعِ البِرَّ برَّا

    And you have begun with kindness,

    so follow kindness with wheat,

  16. وزِدْ عَلَى الباءِ رَفْعاً

    يَرْفَعْ لَكَ اللهُ ذِكْرَا

    and raise the vowel on the bāʾ;

    God will raise your renown.