1. نعم هذه أعلامها وقصورها

    فحي على دار الحبيب نزورها

    Yes, these are its landmarks and palaces.

    So come to the beloved's dwelling; we shall visit it.

  2. لعلك ان تحظى وان عز مطلب

    بلحظة إقبال إليك يديرها

    Perhaps you may be favored, though the goal is hard to reach,

    with a gracious glance that he turns toward you.

  3. ومن مارس الأنام مثلي تيسرت

    مطالبه منها وهان عسيرها

    And whoever has dealt with humankind as I have finds ease

    in his requests of it, and its hardships grow light.

  4. إذا أنت لم يقنعك منها قليلها

    تعبت ولم يقنعك أيضاً كثيرها

    If a little of what it gives does not satisfy you,

    you will toil, and much of it will not satisfy you either.

  5. خذ العفو منها واستدمه بشكرها

    فما غلب الأيام إلا شكورها

    Take what comes freely from it, and preserve it through gratitude for it;

    for none masters the days but one grateful for them.

  6. وما ثار فوق المرء غبرة محنة

    إذا استصعبت إلا وحرص يثيرها

    And no dust-cloud of affliction rises over a person,

    when it grows severe, unless greed stirs it up.

  7. يقول رجال ما لهمته هوت

    وما ناهز السبعين فهو عذيرها

    Men say, 'Why has his resolve fallen,

    when he has not neared seventy to excuse it?'

  8. وان بزني كر الجديدين همتي

    لجأت إلى ذي همة أستعيرها

    And if the cycle of day and night has robbed me of my resolve,

    I seek refuge with a man of resolve, to borrow it.

  9. إذا مد نحوي شيخ الإسلام طرفه

    بلغت المنى واستسهلت لي وعورها

    When the Shaykh al-Islam casts his gaze toward me,

    I attain my wishes, and their rugged ways become easy for me.

  10. وما يمنع المعروف عن مستجقه

    وراحة ذي المعروف جم نميرها

    And he does not withhold kindness from one deserving it,

    and the benefactor's palm abounds in sweet water.

  11. هو الشمس تعطى الشيء ظلاً بقدره

    فإن قلت الجدوى فمنا قصورها

    He is the sun, giving each thing a shadow according to its measure;

    so if the benefit is scant, its shortfall comes from us.

  12. بصير بأعقاب الأمور كأنما

    تخاطبه عما يجن ضميرها

    He discerns the outcomes of affairs, as though

    they tell him what their inner heart conceals.

  13. إذا ما جرت أقلامه في صحيفة

    أرتك رياضا توجتها زهورها

    Whenever his pens run across a page,

    they show you gardens crowned with their flowers.

  14. لقد علمت حساده طرق العلي

    سجاياه لكن أعجزتهم وغورها

    His enviers have indeed been taught the paths to greatness

    by his virtues; yet those paths' rugged stretches have defeated them.

  15. هو العدل والفضل اللذان عليهما

    تدور رحى الفتوى ويشرق نورها

    He is justice and excellence, upon both of which

    the millstone of legal opinion turns, and its light shines.

  16. أجل وعفاف لم يمد رواقه

    على دولة إلا استقامت أمورها

    Yes, and integrity, whose canopy has never been spread

    over a state without its affairs being set right.

  17. إليك إمام الفضل آمالنا انتحت

    ترجي قريباً ان توفي نذورها

    Toward you, O leader of excellence, our hopes have turned,

    hoping their vows will soon be fulfilled.

  18. وما هي إلا لفتة منك ينثني

    بها عارفاً قدر الأيادي شكورها

    And all it takes is a glance from you to bring back

    one grateful for favors, knowing their worth through it.

  19. فلا زلت محفوفاً بأقبال دولة

    ودولة إقبال يدوم سرورها

    So may you ever be surrounded by a state's favor,

    and a reign of good fortune whose joy endures.

  20. تقلد أعناق الأفاضل أنعماً

    وتستعبد الأحرار سلماً صدورها

    You garland the necks of the worthy with blessings,

    and peacefully enslave the hearts of the free.