1. السَعد أَصبَح كامِلاً بِمحمّدٍ

    فَاِنشُر لِواء التهنئات لِأَحمدِ

    Good fortune has become complete with Muhammad.

    So unfurl the banner of congratulations for Ahmad.

  2. فَالبشر وَاليمن الأتمّ كِلاهُما

    وافَت بَشائره لِناديه النَدي

    For gladness and the fullest blessing alike—

    their glad tidings have reached his generous assembly.

  3. وَصفا لَنا وَقت الصفا فَكَأَنَّما

    ختم الإِلَه عَلى قُلوب الحُسَّدِ

    And our hour of serenity grew unclouded, as though

    God had sealed the hearts of the envious,

  4. في مَولد النَجل السَعيد الطالع ال

    باهي الحَميد الأوحد اِبن الأَوحَدِ

    at the birth of the son with the auspicious ascendant, the

    splendid, praiseworthy, peerless son of the peerless.

  5. وَلَقَد تبشّرني سويجعة الحمى

    بِاللَه يا أُخت المُتيّم غرّدي

    And indeed, the little cooing dove of the sanctuary brings me glad tidings.

    By God, O sister of the love-stricken, sing!

  6. عَذب المَناهل مَورد البُشرى فيا

    لِلّهِ ما أَحلاه لي مِن مَوردِ

    The watering place of glad tidings has sweet springs—O

    God, how sweet a watering place it is to me!

  7. حَيّا الحَيا خضر الرُبوع بِهِ فَما

    أَحلى الحَيا في خَدِّها المُتَورّدِ

    Rain greeted the green abodes through him—how

    sweet the rain upon their rose-flushed cheek!

  8. وَتَمايَلَت عذب الأَراك وَإِنَّما

    قامَت عَلى سمت فَلم تَتَأوّدِ

    And the arak's tender boughs swayed, yet

    they stood upright, without bending awry.

  9. حَمداً لآلاء الإله فَإِنَّني

    ما زِلت أَبسط بِالدُعاء لَهُ يَدي

    Praise for God's blessings, for I

    have never ceased to stretch out my hand to Him in prayer,

  10. حَتّى رَأَيت السَعد هَلَّ هِلاله

    بسما المَواهب فَوق فرق الفَرقدِ

    until I saw good fortune's crescent rise

    in the sky of gifts, above Farqad's crown.

  11. يا مَن أهنّئه بِهِ وَمَحلّه

    قَلبي وَكُلٌّ مِنهما هُوَ مَقصدي

    O you whom I congratulate on him, whose home

    is my heart—each of you is the one I have in mind.

  12. كُلٌّ لَهُ البُشرى لِأَنَّ قُلوبَنا

    جَنّاتها تُسقى بِماء تودُّدِ

    Each has glad tidings, for our hearts—

    their gardens are watered with the water of affection.

  13. صلحَ الزَمان إِذِ الأماني أسعدت

    بِبَديع مَولود بهيِّ المَولدِ

    Time turned kind, as wishes brought happiness

    through a wondrous newborn of splendid birth.

  14. إِنّي بِحفظ اللَه دُمت أعيذهُ

    مِن شَرّ نَظرة حاسد مُتَمرّدِ

    Indeed, I continually invoke God's protection for him

    from the evil gaze of a defiant envier,

  15. حَتّى تَراه أَباً يسرّك نسلهُ ال

    عالي المؤثّلُ أَمجَداً عَن أَمجَدِ

    until you see him a father whose offspring delight you—the

    lofty, firmly rooted—most illustrious sprung from the most illustrious.

  16. وَدَعا السُرور بِأَن يَدوم لَكَ الهَنا

    فيهِ بِدائم عزّك المُتأبّدِ

    And joy prayed that happiness endure for you

    in him, with your glory enduring forever.