العيد عيد مهنأ بقبوله

وافاه بالبشرى وصول وصوله

The feast is the feast of one congratulated on his acceptance;

The coming of his attainment brought him glad tidings.

فلذاك حق له الهناء بما غدا

عند الإله له وعندرسوله

Thus joy is his due for what has become

his before God and before His Messenger.

شهد الصيام له بما قد أودعت

أناؤه منه قبيلرحيله

Fasting testified for him to what had been stored

by its hours from him, shortly before its departure,

وبما رآه من القيام بحقه

في حفظه ورعاً وفي تبجيله

and to the fulfillment of its due that it witnessed in him,

in observing it scrupulously and honoring it.

يحي الدجا فيه إلى اسحاره

ذكراً ويلحق فجره بأصيله

He brings its dark nights to life until the hours before dawn,

in remembrance, joining its dawn to its late afternoon.

ظام إلى أوراده لا ينطفي

إلا بموردها لهيب غليله

Thirsting for his litanies, there is no quenching

the flame of his thirst except at their watering place.

يتلو كتاب إلهه متلذذاً

فيه بما أوتيه من ترتيله

He recites the Book of his God, delighting

in it through the measured recitation he has been granted.

وإذا الدجى أرخى عليه ستوره

أغناه نور الذكر عن قنديله

And when darkness lets its curtains fall over him,

the light of remembrance suffices him in place of his lamp.

متتبع طرق الحلال وإن نأت

في شربه ورعاً وفي مأكوله

He follows the paths of the lawful, however far they lie,

with scrupulous piety in his drinking and in what he eats.

فتراه يغني عن كثير شرابه

وطعامه مع حله بقليه

So you see him dispense with much of his drink

and food, though lawful, content with little of it.

قد صان مسمعه عن الإصغاء أن

ذكر الخنا ولسانه عن قيله

He has guarded his hearing from listening when

obscenity is mentioned, and his tongue from uttering it.

هذا له عيدان عيد فطوره

كسواه والثاني المفاز بسوله

This man has two feasts: the feast of breaking his fast,

like everyone else; the second is the attainment of his desire.