مَنْ مِثْلُ أَحْمَد

اللهْ اللهُ اللهْ اللهُاللهْ اللهُ تَبَارَكَ اللهُ

Allāh Allāhu Allāh Allāhu, Allāh Allāhu tabāraka Allāhu

Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah: blessed is Allah!

مَنْ مِثْلُ أَحْمَدَ فِي الكَوْنَيْنِ نَهْوَاهُبَدْرٌ جَمِيعُ الوَرَى فِي حُسْنِهِ تَاهُوا

Man mithlu aḥmada fī al-kawnayni nahwāhu, Badrun jamīʿu al-warā fī ḥusnihi tāhū

Who is like Ahmad in both worlds, whom we love? A full moon in whose beauty all creation is lost.

مَنْ مِثْلُهُ وَإِلَهُ الْعَرْشِ شَرَّفَهُبِالْخَلْقِ وَالْخُلْقِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ أَعْطَاهُ

Man mithluhu waʾilahu al-ʿarshi sharrafahu, Bi-al-khalqi wa-al-khulqi inna Allāha aʿṭāhu

Who is like him, whom the God of the Throne honoured with beauty of form and of character? Allah gave him this.

وَالشَّمْسُ تَخْجَلُ مِنْ أَنْوَارِ طَلْعَتِهِحَارَتْ عُقُولُ الْوَرَى فِي فَهْمِ مَعْنَاهُ

Wa-ash-shamsu takhjalu min anwāri ṭalʿatihi, Ḥārat ʿuqūlu al-warā fī fahmi maʿnāhu

The sun is abashed before the lights of his face; the minds of creation are bewildered in grasping his meaning.

تَبَارَكَ اللَّهُ مَا أَحْلَى شَمَائِلَهُحَازَ الْجَمَالَ فَمَا أَبْهَى مُحَيَّاهُ

Tabāraka Allāhu mā aḥlā shamāʾilahu, Ḥāza al-jamāla famā abhā muḥayyāhu

Blessed be Allah, how sweet are his qualities! He won all beauty; how radiant is his face!

يَا عُرْبَ وَادِي النَّقَى يَا أَهْلَ كَاظِمَةٍفِي حَيِّكُمْ قَمَرٌ فِي الْقَلْبِ مَثْوَاهُ

Yā ʿurba wādī an-naqā yā ahla kāẓimatin, Fī ḥayyikum qamarun fī al-qalbi mathwāhu

O Arabs of the valley of al-Naqa, O people of Kazima, in your encampment is a moon whose dwelling is in the heart.

صَلَّى عَلَيْهِ إِلَهُ الْعَرْشِ مَا طَلَعَتْشَمْسٌ وَمَا حَدْحَدَ الْحَادِي مَطَايَاهُ

Ṣallā ʿalayhi ilahu al-ʿarshi mā ṭalaʿat, Shamsun wamā ḥadḥada al-ḥādī maṭāyāhu

May the God of the Throne bless him as long as the sun rises and the camel-driver urges on his mounts.

اللهُ بِالْمَدْحِ لِلْمُخْتَارِ مَنَّ عَلَيّعَسَى يُرَى لِيَ بَيْنَ المَادِحِيْنَ حَلَي

Allāhu bi-al-madḥi lilmukhtāri manna ʿalayy, ʿasā yurā liya bayna al-mādiḥiyna ḥalay

Allah has favoured me with praise of the Chosen One; perhaps an adornment will be seen on me among those who praise him.

إِذَا أَتَيْتُ لِأَقْرَا الصُّحْفَ مِنْ عَمَلِيْمَالِي سِوَى مَنْ لَهُ فَضْلٌ يُشِيْرُ إِلَيَّ

Idhā ataytu liʾaqrā aṣ-ṣuḥfa min ʿamaliy, Mālī siwā man lahu faḍlun yushiyru ilayya

When I come to read the pages of my deeds, I have no one but the one of grace to point to me.

مُحَمَّدٌ سَيِّدُ الكَوْنَيْنِ وَالثَّقَلَيْنِوَالفَرِيقَيْنِ مِنْ عُرْبٍ وَمِنْ عَجَمِ

Muḥammadun sayyidu al-kawnayni wa-ath-thaqalayni, Wa-al-farīqayni min ʿurbin wamin ʿajami

Muhammad, master of both worlds and of jinn and men, and of both groups, Arabs and non-Arabs.

هُوَ الحَبِيبُ الَّذِي تُرْجَى شَفَاعَتُهُلِكُلِّ هَوْلٍ مِنَ الأَهْوَالِ مُقْتَحَمِ

Huwa al-ḥabību al-ladhī turjā shafāʿatuhu, Likulli hawlin mina al-ʾahwāli muqtaḥami

He is the beloved whose intercession is hoped for in every terror that must be plunged into.

نَبِيُّنَا الآمِرُ النَّاهِي فَلَا أَحَدٌأَبَرَّ فِي قَوْلِ لَا مِنْهُ وَلَا نَعَمِ

Nabiyyunā al-ʾāmiru an-nāhī falā aḥadun, Abarra fī qawli lā minhu walā naʿami

Our Prophet, who commands and forbids; there is no one more truthful in saying "no" or "yes" than he.

كَالزَّهْرِ فِي تَرَفٍ وَالبَدْرِ فِي شَرَفٍوَالبَحْرِ فِي كَرَمٍ وَالدَّهْرِ فِي هِمَمِ

Ka-az-zahri fī tarafin wa-al-badri fī sharafin, Wa-al-baḥri fī karamin wa-ad-dahri fī himami

Like a flower in delicacy, the full moon in honour, the sea in generosity, and time itself in resolve.

يَا رَبِّ بِالمُصْطَفَى بَلِّغْ مَقَاصِدَنَاوَاغْفِرْ لَنَا مَا مَضَى يَا وَاسِعَ الكَرَمِ

Yā rabbi bi-al-muṣṭafā balligh maqāṣidanā, Waghfir lanā mā maḍā yā wāsiʿa al-karami

O Lord, by the Chosen One, fulfil our aims, and forgive us what has passed, O You of vast generosity.

وَاغْفِرْ إِلَهِي لِكُلِّ المُسْلِمِينَ بِمَايَتْلُونَ فِي المَسْجِدِ الأَقْصَى وَفِي الحَرَمِ

Waghfir ilahī likulli al-muslimīna bimā, Yatlūna fī al-masjidi al-ʾaqṣā wafī al-ḥarami

And forgive, my God, all Muslims, by what they recite in al-Aqsa Mosque and in the Sanctuary,

بِجَاهِ مَنْ بَيْتُهُ فِي طَيْبَةٍ حَرَمٌوَاسْمُهُ قَسَمٌ مِنْ أَعْظَمِ الْقَسَمِ

Bijāhi man baytuhu fī ṭaybatin ḥaramun, Wasmuhu qasamun min aʿẓami al-qasami

By the rank of the one whose house in Tayba is a sanctuary, and whose name is an oath among the greatest of oaths.