1. O stars of arts and time is a night
Not guided but by the light of arts

2. I carry greetings to you
From an era that was miserly and resentful with you

3. Egypt never saw before you stars
Radiances like concealed pearls

4. Sending light purely
To destroy illusions after illusions

5. Art captivates its people when it becomes
A spark of passions in them

6. Make it with your minds and restraint
The spirit’s purpose of chastity and faith

7. O my disciples in meanings and my sorrow
And my soldiers in what stirs my passions

8. I do not forget, how can I forget an era
That is in time a bud on the forehead

9. We start the lesson while the roots listen
From my left what you wish or from my right

10. I send the magic of my rhetoric to you
The magic of rhetoric exceeded the magic of eyes

11. O youths my hopes were not disappointed in them
You overwhelm me with your art, you gift me

12. Art was born with us so send it
Like the blossoming of flowers on the peaks of sorrow

13. None pulled the age before us pulled
With a melody of agony and yearning

14. None controlled the age before us controlled
To tame time so the appointed time was late

15. A sober era has passed and you are in an
Era lost in its misguidance, insane

16. Do not meet it with your kindness
The share of kindness is the share of the foolish

17. What is the use of freedom when it is kind
In a time when justice is wounded

18. Everyone who lived with kindness ends up
While he is in the agony of the wounded and wretched

19. Where are those who loyalty benefits
Guide me to them and guide me

20. I have experienced people fifty years
Where did I gain in the fifty

21. My age that I wasted as hostage
To my country, I honored more than a hostage

22. O minister of affairs and a promise is a debt
Be for these arts the best supporter

23. We proposed to you establishing a house
Where the men of arts would gather

24. You responded to hope kindly and eloquently
May you be protected, minister of affairs

25. O minister of affairs, I do hope
We see the house in the splendor of October

26. An exhibit for books they organized
Above a house lit by jasmine

27. I said I will go to it as lightning pounced
With my book in my right hand to the heights

28. Books I composed with my soul and mind
That emitted light over the forty

29. The years collected it from a genius
Who complained of his distress over the years

30. If he slept, the book is a dream he disliked
Or if awake, the book is the best companion

31. A scholar that time has no equal to
When he passes away to the absorption of certainty

32. A poet time hears his singing
It is with kindness a solace for the sorrowful

33. Some people blamed me for being arrogant
I find people below me in virtues

34. Let them excel as I excel to rise
If they can endure what I can endure

35. I take pride in myself because
In a time that has no peer for me