1. A book whose text filled the world
A glorious book that embodied glory and supremacy

2. We have never known a revelation sent down to us
More eloquent than this revelation that preceded inspiration

3. With it the tablets of Moses and even his staff shine
Snatching from Pharaoh what they denied out of enmity

4. If it were to be measured for eloquence of expression
Its eloquence would render the measurer mute

5. When the seal of that book is opened
Literature is perfumed by its fragrance

6. It exudes a scattered and folded fragrance with the morning breeze
We open it scattered and fold it carefully

7. We kiss every word of its title
Embossed with musk like a soft lip

8. It appears to us adorned in the dress of a bride
When it emerges in the sun, shaming it with its attire

9. Our eyes flirt with it as if
Flirting with Layla Al-Akhiliyya or Um Riyah

10. Who can convey to Suhban its eloquence
Numbering it, inscribing it and embellishing it

11. And who can make Ibn Al-Amid see again
Inscriptions seen neither awake nor in a dream

12. When we saw wisdom while it was confidential
We whispered in it what they had kept secret

13. A minister who dispensed justice in every town
Without burden, appointing resolve and opinion as his ministers

14. How many a book has he refuted
And how many legions has he routed with his pen

15. We have never seen the efforts of governors like his
In speech, and what governor can match his efforts

16. If we had heard of the like in the past
We would see that as hearsay and your efforts as visible

17. With a dam, that even if Alexander dammed it
It would be split by the days, but not this one

18. If Dhu Al-Qarnayn desired a dam as his pair
Yours would be the dam in the world

19. You made it an iron bridge with arches
With nails that cannot be removed, constantly boiling

20. You shackled the Euphrates’ Jinn, protecting it
Perplexing the Jinn there and making them forgetful

21. You revived for us one buried and dead with determination
Many a tall one died and many you gave life

22. Its vanguards in every west and east
Appear western in obstinacy and eastern in disposition

23. Even the wild beasts were frightened by the fury of its vengeance
Until the wolf assumed the role of shepherd for the flock

24. You have spread good governance in the regions
Where the flock of the subjects spend the night watched over

25. Through it the law of kingdoms was established
Proclaiming for the King of Kings, "at your service!"