1. They asked, "What is art?" I replied, "All beauty
That fills the soul with its goodness is art."

2. And if art is not your natural gift,
Then avoiding it brings you closer to rectitude.

3. And if it is in your nature but you don't
Make it beautiful, you have no artistry.

4. And if you add nothing original
To the foundation, you are no pillar of art.

5. For you, O Murtaza, are virtues like flowers
In a garden, finding shade in March's weather.

6. Calligraphy swore allegiance after Munis or Ja'far
That none but you deserves its favor.

7. You have a script that if it could make up
For fate, would provide beautiful fortunes.

8. It is more faithful than time, defending
The structures of propriety and truer taking.

9. It is wished for by every soft-cheeked woman
Untouched, and each languorous, sleepy-eyed one.

10. Al-Walid's brocades are most eloquent in diction
Among their parts, and most moving in meaning.

11. Solutions poured since meanings wore them
Are not seen to signify by excellence of diction.