1. Your hands sketched the melodious garden,
And completed the edifice of arts.

2. You kept ascending in glory,
Until your glory surpassed the stars.

3. A house of fine art divided,
For the sleepless, both tale and repose.

4. Like a garden beneath the birds, how wondrous!
Captivating sights and hearing.

5. You descended in it, we had never seen before,
A sky shining the sun at night.

6. It blazed until it turned in the valleys of kings,
The rocks and emptiness into illumination.

7. So they turned whispering, perhaps
It is the dawn of civilization in the country coming to light.

8. That knowledge in the height of their buildings,
Mostly gestured towards your building.

9. Their poles swayed in greeting,
And their strings hummed in praise.

10. O builder of the hall, you have adorned it,
And emulated in its attire the red.

11. Where is a temple that can house it?
Or a shrine that occupies its chambers and courts?

12. Genius in its repositories,
With which God gratifies whom He wills.

13. When you built the hall and endowed it,
It sent a thousand and dispatched the post.

14. You heard from the unique composer what
Eluded Al-Rashid and Al-Nu'man missed.

15. Art is the basil of kings, and they sometimes
Immortalized their names on its sides.

16. If not for its hands upon our sons,
We would not have found the most glorious fathers.

17. The early ones of every people were on the earth,
And we were in pottery the sky.

18. If not for the smile of art around it,
Existence would have remained bleak and harsh.

19. Strip life of art and whatever it contained,
You find life empty of beauty.

20. Nature treated life with art,
As an oasis treated the desert.

21. The soul takes refuge in it from its heat,
Thus gaining shade or finding water.

22. The pulse of civilization in all kingdoms
Either flows safety or beats sickness.

23. If well it makes the times healthy,
Or ill, it is clearly a facade.

24. Look, Abu Bakr, does your plant grow
With the plant anything but blessings and growth?

25. From a seed stored and hands that persevered
Came a time with plentiful gardens.

26. The fine arts sheltered beautifully,
Casting shades and extending branches.

27. A group exerted righteous efforts,
Not asking for their efforts a reward.

28. They accompanied the messenger of art, unrelenting
Out of love, sincerity, and loyalty.

29. They pushed aside obstacles with perseverance, and exceeded
Whatever of fate's turns were miserable.

30. Cooperation is indeed an exalted power
That builds men and originates things.

31. So may their endeavor that drew your attention give them delight
And clothe them in splendor and prosperity.

32. You did not appear to sights except planting
For the generations' successors or building.

33. You pass the intervals improvising the dew,
And go making the white hand.

34. In a procession like rain, its riders proceeded,
Bringing good tidings, settling prosperity and comfort.

35. You are the banner the people rallied around,
And the crown the nations make their banner.

36. From every minaret you heard love,
And with every bell you met prayer.

37. They harmonize in acclaim as though
A lute accompanies singing.