1. You taught with the wise pen,
And guided with the generous star,

2. And came from his shrine
With the great Aristotle,

3. The king of minds, and he
Is the pinnacle of supreme rule,

4. Sheikh Ibn Rushd and Ibn Sina and Ibn Barqain the wise,
Who was in the guidance of the Messiah and was in the integrity of the Clement,

5. And went and came affirming the oneness
Before idolatry and ruin,

6. The voice of truth between the ignorance of paganism and defeat,
What is between the injustice of evildoers and the tyranny of the wretched,

7. He lays down laws for the ages
With the building of a mighty, merciful one,

8. And details morals for generations
With the detailing of the orphan,

9. In clear love of the path
From the doctrines straightforward,

10. And epistles like the parchments
When they walk in the companion.

11. The holiness of the breaths intoxicates
With taste and fragrance,

12. O gentleness, you are the echo
Of that mellow voice,

13. The garden’s basil, you carried it over
And copied it like the breeze copies,

14. And you crept from the valley of pain
With it to the Wadi Sarim,

15. The trade of the two languages ​​for the sake
Of purposes in the core calculation,

16. A language from the Greeks of value
And another from Tamim,

17. And you brought us detailed
With goodness, lofty, pure,

18. It is the wealth of the enriched
From morals, or the money of the destitute,

19. Walking the era, speak
Of the ancient era,

20. Represent Greece to us
Between knowledge and proper morals,

21. Its morals are the light of the path
And its knowledge is the light of continuity,

22. And its youth learn
From the ancestors and stars,

23. They touched the truth in arts
And realized it in sciences,

24. It took a place with them
Above the teacher and leader,

25. And ignorance is your fortune if you took
Knowledge from other than the knowledgeable,

26. And there is many a teaching that crept
Among the youth like a sleeping sickness,

27. Wicked cunning dresses up
In it with wicked cunning,

28. And schools that do not build up
Morals studying regulations,

29. Corruption walks in its sprouts
Like the spark in the kindling,

30. When I saw the darkness of my people
In the gloom of a fearful night,

31. They are given to drink from illiteracy
Which is the anguish of the miserable homeland,

32. And their bedouins are settled
In the pursuit of worldly existence,

33. They seek great glory
And not the crushing truth,

34. And I saw the constitution fade away
While it was in the age of infancy,

35. It did not escape the cunning of the enemy
For it and the folly of the zealous,

36. You were certain that ignorance is the calamity
Of every unhealthy society,

37. And I came, O Lord of scattering, with what you love
Of composition,

38. Reap your diligence in the harvest
Of fruits for the sighing youth,

39. From the garden of true knowledge
And the hill of proper literature,

40. Those passionate for knowledge do not cease
Seeking it like the determined lover,

41. Those turning away from minor sins
And plotting and gossiping,

42. I swear by your beautiful approach
And the face of your faithful company,

43. And the old, flawless covenant
In affection and no blemish,

44. You have never been for malice
Against the enemy or opponent,

45. When people wrangled, you did not
Descend to the miserable pasture,

46. How many revilers you met
With the disdain of the insulted lion,

47. And busied yourself with the noble
Of efforts away from the fruitless,

48. So you served the country with knowledge
And remained the most loyal servant,

49. And knowledge builds civilizations
And kingdoms from early times,

50. They broke the yoke of passions with it
And crushed the humiliation of the subjugated,