1. We composed poems of congratulations, we present them
To a banner among the geniuses, singular

2. If only some of his pens were in our palms
And we spoke, the words would come as enlightened Gospel

3. He who undertakes friendship with men
Seeks with it the secret of the bosom friend and is gratified

4. He who keeps intimates, keeps cultivated fields
For him, and invests the saplings of affection

5. No preserver except the edifice of virtues
Abundant in knowledge and plateau of happiness

6. A youth who elevates poetry as much as its destiny elevates him
To the rank of eternity

7. And upon him in peace and in calamity
Hope looks after or demolished hope

8. Behold! In Egypt, rhetoric and its people
A hand for the lofty, found preserver of the hand