1. Yusuf embodied and repeated
Excelling again and again

2. Baghdad where he was welcomed upon his arrival
As a generous guest in Baghdad

3. We greet every evening
A planet and a leader in Yusuf's face

4. If you bestow favors upon him in his performance
In every incident, guidance and integrity

5. And it may save you from your arrogance a scene
That makes eyes cry and burns intestines

6. And it may show you a reality of imagination
Inspired by brilliance and generosity

7. I appreciate in him an pioneer in his art
The pioneers have given him leadership

8. There was no prominent house for acting
So he built a house and it became a pillar

9. They are those who find adequacy in him
It is for him to lead and not to be led

10. Art in his performance is enthusiastic
Folding to outpace distances

11. And when the flood raged and foamed
Immersed the banks and crushed the dams

12. I loved in his theater a world
Collecting incidents, combining opposites

13. As for the witnesses, they are one in their perception
As if they share one heart

14. And it shows you the consequence of misguidance and guidance
And depicts the ignoble and the glorious

15. Visit him, you will find clear images of life
Wishing, when they disappear, that they last

16. You see a abundant blessing, and next to it
You observe lasting misery and struggle

17. And you see people whose loyalty persists
And you see people among whom there is hatred

18. A world whose wolves prey upon its sheep
And commit corruption among those sheep

19. O you who have stripped your heart of feelings
I implore you not to be inanimate

20. Art reforms everyone who is corrupt
Even those who think corruption is integrity

21. Art in its stories depicts its characters
Reviving the feeble and resurrecting ancestors

22. Art is the best architect of morals
Cultivating loyalty and demolishing grudges

23. Peace, all its purpose is in itself
And peace is most deserving to be purpose

24. Not those who incline to minds
Are like those inclined to passion and stillness

25. Virtue in all its affairs
Is white, refusing by its whiteness, blackness

26. O fathers, this is an institute
That gives guidance, so refine in it the boys

27. And actors that rival tall youths
And actresses resembling flowers

28. I saw them equal in the skill of art
And equal in their artistry

29. In art there is charm whose beauty never fades
And to it returns whoever wants distance

30. And it may carry whoever witnesses it
As if he were riding a flying carpet

31. As for tears, they came out from the inner depths
And the eyes, collectively and individually

32. And they stood in awe of a scene
In which the victim converses with the executioner

33. I kept Yusuf in Iraq for its people
A memory increasing affection

34. And I planted growing in the hearts of its youths
Affection that will remain flourishing and blooming

35. I carry to Egypt the greetings of its sister
Baghdad, if you asked about Baghdad