1. To you, God has raised knowledge to the truth
And it is enough for you to ward off evil from good

2. You have returned reason to us after its darkness
Illuminated by the light of your brilliant rising sun

3. And you have raised it while it was slumbering in ignorance
So it has become beautifully virtuous

4. It was hiding in the folds of misguidance
With the worst dwellings of deep ignorance

5. But with the light of knowledge it now blossoms in nature
And rises sublime above all natures

6. What knowledge you have shown us divine truths
With which every supplicant rises high

7. What knowledge has adorned every devout one
And embellished the adorned maidens and veiled ladies

8. What knowledge, deterring every ignorant one
So he comes willingly, awed, deterred by the sword

9. You have shown us the path of God in religion and conscience
Pointing to His laws in the canons

10. We have come to know it as though it gestures to us
Toward it with fingers, this noble divine law

11. And you have given us the balance of established truth
An impartial judge between buyer and seller

12. And you have affirmed in it the right of pay and wages
And inheritance and wergild and lex talionis

13. And deemed the wanton killer to be corrupt when he prohibited
Abomination from the forbidden in conjugal beds

14. And you have proven the word of God to be the most truthful judge
And refuted in it the view of every disputant

15. So you have not seen any good lost in His judgments
Nor any evil unpunished by Him

16. Through it, reputations have risen in merit, and their status
Has ascended above every rising star

17. They have authority making kings subordinate to their rule
For you have not seen any of their subjects disobedient

18. They distinguish the truth of God in every problem
They have humbled all but the proud will not submit

19. And needless to say, they are the light and the guidance
They are the salt, no, they are the food of the hungry soul

20. They are rain, then relief for every weeping eye
They are the destination sought by every perplexed one

21. They are truth and direction for every prayeral niche
They are the ladder lifting the timid and devout

22. O party exalted! Exaltation befits your station
For you were God's tongue on the day of the council

23. And you established faith in the truth, standing firm
And refuted the opinions of the people of innovation

24. Like Arius, Nestorius, and Pyrrhus the heedless
And with them James and that fabricating Jacobite

25. Through you God's affair was completed in every proof
He sees but there is nothing you see that prevents Him

26. Your excellence is that you judge every wisdom
That delights the mind with good audition

27. For you are a light for the novice with knowledge
A fortress for the veteran, then a breast for the suckling babe

28. A path the people pass over toward guidance
And a center of virtue for observer and listener

29. Indeed, your deeds have adorned your knowledge
As the flushed cheek adorns the slender branch

30. O scholar, knowledge seeks you as one who acts
For what virtue lies in useless knowledge?

31. Restrain yourself, you have mounted your soul
On a ship of arrogance in the sea of contention

32. Beware the turbulent sea in its waters
Like Pharaoh of Egypt, tested with calamities

33. He was devastated by his obstinate soul
So belittle the devastated and exalt the calamitous

34. Vain glory spreads its net to catch your self-admiration
So wonder at a scholar satisfied with it!

35. And you swim intoxicated in the sea of profligacy
Confused and craving between the lost and confused

36. Your companion thereby disdains the reasonable
And mocks the poor and spurns the hungry

37. Slow toward good but energetic toward evil
And in despicable greed most covetous

38. And I sell nothing of cunning, hatred, envy
Malice, spite unless you, the cheapest seller

39. O lover of money, squandering it
Though money lays low every adversary

40. Ugly it is for the learned to be deceived by it
When they know it is the worst of tricksters

41. They have lost the reins of truth, lacking principles
Feigning knowledge, intending only crafts

42. And they incline with passions wherever they tilt
Like a branch tilting with rough winds

43. So you have given decadence and debauchery their due
A luxuriating body gathering censures

44. As if you in the garb of clothes are a youth
Swaying like a blooming, delicate branch

45. Disloyal in friendship with every companion
You blame and malign, between returner and returnee

46. This which I have counted evident in you
While your Lord knows best what is concealed

47. Do not forbid morals while committing the like
Be not like one who calls to what he does not hear

48. You were created to build the edifice of mankind and mold them
So excel with one built and one building

49. It is as though you destroy and build both
Stop, liar, you are of no benefit

50. If you refrain from reforming your own soul
Then do not aspire to teach the neglected

51. For you and passions are equal in voice
And your pastures are around stagnant ponds

52. So know, teach, consent, be firm, persevere
Be prepared and struggle with restraint

53. First, act with patience and virtue
Then engender them after in the bewildered soul

54. And take Mary as an exemplar and model in all
If you wish to be guided to the best Maker

55. Through her is success and guidance in every situation
Leading to reform for the beneficial

56. So hurry and knock on the door of Mary
For it is characteristic of her to call out like one racing

57. O cube, in which our God dwelt
And singled it out over all others like it

58. And sanctified it before existence and protected it
For Himself a position among all positions

59. Perfect through us the structure of teaching our knowledge
With our deeds, O best of those who fast and listen