1. The sun of truth shone above the throne
Dispelling with its light all deceit

2. The eyes of the universe witnessed it, but
The difference between man and beast was clear

3. The mark of the people when it appeared
Was that they understood its every verse

4. Its goodness spread among the people, you see them
Sprinkled upon hearts and watered

5. Its nobility pierced the heavens in reach
For a prophet whose mouth never uttered lewdness

6. Its law superseded all other laws
Firm, unshaken by caprice or tremors

7. The Chosen One revered it through ancient mention
Not from an eloquent speaker or able author

8. A group upheld it and recited it
Youth amidst transmitter and exegete

9. They transmitted it successively when they related it
Through a chain attributed to Hafs and Warsh

10. Ears recoiled from it in the wings of night
And upon its balanced path they walked