1. In the garden of this poetry my sight strolled,
And my sorrowful heart roamed in it.

2. I found it a grove of overflowing virtue,
Wherein the nightingales of knowledge sing the best songs.

3. I let my mind wander through its meanings,
Then it bent over its weakness like a determined sword.

4. My thoughts were confused in it, as for its taste,
It is sweet Euphrates, delicious to learn.

5. As for its meanings, they are excellent,
Appearing to distinguish or swear an oath.

6. To spend one's life on the likes of it,
Is nothing but a string of organized pearls.

7. Take it if you seek a sealed treasure,
For not every treasure is protected like it.

8. And protect what its author has produced,
The new moons of time meet the excellence of the early.

9. Ask the jurists about it if you want its superiority,
For every ignorant person is blind to its beauties.

10. Take from the sea a pearl if you seek its jewels,
And judge by merit or juristic rulings as you wish.

11. It was copied on the tenth of Jamada al-awwal,
In a year whose date has sealed glory.

12. By God, how excellent its prosody and composition,
And rulings without stuttering.

13. My God, pardon its author and be
For him a refuge from hellfire.

14. And let him settle in Gardens of Eden generously,
For You are the Most Generous.

15. And bless the Chosen One, by whom You ennobled
The truces of Badr, Hudaybiyyah and Zamzam.