1. The virtues were collected for me after splendor
When you called me towards your bounty, supplicant

2. And I became proud when I crawled, kissing
A foot for it in good - what hearing!

3. I saw him and heard the excellence of his speech
O good looks and pleasant hearing

4. Revived Abu Hayyan, spreader of his good news
And endowed with cordiality and enjoyment

5. So with the love of Sadr al-Din I professed
To God in my slowness and haste

6. He is unique in knowledge, a string that has no
Other, and in benevolence one of intercession

7. With an angelic ambition, an angelic trait
For good in it the incentives

8. And if he stays in a house, it becomes
The shelter of the stranger and the goal of greed

9. And if he travels, wounded, he leaves behind
Light for the walker or food for the hungry

10. And the corners of the earth, from his breaths
A meadow that glows with scent in every region

11. Verily, the imamate in all sciences
Is proven for him by default and consensus

12. Verily, the sciences are gardens except that they
Are moths and you are their first herdsman

13. Kindling if the mind is extinguished
Vigilant, and the thought of glory accustomed to sleeplessness

14. Minds halt in sorrow before what
You grasped, and they quarrel over that

15. Until when you give them what escaped them
They see how the breath in perceptions

16. I did not know, despite my branching knowledge
That skill lies in the prime of youth

17. Until I saw its fingers with its youth
Reveal eloquence, diverse in forms

18. And walk with a soul above the Pleiades in attire
So the sun of the year shows splendor

19. Words of lawful magic, composed
Toying with minds and hearings

20. For you clothed me in the cold of pride, lined
Sana'a became, by it, other than makers

21. So I dragged it vainly as if I were Tubba
In Himyar, possession and obedience

22. You brought me out of concealment as if I were
Dawn appearing or an ember flaming

23. It suffices me glory among people and leadership
That I am among the youths and followers