1. The rhymes' master has become submissive to you
Through it, excellence's merit is gained and inherited

2. If Al-Mutanabbi witnessed the wisdom
You spoke, he wouldn't doubt you revived it

3. They are the remaining good things, the finest
Poetry, but anything else is worthless

4. It suffices you from it as a miracle, praising one
Whose miracles all prophets inherited

5. It became like Moses' staff, but with which
The sorcery of poetry came together and blew

6. Enough that among the nation of poetry it is a direction
To which old and new poems prayed