1. The wise forgot wisdom in knowing you,
So it is ugly for the poets to be mentioned.

2. What virtue do they make clear? Does mud have light
When the minds are enlightened with intelligence?

3. You came in poetry with insight into thought and religion,
O all-seeing though blind!

4. You removed blindness with verses of virtue,
To which eloquent speakers submitted obediently.

5. You spread the fragrance of eloquence, but
When it spread, the eloquent were folded away.

6. Wise sayings are the sweet springs flowing freely,
Their flow gentle and lenient.

7. The ears enjoy their sweet articulation relaxed,
Their diffusion enlightens all minds.

8. If one recited them repeating their words,
His soul would not need his limbs.

9. Your virtue that you show is enough as a witness,
While the embellished fabrications turn away from you.

10. I built a thought adorned with rhymes
That opinions never gave birth to the like.

11. Branches follow it, for you from every witty letter,
Delicate leaves.

12. I wore from the beauty of your poetry a necklace
That no maiden wore its like.

13. Where are you, O son of Al-Farooq, compared to him
Who perfected composing it without embellishment?

14. If he saw what you embedded in it, he would become
Him, poetry, and the embellisher united.

15. An ingot you illuminated in the text with
A gem that gives off light in its oven.

16. So it returned in it like Moses’ staff
And your palm, the white hand.