1. Your book al-Rashid is a book of truth
It is history returned to reality

2. On its events you shed light
That penetrated its deep abysses

3. By taking accounts from trusted opinions about it
It guided you to its intimate bonds

4. So you were not mistaken in understanding and consideration
Of its noble and precise aims

5. And how much hidden meaning you brought out
With your refined elegant phrasing

6. And how many riddles that refuse solutions
Their solving and inspiration were made clear to you

7. You make it seem by your description of relics that they come alive
And their ancient wonders flare up

8. So they returned as they were formerly
To the wonder and esteem of all creation

9. May God protect those hands that wrote to please
With a free spirit and unfettered hand

10. And literature has accounts to settle
When it connects with sunken lineages