1. O night, you created the most beautiful adornment
And we were captivated by your flowing prose

2. How many signs are illuminated in her dotting
Your star, though letters do not illuminate

3. If the beloved realized from her dotting
The revealed miracle would not differ

4. Your coolness today that it finds
In your beauty, was not enough for the admirer

5. So you added whatever adornment you wished
That eyes have not lined with kohl like it

6. You have given, however much you have given, its arrangement
Upon the most splendid and beautiful example

7. Upon an example that does not meet with it
Except the felicity of the coming time

8. O people, this adorned dwelling
With the sun meets the moon in its dwelling

9. A plant whose dew and splendor branch arose
Pure of place and carrier

10. Descendant of the great protector
Noble, of the most superior sign

11. The perceptive one whose light
Won with a lantern over the flame

12. Transcending his time is his worth
And his thought beyond his worth transcends

13. She came to my understanding and what a fine lad
To knot the affair and disentangle

14. He whom his determination raises
From a high fortress to a fortress

15. He who wears his manners
Of excellent and skilled making

16. He whose morals are refined
To the point that he had no need for a watering hole

17. From the pillar of the lofty house
That climbs upwards and does not decline

18. A house as guidance desired he built it
Where dew takes refuge in its harbor

19. It congratulates you, my understanding, for pairing with it
Egypt spilled into its ceremony

20. Its Nile humbled by its face
And its past humbled for its future

21. A Pharaoh from his history expires
Signs of an era after him amazing

22. From all that he did not see the like of
In his land, neither ancient nor hoped for

23. So today in your house is Egypt and what
Is Egypt but to adorn both eras?

24. And you rightfully deserve what
You attained of your most perfect glory

25. You, Gerard, for what you obtained
Of abundant, copious prosperity