1. Do not belittle the dirham from a generous man
Ask the Western nations, by it they built

2. With their benevolence what they built
Of institutions of righteousness or education

3. Says he who pondered its significance
Is all this good from a dirham?

4. Has it upheld the glorified in everything
That benefits besides the glorified

5. The Nile is but drops pouring
To its valley from the farthest places

6. If they did not flow together, there would be no
Gardens of Egypt, only barren, parched land

7.
Relax your gaze, and marvel at what

8. Results from its measured outflow
O stars that adorned the sky of resolve

9. Blessed are the youths among stars
For them is its radiance, and through them what

10. Radiance diminishes from their burning resolve
You called the people to a purpose

11. They seek from its straightest path
A land through which to revive their crafts

12. As in its ancient days
Prospering through that which makes

13. Pockets abundant and unharmed
So good may be obtained or harms of

14. Straitened misery avoided
If there be no sustenance, no innovation in

15. The peaceful turning criminal
That, by my life, is a worthy aim

16. None beyond it a worthy aim
Through it the dark clouds of the future

17. Are dispelled from a nation
Our need for it today, so who does not

18. Fulfill what it necessitates sins
Come, oh lovers of Egypt, over

19. Your claim for it a compelling proof
Where is the open-handedness you sing of

20. Substantiating it little from mouth’s generosity
Flow with charity that guards it

21. From the adversity of loss
What loss to the generous from his earnings

22. When counting the coin in season?
He gives not by debt but gains for him

23. Multiples of what he gives in profit
We have granted them nobility

24. Generosity unblemished by greed
This without obliging from our advice

25. What does not oblige the advisor
So may the pocket prosper by giving when