1. الشِّعْرُ فَيْضُ خَيالٍ فيهِ عاطِفةٌ

    يُمْلِيهِ شَجْوٌ وأفراحٌ، وأَحزانُ

    Poetry is an outpouring of imagination with emotion within it,

    Dictated by grief, joys, and sorrows.

  2. والشِّعْرُ مَعْنًى، وإبداعٌ، وقافِيَةٌ

    ووَثْبَةُ اللُّغَةِ الفُصْحى وأوزانُ

    And poetry is meaning, creativity, and rhyme,

    And a leap of eloquent Arabic, and meters.

  3. وما سِواهُ فُحُولُ الشِّعرِ تُنْكِرُهُ

    ويَتَّقِي شَرَّهُ الإنسانُ والجانُ

    And all else the masters of poetry reject,

    And humankind and jinn guard against its evil.