1. في مهبَطِ الوَحْي تعلو مرتَقى الأملِ

    فافسَحْ رجاءَك واطلُبْ فُسحةَ الأجَلِ

    At revelation’s place of descent, you scale the heights of hope.

    So broaden your hope, and seek a longer span of life.

  2. لا تنتجِعْ للأماني بعدَهُ دُوَلاً

    فقد تأمّلْتَ منه راهِبَ الدّوَلِ

    Seek no dynasties beyond him to fulfill your wishes,

    For in him you have beheld the ascetic of dynasties.

  3. وانظُرْ الى صفوةِ الخَلْقِ التي ظَهَرَتْ

    للناس آياتُه عن صفوةِ الرُسُلِ

    And look upon the choicest of creation, whose signs appeared

    To mankind from the choicest of messengers—

  4. الى الإمام الذي أبدت أسرّتُه

    سيما الأئمّةِ من آبائِهِ الأوَلِ

    Upon the Imam, whose brow’s lines have revealed

    The mark of the Imams among his forefathers of old.

  5. لو قامَ ينطحُ ذو القرنينِ صخرتَهُ

    لعادَ واهي قرونِ الرّأسِ كالوعَلِ

    Were Dhu al-Qarnayn to rise and butt his rock,

    He would return like an ibex, the horns of his head weakened.