أعلمُ الناسِ بالنجوم بنو نو

أعلمُ الناسِ بالنجوم بنو نو

بَخْتَ علماً لم يأتِهم بالحسابِ

بَخْتَ علماً لم يأتِهم بالحسابِ

Most learned among people in the stars are the sons of Naw-

The people most knowledgeable of the stars are the tribe of Banu Naw

bakht, with knowledge that came to them not through calculation,

They obtained knowledge without calculations

بل بأن شاهدوا السماء سُموّاً

بل بأن شاهدوا السماء سُموّاً

برُقيٍّ في المَكْرُماتِ الصِّعابِ

برُقيٍّ في المَكْرُماتِ الصِّعابِ

but through beholding the sky as they rose aloft,

Rather by witnessing the sublimity of the heavens

by ascending through arduous deeds of nobility.

With ascendance in noble deeds of great difficulty

سَاوروها بكلِّ علياءَ حتى

سَاوروها بكلِّ علياءَ حتى

بَلَغوها مَفْتوحَة الأبوابِ

بَلَغوها مَفْتوحَة الأبوابِ

They scaled it through every lofty excellence, until

They traversed it with utmost aloofness until

they reached it with its gates wide open:

They reached it with open doors

مبلغٌ لم يكن ليَبْلُغَهُ الطا

مبلغٌ لم يكن ليَبْلُغَهُ الطا

لِبُ إلّا بِتلكُمُ الأسبابِ

لِبُ إلّا بِتلكُمُ الأسبابِ

a height that could not be reached by the seek-

A point the seeker could not attain

er except by those means.

Except through those means