1. الصَدْرُ الأعْظَمُ مقصِدُ المُتَوَسِّلِ

    وَهُوَ المُؤَمَّل في القضاء المُنْزَل

    The Grand Vizier is the supplicant’s destination,

    and he is the one looked to concerning the decree handed down.

  2. ولذاك من أقصى البلاد أَتَيْتُه

    للفوز منه بِبُرْءِ داءٍ مُعْضِل

    And so I came to him from the farthest lands,

    to obtain from him a cure for an intractable ailment.

  3. يا مَلْجَأَ الصُّلحاء والعلماء وال

    وزرا ومَنْ في النّاس ذو قَدرٍ عَلِيّ

    O refuge of the righteous, the scholars, and the

    ministers, and all among the people of lofty standing!

  4. كالندِّ أو كالعطر أو كالمسك ما

    يحويه عِرْضُكَ من ثناءٍ أجمل

    Like fragrant incense, or perfume, or musk is what

    your good name holds of the fairest praise,

  5. فيما حباك اللّه من خُلُقٍ سرى

    كالرَّاح في الأرواح لا في المفصل

    for the character God bestowed upon you, which coursed

    like wine through souls, not through the joints.

  6. وحباك من خَلْقٍ كأنّ الشمسَ في

    شَرَفٍ تُرَى في وجهك المتهلّل

    And He bestowed upon you a form, as though the sun in

    its exaltation were seen in your radiant face.

  7. اشْفَعْ لنا فيما دهى تِرْشِيشَ مِنْ

    إلزامها غُرْمَ الخراج المُثْقَل

    Intercede for us over what has befallen Tirshish through

    its being compelled to pay the burdensome land tax.

  8. الفقرُ يمنعها وما تخشاه من

    شرّ الحوادث في الزّمان المقبِل

    Poverty holds it back, as does its fear of

    the harm of calamities in the time to come.

  9. أرجو لك البشرى بِنَيْلِ شفاعةٍ

    تأتيكَ من عند الرسول الأفضل

    I hope for you glad tidings of receiving intercession

    that comes to you from the most excellent Messenger.

  10. دَامَتْ عُلاَكَ لمن أحبّك جَنّةً

    بنعيمها قلبُ الحواسدِ يَصْطَلِي

    May your eminence remain a paradise for whoever loves you,

    by whose bliss the heart of the envious burns.