ما اسمٌ ثلاثي ترى

ما اسمٌ ثلاثي ترى

حلته مفوفه

حلته مفوفه

What three-letter name do you see

What three-letter name do you see

whose raiment is striped?

Whose letters can be rearranged

اعمد إلى تركيبه

اعمد إلى تركيبه

فيه وصحف أحرفه

فيه وصحف أحرفه

Set about rearranging it,

If you rearrange the letters

and change the dots of its letters within it.

You will find the name of one

تجد جنى يبطئ في ال

تجد جنى يبطئ في ال

عود به من قطفه

عود به من قطفه

You will find a fruit, slow to be

Who is slow to return with his harvest

brought back by whoever picked it.

And if you reverse the name

واعكسه إن تركته

واعكسه إن تركته

من بعد أن تحرفه

من بعد أن تحرفه

And reverse it, if you leave it

After rearranging the letters

after altering it.

You will find one whose ways

ترى به ذا طرقٍ

ترى به ذا طرقٍ

بين الورى مختلفه

بين الورى مختلفه

You will see in it one whose ways

Differ from the ways of people

differ among humankind.

Oh son of the one whose excellence

أبنه يا من فضله

أبنه يا من فضله

يعجز من قد وصفه

يعجز من قد وصفه

Reveal it, O you whose excellence

Cannot be described by anyone

baffles whoever has described it.