أظُنُّ اعْتقاد النَّسْخ صحَّ دليلُهُ

أظُنُّ اعْتقاد النَّسْخ صحَّ دليلُهُ

فعادَ إلى ترتيب أوْصافهِ الدَّهْرُ

فعادَ إلى ترتيب أوْصافهِ الدَّهْرُ

I think belief in reincarnation has sound proof;

I believe the doctrine of incarnation is sound, its proof returned

For Time has returned to the old pattern of its ways:

So time came back to the order of its attributes.

عزيزٌ يميرُ المُعْتفينَ وسَبْعَةٌ

عزيزٌ يميرُ المُعْتفينَ وسَبْعَةٌ

شِدادٌ وجَيٌّ في مساغبها مِصْرُ

شِدادٌ وجَيٌّ في مساغبها مِصْرُ

An Aziz supplies food to those seeking aid, and seven

Mighty, causing those who confess to waver, severe,

Harsh years—and Jayy, amid their famines, is Egypt.

Unyielding in its oppositions, Egypt.