1. The wise can attain in hardship
What defeats the ignorant in ease

2. And every person is on guard
Whether he hits or misses his goal

3. So thanks to the One who inspired us to thank Him
For what He inspired of thanks from us

4. The door of victory is not closed to one who fears
He called on the Helper of victory for His help

5. From every sea of the oceans of bounty
He drowns in the drop from His sea

6. He sees the tongue of ease in its desolation
Translating from it and in its civilization

7. Its good tidings laugh from its face
And its face laughs from its good tidings

8. The nature of nobility was extracted from his nature
And its sea deduced from his sea

9. As if the prose of pearls or his poetry
Is from his prose in the prose or his poetry

10. Easy when you need its ease
And difficult when you need its difficulty

11. Sweet and bitter, so the life of creation
Is in its sweetness, and death in its bitterness

12. Poetry was gifted to him, excellent
That the poet gift some of his poetry

13. And I chose the finest that could be chosen
Of the pearls of praise and its jewels

14. May He mention him at an appointed time
When occupations distract him from remembering