1. Cups of flowers arranged
Or chuckles of honored Arabs

2. Or a garden breathed on
By the north wind on its bendings

3. Or well-ordered pearls of poetry
Whose regex its composer made Muslim

4. Poetry that would please singers
Whose themes from it are arranged

5. Blessings on he who arranges poetry
Nicely and blessings on its arranger

6. And compositions in the shining stars
The flowers of eternal time are arranged

7. If the frail dead spoke
His secrets aloud he would speak

8. And with eloquence that if Pythons
Heard they would bow to it and submit

9. Where is the son of Aws and Al-Farazdaq
And Al-Muhalhil or the completer

10. O you whose marks the creation
Marks of his family perceive

11. I have sipped from your neighbor when
Every near one was unquenchably thirsty

12. So judge whom you wish to judge
For you are worthy to judge

13. For you are from a people with whom
The Lord of the Most High begins and ends

14. If not for their existence the existence
Would not stand nor be set up

15. Through them the supplication of Adam
Was answered and the names were taught

16. And their light the angels bowed down
When it shone not to Adam

17. If not for them Noah would not
Have been saved in his ark and spared

18. And by them the horses were turned
To cold when the fire was kindled

19. And by their secret Moses the Interlocutor
To his Lord on the Mount spoke

20. And through them the dead was revived
Jesus son of Mary invoking

21. And Jacob attained his wish
And was relieved of care and sorrow

22. And through them Jonah transgressed
When he glorified the Merciful in the sea

23. Brilliant moons whose
Rising in the horizon of faith stars were lit

24. Like the sincere deed which in
Virtue he specially favored and with dew watered

25. A lion whose frown
Would make the lions of evil smile

26. And the glorious who aspires
To his most high sovereignty the magnificent king

27. He surpassed men so one who lags
Behind his sublime is like one preceding

28. He never refused throughout time
Except by his refusal he would be generous

29. To him John the reserved aspires
And the youth Zayd son of Arqam

30. I have subjugated other snouts than yours
They were not like yours subjugated

31. In the harmony of a necklace of gems
Its date the harmonious arranger