1. By your life, no mosque after a mosque
In Mecca is purer, or a place of prayer in Yathrib,

2. In East or West we knew its location,
Inhabited on earth or secluded.

3. With my father, more virtuous than the blessed mosque
In the vast Kufa with heads and curved backs,

4. The mosque where Noah took refuge and built,
With concave chest and prominent breastbone.

5. And by it the oven gushed water, and it was said
“O Noah! Embark on the ship!” Thus he embarked.

6. And the gate of the Commander of the Faithful, by which
The refined Commander of the Faithful passed.