1. O you who instill morals
In a land devoid of morals

2. None among us can rival you
Or compete with your stature

3. Yesterday you taught us
The ethics of writing and discourse

4. And today you delighted us
With the finest fruits

5. With Rustalis’s book you strove
In the wonders of astronomy

6. Struggling to prefer it
Joining your night with day

7. You weigh words as if they were
Jewels on a merchant’s scale

8. And guard the meaning of your Lord
Like pearls guarded in seashells

9. You hoard the words of poetry
As a farmer hoards fresh crops

10. I thought you were, in gracefulness
And trials and choices

11. A creation depicting
Pharaohs' images on temples

12. Reading his book, I felt
Reverence and learned

13. The translator stood by
The author's side, in a frame

14. A light radiating from them
Of awe and dignity

15. They said he abandoned
Politics and sought seclusion

16. Left the arena for others
And found safety in fleeing

17. Do not wrong the advocate
Of morals, beware of errors

18. He shunned politics for politics
Not for sleep or rest

19. Had they known the one
Behind the veil, they would have sought

20. The protector of nobleness
Truth and principles

21. Who provides pillars of
Morals, wisdom and discipline

22. The foundation of politics and success
The fortress of the sovereign sea

23. Entrusted with them, he held on
Before the cavalry and guards

24. O lover of honest morals
And hater of sinful morals

25. I have tested you, truly
In isolation and youth

26. No vulgarity or flattery
Occurred in your company

27. Sweet humility, and being humble
Is the mark of good people

28. Bitter arrogance when
Humility invites you to the poor

29. Walk your path calling
For you are protected from stumbling

30. And make lanterns on the trail
Appearing to every walker

31. We seek, wise one, books on
Politics, hasten before corruption

32. And before the spread of ruin
We struggle against a nation

33. Whose leaders are ferocious lions
They battled time and its people

34. And fortified themselves from all sides
Their politics have become like poison

35. Confusing every settler
If they deny some injustice

36. Against a man of prestige
It's because they forgot

37. The translator is in captivity
Ahmad did not know to quote

38. Verses of Qais or Nizar
He who excels in the syntax

39. Of eloquence and mastery
The language of science is facts

40. Far from our ornaments
It rejects exaggeration

41. And sees extravagance as a defect
Quoting without faithfulness

42. Is the hallmark of failure