1. This is the mirror that reveals to whom
It is sold for the soul not for the price

2. A work of a hand that strings pearls
It presented goodness to the people of the homeland

3. Made by one with merit in Beirut not
Made in Sanaa the land of Yemen

4. From the family of Adnan in her origins
It boasts impressively over one from Yazan

5. Our writer Al-Qasim who was generous when
He excelled in stringing gems and who

6. What a mirror of pure beauty
Its water for the people of wisdom

7. Those eloquent in it shun
With thought the delicious intimacy

8. So look at the beauty of the soul in it and if
You ignite then in yourself lies that flaw

9. No fault in the mirror if he blamed it
The ugly of image manifest stupidity

10. It is like the purity of water in subtlety if
To the feral it imagined a fright

11. It meets ugliness with its image
And beauty it recorded with a like beauty