1. Rank honor and honor rank,
High aspirations and lofty aims,

2. Knowledge's discipline and discipline's knowledge,
Profit's gain and gain’s profit,

3. Luck of the unique individual and the individual's luck,
Wisdom of science and science of wisdom,

4. And to follow ignorance is blindness to man,
Soul's bankruptcy and bankruptcy's soul,

5. And knowledge's brother you see honored,
And he is in the gathering, the chief of the gathering,

6. Soul's demise and demise's soul,
Love's hope and hope's love,

7. Origin's nobility and nobility's origin,
Good deed and deed's goodness,

8. Oh Pasha ambitious and emulative,
The paths of good and good paths,

9. Guidance’s knowledge and the most guiding knowledge,
Ray's gleam and gleam's ray,

10. Boasting's affiliation and affiliation's boasting,
Scent of breath and breath's scent,

11. Seeking knowledge in this time,
A duty of the eye and the eye's duty,

12. It almost entered into news of the past,
Spiller of eyelids with spilling eyelids,

13. So I saved it without hesitation,
Deleting the saying of the blaming ignorant,

14. And I made effort in that and what
Hatem Al-Tai did forget,

15. When ignorance whispered to us,
Garment of humiliation and humiliation's garment,

16. To reward good, O you who are in
The deed of individuals, unique in deed,

17. Phrases I said but did not extend,
Where publishing gathered the length of pages

18. As it gathered, so it verified my like,
Oyster’s pearl and pearl’s oyster,

19. Sea's sand and sand's sea,
A smile adorned her, if it smiled,

20. The mouth’s dimple and dimple's mouth,
Her words negated spell of slumber,

21. Drowsiness’ sleepiness and sleepiness’ drowsiness.