1. This magic is what I see
Or are those dreams of delusion

2. Rather, they are ideas of intimacy
That came with wonder of wonders

3. The globe has shrunk
Into itself it curled

4. And in its folds it nested
So East is neighbor of West

5. O what an orator who has fallen silent
His pulpit so whoever

6. Wants him, upon it let
Him request him to preach

7. He knows the language of speech
And he is no son of Adam

8. He is the tongue of the world
Of foreigner and Arab

9. If you rub his ear
He turns his eyelid

10. Then he resumes his tune
Like a schoolchild's condition

11. He narrates about the key
With utmost creativity

12. What pleased the ears
From everything wondrous

13. So every event that occurred
Of what you see or don't see

14. Right then he informs
With truth or lies

15. And how he sang with melody
That dispels all gloom

16. That cures deafness' illness
From the ear of those not thrilled

17. His field is vast space
And his pace is lightning speed

18. And he is like fate
In his course, unhindered

19. And how much wisdom he provided
And how many tales of nations

20. And how, how much and how much
Of literature's miracles

21. He is a wise literatus
So gently he whispers

22. If from him you seek
And he has the voice of wrath

23. His messenger is ether
By fancy he saunters

24. As if he is preordained
Busy with disappearance

25. What speed of lightning
What is lightning in the sky

26. What a glimmer of the seer's eye
Before it, if it rides

27. If I had any power
In my prime and morn

28. A hundred thousand times
I'd rub the ear of the cone

29. He ends isolation, no
Boredom with him feared

30. If with you he is, then boredom
From you, far removed

31. He recorded what recorded
Branly then in a hurry

32. So mention of him prominently
On the tongue of eras

33. With it those boast
And best what hoarded

34. For pride when mentioned
Is knowledge, so knowledge seek

35. With knowledge nations rose
And in the sky they coveted

36. And saddled and bridled
The steed of desire in the clouds

37. With knowledge they sailed the seas
And used steam with it

38. And electricity in its borrowings
Pierces veils' mysteries

39. So from its spring draw
And from its branches pluck

40. Especially you who are in
The era of our father

41. Mohammed bin Yousef
Scion of the house of glory

42. Lord of keen swords
Best of Arab kings