1. This is a book whose verses are detailed
With pearls that adorned necklaces of jewels

2. Its rhymes surpassed the intervals when they came
With eloquent words embellished with rhetoric

3. Alexander dictated therein wisdoms
That Aristotle did not tire of instilling in Alexander

4. Wisdoms that benefit the people of wisdom in an hour
What their lifelong experiences do not benefit them

5. He gifted the ideas of scholars fragrance
From a garden of thought fruitful with eloquence

6. There appeared to us examples like a bride adorned
With the ink of eloquence under masterful composition

7. Arabic in dress, within its cloak
A virgin of foreign origin in concealment

8. It spoke of the inventor of hadith and was purified
In what it narrated of the stance of the slanderer

9. To its wise originator, for how many appeared from him
Ingenuities of wisdom that cannot be denied

10. What eluded those who came before has arrived
So we say merit belongs to the latecomer