1. Did not a daring adventurer mislead me
That he was truly in the learned world an adept

2. I implore you, do not doubt that I
Am he who came before while all slay or crawl

3. Do you live forgetting where I stand astray
That I am of the stars of this polar literature

4. Does the cold of night which exposed you
To meteors and shooting stars conceal me from you

5. Far be it that vainglory stretches my reason
Or that fancy tempts me to embrace conceit

6. But I find in Joseph a great example
No sin upon one who in the prophet took comfort

7. I say and truth and honesty said that I
Am a vigilant knowledgeable, no reproach on the sincere

8. If my fervent temper were clad in steel
Flesh and solid rock would be to it equal

9. If fire had some of its wit
And overflowed on it the sea's spleen it would not wane

10. No knowledge was restricted from my domain
Rather my stage in all is fertile and abundant

11. I have no finite pool of which I fear depletion
By spending it no, but it increases and ascends

12. I rose by my soul not by the glory which
From fickle time its bending means ensnared

13. If you wish the chronicles of ages, I
Am the collector of history since hills arose

14. My knowledge travels where roaming I voyaged
And accompanies me where steeds carried me aloft

15. I am the sun in the atmosphere of knowledge radiant
Yet my flaw is my rise is the west

16. If I rose from the orient side
I would find what was lost of my ravaged fame

17. Towards Iraq's edges I have an affection
Small wonder that the barren sands feel lonely

18. If the Merciful descends my trip among them
Then sorrow and dryness will appear

19. How many have I neglected though present
Seeking what of them books may relate

20. There he will know the servant has a tale
And the proximity of knowledge is its detriment

21. What wonder that they yearned when absent
While man is familiarised with his sin's coins

22. You are a place too narrow for me by the constraint
That it is an abyss whose ambition is a mirage

23. If men lost me it is for I was lost
If an era whose fertility I missed was barren