1. وفقت زادك رب العرش توفيقا

    يبقى عليك وإيمانا وتصديقا

    May you be granted success; may the Lord of the Throne grant you greater success,

    that endures for you, together with faith and conviction.

  2. وافي جوابك مطويا على كلم

    جعلت فيها طريق الرشد مطروقا

    Your reply arrived, enfolding words

    in which you made the path of right guidance well-trodden.

  3. سررتني حين أرضيت الإِله بها

    فما تبالي إذا أسخطت زنديقا

    You delighted me when you pleased God through them;

    so you need not care if you anger a heretic.

  4. إن الفراسة فيك اليوم قد صدقت

    وكان حبك للإسلام تصديقا

    Indeed, the insight concerning you has proved true today,

    and your love for Islam confirmed it.

  5. فانظر لنفسك واعمل في مصالحها

    قد صرت من شققات الملك مرموقا

    So look to yourself and work for your welfare;

    you have now become esteemed through the king's [favors?].

  6. فكن له ناصحا نصحا يبين به

    عليك أن لا تحابي فيه مخلوقا

    So be his sincere adviser, with counsel that makes it clear

    that you show no favoritism to any mortal in it.

  7. فانه لاك أبقى من سواه فخذ

    مشورتي واسترد في النصح تصديقا

    For it endures longer for you than anything else; so take

    my advice, and regain credence through sincere counsel.

  8. قد كنت بالأمس طفلا بالمقام ترى

    وكان غيرك مشهوراً ومرموقا

    Only yesterday you were seen as a child in that place,

    while someone else was famous and held in esteem,

  9. حتى جرت وقعة عظمى بباغتة

    وكان فارسها المشهور برقوقا

    until a great battle took place at Baghita [reading uncertain],

    and its renowned horseman was Barquq.

  10. وقالت الناس برقوق كفى بهم

    ومزق الخيل والفرسان تمزيقا

    The people said, 'Barquq was enough to face them,

    and tore horses and horsemen utterly apart.'

  11. فقلت للناس إني لست أعرفه

    وهم يزيدون ظني فيه تحقيقا

    So I told the people, 'I do not know him,'

    while they made my belief about him ever more certain.

  12. واجهته وإذا بالطفل ليث شرى

    بالسيف يوسع رأ س القرن تغليقا

    I met him face to face—and the child was a lion of Shara,

    lavishing sword-blows that [split?] his opponent's head.

  13. فقلت أنت إذَن برقوق قال نعم

    فقلت هنيت مصبوحا ومغبوقا

    I said, 'Then you are Barquq?' He said, 'Yes.'

    So I said, 'May you enjoy your morning and evening draughts!'

  14. أحب كل شجاع في الأنام ولا

    كمثل حبي هذا اليوم برقوقا

    I love every brave man among humankind, but none

    as I love Barquq this day.