1. لله منّيَ ثوبٌ

    تَرومُ فيهِ رُقومي

    God be praised—what a garment is mine!

    You seek my embroidered patterns within it.

  2. كأنّما أنا أُفْقٌ

    مُكَلّلٌ بالنّجومِ

    It is as though I were a horizon

    crowned with stars.

  3. وقُضُبُ التّبْرِ تَحْكي

    فيهِ بَقايا الرّجومِ

    And rods of gold resemble

    within it the remnants of shooting stars.

  4. مَنْ هامَ في حُسْنِ وصْفي

    وجْداً فغيْرُ مَلومِ

    Whoever is enamored of the beauty of my description,

    out of passionate longing, is not to blame.

  5. موْلايَ مُبْدِعُ شكْلي

    ومُثْبِتٌ لرُسومي

    My lord is the creator of my form

    and the one who sets my designs in place.

  6. فمُلْكُهُ دامَ مرْقىً

    إلى العُلَى والعُلومِ

    So may his dominion remain a stairway

    to the heights and the sciences.