أَيا مَنْعِماً شُكْرِي لَهُ الواجِبُ الأَوْلَى

أَيا مَنْعِماً شُكْرِي لَهُ الواجِبُ الأَوْلَى

وَيا مُخْلِصاً لِلهِ فِي السِّرِّ وَالنَّجْوَى

وَيا مُخْلِصاً لِلهِ فِي السِّرِّ وَالنَّجْوَى

O benefactor, to whom my thanks are the most fitting duty,

O benefactor, my gratitude to you comes first

And O you sincerely devoted to God in secret and whispered converse,

And O loyal devotee of God in secret and in public

خَرَجْتَ لِتَرتِيبِ البِناءِ فَلَو رَأَى

خَرَجْتَ لِتَرتِيبِ البِناءِ فَلَو رَأَى

سُلَيمانُ ما شَيَّدْتَهُ قالَ لا أَقْوَى

سُلَيمانُ ما شَيَّدْتَهُ قالَ لا أَقْوَى

You went out to organize the construction; had he seen it,

You went out to build and arrange, if Solomon had seen

Solomon would have said of what you built, 'I cannot match it.'

What you constructed, he would have said “Nothing is stronger”

فَكَمْ بُنِيَتْ مِن قَبْلِها مِنْ مَدارِسٍ

فَكَمْ بُنِيَتْ مِن قَبْلِها مِنْ مَدارِسٍ

وَلَكِنَّهُمْ مَا أَسَّسوهَا عَلى التَّقْوَى

وَلَكِنَّهُمْ مَا أَسَّسوهَا عَلى التَّقْوَى

For many schools were built before it,

For how many schools were built before it

But they did not found them upon piety.

Yet they did not base them on piety and righteousness