1. بُوركت غرفةٌ وبوركَ مَنْ قَا

    مَ بها في البِنَا وَمَنْ قد بنَاهَا

    Blessed be a chamber, and blessed be whoever

    undertook its construction, and whoever built it.

  2. غُرفةٌ لا ترى مثالا لها في الأرض

    قطعاً سبحانَ مَنْ سَوَّاهَا

    A chamber whose like you will not see on earth,

    assuredly—glory be to Him who fashioned it!

  3. فهي تجرى الأنهارُ من تحتها

    والمسك والندُّ فاحَ مِنْ أَعلاهَا

    For rivers flow beneath it,

    and musk and incense spread their fragrance from its heights.

  4. فكأنَّ البانينَ قدْ نقلوهَا

    مِنْ جنانِ الفردوسِ أو من سمَّاها

    It is as though the builders had transported it

    from the gardens of Paradise, or from its heaven.

  5. إن عرَتْني الأحزان أو ضقتْ ذرعاً

    من أمورٍ تَزولُ حينَ أَرَاها

    If sorrows assail me, or I feel overwhelmed

    by troubles, they vanish when I see it.

  6. فتناهتْ حُسناً وفاقتْ وراقَت

    واستنارتْ كالشمسِ عند ضُحَاها

    So it attained the utmost beauty, surpassed all, and charmed,

    and shone like the sun in its morning brightness.

  7. فكأني الوالي على بنُ مسعودٍ

    بِحسنى أخْلاقهِ أَعْدَاهَا

    It seems to me the governor, Ali ibn Masʿud,

    has imbued it with the beauty of his character.

  8. وبناها محمدٌ وعليٌّ

    وبشيرٌ تَشَارَكُوا في بِنَاهَا

    And Muhammad and Ali built it,

    and Bashir; they shared in its construction.

  9. عام سبعِ والألفُ مع مائةٍ

    تمتْ حساباً والخير في عُقْبَاهَا

    In the year one thousand one hundred and seven,

    it was completed, by reckoning; may goodness follow it.

  10. في زمانِ الإمام سيف بن سلطا

    ن سيف مُعْطِى القلوب مُنَاهَا

    In the time of Imam Sayf ibn

    Sultan—Sayf, who grants hearts their desires.

  11. يعربيٌّ فَطن أبيٌّ وفىٌّ

    فهُو شمسُ الدنيا ونورُ سَنَاهَا

    A Yaʿrubi: discerning, proud, and loyal,

    for he is the world's sun and the light of its radiance.