1. أَقْلامُ أَنْدَلُسٍ وحِمْيَرَ بَعْدَها

    ولِبَرْبَرٍ والقِبْطِ واليُونانِ

    The scripts of al-Andalus, and of Himyar after it,

    And of the Berbers, the Copts, and the Greeks,

  2. ولِهِنْدِها ولِصينِها ولِرُومِها

    ولِفارِسٍ والعُرْبِ والعِبْراني

    And of its India, its China, and its Rum,

    And of Persia, the Arabs, and the Hebrew script,

  3. وكَذلِكَ السِّريانُ صارَ جَمِيعُها

    ثِنْتَيْنِ مَعَ عَشْرٍ بِذَا البُرْهانِ

    And likewise of the Syrians—all of them amount

    To two plus ten, by this proof.