1. بَعَثْتَ نَحْوي زَادَكَ اللهُ مِنْ

    تَيّاركَ العَذْب بدُرّ القَريضْ

    You sent my way—may God grant you more—from

    your sweet torrent, pearls of verse.

  2. سَرَّحْتُ طَرْفي مِنْهُ في جَنَّةٍ

    لَمْ يَحْكِها في الحُسْنِ رَوْقٌ أَريضْ

    I let my gaze roam through a garden within it

    no lovely pavilion could rival in beauty.

  3. نَظَمْتَ ما يَقْصُرُ عَنْ شَأْوِهِ

    مِنْ غَيْرِهِ القَوْلُ الطَّويلُ العَريضْ

    You composed verse beyond the reach

    of other speech, however long and broad.

  4. فَدُمْتَ تُحْيي للعُلَى مَرْبعاً

    فَمرْبَعُ العِلْمِ كَسِيرٌ مَهِيضْ

    So may you ever keep an abode for glory alive,

    for learning’s abode lies broken and shattered.