تمتَّع إن رأيتَ بِمِصر ثدياً

إذا ما استُرضِعَت درَّت برِيِّ

Enjoy, if you see Egypt has a breast

Whenever it is suckled, it drips with pure milk

لها لَبنٌ ينسي الطِّفلَ مِنكُم

إذا ما امتصَّها لَبنَ الثُّديِّ

It has milk that makes any child amongst you forgetful

Whenever he sucks the milk of that breast

مقالمُ نَسخِكَ العِلم اللَّواتي

تُغشَّى بالأدِيمِ الآدَمِيِّ

Your compiled book is a copy of my knowledge

Which is covered with the human leather

ولا تَختصَّ فَحلاً دُونَ فَحلٍ

وصيَّةَ جاهِلٍ بهمُ غَبِيِّ

Do not give preference to some men over others

Or the advice of an ignorant fool

وقارِب في العُلوم وكُن تَقيّاً

وإلا لِم دُعيتَ أبا التَّقِيِّ

Be close in knowledge and pious

Otherwise why are you called the pious father

ولا تُظهِر لِمن تَلقى وَلاءً

فعِندَهُمُ عَلاماتُ الوَليِّ

Do not show loyalty to those

Who have the signs of loyalty amongst them

أمالَكَ في استِكَ الوَجعاءِ شُغلٌ

لَحاكَ اللَّهُ عَن آلِ النَّبيِّ

Are you busy with the ill folk of your family

May Allah distract you from the family of the Prophet