ما اسمٌ له رأس يُرى في السما

ورجلُه ساخت بأقصى البلاد

What name has a head seen in the sky

And its leg built in the farthest lands

أضحت كنِصف بيضة جوِّفت

تذكر في آخر هود وعاد

It became like half an empty egg

Reminding of the end of Hood and Aad

وإن ترُم ثانيَه فهو في

رأس الحِجى المطلوب والمستفاد

And if you hints its second, it is in

The head of the desired and beneficial pilgrimage

تصحيفه جاء بنظمي وقد

بيّنتُه لكل قاصٍ وباد

Its misspelling came in my prose and I

Clarified it for every storyteller and preacher

وإن ترُم ثالثَه تلفَه

أوائل المستمطرات العهاد

And if you hints its third, its beginnings

Cover the first rains of clouds

وطرده كعكسه دائماً

تشويشه بحر كبرك الغماد

And its expulsion is like its reflection, always

Its disturbance is the sea of great terror

وإن ترم رابعه فهو قد

بدا لرائيه باقصى النجاد

And if you hints its fourth, it has

Appeared to its seers in the farthest plateau

لولاه ما تمَّت لنا بلدة

لا سيما بغداد دون البلاد

Without it, our country would not be complete

Especially Baghdad among the countries

مشوش المجموع مثنٍ على

أهل الثنا مثلي بغير انتقاد

Its scrambled total is a praise of

The people of duality like me without criticism

ورجله إذا أبينَت محا

بقلبه اليقظان أهل العناد

And its leg, when you clarify

With its vigilant heart the people of stubbornness

وإن ترُم رُبعَيه دم قالباً

لنصفه تظفر بعين الرشاد

And if you hints its two quarters, a mold of blood

For its half, you will attain the eye of guidance

فاشرح لي الملغز لا زلت في

رتبة فضلٍ دائمٍ في المهاد

So explain the riddle to me while I am

In a position of continual virtue in the cradle