1. If any people could sit above the sun for sheer nobility,

    it would be said, “Sit there, O House of ʿAbbās!”

  2. Then ascend through the sun’s radiance, all of you,

    up to heaven—for you are the noblest of men.

  3. And set the reigning al-Manṣūr, your chief, at your fore—

    for the eye, the nose, and the two ears are in the head.

Sol 5.6