الصادِقية حسنها بهر الوَرى

فَأجَل لحاظكَ مُعجبا وَمُفكِّرا

Truthfulness, its beauty dazzled the roses

So your glance is admired and pensive

وَاِنظر إِلى هِمَم المُلوك وَفَضلَها

كَم قَد أَفاضَت مِن سَماحٍ قَد جَرى

And look at the ambitions of kings and their virtues

How much they have poured from generosity that flowed

وَتَرَوِّ في قانونه وَفُصُوله

تُلفيه قَد أَهدى النضارَ لِمَن قَرا

And browse in its constitution and chapters

It presents the freshness for those who read

لِلَّهِ مُنشيها وَناظِمُ عقدِها

دُرّا نَفيساً في الرِقاب وَجَوهَرا

For God its editor and compiler of its nodes

A precious pearl in necks and essence

أَشهى إِلى الأَسماعِ مِن نَيل المُنى

وَأَحَب لِلأَجفان مِن سنَة الكَرى

More pleasant to hearing than attaining wishes

And more beloved to eyelids than the sleep of intoxication

يَدعو إِلىَ ما لا حَياةَ بِدونه

فالعِلمُ داعيَةُ البَقاء لِمَن دَرى

It calls to what there is no life without

So knowledge is the advocate of permanence for those who knew

هَل يَستَوي مَن يَعلَمونَ وَغَيرُهُم

شَتّانَ ما بَينَ الثَرَيّا وَالثَرى

Are those who know equal to those who do not?

Far apart is what is between fertile land and barren soil

هُبّوا بَني الخَضراء واِنتَبِهو إِلىَ

ما هوَ في الدارَين أَربَحُ مَتجَرا

Come on young greens and pay attention to

What is most profitable trade in the two abodes

وَخُذوا المَعارِفَ وَالعُلومَ بِقوَةٍ

تُنسيكُم بُقراط وَالإِسكنَدَرا

And take knowledge and science strongly

It makes you forget Hippocrates and Alexander

وَتَسابَقوا لِفَضيلَةٍ جاءَتكُمُ

حاشاكُمُ أَن تَنبُذوها بالعرا

And compete for a virtue that has come to you

Far it is from you to discard it disgracefully

أَغنَت عَلى خَوض البِحار وَغُربَة

وَمَشَقَّة تَذَرُ الفَتى مُتَحَيِّراً

It sufficed you having to traverse the seas and estrangement

And hardship that leaves the young man perplexed

فُزتُم بِنَيل القَصد في أَوطانَكُم

فَمَن الَّذي مِن بَعد ذا أَن يُعذَرا

You have succeeded in achieving the goal in your homelands

So who after that can be excused?

هَل غَيرَةٌ وَحَميَّةٌ لِبلادكُم

فالجارُ أَصبَحَ عالِماً مُتَحَضِّراً

Is it jealousy and zeal for your countries?

So the neighbor has become a civilized scholar

ذا هِمَّةٍ عُليا فَلَسنا دونَهُ

بَل جَدّ في التَحصيل حَتّى أَبصَرا

With high ambition, so we are not less than him

But strive in gaining knowledge until you see

هَل هَزَّةٌ مِن عالِمٍ فَيَبُثّ ما

يُغني وَيُقني صابِراً وَمُكَررا

Is there a shake from a scholar who explains what

Suffices, convinces, patiently and repeatedly?

وَليُخلِصِ الكُلّ الدعاءَ لِسَيِّد

غَرَسَ العُلا وَسَقاهُ حَتّى أَثمَرا

And may everyone pray sincerely for the Master

Who planted knowledge and irrigated it until it bore fruit

الصادِقُ الباش المُشير مُحَمَّد

مَن فَخرِهِ في العالَمينَ تَقَرّرا

The truthful counselor Muhammad

Whose pride in both worlds became affirmed

لا زالَ في حَرزِ الإِلَه وَعِزّهِ

وَوَزيره مَن قَد أَعانَ وَدَبَّرا

He still remains in God’s protection and glory

And his minister who helped and planned

ما قالَ ذو التاريخ قاصِدَ مَنهَجٍ

الصادِقيةُ حُسنُها بَهَرَ الوَرى

Not what the historian said with pure intention

Truthfulness, its beauty dazzled the roses