سافر تنل رتب المفاخر والعلا

كالدر سار فصار في التيجان

Travel, you will gain ranks of glory and supremacy,

Like a pearl you journeyed and so became a crown jewel,

وكذا هلال الأفق لو ترك السرى

ما فارقته معرةُ النقصان

And likewise the crescent moon, had it abandoned its course,

The stigma of waning would not have forsaken it.