عَطفُ الزَّمَانِ عَلَى ظَرفِ المَكَانِ بَدَا

لِلبَعضِ والبَعضُ عَنهُ مَا يُرَى أبَدَا

The kindness of time upon the circumstance of place appeared

To some, while to others it was never seen

فَمَن رَأوهُ رَأَوهُ لاِشتِرَاكِهِما

في الظَّرفِ إِذ زَعَمُوهُ في القُرآنِ بَدَا

Those who saw it, saw it due to their shared existence

In that circumstance, when they claimed it appeared in the Quran

وَأولَّوُا مَن أبَوهُ ذَا وعِندَهُمُ

في الشِّعرِ والذِّكرِ هَذَا لَم يَكُن وَرَدَا

And they blamed those who denied this, yet to them

In poetry and literature this had not occurred or been mentioned

لأنَّ كُلَّ الزَّمَانِ النَّصبُ مُطِّرَدٌ

فِيهِ عَلَى الظَّرفِ والمَكَانِ مَا اطَّرَدَا

For all time, hardship befalls circumstance and place consistently

As it persisted upon them, and the youth came with that

والعَكسُ بِالعَكسِ والصَّبَانُ جَاءَ بِذَا

وَضَّاحُ مَا مِن عَوِيصِ العِلمِ قَد شَرَدَا

Clarifying what had strayed from obscure knowledge