إِنَّ هَذا الشِعرَ في الشِعرِ مَلَك

سارَ فَهوَ الشَمسُ وَالدُنيا فَلَك

This poetry in poetry a king is

Truly, this poetry among all verse is an angel,

It walked so it's the sun and the world a planet

It journeys forth as the sun, and the world is its orbit.

عَدَلَ الرَحمَنُ فيهِ بَينَنا

فَقَضى بِاللَفظِ لي وَالحَمدِ لَك

The Most Merciful did justice between us in it

The Merciful One has judged fairly between us in it,

So he judged with words for me and praise be to You

Decreeing the wording mine, and the glory yours.

فَإِذا مَرَّ بِأُذني حاسِدٍ

صارَ مِمَّن كانَ حَيّا فَهَلَك

So when it passes the ear of an envier

So when it passes by the ear of the envious,

It becomes of those who were alive and perished

He turns from one who lived to one who has perished.