أُفاضِلُ الدنيا وَان بَرَّزوا

لَم يَبلُغوا غايَةَ اِستاذِها

However excellent the lands though they seem

None have attained their teacher's glory supreme

أَما تَرى أَمصارَ جمَّةً

وَلا تَرى مِصراً كَبَغدادِها

Have you not seen the teeming towns and cities?

Yet nowhere exists a Baghdad such as this