يا مَن إِذا عَثَرَ الزَمان أَقالَهُ

عَزماً وَيسبق سيبُهُ الآمالا

O You who when time stumbles sets it upright

With resolve, and whose hopes outpace his arrows

عَمت عَدالتك البَرية كُلَها

وَكَفَيتُها الأَوصاب وَالأَهوالا

Your justice blankets all of creation

And sufficed it straits and tribulations

لَولاكِ يا روح الزَمان وَأَهلُهُ

لَم نَحمد الأَسحار وَالآصالا

Were it not for you, O soul of the age and its folk

We would not praise the dawns and the evenings

لِلّهِ دُرك مِن إِمام قائمِ

بِالقسط يَمحو بِالرَشاد ضَلالا

All praise belongs to God for the Imam who stands

With justice, erasing misguidance with guidance

لَولا غَزارة عِلمِهِ لَم تَسطَع

الشَعراءُ مَدح جَنابِهِ إِجلالا

If not for the copiousness of his knowledge

The poets would not extol his glory with veneration