انشا العليّ بفضله دار العلى

وبمجده وبنصره حلّاها

The Most High, in His grace, built the abode of loftiness,

and with His glory and His victory adorned it.

لا غرو ان هي جنة المأوى التي

بعلي أسعدها العلي هناها

No wonder if it is the Garden of Refuge, which

the Most High, through ʿAlī, made fortunate and blessed.

وببابها بسمت معالم جوده

كرما وحازت بالبها مرقاها

At its gate, the tokens of his generosity smiled,

munificently; through splendor it attained its stairway.

هيّ ادخلوا لادار المقدسة التي

خير الورى اضحت وما سواها

Come, enter the sacred abode, which

became the home of the best of creation, and of none besides.

لا زالت العلياء تخدمها ولا

زال السرور يسير في حجراها

May exalted glory never cease to serve it, nor

may joy cease to walk through its chambers.

وبدا بمشرق سعدها التاريخ في

بيتين من شعر حلا مسراها

From the rising-place of its fortune, the date appeared in

two verses of poetry, sweet in their night-course.

في كل شطر منهما تاريخها

وبمعجم وبمهمل يتباهى

In every hemistich of the two lies its date,

and it boasts in letters dotted and undotted.

ثانيهما بالعزّ وافى ناطقا

شرفا لها ان العلي انشاها

The second of them came in glory, proclaiming:

“What an honor for it that the Most High built it.”

دار الهنا من عزها راسا سمت

فرجاً رقت أفلح من زكاها

An abode of bliss—from its glory it rose, head held high;

then, in hope, it ascended—fortunate is whoever made it flourish.

سم عصر الف ومائتين وسابع

عشرين في فرج الندى مبناها

Mark its era: one thousand, two hundred, and seven—

and twenty; its building is dated by “Faraj al-Nadā”—“the opening of bounty.”