سلامٌ كأزهار الربيع نضارةً

وحسنا على شيخ الشيوخ الذي صفا

Greetings like spring flowers, fresh

And beauty upon the Shaykh of Shaykhs who is pure

ولو لم يعقني العذر عن قصد ربعه

سعيت كما يسعى الملبي إلى الصفا

And if old age had not prevented me from visiting his abode

I would have hastened like one yearning for purity

ولكن عداني عنه دهر مكدّر

ومن ذا الذي واتاه في دهره الصفا

But a troubled age has kept me from him

And who in his age attained such purity?