تَأَمَّل سَماءً أَظلّت عَلَي

كَ فيها مَصابيحُها تَزهر

Gaze upon a sky that has shaded me

In it are lamps blossoming

وَأَرض نُقابِلُها بِالعَرو

سِ وَالبُرج شَمسُها جَعفَر

And an earth we face with pyramids

Its sun is the star Ja'far

وَمَسحَبُ نورٍ غداة الرَّبي

عِ أَنفاسُه المسك وَالعَنبَر

And a draft of light the morning after rain

Its breaths are musk and ambergris

خِلالَ شَقائِقِه أَصفَرٌ

وَأَضعاف أَصفرِه أَحمَر

Among its anemones yellow

And multiples of its yellow redder

وَلِلماءِ مُطَّرَدٌ بينه

يَضيقُ بِآذيِّه المَصدَر

And for the water a constant flow between them

Narrowed by its injury the source

وَلِلناطِقاتِ بِأَكنافِه

دَواعي اِشتِياق وَمُستَعبَر

And for the eloquent ones at its edges

Yearnings of longing and expressed

يُساوِقه البَرّ من جانِب

وَمن جانِب بَحره الأَخضَر

The land accompanies it from one side

And from one side its green sea

مَجال وحوش وَمرقى أَنيس

فَيا عُرفَ لهو وَيا مَنظَر

An open space of beasts and a watering place of companions

So excellent an orchard and what a scene

وَيا حُسن دُنيا وَيا عِزَّ مُلك

يسوسهم السائِس الأَكبَر

And oh beauty of the world and oh pride of kingdom

Ruled by the Greatest Ruler

إِمام بِه أَمَرَ الآمرو

نَ بِالعُرفِ وَاِستُنكِر المُنكَر

With Him the order of the Commanders

With propriety and the prohibition of wrong