فالعَطْفُ لم يَأْتِ في إضْمارِ تابِعِهِ

ولا يُخالِفُ مَتْبُوعاً لَهَا ذُكِرا

The adjunct does not imply the ellipsis of its correlative,

Nor contradicts what it refers to if mentioned.

ولم تَكُنْ جُمْلَةٌ أَيْضاً وتابِعُها

والفِعْلُ كَلاَ وَلاَ الْمَجْهولُ مِنْ أُخْرَى

It is not a sentence either along with its correlative,

Nor a verb, no way, nor a passive from another.

وَلا تَحُلُّ مَحَلَّ الأَصْلِ قَطُّ وَلاَ

تَأْتِي بِلَفْظٍ لِمَتْبُوعٍ لَهُ زُبِرا

It does not take the place of the original at all,

Nor comes with a term for what it refers to, however noble.

وَعَكْسُها صَحّ في الإبْدالِ مُطَّرِداً

خُذْها ثَمانِيةً تَسْتَيْسِرُ العَسِرَا

But the reverse is valid in substitution, always

Take these eight, you will overcome difficulty.