قد نلت يا خير المدارس — أبو المعالي الطالوي

You, O finest of schools, have indeed attained

an honor guarded by felicity as its sentinel.

A light has shone throughout your precincts,

from whose radiance the universe kindles its flame:

through a teacher who, by his arri—

—val, revived your effaced landmarks;

through Muhammad, sun of the scien—

—ces and their moon, pure in his roots;

foremost in reaching the heights of glory,

solver of the perplexities that haunt the mind;

sprung from a Saʿdī tree—

blessed is that tree!—a branch true to its stock.

He studied the sciences, following up

within them on the zealous forebears.

How many, concerning the two Saʿds, he pre—

—sented from his precious investigations!

And regarding al-Sharīf, criti—

—cisms like virgin brides.

Through works like these, and a man like him,

assemblies and councils are ennobled.

A master whose excellence

all acknowledge—not one among the company objects.

Through him, Asma Khan has pri—

—de in both the teacher and the schools.

The Mawlawī rank is a robe of honor,

and upon him it is among the finest garments.

When, as an authoritative expositor, he imparted

knowledge of the sacred laws and ordinances,

and restored therein, from the scien—

—ces of religion, what had grown effaced,

I said: “Exult in his arrival!

By the truth of Him who revives those covered by the grave,

this is the verse that dates his coming:

‘Through him the honor of the schools was filled.’”