قد تم ما حملتني من آلةٍ

قد تم ما حملتني من آلةٍ

أعيا الفلاسفة الجهابذ دوني

أعيا الفلاسفة الجهابذ دوني

The instrument you charged me with is now complete;

The instrument I carried has done its work,

It baffled the master philosophers, but not me.

Exhausting the great philosophers beneath me.

لو كان بطليموس ألهم صنعةً

لو كان بطليموس ألهم صنعةً

لم ليثقل بجداول القانون

لم ليثقل بجداول القانون

Had Ptolemy been inspired with such a craft,

Had Ptolemy gained the knowledge to make it,

He would not have been burdened with the tables of the Canon.

He would not have burdened himself with canons.

فإذا رأته الشمس في آفاقها

فإذا رأته الشمس في آفاقها

بعثت إليه بنورها الموزون

بعثت إليه بنورها الموزون

Then, when the sun sees it within her horizons,

But if the sun sees it in her traversing,

She sends her measured light to it.

She sends it her modulated light.

ومنازل القمر التي حجبت معاً

ومنازل القمر التي حجبت معاً

دون العيون بكل طالع حين

دون العيون بكل طالع حين

And the moon’s mansions, which were veiled together

And the moon's phases, hidden together

From sight at every rising hour,

From eyes each time she rises,

يبدون فيها بالنهار كما بدت

يبدون فيها بالنهار كما بدت

بالليل في ظلماتهن الجون

بالليل في ظلماتهن الجون

Appear in it by day, just as they appeared

Appear in it as they appeared

By night amid their jet-black darkness.

In their dusk when it was night.