1. غيري إلى العين يصبو قلبه ولَها

    وعن مثال المعاني قد نبا وَلَها

    Another's heart yearns, lovesick, for the wide-eyed maidens,

    And has turned from the embodiment of noble qualities and dallied.

  2. لي همةٌ إن أثار العزم طائرها

    لنيل مكرمةٍ في النجم طار لَها

    I have an ambition: if resolve rouses its bird,

    To win a noble distinction among the stars, it flies toward it.

  3. ولي جنان يقدّ الصخر مرهفه

    كسيف سلمان في الهيجاء سُلّ لها

    And I have a heart whose keen blade cleaves rock,

    Like Salman's sword, unsheathed for battle in the fray.

  4. سَل الكرام الألى فاقوا مناوئهم

    حزماً وعزماً وجوداً كاملاً ونُهى

    Ask the noble men who surpassed their opponents

    In prudence, resolve, perfect generosity, and wisdom.

  5. حاز المكارم من قبل الفطام ومن

    بعد الترعرع بالأفضال كلّمها

    He attained noble virtues before weaning, and

    After growing up, he addressed them through generous deeds.

  6. أخو ذكاء يكاد الشيخ يغبطه

    فيه إذا مشكلات حلّ مُقفَلها

    A man of intelligence whom the elder almost envies

    For it, when he unlocks difficult problems.

  7. وفطنةٍ نفذت في كل مجملةٍ

    لحَبر فاراب قد يعزى مفصَّلها

    And possessed of insight that has penetrated every briefly stated matter,

    Whose detailed exposition may be ascribed to the scholar of Farab.

  8. ما زال يمتار جلّ المكرمات إلى

    أن حاز أفضلها فاختار أكملها

    He kept gathering the greater part of noble virtues as provisions, until

    He attained the best of them, then chose the most perfect of them.

  9. رئاستان به قِدماً تقارنتا

    شجاعةٌ وعلومٌ فكَّ معضَلَها

    Two forms of preeminence have long been united in him:

    Courage, and sciences whose difficulties he has unraveled.

  10. كالبدر طلعته يوم العطاء لذا

    دارت بها هالة زاد السرور بها

    His countenance is like the full moon on the day of giving; thus

    A halo encircles it, and joy increases through it.

  11. فإن أنار محيّاه لمسألة

    حار المشبّه في تشبيهه وسها

    So if his face lights up in response to a request,

    The maker of similes is baffled in likening him, and errs.

  12. فأصدقُ القول فيه إذ نؤرخه

    فجر تقنّع بالديجور جاد بها

    So the truest words about him, as we record his date, are:

    A dawn veiled in pitch-darkness, granting it generously.