1. درُ علمٍ يلوح في فلكِ الفضْ

    لِ عليه من المفاخرِ هالَهْ

    A pearl of learning shines in the sphere of excellence,

    with a halo of glorious deeds about him.

  2. كم فقيرٍ أغنى بمُغدقِ جدوى

    راحتَيْهِ وذي عثار أقالَهْ

    Many a poor man he has enriched with the lavish bounty

    of his two hands, and many a fallen man he has helped rise.

  3. وأسيرٍ أتاه يرسُفُ في قي

    دِ هوان ففكّ عنه عِقالَهْ

    And many a captive came to him, shuffling in the fetters

    of humiliation, so he undid his bonds.

  4. وإذا أشكل السؤالُ انتَحَتْهُ

    لحظةٌ منه بيّنَتْ إشكالَهْ

    And when a question proves obscure, it is met

    by a glance from him that clears up its difficulty.

  5. بدرُ علمٍ يضيءُ روضةَ فضلٍ

    غيثُ جودٍ يسحّ طودُ جلالَهْ

    A full moon of learning lighting a garden of excellence,

    a rain of bounty pouring down, a mountain of majesty.

  6. جمع الله فيه مُفترَقَ الفض

    لِ وماذا سواه في الدهر نالَهْ

    God gathered in him the scattered forms of excellence;

    and who besides him, in all time, has attained it?

  7. هو كالشافعيّ علماً إسحا

    قَ ويحيى ضبطاً وعُمقَ أصالَهْ

    He is like al-Shafi‘i in learning, like Ishaq

    and Yahya in precision and profound originality.

  8. أيها الحافظُ الذي طاولَ النج

    مَ الى نيلِه المعالي فطالَهْ

    O Hafiz, who rivaled the star

    in reaching the heights, and rose above it,

  9. ما تغنّى الحمامُ في أفُقِ الفج

    رِ وهزّت ريحُ الشمائِلِ ضالَهْ

    as long as doves sing on the horizon of dawn

    and the north wind shakes a wild lote tree.