1. قالوا وَفَدتَ مِن البَيتِ الحَرامِ وَمِن

    زِيارَةِ المُصطَفى للعَودِ مُختارا

    They said: You have come from the Sacred House and from

    visiting the Chosen One, choosing to return.

  2. فَزارَكَ الناسُ أَرسالاً وَبَعضُهُم

    قَد اِزدَراكَ اِنتخاءً مِنهُ ما زارا

    Then people visited you in successive groups, and some of them

    had scorned you out of their own pride and did not visit.

  3. وَما اِزدراكَ سِوى غَمرٍ أَخي حَسَدٍ

    يَرى بِكَ الشَمسَ إِحراقاً وَإنوارا

    And none scorned you but a fool possessed of envy,

    who sees in you the sun, burning and giving light.

  4. لَو أَنَّهُ كُنتَ رِجساً مِن مُسالَمَةٍ

    وَافى مِن القُدسِ كانَ الغُمر زوّارا

    Had you been a filthy wretch among the converts to Islam,

    arriving from Jerusalem, the fool would have been a frequent visitor.

  5. إِن يُترَكُوا فَقَديماً زارَ أَكبَرُهُم

    قَدراً وَأَكثَرُهُم في الشَرعِ آثارا

    If they are left alone, long ago the greatest among them visited—

    in rank, and the richest in contributions to sacred law:

  6. المالِكي وَالحَنِيفِيُّ اللَذانِ هُما

    في العَصرِ كانا أَجَلَّ الناسِ مِقدارا

    the Mālikī and the Ḥanafī, the two who

    in their age were the most eminent of people in stature,

  7. التابعانِ الإِمامَينِ اللَذَينِ هُما

    أَصلُ الشَريعةِ إِخباراً وَتَنظارا

    the two followers of the two imams who are

    the foundation of sacred law in transmission and reasoning:

  8. الأَصبَحِيُّ وَنُعمانٌ فَلا بَرِحا

    يَسقِي ضَريحَهُما الرَحمَنُ مِدرارا

    al-Aṣbaḥī and Nuʿmān—may they never cease

    to have the All-Merciful shower their tombs abundantly.