سافر تنل رتب المفاخر والعلا

سافر تنل رتب المفاخر والعلا

كالدر سار فصار في التيجان

كالدر سار فصار في التيجان

Travel, and you will attain the ranks of glory and eminence.

Travel, you will gain ranks of glory and supremacy,

Like the pearl, which traveled and thus came to be in crowns.

Like a pearl you journeyed and so became a crown jewel,

وكذا هلال الأفق لو ترك السرى

وكذا هلال الأفق لو ترك السرى

ما فارقته معرةُ النقصان

ما فارقته معرةُ النقصان

And likewise, had the horizon’s crescent abandoned its nightly journey,

And likewise the crescent moon, had it abandoned its course,

The blemish of incompleteness would not have left it.

The stigma of waning would not have forsaken it.