1. ألا أبلغا عنّي أبا المجدِ والعُلا

    سلاماً فلا يُحْصَ بوزنٍ ولا عدِّ

    Take heed, you two: convey from me to the father of glory and eminence

    a greeting beyond reckoning by weight or count.

  2. سعيد ابن سلطان الذي هو لم يزَلْ

    مقيماً لربِّ العرش بالشُّكرِ والحَمْدِ

    Saʿīd ibn Sulṭān, who has never ceased

    steadfastly offering thanks and praise to the Lord of the Throne.

  3. له هِمّةٌ فوق السِّماك مَحَلُّها

    ومَحْفِلة فوق المَجَرةِ والصَّمْدِ

    His aspiration has its abode above al-Simāk,

    and his assembly is above the Milky Way and the heights.

  4. لعمري فإني مذ رحلتُ مفارِقاً

    مرابعكَ الخضرا هَلَكْتُ من الوجد

    By my life, since I departed, leaving

    your green abodes, I have perished of longing.

  5. فدم في زمانٍ ليس يفنى نعيمُهُ

    وتسكن بالأخراء في جَنةِ الخُلد

    So may you live on in an age whose bliss never fades,

    and dwell in the hereafter in the Garden of Eternity.