1. مَن كعليّ ذي الشجاعة والرّضا

    لإصراخ مَذعورٍ وإيواء مطرودِ

    Who is like Ali, endowed with courage and contentment,

    in rescuing the terrified and sheltering the outcast?

  2. ومَن كعليّ ذي السماحة والنَّدَى

    لإسباغِ إنعام وإنجاز موعودِ

    And who is like Ali, endowed with magnanimity and generosity,

    in lavishing favors and fulfilling what was promised?

  3. ومَن كعليّ ذي الرجاحة والنُّهَى

    لإِفصاح إشكالٍ وإدراك مقصودِ

    And who is like Ali, endowed with sound judgment and wisdom,

    in clarifying ambiguities and attaining what is sought?

  4. ومَن كعليّ للوزارة قائماً

    عليها بتصويبٍ عليها وتَصعِيدِ

    And who is like Ali, serving the vizierate,

    presiding over it, bringing low and raising high?

  5. ومَن كعليّ للإدارة سَالِكاً

    لها نَهجَ تليين مَشُوبٍ بتشديدِ

    And who is like Ali, pursuing in administration

    a path of leniency tempered with firmness?

  6. ومَن كعليّ للسياسة منفذاً

    أوامر تَنفيدٍ وأحكام تَوطيدِ

    And who is like Ali, carrying out in governance

    orders of depletion and decrees of consolidation?

  7. ومَن كعلي في رضا الله حاكماً

    بإيجاد معدوم وإعدامِ مَوجُودِ

    And who is like Ali, ruling in accordance with God's pleasure,

    by bringing the nonexistent into being and abolishing the existent?

  8. ومَن كعليِّ واصلِ الرّحم التي

    تَمُتُّ بتقريبٍ لَه أو بِتَبعِيدِ

    And who is like Ali, maintaining the ties of kinship that

    connect him to relatives, whether near or distant?