لو سلمنا من العمائم طراً

غير أهل النهى والمعارف

If we were spared all the turbans,

except the people of intellect and learning,

لنجحنا بأمرنا وربحنا

ونجينا من السيول الجوارف

we would succeed in our affairs and prosper,

and be saved from the sweeping torrents.

كل شيءٍ لنا بين الل

ه من العلم من تليدٍ وطارف

God has made everything clear to us—

knowledge, both inherited and newly acquired.

وإذا قام داعي الحق منا

كجمالٍ وجواهري وعارف

And whenever a caller to truth arises among us,

like Jamal, Jawahiri, and Arif,

أوسعوه شتائماً ثم قالوا

فيلسوف عن الرشد صادف

they heap insults upon him, then say:

"A philosopher who turns away from right guidance."

ليس في الدين للصناعات حضر

إقرأ والعصر وافتكر يا مخالف

There is no ban on crafts in religion.

Read "By Time," and reflect, O opponent.

وابن رشد ومن غدا كإبن رشدٍ

رحم الله هؤلاء الفلاسفو امسح

And Ibn Rushd, and whoever became like Ibn Rushd—

may God have mercy on these philosophers; and wipe—

أطلق الفكر في قيود

الذهن من غبار السفاسف

set free the thought held in fetters—

the mind clean of the dust of trifles.

تتجلى لك الحقائق عما

أنكر الجامدون أهل اللفائف

The truths will become clear to you concerning what

the rigid-minded wearers of head-wraps denied.