1. إِنَّ هَذا الشِعرَ في الشِعرِ مَلَك

    سارَ فَهوَ الشَمسُ وَالدُنيا فَلَك

    Indeed, this poem is a king among poems.

    It has traveled: it is the sun, and the world its celestial sphere.

  2. عَدَلَ الرَحمَنُ فيهِ بَينَنا

    فَقَضى بِاللَفظِ لي وَالحَمدِ لَك

    The Most Merciful dealt justly between us in it,

    So He allotted the wording to me and the praise to you.

  3. فَإِذا مَرَّ بِأُذني حاسِدٍ

    صارَ مِمَّن كانَ حَيّا فَهَلَك

    And whenever it passes through an envier's ears,

    He becomes one of those who were alive and then perished.