1. بشراك سوريا بذي

    كرمٍ يضاعف حسن حالكْ

    Good tidings, Syria, of one whose

    generosity redoubles the beauty of your condition!

  2. حرٌّ لبيبٌ عادلٌ

    شهدت صداقته بذلك

    A noble, discerning, just man—

    his friendship has borne witness to that.

  3. حاكى ابنَ أدهم بالتقى

    وبعلمه حاكى ابن مالك

    He emulated Ibn Adham in piety,

    and in his learning he emulated Ibn Malik.

  4. كادت يراعته تحي

    ط بكل أحوال الممالك

    His reed pen has almost encompassed

    all the affairs of the kingdoms.

  5. وسيوفه تمحو الدجى

    محو القوائم بالبشالك

    And his swords erase the darkness

    as accounts are wiped clean with beshlik coins.

  6. من مخبر المولى بما

    عندي من النوب الحوالك

    Who will tell the lord of

    the dark calamities that beset me,

  7. ليذود عني علةً

    أرسى وأرسخ من جبالك

    so he may drive away from me an illness

    more firmly anchored and rooted than your mountains?

  8. لم تبق عندي غير أر

    ديةٍ وأشعارٍ هوالك

    It has left me nothing but cloaks

    and ruined verses.

  9. فتح الإله لرأيه

    بعبيده خير المسالك

    May God open for his judgment

    the best paths in dealing with his servants,

  10. وأدام رفعة مجده

    شرفاً لمملوك ومالك

    and perpetuate the loftiness of his glory,

    as an honor to slave and master,

  11. ليدوم في تاريخه

    مثل اسمه تحسين مالك

    so that in his chronogram there may endure,

    like his name, “commendation of a ruler.”