الْمَقَامَةُ الْكُوفِيَّةُ

English: He said: I have experienced wonders that no observers have seen.

Yoruba: Ó sì wí pé: Mo ti rí àwọn ìyanu tí kò sí ẹni tí ó ti rí rí.

English: Nor have narrators narrated.

Yoruba: Bẹ́ẹ̀ ni kò sí akọ̀ròyìn tí ó ti sọ ọ́ rí.

English: And among the most wondrous of them is what I witnessed tonight just before visiting you.

Yoruba: Nínú àwọn ohun ìyanu jùlọ ni ohun tí mo rí lálẹ́ òní kí n tó dé ọ̀dọ̀ yín.

English: And my arrival at your door.

Yoruba: Àti bí mo ṣe dé ẹnu-ọ̀nà yín.

English: So we inquired about the novelty of what he saw.

Yoruba: A sì bi í léèrè nípa ohun tuntun tí ó rí.

English: In the theater of his night journey.

Yoruba: Ní ibi tí ó ti rìn ní alẹ́.

English: He said: Indeed, the aims of estrangement.

Yoruba: Ó sì wí pé: Nítòótọ́, àwọn èrò àjòjì.

English: Cast me onto this soil.

Yoruba: Ti sọ mí sí ilẹ̀ yìí.

English: And I was in a state of hunger and misery.

Yoruba: Mo sì wà ní ipò ebi àti òsì.

English: And a bag as empty as the heart of Moses' mother.

Yoruba: Pẹ̀lú àpò tí ó ṣófo bí ọkàn ìyá Musa.