1. From you comes bounty, from me gratitude and longing
Wherever the rain falls becomes a place of resort

2. Good custom, Abu Hassan, has accustomed me
That I have no patience or contentment without you

3. No glimmer of hope from you ever shone
Except that it met pouring rain in profusion

4. The rain of your generous hands, you who placed them
With me, brings me the greatest joy that can be placed

5. For one like you, most generous to me
Gives freely while one like me contrives gratitude

6. You never granted me a boon except I met it
With juicy words of unceasing praise

7. And I have an eloquent tongue among the sons of Umar
To thank you, meanings invented just for you

8. The benefactors without delay when they promise
And the favor-givers without stint when they grant

9. And you, O Zuhl, are foremost among them, learned
Resolute, not hesitant or cowering

10. Long may you live and increase the outstretching of a hand
Rising above the highest rank and ascending

11. Exalted, you have taken on nobility from the branch of the lofty
As the towering summit takes on cracks and crevices