1. My eyelids were taught the lessons of love
With the annotations of sickness inscribed

2. And my heart borrowed the fire of passion
As my tears trickled down in distillation

3. Tomorrow, my longing and sickness became evident
Though the agent of longing remained hidden

4. And how truly I imagined solace in you
That imagination was false in its belief

5. My patience, its rules abrogated by the ink
Of the darkness of your glances, the last to come

6. My secret and sleep, hated to be warded off
Are permissible, recommended, while my visiting is forbidden

7. My body became vulnerable, with longing for your smile
Having manifested, though it is the essence

8. So we explicate lucidly the lexicons of al-Jawhari
The expressions of my passion in it still abound

9. The extending of my tears is no shortcoming if it flows
Surely the extending of the sea is undoubtedly finite

10. For a human, my eyes are messengers of tears
Bearing news to the one whose streams are abundant

11. Whenever I intend ambiguity for my passion
Its elucidator for the ambiguous is my interpreter

12. And it is said of me, whenever it appears
"Do you deny the light of lightning and the pouring rain?"

13. And I spoke no falsehood, but rather
My prior tears in the folds smoothed its course

14. And if not for the combing by those folds
No passion in my heart could have been guided

15. When I saw your allure, I said
"O you who see a pearl strewn upon a pearl!"

16. When my eyelids' traps were set up
To pull the planets, my mind was triumphant

17. A gazelle leading the lion tamely by its glance
Though it recoils from the leader of sleep

18. Had it not been for the magic in its glance
No hearts would have been subjugated by its call

19. Even if a magician invoked the names of its glances
He would need no name by which to enchant

20. And whenever the eyebrow's prayer niche appeared
The most ascetic worshipper says "God is greatest"

21. Laila's night has a length from the full moon of your cheek
And the length of darkness, while the sun traverses the celestial sphere

22. And if that sun were matched with
The yellow of the cheek of the morning, fortune would grow

23. So my gaze sold my heart for a glance
To the cheek's flower - my purchaser is redder

24. There appeared in the margins of his cheek a mim letter
Encompassing a face whose sun shone

25. So I am poor, deprived of union, while estrangement is rich
Needless of passions, and being cut off is prosperous

26. If he goes on to confide to me his fears of being cut off
I care not for a heart capable of estrangement

27. For I have, most high of people, protection
And one through whom I seek refuge is not belittled

28. My master Abu al-Hasan the Pure of lineage
Whose glories unfold what used to be folded

29. The king of all people, the breast whose glory
Is foremost among the elite of kings

30. He is the noble, valiant, distinguished king, through whom
Fortune eased all that was difficult

31. For if he wished, the total obedience of kings
An exit for them would be mandated

32. And in their realms, they would stand guard for him
Taking pride in this guardianship

33. A king, his knowledge, wisdom and intelligence
Are youthful forever and remembered

34. A king whose superiority, glory and help
Every king compared to his glories falls short

35. You see him, with a surplus of justice, commanding
Good - so excellent is he who commands with leaning

36. He has chastity coupled with safeguarding
Against vulgarity in his actions and purification

37. If it were divided among creatures, none would find
A believer burdened with any sin by it

38. He has ambitions the eye has not perceived the nature of
Nor the flying eagle, if it soared

39. His resolves are like eggs in every endeavor
No preventing fear dissuaded him

40. When his encampment is once struck for war
It is valid for him, a guaranteed partition

41. He has firm footing in the tumult of war, forcing
The heroes of evil to recoil and retreat

42. If he calls one day for an ominous war
The eternities cower before his might from it

43. You see every lofty lion, over a setting
Of darkness, roaring among the flames of swords

44. When the meteors of his steeds course through land
You see the meteors in the celestial horizon, perplexed

45. If he ever waged war early one morning
The morn would be miserable for the threatened ones

46. He tread only on the corpses of foes
Picking parts that cannot be mended

47. As if their wiping informed them, and they became
The ribs of enemy forms that he crushes

48. And the transgressors extended their necks to his land
So the confines became truncated by what he pruned

49. With their center, he turned their circles, and with
Their blood, the blades of his circular swords dripped

50. And every arrogant villain became like a farmer
Multiplying what is of the essence of corruption

51. They thought the hill fort would protect their horde
Yes, preventing what they intended and plotted

52. And they ignorantly supposed to make that burrow
Into the position of that pass, how it changed!

53. So his cavalry came upon them, as if
From the air, eagles swooping down and kites

54. Encircling them in circles, like white
Around black from the perspective of one squinting

55. And they took refuge with every shelter and destination
As the unimaginable punishment befell them

56. Just as the fleeing cattle thought to be saved by their fleeing
Yet for them, in the heart, there was a refuge, influencing

57. And if they delved deep into the sunset
At sunrise, they would be reached and terrorized

58. Or if they took themselves as a flock for protection
Or if they fortified with an eagle wherever pardoned

59. Yet everything they fortified themselves with
Did not avail them, nor what they walled up

60. And he won both the lands of Zab, and their swords and young men
With the decree over them no longer issuing from them

61. They were as a valley of ants, until his army crushed them
So they fled, routed, and retreated

62. When his swords fell upon their paraphernalia
You saw the heads of the aggressors flung

63. When he raised the banners, be certain of his opening
As the sound plural is broken

64. And the banners flutter due to his flag
As he gives authority to the flutterers and grants victory

65. A king, time is subjugated by his conquest
So he became, despite the enemies, vanquishing them

66. Trusting in God, finding refuge in Him
And his victorious troops, and he is the triumphant

67. A king, whom good fortune hopes to see
Glancing at it one day, and observing

68. If they confine the distance of stars through observation
Their distances, no doubt, cannot be confined

69. When his thoughts deduce a problem
The solutions come to him, volunteering

70. He has a logic that irrigates the branches of rhetoric
So they bear fruits of eloquence

71. I am fortunate to have a master of eloquence
Above all people, the greatest composer

72. For him, in the principles of religion, how many intentions
Whose perspectives astound upon contemplation

73. For him, in the fundamentals of jurisprudence, the compilation of compendia
My teacher says, and prides himself on it

74. In the scale, it weighs down such that none takes precedence
Except him, while all compared to him fall short

75. As for the linguistic sciences, he is their colleague
And every colleague is more knowledgeable than the thought

76. When the unprecedented in his interpretation appeared
Every apparent interpretation by him became hidden

77. Nothing circulated among people was familiar
Except after that knowledge, it became unrecognizable

78. When he first penned verification
The reports circulated that the unprecedented was from him

79. If careful observations came from him, it would scarcely
Have a source for that verb

80. Even if exegesis reached al-Khalil, and apart from him
Seas and waves overflowing onto land

81. He would traverse them quickly to you - and thus
No colleague in scanning the meters is renowned

82. Your knowledge concealed all those apparent in knowledge
So you are now the most knowing in knowledge

83. If you were not more manifest in knowledge than them
Your knowledge would not have been mentioned as more manifest

84. You gained pride I do not pride myself in
Against anyone, but it prides itself in you

85. You avoided the subject of every issue
And your mention is figuratively celestial, flowering

86. You saw neglected frontiers, so they became
Fortified by your resolve, those neglected parts

87. The letter kaf told of the nun's capture of its fortress
Without any hint of illness concealed

88. I clothed them with an impenetrable coat of safety
Abolishing the nights without it, and shortening

89. O you scholar whose sea of knowledge
The overflowing of dew from it, seas swim!

90. Its pearls from your words and hand
Are scattered for those who ask, and hearing perceives

91. When destitution wades into it, it dies as one drowned
And the opulent one of its death scattered his wealth

92. When the needy beseeched you one day for attaining
He became, from the benefit of your hand, most eased

93. I came complaining of the injustice of time, that transgressed
For you halt the days, commanding and prohibiting

94. I paired the fortune's crescent with praising you
Perhaps the fortune's crescent gains victory thereby

95. I made your description a cure for my time's eye
Perhaps what I hoped from you bears fruit

96. So take, my master, a string of eulogies
As if its necklaces of pearls were abundant

97. Its chiefs, I extracted from the sea of my thought
With my mind a diver, selective for it

98. If the singing girls saw it, they would adorn themselves with it
And cast off what they wore as jewelry

99. If the stars saw it, they would be jealous, and if
It appeared to the full moon in the darkness, it would not emerge

100. And if the standard of the full moon matched it in beauty
It would remain a crescent, its fullness humbled

101. In the tongues of the tasters, it has a sweetness
When I recite in your praise, it is reiterated

102. If it meets acceptance from you, then its drafter
Is freed from the delicacy, and he is freed

103. And safe from the injustice of time and its schemes
And is elevated among the people, and remembered

104. Whoever selects for his praise, other than your description
His palm in that praise loses

105. So you remain protected and supported
Your kingdom reinforced with mighty victory

106. The approach of Sacred Law continues shining
After your justice, and the hidden truth appears through you

107. You remain the truest hope for those hopeful
While all of them are inundated with your abundant grace

108. You are exalted above the kings of earth, in honor and rank
So you remain, for all time, great in honor

109. Your enemies are subdued in the lowering of their necks
While you are perfect in merit, greatest in eminence

110. Peace be upon you, most fragrant at the start
For the passage of days, and musk in sealing.