1. O heights that have tempted the sleepless with my gaze,
And slept through the night of the enamored watcher.

2. What harm if you allowed the phantom of your reflection
To pass by the ambition for a fleeting visit?

3. How often have I embarked upon the perils of passion toward you,
Does union with you ever cross your mind?

4. O radiant moon, do you remember on the horizon of ambition
The pact of the faithful lover keeping you in remembrance?

5. After you all, I lost sleep so none consoled me,
And my night had no end without you all.

6. You made my vigil long, and how many nights
Passed with your union like the shadow of a bird.

7. It's difficult for the eyelids to wish again
After the days of berries and early beginnings.

8. I watch the days in the books of passion
And stroll in the coolness of flourishing youth.

9. It was no fault of the fair, white hands
That they betrayed me, were it not for my white temples.

10. Were it not for my youth, I'd not forgive a miser
On the day of farewell, nor be faithful to one who departed.

11. You'd see me unmoved by a coquette's charm
Or showing affection to one who distanced himself.

12. My adornment is the vivacity of a companion
And the joy in the eye of the onlooker.

13. How short the life of union quivers with old age
Like a neglected horse beyond its heyday.

14. A captured gazelle, slackened are its bonds,
Moments cannot be found slower than it.

15. He came to me, so many guards around him
Awake with the slumber of spears and conversation.

16. I woke up relieved when he visited me one night,
Happy with his visit, he stayed conversing with me.

17. A salute of purity broke from his lips,
An untouched maiden not defiled by the stumbler.

18. Until the sphere of dawn appeared as if
The just Caliph in the tyrannical era.

19. We both slept in chastity and piety,
Harboring passion in secret between our breasts.

20. Avoiding prohibitions in fear
Of the authority of the Commander of the Faithful.

21. The driving force protecting the sanctity of Islam with the
White banners and the clashing swords.

22. And the victorious army fluttering around him
And the hurling allies aiding each other.

23. His might kindles against the enemy and his sharp blades
Are like the overflowing Euphrates in its streaming.

24. When adversities exchange, he rises to them
With resolve that defeats the devious plotter.

25. A king, when transgressors arrive at his door,
They throw aside their staffs with forgiving release.

26. He forgives though he has power over the enemy,
And forgiveness befits the powerful king.

27. A rent that disgraced the ample wealth of his treasury
Until he alone earned abundant praise.

28. I take shelter with his name so it's as if
I take shelter with a roaring lion from a creeping hyena.

29. And I was elated when I held on to his rope
From the jaws and claws that grip.

30. And I sought refuge in his cool harbor
And landed safely from his ship the fallen one.

31. So I will praise his deeds as the spring praises
The pouring rainclouds.

32. Through him I was content with fortunes and I had
A heart open to depriving fortune the unkind one.

33. Through you, O Abu Al-Abbas Ahmad, the banners of
Generosity and giving freely have been raised.

34. You have done good in this mean world against its people,
And fulfilled in the treacherous time against the treacherous one.

35. O you who revived the withering hope, its wing
Strengthened by his generosity to come and its peers.

36. By God, so many grateful hands you have
Whose favors have extended the tongue of the grateful one.

37. And an unspoiled gift, its love too grand
To be blemished by the early rising critic.

38. You routed the enemy with every sharp sword,
And deaf spear, and white piercing blade.

39. And every swimming ship when it sought great depths,
It sailed with your arriving eagles the crushing ones.

40. And the frowning like suns, their courage mixed
With stunning beauty and dazzling splendor.

41. When the swords were sheathed in luster,
They concealed the beauty of their faces with masks.

42. They surpassed their peers on the day of battle
With the blossoms of beauty in blushing cheeks.

43. Every dust-stirring warrior raging ahead,
Hardened at shedding blood, the risk-taker.

44. He made the club-bearers deaf with his blows
And shot hearts with his glances the deadly ones.

45. The wisdom of the victorious Mansur keeps vigil
Over guarding the kingdoms awake and watchful.

46. The flash of his sword and the shine of his forehead
Are two gleams in the night of the raging darkness.

47. His promises are like arrows from the sturdy bow,
Shooting from above the likes of arrows the piercing ones.

48. They left the shadows of life in their homelands
And exposed themselves to adversity and departure.

49. Every disheveled one in the caravan, loyal
To God, penitent to Him, an emigrant.

50. Thirsty, throwing himself forward feeling
The fear of Judgement in the vacant wasteland.

51. Their corpses taken by the south so their necks surrendered
To the blades of butchers the slaughtering ones.

52. And God's sacraments, magnified without
What Mecca guaranteed of purity and places of devotion.

53. The House, and the Holy Precinct circled by it,
And what screens and covers it has.

54. Surely the Caliph is best of those who trod
The courtyards, from the best people, present and past.

55. A people whose love and obedience will distinguish
The believer from the nonbeliever on Judgement Day.

56. Their gatherings are scrolls of precedence
In every principle or branches of the pulpits.

57. When their people slip into a tight spot,
The anxieties of every alarming crisis are calmed.

58. When lineages boast, their ancestry can be traced
Back through pedigrees, glories, and ancestral trees.

59. They cling to the staff of prophecy and lean
On the courtyard of the house of prophethood the pure one.

60. In praising you, O House of Abbas, I have
Covered over my blemishes and faults in my lineage and clan.

61. Your patronage is my treasure for the Hereafter when
My hands are emptied of acquiring treasures.

62. You are guides for people, and intercessors in
This life and on the Day of Requital to come.

63. The world is beautified by traces of you
Praised among its people and memorials.

64. And to you the eminent turn, and every
Boaster ends with you in glory and pride.

65. So give greetings to the Commander of the Faithful from a nation
Immersed in the dew of your hands the copious ones.

66. And a state whose rule has conquered kingdoms,
With prevalent authority and manifest might.

67. Its caliphate tied in the happiest fortune
And most blessed fate and auspicious omen.

68. And may you enjoy it as a feast returning
With good tidings of its like for you again and again.

69. And seek from the elite of praise an elite utterance
whose owner suffers no loss in a failed deal.

70. Rural and refined, so judge it
With eloquence of nomad and grace of city dweller.

71. It comes to you flaunting in the clothes of its beauty
In abundant, luxurious fabrics and veils.

72. It slipped away with an elegant subtle meaning -
I am a nation in its prosody, limit, and enchanting utterance.

73. I opened my mouth with it out of poverty and made it
A means to cover my deficiencies and needs.

74. Gifts and favors pass, while their remembrance remains
Across the course of vanishing time.