1. For a despondent passionate heart
Other than youthfulness and dreams

2. No visitors or remembrances of love
With cheeks as bright as statues

3. Rather it is my love which I conceal and confess
For the branches of Hashim, the best of people

4. For both the near dripping with dew and the distant
Safe from the injustice of authority's reins

5. And for those who err what people have mistaken
And who establish the foundations of Islam

6. The protectors, the sufficient in war, when
War has ignited its lightning, its fuel lightning

7. And the saviors, when people take refuge, so
The bosoms of the orphans are their sanctuary

8. And the sufficient rulers if the course of events
Inclines to failure or perfection

9. And the curers of maladies, the perplexed
And those who arrive at dark valleys

10. And the narrators through whom people carry
And the market of grand, lofty books

11. And the seas that reveal freedom and cure
The diseases of times in constant motion

12. For many good, pure people
Truthful, piercing like an arrow's point

13. With faces as bright as moons and noble ancestors
Mediators of glorious lineage

14. For the humble so the humble
Of noble birth between hills and hills

15. Balanced, just, of perfect conduct
Judicious in grave affairs

16. They surpassed people in speaking and
Ancient are they among the early ones

17. Benefitting, reconciling, calming gusts
Not separations or breaches

18. Modest, preferring, forgiving overlooks
On tranquil Thursday mornings

19. And shining stars for visitors
Though they conceal the flaws of speech

20. Their love does not permit foolishness of tongue
Nor does it allow condemnation on the day of condemnation

21. Slow, easy, like the starry sky
With planets and flags

22. Victorious, Hashimites in knowledge
They drank from the watering place of the Knowing

23. And purified in compatibilities, unadulterated
Rumbling pluralities like Syrian sheep

24. And when war brandished its lightning
And passions marched to other passions

25. And I saw the Pleiades incline
With the broken Five O'clock Star cluster

26. They are the lions in battle, not the scavengers
Between filthy dens and thickets

27. Lions of war, saviors of droughts, heroes
Responders, not merely those who promise and vanish

28. No fleeing in battles, no dissipations
And they are the trustworthy in command

29. Through their piety, a rope that does not break
And they respond, receive the call, and protect

30. The quality of composure and seriality
They allow what is permitted, forbid what is banned

31. Leaders, not like those who view all people
And cattle equally without distinction

32. Not like a king's servant, nor Walid
Nor Sulayman later, nor Hisham

33. They see them unlike those with three locks of hair
See dissipations in the darkest gloom

34. Special to the wooly robe, choosing
The soft fabric, abandoning fraud and babble

35. Who dies does not die missed
And who lives is not without family or blame

36. If the living ransomed the dead, I would say
My soul and my sons are ransom for those bones

37. Of good origin, good lineage
In ancestry and branch, Yathribi piercing

38. Abtahi in Mecca, God illuminated
Through him the blindness and darkness

39. And he migrated from it to Yathrib
To a dwelling, not another house

40. A migration from Aus and Khazraj
The people of discord and thickets

41. Not befriending the world with a name of truth
Lasting, his glory lasts, survives greetings of peace

42. The one with two wings and the son of Hala among them
The lion of God and the wordy defender

43. Not a cousin seen like this, nor an uncle like that, the best of uncles
And the successor to whom the towering

44. Thaqafi leaned his unswaying throne
He was the people of chastity, glory, and good

45. And annulling affairs and covenant
And the successor, the guardian, the knowing knight beneath whom

46. Necks were humbled without conceit
How many for him then how many slain

47. Beneath the trellises oozing blood
A physician he was, and we lost him

48. And the loss of the oil-seller is the ruin of the lamps
His loss struck us and leveled us

49. To the ground with a mingling of grief
After following the path of gentle hills, it scattered us

50. In different directions
He twice unsheathed the sword from its scabbard

51. When the moment was like studded pearls
Against dissenters, misguided from God's path

52. And confounded gamblers with arrows
And the successor to the successor, of excellent character

53. Repelling disputants on the day of dispute
And one murdered in childhood, betrayed

54. Among the rabble of a nation and riffraff
Birds perched on him like fallen corpses

55. With dust from the soil scattering
And the widows prolonged their sitting

56. After rising, tarrying in their places
Recognizing a free face upon which

57. The Pleiades were visible, and a mole
The pretenders killed when they killed him

58. The most generous of those who head to the clouds
And the Prophet's namesake among the people of the vale

59. The pursued, the pilgrim performing sacred rites
And the father of excellence, remembering them

60. Is healing for my maladies, an alleviation
Through them I had hope for the distant cousin

61. And accused the near in plummeting blame
He spoke the truth to people at Hunain with a blow

62. That radiated from it like the Pleiades
And I grasped from whoever grasped

63. Their honor, while my own gloom diminished
I saw the noble degraded in the eyes of the people

64. And lacking in reserve, diminishing my propriety
Announcing to the announcers, secretly pleased

65. With the secretive, without ignoring my standing
Revealing my lenience for the observant

66. By God, my strength and steadfastness
I do not care if I keep safe in them

67. Abu al-Qasim from the blame of blamers
I do not and will never care for them

68. Defying angry dissenters forevermore
For they are my sect and share among the nation

69. Enough for me apart from all other shares
If I die I do not die bereaved

70. And if I live I am not without family or sin
Equitable to others among people, purely

71. Through them, no worries disturb me, no concerns perturb me
I have not sold my faith for profit

72. Nor have I been duped by imposters
God has purified for me my passion so I am not pulled away

73. And my arrows do not swerve
And delirium has diverted my soul to them

74. Diverted from the taste of food
I wish I knew, will I reach them

75. Or will my destiny impede that meeting?
If the noted book is carried with me

76. It will dispel my two worries with worries
A mare marked with smears, black stains

77. Disheveled, refractory, silent in her rebellion
Connecting the wastes to the desolate valleys, connected

78. Torn, speckled, in ruins and rubble
Repelled by barrenness, bank to bank

79. And earnestness to earnestness after earnestness
In howdahs like the energetic songbird

80. Cheeping over carrion and ostrich meat
Accompanying the emaciated, quick to weaken

81. After yearning, tied with rope
Rejecters in selves, knowers in spirits

82. With eyes seeking harmony
I do not care if the heel of my slipper frays away to them

83. And the straps of my sandals snap
Falsehood will be rejected there, and those who love

84. Greetings will be loved, the people of greetings