1. Stand like a visitor at the abodes,
And be gentle, for you are not lowly.

2. What is upon you from standing
Among the ruins of the departed?

3. The past has tread upon you -
The winds have blown fragrances from storms.

4. O Musallam ibn Abi al-Walid,
If you wish, spread out a buried corpse.

5. I tied my ropes of love for you -
The neighbor's covenant is binding.

6. But now you have turned to Banu Umayya,
And affairs tend toward destinies.

7. And now you were, through them, fortunate,
As yesterday you were lost and confused.

8. O son of principled men, for principles
And protection are the best informed.

9. From Abd Shams and the elders
Of Umayya, then the greatest.

10. Though the caliphate and banners -
Despite the envious and ungrateful -

11. Are inherited from honored ancestors,
With plentiful, overflowing supply.

12. So you untied a complex knot,
While others solved only superficialities.

13. How often did your partisans say,
When they stumbled, to the stumbler:

14. "You have forgiven those with sins,
Small and great, elders and youth."

15. My son of Umayya, you are
The people of means and commands.

16. My trust is to every resourceful man,
And my people, over all peoples.

17. Good are you - offspring of the brave -
And plants and stone quarries.

18. You are the drawers - the pullers -
Of the earth, demolishers of fortresses.

19. You are the mines of the caliphate,
Great after each predecessor.

20. With the nine successive caliphs,
Successors, and the best tenth.