1. A specter conveyed to me the state of my passion
I know not if it was truthful or false in its delivery

2. It came as a guest, so I welcomed it with smiling eyes
But it left me with worries and went away

3. Would that the specter of my beloved transport my body
Since it failed to convey my words well

4. By my father, when he sways coquettishly
The twigs in his gardens bow down in shyness

5. You missed the sweet glance while frowning
How excellent are the sharpened swords

6. When people recognized the magic of his eyes
It extended a branch and made the branch a root

7. It extended a cheek over a tender face and cheek
So we saw pasture, water and shade

8. After it we saw the gazelle so we said
Lower your eyelids, oh graceful gazelle

9. My passion is not soothed by the heart of a youth
And what excellent smooth cheeks to soothe upon

10. Oh soother, keep your distance and begone
While my yearning for him is friendly and easy

11. I complain of his tyranny with the pleasure of his memory
His figure is equitable unlike the aromatic wood

12. I wonder at him, oppressive and obstinate
When he is the most equitable of people in appearance

13. Retiring in speech but his glance
Once spoke to people when he was a child

14. Oh how miserly with his words and meeting
You have seldom been as miserly in saying and deed

15. You betrayed my covenant though not the first traitor
To betray after loyalty and affection

16. Many a day when your saliva was to me
Comfort, while your stature was noble

17. They ask me of my lifelong companion, alas
That time has passed and the ages moved on

18. Nights poured generosity then miserliness followed
Would that their generosity had not been stingy

19. A lover betrayed though I do not blame him
Far from that beauty, never

20. The girls woo him wrongfully
While he is loved and my girls are roasted

21. They blame me while in the thorns is a pact of love
He did not leave space to hear blame

22. I am like the judge of judges in love
Who does not hear blame in generosity

23. A ladle in the treasury reciting its past
And praising it in poetry

24. My comrade one day of pride revealed
And through him difficulties were revealed

25. He achieved his family’s aspirations through effort
That led him to leadership deservingly

26. So he poured justice and wealth generously
And protected both grief and ease

27. A shame that hardship and tyranny meets a lad
Who in his singing-girls found enjoyment

28. An ambition that counts the stars in the sky
As rays radiating from their spheres

29. And knowledge that overflowed upon the earth like a
Guiding sea that does not ebb like the tide

30. Many an obligatory duty he fulfilled seeking its protection
Then volunteered and followed with a supererogatory one

31. Many a gift we reaped from him as sweet as honey
When we built pedestals for him as ants do

32. Many gifts in his house of generosity
We harvested like the ears of wheat

33. Those who blame him for generosity, stop!
For the youth is busy with the vigor of youth

34. Oh you who tread uniquely
Upon the path of leadership without peer

35. And leader whose pens every day
Anticipate the served wine of the highest regard

36. He preserved the integrity of virtue and contained
All knowledge so none could impugn it

37. If the shooting stars wished to ascend above him
The philosopher would not attribute to them a mind

38. How pleasant is success through him and how deserving
An envious person is of burning in his fire

39. And if an enemy did not reconcile with peace
The sword of envy suffices to kill

40. Weaker worries weakened his body so if he said
To his feet, hurry! - you would write, No!

41. We have tested the nobility of East and West
And found the majesty of his ascendance most sublime

42. It was said he means Mercury, I said, No, but
The giver of praise through gifts

43. Oh leader, if virtues were to call out
The train-dragger would walk proudly

44. Shall I complain to you of time which you own
Reforming it for me, can it be?

45. A position for knowledge, if not for the system
Of your efforts would not have been settled

46. And prayer niches which you augmented with lessons
And prayers adorned with devotion

47. Blessed is the light of your figure in the chaste
Prayer niche and the place of prostration

48. Many praises, were it not for you, would be impossible
And many hopes, without you, would have no place

49. Blessed are my praises of you that appear
From a garden bearing fruits

50. Long did I dictate them to you, but for you
Is a palm of generosity that will not be filled

51. Custom blamed the adviser for generosity
So the noble origin said, Wait!

52. If I excel in praising you in words
Your hands have excelled even more in deeds

53. May God increase your capacity and influence
And position of ease and rank

54. May God gather in you what is most noble of humanity
Glorified is He, Mighty and Sublime