1. Peace be upon you, but my heart, oh Saad, bid farewell
While you are in my heart and my kiss

2. What has come to pass has come to pass, of opinion and wisdom
And what has passed has passed, of error and misstep

3. Neither wisdom aided me before nor
The integrity of opinion protected me from oversight

4. Nor did faces like lanterns deceive me
In beauty, in the brightness of cheeks like a kiss

5. Until old age shone on my cheeks and guided me
To guidance in the blackness of hair like a flame

6. So neither frivolity from today onward nor
Infatuation in poetry is my occupation

7. And the water of a youth I disobeyed with it has passed
The advice of the counselor, I did not listen nor perceive

8. And I did not attain the world or the hereafter
Except through the fortune of the creator of fortunes

9. I compose praises of the sultan of worshipers without
Nonsense and recite its meanings without error

10. Al-Nasir in name, titles and deeds
So look upon a victory encompassing his shoulders

11. A king who excels in praise that delights him
Oh the delight of transmission or the delight of conveyance

12. The sultan of prosperous Egypt, security has spread so what is in it
Besides the Nile, highway robber on the roads

13. I hasten to his lofty gates, its harbinger heralds to me
The success of purpose and hope

14. And it takes me to his gates, a praise
That treads and hovers between jewelry and garments

15. From his abundant generosity I hope for which immerses me
A sea whose seas are the lands' pools

16. It saves the drowning when it gives and some of the unsheathed
Swords scatter the enemies substitutionally

17. Generosity and valor as if between them the land
Bore no plants but pens and swords

18. Dividing between sword and pens, a day of pleasure
And a day of war between sustenance and term

19. The most faithful of kings if they were counted for precedence
Came after time and after the first eras

20. They came in haste, unable to catch up to the outstripped
Pace as if they came at leisure

21. The royal marksman is busy with four things
Giving, power, knowledge and action

22. The son of kings when they march their armies
The stabbing preoccupies them from the stabbed

23. And they divert opinion into justice and knowledge
Until with every chirp of old age, temperate

24. The one of opinion and the highest banner, his conduct
Is the practice of seriousness between cunning and cunning

25. If it is not the conduct of heroism then it is with what
He made his enemies taste, the conduct of a hero

26. Oh you, if the kingdoms preoccupy them with their vanity
His soul is preoccupied with piety and the kingdom business

27. Prosper a bright year connected
To a thousand bright prosperous years connected

28. A year saying at its head, my foot has expanded
For the head of a year celebrating this year

29. And like the crescent it coupled the purity of peace to
A full moon, so nice rounded and complete

30. And the tenth it kissed from your right hand five of it
Ten and ten, and is not sated from kissing

31. The moons ransom their rising for your rising
After the crescents like sisters-in-law and nieces

32. When will speech fulfill what your favors have done
Very different between words and action

33. So live long to the Most High and the kingdom rising
To glories rising over the hills

34. We attained the easy attainment, oh you whose dream is a mountain
Oh abundant generosity between plain and mountain