1. The pulpits' speeches and oaths of the veiled women,
With their red tongues as white messages,

2. So the heads of the enemies bowed down in prostration to its prayer,
Submitted by the Forgiving.

3. And the dawn of conquests did not reveal except gazelles
For sheaths, the desires of kings flutter.

4. When war was in labor, males were born,
The bird of imminent victory gave good tidings.

5. So victory's blade smiles with joy,
And the sincerity of the blows on the ground a scatterer.

6. On a day of battle, the mother of nights equal to it
Became, from its days, while she was barren, pregnant.

7. And below the brilliance of day when it appears
Screens rush to bring benefit.

8. Its sun is but the rays of unsheathed swords,
And its land only ground in which there is a rebel.

9. To cities it has made as ashes in the winds by their horses
Separating between them the hooves.

10. A cloud watered it, and the heads are for its torrent
Bubbles avoided, and the blood pouring.

11. And with war how many regions were destroyed,
And with peace close ones became inhabited.

12. So are the courses of torrents, the disappearance of its violence,
When days have passed, gardens blossomed.

13. Whenever the dust settles, it settles over its name,
So how many an evil looker has looked at it.

14. You like the past era of justice when it comes
At a time when none of your family remains disappointed.

15. If not for a preventing time and eras,
My saddle would have flown from you raging.

16. And how many good beginnings the fortune of time has corrupted
And a condition has changed with which last ones rejoiced.

17. So be patient with the rotation of nights when they oppress,
For what is hoped for is only attained through patience.

18. And to God is a people I do not forget their covenant
Even if the treacherous nights have broken my covenant.

19. Whenever time betrayed me more, I increased remembering
Their days, and the free man remembers the covenant.

20. I seek refuge in the possession of a people if I saw them,
As if their clans had been circling around me.

21. Not because I am near to them, but because all of them boast
And take pride in being near to my encampment.

22. They have mixed me with the souls as if
Amr and Aamer had nurtured them.

23. And the children of my time did not ask me about them though I lived after them,
Those whom I visit.

24. So how can it be when I have become unable to support
A journey or become absent.

25. If you pass by the sons of Qailah whose pots have boiled,
How many sayings of mine the time has prided over.

26. And if the supporters have become absent from me,
The supporter of God's religion is to me a supporter from it.

27. Indeed I have tasted from his palms ten clouds
So I have watered my hopes, and they are collectors.

28. To the One, Master of the world, the great one, who has become
In greatness, a great one nurturing.

29. I have deserted the lands flying and migrated willingly
So neither an emigrant nor immigrant has gained from me.

30. An imam, he is the shining sun to the worlds,
By him their sights are guided and the insights.

31. I have concealed myself from the shame of time by his shade
So he is not to me a coverer from the eye of my time.

32. With the rightest of judges of time I have strengthened my side
So its caprices have refrained from me overwhelmed.

33. By the master of masters whose opinion, ripe, is correct
And the granter of boons, his ocean fresh overflowing.

34. For him letters that do not cease composing
By them the religion calls to His servants and commands.

35. His breaths cure and heal always
So from his fang, the antidote and the poison pouring.

36. He answers their question with a decree or wisdom
So he is not about them sluggish of eye at all.

37. Bringing near the far with his opinion
When alone consulting a king one day.

38. His cavalry without dispatching an army
Have become under this kingship armies.

39. When the men of time the fingers have counted
And hands have prostrated hastily to you the palms.

40. So if a priority is intended by it then advantages,
And if magnification then the left hands.

41. Your ransom from the caprice of time every bold
Opponent who has become in war biting his fingers.

42. And a man who has risked himself, spent his night
Opposing you and in distress pondering.

43. O pillar of Islam, I watch over its pilgrimage
And my lifetime to it has been restricted and confined.

44. Whenever my eye meets the brightness of his face
My heart to it the guide of passion flies.

45. Shall I be patient from his call one day passing me by
While I am in it neither present nor discoursing?

46. A man who expects from life an hour
And does not gain in it glory is at loss.

47. My soul's ransom from a generous helper
Whose successive grace has overcome me.

48. To him from me new, permanent favors
And the necklace does not remain while the dove circles.

49. And how many a smooth journey across the land speeding
Has returned with what you have made weighty and steadfast.

50. So O my protector, show me kindness with a glance
That has from you in the past of time like ones.

51. I have held myself together until I have found no composure
So here it is, the destinies have become to you my resort.

52. And I have a young cub of sincerity but my presence
Cannot help me, so your power and might.

53. And it is difficult without happy companions of value
When some are not assisting each other and cooperating.

54. My companions' plight distresses me that I see
A group where each to me a friend associating.

55. I complain of them, they also complain of hardship
The general harm from it on the people is evident.

56. And they have emphasized the complaint with a strange narration they told
And the rare qualities of the souls reveal.

57. They told that in Egypt was a group prayer
Attended by a Bedouin while he was present.

58. So he joined them until he prays, and he did not know the ritual
Of prayer, so he became standing confused.

59. They said to him, do what we have done, and do not worry
If you have not neglected anything from it.

60. So when he stood behind the imam and came during the bowing
He lowered what his pants contained.

61. A young man who was behind him held
His testicles to laugh at him overwhelmed.

62. And from some of the pillars of prayer in his ignorance
He assumed it a pillar so reached to take it.

63. And he grabbed the sheikh imam in front of him
Thus did the sights for him blacken.

64. And the uncultured one remained clinging
From noon to afternoon grasping.

65. And they released the imam when they left him after
He had spoiled the communal prayer by laughing.

66. And they did not compare except the marginal notes to what they told
So the eminent lords refrained from resemblance.

67. But the burden of nights, not the marginal notes, are my complaint
So is there someone to excuse me if he is reasonable?

68. And far be it that the marginal notes of a master whose servant I am
To him and to them affection have described my consciousness.

69. The generous to guests in his courtyard
Their covenant from me the early rains have watered.

70. So they have not been miserly to me from a measure of benevolence
But I from thanking them have been deficient.

71. To you then, not blaming you, we end a complaint
And none complains but the oppressive nights.

72. So grant an equitable look that to you a looker cries out
The essences of our conditions and the appearances.

73. When the deputies are burdened they burden
Afflict me with what has harmed my companions.

74. They say we are the losers so what do we have
To share with one of luxury and partner?

75. I said they are two types, a type has incurred losses
By which they deserve a share, and a type destitute.

76. And the sights of a penniless one do not tear conventions
Complaining an era until ease returns.

77. And soon where a first was denied
The dawn of a new light believed another.

78. Perhaps misfortune, if you say, will return vigorous
With your favorable decree that has stumbled.

79. So order me the justification of fate and order them
With an equal division, so long as your command remains.

80. So that each the shade of your state that
Wealth from its clouds on us is pouring may gather.

81. For you are to us the great guardian, majestic His glory,
And we are the happy servants, the young.

82. And so long as you live the rights are old
To your ocean, O son of the most generous, I neighbor.

83. For my livelihood for the remainder of my life
Is upon you so do not let excuses preoccupy you.

84. My loss is such a disgrace upon every companion
And far be it from you to be overcome by blames.

85. Or else long live the open deserts that locusts cross
Camels whose pacing or the trotting.

86. And there is no shame that I am traveling from your side
To a side for me in which ties are pastured.

87. For I have feared until I have feared that you may say to me
While you over what you will, if you will, are capable:

88. As Zayd the knight said the day of Hufayzah
When he captured al-Hutay'ah made him prisoner:

89. I say to my slave Jarwal when I captured him:
"Ransom me and do not be fooled that you are a poet."

90. So he said: "But I have no money, rather
My reward is fame in the ode spreading."

91. So he released from his fetters his two feet speedily
And returned to his companions thanking.

92. O breast whose sea of generosity
The coming and thanking to it the source.

93. Your conscience is benevolence, justice and piety
And in every breast, if we look, secrets.

94. Your shyness conceals what would benefit the reputation
But my gratitude publicizes what it conceals.

95. So increase me in bounty from you, and increase
In beauty from thanking it, so the master of bounty trades.

96. And one honoring the likes of me honors himself
When the wise jurist ponders.

97. And it is equal in meaning whether a composer
Praises a generous one or a looker kisses.

98. So persist for supremacy and glory as long as
Hoping you the wildernesses and the settlements yearn for.

99. And so long as a comet remains whose rise of fortune you are
And its lights to the beholders insights.