1. If you two cannot make me happy,
Leave me to my passion and go away.

2. You blamed me for being foolish in love,
While yearning itself called me to it.

3. Where is blame for one suffering sorrows,
Who spends the night tossing restlessly?

4. Lightning flashes as he lies grieving,
With two lightning bolts in his eyelids.

5. I stopped but no tears fell from me
To reproach those who were dry to me.

6. I won't forget even if my vows are forgotten
The morning the two feet sped away.

7. The sandy hill flowed toward farewell
While the crooked stick inclined to embrace.

8. A lover sought from it a scented keepsake
So it gave its cheeks, a pair of carnelians.

9. It clad its heart with patience until
It pelted me with youthfulness and perfection.

10. I turn from sobriety though it has healing
And cling to love though it has destroyed me.

11. You're amazed at my yearning in separation
While I'm amazed at your aloofness in nearness.

12. Oh God, what the charms of that Yemeni
Did to my reason, those soft gazelles!

13. Beauties lying in wait on a cheek
That quivers and smiles with dimples.

14. They approached me the eve of farewell
While I had eyes flowing with blood.

15. They did not gently wipe my eyelids in kindness
But perfumed my fingers with henna.

16. How much intimacy absence made me forget
While my ribs circle a blazing fire.

17. I pine for those days of separation
Even if I saw no days of nearness.

18. If I could, I would make my eyelids
A path for night visitors to my cheeks.

19. One night when meteors were falling
Sparks of grief scattered in smoke,

20. I circled the neighborhood on a wakeful steed
With teeth gleaming ahead of its bridle,

21. As if the sheen of this one and the whiteness of that
Were two stars coupled with the night.

22. And a time when the brilliance of my sword was lost
Like the loss of a sword in a coward's hand.

23. I suffered every disgrace of a worthless people
Who became insolent when honored by me.

24. He sits head raised though more loyal to me,
And readier with the threads of his turban.

25. In his ample wrap is a true right hand
Meet to be cut off with a Yemeni blade.

26. I say, when they envied my position,
"Come look at who tested me!"

27. And if they attributed power to me I would humiliate them in revenge
But there is no humiliation for the disgraced.

28. Your time has no flaw but me
While my flaw is nothing but my time.

29. A group who hastened a period and drove
Their steeds toward it, bounding smoothly,

30. With hopes like the leagues they traversed
To it, and the pacts they tied there.

31. I guaranteed its imminent success but
Fulfilling the guarantee rests in your hands,

32. Through the aid of the trusted companion it became
The abode of kingship, home of songs.

33. And the joy of life returned to it
Though it had been among false hopes.

34. Goodness and justice spread over the land
With the rise of brilliant Mansur,

35. Who triumphed with a rise that has no peer among people
In good fortune that embraces all.

36. Even if the nights had shown humility
Two servants would brand him lord.

37. He has two days: a day for gifts
He distributes, and a day for spears.

38. May he ransom one who seeks his extension
As the bay horses are paired with the chestnuts!

39. The star said, "Do not aspire to one
Whom you see lofty as I."

40. Vying with him, between you is difference
Beyond the ken of mathematicians.

41. You spread the pillars of God's religion in a palm
That bestows on the destitute without unease.

42. The lines of your signature come from it
Gifted with the magic of eloquence,

43. In a more wondrous script than the risings
Of planets in the cheeks of heavenly nymphs.

44. When the kings of earth boast
Of the traces their benevolence leaves,

45. With might you brought down the lofty citadel
To make its mortar the abode of disgrace.

46. It had been a sedentary lair for gluttons
Who controlled its reins.

47. They did not dismount until
The circles gathered around it.

48. You took the fortress then made it
A ruin destroying fortresses in vengeance.

49. So the hooves of the steeds still pound them
With a pounding that exhausted the gazelles.

50. You took leadership of their obedience with wisdom
Blending for it sternness and gentleness.

51. Like the opening of Mecca when God's Messenger
Gave protection to those who sought immunity,

52. So that after a short time
The idolaters' eyelids drooped in sleep.

53. Yes they opened, but from a slumber
To the worst of trials.

54. They complained of barrenness so it let loose upon them
The hemlocks' hissing and howling,

55. And its stabbing of you became for them
More deadly than the fangs of asps,

56. With the deaf adders' deafly hissing
When they declined the peace of treacherous snakes.

57. It was as if the camel, enraged when
Their ignorant lie cast it away,

58. Pelted them from its mouth with each handful
So the tyrants were seized by snakes.

59. It made every rugged path smooth when
Each twisting approach was leveled.

60. Its conquest was blessed by a feast
As the range is preceded by the winning steed.

61. This is for pure praises recited
Embroidered, and this for melodies.

62. The days have not ceased to be propitious for you
Crested at their start with congratulations.

63. Look, the new moon of feast days appears
On the sky's horizon like a line of splendor.

64. It's as if when you secured the pillow of might
For the world's sultanate, lofty before all,

65. You marked the bright fortune of glorious sultanate
On its everlasting sphere like the marking of a steed.

66. Oh, most noble minister, days still
Crest each horizon near and far for you!

67. You were created supported by the loftiness of rank
That lowers before you every person of status.

68. If your whip is cracked over a foe
He will not escape with a shred of clothes

69. Or the onslaught of a heavily armored knight
Or the attack of a mailed soldier.

70. You struck the people of unbelief with it until
You left them in the depths of annihilation.

71. They hoped for the Quran's rule but you went against them
With your sword, executing the Quran's decree,

72. So that you appeared in a stance that gave victory
To God's religion, honoring the place.

73. Your presiding over the council of review is a matter of pride
While owning a day of bounty is your habit.

74. The gathering of imams in your presence
As they gather around you from far and near

75. Is like stars with you as the full moon
When two gazers look upon you.

76. When their problems make you frown, you are guided
By the light of your thoughtful brow.

77. You see two disputants vying over them
As if competing for distance, a prize at stake.

78. It's no wonder with you being a sea
That they dive for the pearls of meanings.

79. For every issue they have disagreement
With arguments from both sides.

80. But their love for you when you decide
Is agreed upon by both creeds.

81. So union has not ceased among you
Safe from the separating days.

82. To you they are the greatest inheritance from your father
And the highest elevation built by the Creator.

83. May God's prayers ever be upon him
Granting him the most honored place in the Gardens.

84. The days have not failed to be auspicious for you
Crested at their start with congratulations.

85. Oh my master, how much suffering
The events make me suffer!

86. And I'm ashamed of a time in which you are
When I give free rein to complaining.

87. So provide me deliverance from its hands
And provide deliverance from my tongue.

88. Be my supporter in my profession
So my beginnings are backed by your help,

89. In creating a poem in which I showed
A thousand refinements after a thousand trials.

90. If you applied your mind to my rights
You would care for me tomorrow as you cared yesterday.

91. A glance from you is a thousand years
Lived through, releasing a thousand sighs.

92. Have kings seen the likes of your forbearance?
Which you show us plainly before our eyes.

93. You solved the knot of Shahidiz
And you untied the magic of Masrutan.

94. They began while you complete each work
For they had no two hands for perfection.

95. An honored army deserves the right to specialization
So there should be no delay in its affairs.

96. Then order the building of its barracks
To make it one of your excellent projects.

97. You graced your time with great deeds
As you graced my poetry with great meanings.

98. One like me is lost in the land of Khuzistan
Lost like a sword in a coward's grasp.

99. I hope from the inclusiveness of justice
To be aided against the wonders I suffer.

100. I will defeat my enviers for they have grown insolent
And were it not for you they would not envy my rank.

101. They saw my honor like theirs but
Over two states that cannot be brought together.

102. Blame struck me when my money ran low
Though it is the age that is to blame.

103. I say to them when they move to blame me,
"Come look at who tested me!"

104. I swear there is nothing finer than your praise
Even if a sevenfold poem were composed.

105. Muhammad's religion in every case
And Muhammad's kingdom are thankful to you.

106. May you and your blessings endure forever
As the two bright stars have befriended each other!