1. My patience is tested by the absence of my loved ones
Who can I stand still with at the abode?

2. I shed tears there which satisfy me
Protecting it from the harm of torrents

3. Perhaps the tears will cool the heat of yearning
Kindled in my heart like fires

4. Perhaps my prayers against him will help me
Take shelter from him and pelt him with pebbles

5. Perhaps those who blame me will regret
My state of submission and dejection

6. I was the most honourable soul on earth
Due to their proximity, I am known amongst the houses

7. So I see safety in hesitance
And my share is in reticence and avoidance

8. I spend the night on a bed of worries
And I wake up with my cover having slipped

9. In my heart is an army of sorrows
Assaulting the weak remainder of my patience

10. So every misery and despair has a chief
And each cause of anguish has spread from it

11. Can the days hope to see me exhausted
Or take away my qualities?

12. I do not prefer praise for Ismail
My praise of him is my pride

13. He is the truthful and the one praised
His truthfulness equals that of Bukhari

14. His achievements have clearly appeared
They are too evident to remain veiled

15. And when he took responsibility of wealth
The hearts of businessmen and traders flourished

16. They were worried about falling
Into severe hardship and distress

17. They returned with glad tidings spreading
Congratulations in the night and day

18. The means of sustenance poured
Generously onto those who sought it

19. For wisdom rectifies every matter
And serious effort outruns competitors

20. The regions became stable under his efforts
On both left and right

21. Houses and songs congratulated him
As did the great and the small

22. If someone said “this is a country”
Its prosperity rivals those performing Hajj

23. The Mighty One recognized his traits
As the dark night recognizes the full moon

24. Whose diffusion is known by all groups
It touches towns and wildernesses

25. So everyone who tells his story
Weighs his eloquence in speech

26. And the answers to his praise
Travel the earth, land after land

27. Hoping his refuge will last
With honour, pride and power