1. My excuse, from the strong against the weak,
She has overcome me with her flowing tears.

2. Whenever time compels me to the nobility of manners
And the separation of the familiar,

3. The injustice of fate has obliged me, and people
Are captives of its misfortunes and calamities,

4. And an enemy who casts my dignity with insult
And my forbearance with cowardice and reproach.

5. I did not charge him with transcending bounds or
Know my excuse, while oppression is in the charge.

6. And much intimation distorts the return
Of speech with misrepresentation.

7. O succor of mankind, may God make you happy
With your blessed, noble endeavor,

8. And time comes to you devoid of any
Of its plots, totally averted.

9. You remain the lasting light in it, and the eye
Of the sun, its light erased by eclipse.

10. That is, until years pass away and in their passing
Destroy thousands amassed in thousands.

11. And in your son, the Prince Buyid, you see
Death commanded to halt.

12. What your father saw in you, catching horsemen
With horse and breaking ranks.

13. The crescent's emergence in the darkness makes you
Needless of any introduction.

14. And bold as a cub, the lion whelped him
To hunt men, around the hillsides.

15. Disdainful, you see the great in command
As small, fear itself not fearsome.

16. God created for glory a conduit
Needing no education.

17. And a sword that, when it fends for you
Begs from the sheaths of swords.

18. Like the ray of the brilliant sun in water
Bent by the blowing autumn wind.

19. They marveled at his pleasure with gifts,
While the generous feels no novelty.

20. A report I never heard, had it come to me
In script, I would suspect only a scribal error.

21. From the tales of a people who cherished
Glory, unaware of losing their noses.

22. Brothers we are, in trial we drove them
To bounties, driving the unwilling.

23. And coerced them to the loyalty of kin
With the coercion of the strong using kindness.

24. If only you could take their place in glory
And refuse to follow the ally.

25. So know it, how can something be denied
When its description encompasses the described?

26. Before long you will see it, and see
The gaping void after it, in place of close support.

27. I do not mean to trouble your hearing with threats,
Since threats are the stratagem of the weak.

28. We have stuck to the shade of the silk-cotton tree,
As shreds stick to the patcher.

29. And been enriched by it over traveling and
The begging night of the doleful beggar.

30. It mixes jest with seriousness, and gives you
A tattered, patched gown and rags.

31. As if we are in a meadow, whose softness
The breeze has clad in whispers.

32. The oyster's pearl slipped off it, and its
Eyelids dreamed of blinking.

33. It is generous, and the best of our old wealth
In benevolence, the alms of the fresh and new.

34. My guilt toward your chastity is only
That I am in your sweet company.

35. They envied me nobility and good news,
And did not envy me for kindness.