1. O you who reproach me, and your reproach is separation
Lovers do not reproach each other like this

2. I had hardly recognized the fault of the one I loved
Until I asked around, so I ceased to yearn

3. And when passion subsided and desire faded
The hearts saw, though the eyes did not

4. A drink of life with al-Mutayrah, heedless
Captivity and freedom did not make me forget it

5. And the theaters of glances amid gardens
Where their water murmurs gently

6. And chambers whose shadows are whispers
And breaths of their winds are soft

7. And on the branches, from the doves, are voices
Ringing in their slender necks

8. I wonder at one whose horizons are narrow
While Syria is Syria and Iraq is Iraq

9. A weak man sticks to his mat
The worst bed is incapacity and slackness

10. Attempt great matters, and do not say
Glories and high ranks are allotted

11. And make your soul desire to be deficient
From a goal the seekers race to

12. Do not worry, for when your day comes
Its time, worrying will not avail

13. And if you cannot reach the abode of your enemy
And mix with him, mingling is harmony

14. For fire and its opposite, water
Give produce, and its nature is burning

15. By my father and mother, of those who delighted
My sight among them, and eyes have taste

16. O you who makes excuses for himself by meeting us
Yearning passes, rigors ease

17. If your last meeting and union with us
Was the day of parting, an embrace and clinging

18. Between me and you are lands whose people
Take staves as weapons, staves their armor

19. There the substitutes for pleasures are like dolls
The blink of an eye, and the ewes, bleating

20. I entertain them sullenly, their saddlebags
Their slippers, their arguments, babbling

21. Familiar with them after the journey are villainous guides
Of the crooked family, and the honest, freed slaves

22. They roam with every misguidance in the wilderness
Their landmarks are traces, traces zigzagging

23. As if they are Indian swords
Drawn from their sheaths at dawn

24. And I rode the ship after you, returning
My companions the anchors from its sides

25. I grew hopeful, seeking high dignity, and took cover
In the greatest who grows the aspirations

26. And I visit in the Abode of the Caliphate, an abode
For its Lord all the countries yearn

27. Aspirations cast us toward Him whom
The horizons aim for, to Him cast

28. By the Powerful Bestower, the crises of our affair
Returned to their staffs

29. And God erased by it misguidance and blindness
And cured hearts filled with hypocrisy

30. A king whom tents are too narrow for, his only
Shelters being the shades of wide spaces

31. His remoteness is feared, and his nearness formidable
His glance and attention are dreaded

32. In his grasp is the sword by which he gives life
And takes it, it is lethal and curing

33. O king whom the lifespans and provisions
Proceed according to his command

34. After you thunder and lightning
And for you are the swords and spilled blood

35. And for you are prophethood, caliphate and guidance
All merits besides these are pretense

36. The citadels of the yellow-faced Byzantines were opened by might
And by the right hand of your grandfather strongholds unlock

37. Give glad tidings to the Commander of the Faithful, for he
Is a moon that rose, and the full moon in it has set

38. After the countries were obstinate then submitted
The allegiance of the people of earth, though they differed

39. Among them the tongues had no hope
Until your fluttering banner rose high

40. And those who hated you saw
That no sanctity or pact protected against you

41. They turned away with what the warrior turns with when defeated
But this was a trick, and that a bond

42. As if those gazelles with their palms
Among them, that strife and contention

43. Their bowstrings attached to their necks
As if their strings are fetters, choking

44. If they would listen to virtue, it would tell them
Fleeing battle is disgrace

45. The ways of your Lord with an enemy when tyrannical
And blood in your palm continuously pouring

46. And you aided a people, between their souls
No concord, the blood of hearts pulsating

47. Days of the sons of Daylam amongst them
A cup passed around brimming with trouble

48. By you, after its pillars of glory quaked
It stood firm, and the caliphate was supported

49. If their opinion strayed, you are their meteor
Their pillar, if leaves withered

50. And to you is their refuge, when adversity remains
Constricting them, and the pass narrowed

51. A glorious one guaranteed protection and sufficiency
In him are valor and excellent manners

52. And He granted us sanctuary when sanctuary is booty
Going ahead with pride, preceding

53. One who has violated oaths with them
Kept safe, as well as pact and covenant

54. The ropes of his gifts were tied to his loyalty
And by the like let hopes be suspended

55. One inferior to me criticizes me
But pearl is not shamed by perforation

56. I have only that it be said, 'zeal
Preceded the flies of the sword, unbearable'

57. I am not reassured, nor do I yearn for passion
And for every living being in life there is an aim

58. And I live on the affliction which if it were
Tears, the deep valleys would not be watered

59. And lack of dirhams increases my chastity
For dirhams, necks are struck