1. I do not ask of the ruins or their quarter
Nor one who is stingy with what he possesses

2. I raise my worries and protect my wishes
From greed, shaking off its sieves

3. So I do not see except at a watering hole
Where I glory in honor and its burdens

4. As if my urns and their capacities
Were poured upon a noble lady's train

5. Or an active man whose surroundings
Were grasped by the talons of a daring hawk

6. So he remained steadfast on a high ground
Keeping watch of the night and its horrors

7. So that he may shoot at it with his writ
Like the twang of arrows and strays

8. Whoever desires the world remains greedy
That he may sculpture its image in water

9. Like the sands of barren deserts, sustained by them
The eyelid cannot control its state

10. It kills with provision and revives thereby
Thus it is deceptive to souls

11. The cycle of fate has changed its phases
And the worker has undertaken his deeds

12. So the youth may deduce from it in a condition
When its aspects are averted from his face

13. Thus he drinks its bitterness at times
And at others he drinks its chains

14. This crescent after it was overwhelmed
By the events of fate that overwhelmed it

15. It came to dawn, unleashing its arrows at the enemy
God has gathered its afflictions for it

16. And the coat of mail that was worn
Became after clothes, its cloak

17. So say to the originator in his pardon
Good fortune to your prisoner, good fortune to him

18. You have tamed from it a vicious lion
Who was used to chewing on meat and its cubs

19. A hunter whom the severity of his might
Does not frighten the upheavals of fate and its burdens

20. So unleash it if a feast is prepared
The feelings of awe and its heroes

21. And every vilifier inclined to sedition
Has rolled up the train of his garment for the pounce

22. Perhaps if his abode was shaken
And the ropes became his appointed time

23. And wine overcame his mind
In intoxication spreading out its hopes

24. That he may recall the effort and what he attained
So he thanks the length that was extended to him

25. The pride of the kingdom was excessive in his munificence
Until people were perplexed by his favors

26. For him the sturdy abodes tremble
Fear quakes through them in its tremors

27. The lands in their regions could hardly
Bear them, and the earth is its burdener

28. And an stand in Wasit yesterday
That stunned the chiefs and did not stun him

29. When the king became angry and his
Ferocity stirred with the needle and its sewings

30. People cannot be guided to its imbalance
And evil has obscured its locks

31. Abu Ghalib matched the joints of the matter and its limbs
If the king's birds are deterred

32. His surname becomes his omen
The neighbor is not safe from what has dragged him

33. And the dunes do not spare their burrows
Nor do you see him subduing his resolve

34. Rejoicing in good when he attains it
As if the remains of conversing planets

35. Flowed down his cheek
From the sunna of the full moon he has beauty

36. And the rising of the sun is his halo
He pairs sides in position

37. Where his uncle meets his maternal uncle
God has not created the like of him

38. Alas, He will not create the like of him