1. Your abodes have been watered, O daughter of the nations,
And the direction of every cloud poured towards it.

2. Its yards and drawings were adorned
With light dawning from the peaks.

3. O dwellings which the breeze toyed with their soil
Hardships of time did not change you.

4. And your crescent-like beauty laments its passion,
Regretting a people who avoided your generosity.

5. You still enjoy youth and the morning breeze,
And the yearning of every murmuring nightingale.

6. Until the passing months and years increase you
In joy and vitality.

7. Those whom you entrusted with your two valleys,
Their palms transgress against the helpless.

8. Whatever traits you detect and souls you dislike
That dislike the company of bodies.

9. And charming glances that glance with doe eyes
And twinkle with the tales of meadows.

10. If I were free I would enjoy losing them,
I would only be a madly-in-love dove.

11. My longing to you was so severe after
My determination was unleashed without a bridle.

12. Relieve your eyelids with sleep, for it
Was not real life but a dream.

13. And I imagine it a dream due to the frequency
Of seeing its days in the darkness of dreams.

14. And a persistent one who rides his illusion,
Whom no blame of blamers deters.

15. I woke him up at dawn and said, “Do you not see
The light of dawn creeping into the darkness?”

16. So his soul quivered like a twig being played with
Or like the shuddering of a resolute sword.

17. And an interval in which he hopes for the return of his answer
On the day of questioning, that he will stand in my position.

18. If I were like you I would have said what you said,
But you have aimed at other than my goal.

19. Do not persist in disparaging my honor, it
Is a share I accepted from the divisions.

20. And I was ascetic so I was the first ascetic,
And I was desirous so I threw the best of goals.

21. And I praised a king wearing the crown
With uncles and paternal uncles reciprocating.

22. His feet advance towards his enemies
Until they stagger into the resting place of passions.

23. And if the tongue-tied calls for the silence of his swords
The eloquent returns the response decisively.

24. I mean the pillar of religion indeed he
On whom the pillars of Islam stood.

25. He whom if you blame or denounce
You liken him to pouring rain and drizzle.

26. Or if you attempt the least of his description
You exhaust the ultimate of pages and pens.

27. Think good of him if you fear him,
O owner of sins and crimes.

28. For who forgives and is forbearing like his forbearance
In what is permissible for him to collect from the tribes?

29. And who is patient and enduring like his endurance
And who gathers his sides upon sorrows?

30. You imagine him from his rationality, troubled,
In fear while he is the torrent in legs.

31. And if you seek his currents and tides
You would place your foot in the dark abyss.

32. He comes near and moves away yet not by his nearing
Does his humility cease from greatness.

33. Like the sun whose light is lit from and its face
Covers investigating every noble eye.

34. The eyes of the people were incapable of perceiving it
And it was infeasible except to illusions.

35. Your excellent horses leaped a leap
That threw their bottoms upon the high flags.

36. They wore iron armor while only
Breastplates and impenetrable shields were worn for them.

37. And the plebeian took from their sharp blades
A day that awakens the sleeping eyes.

38. He kept excelling in most matters
Until he excelled in pragmatism without equal.

39. And for it there is a day to which its return
Spreads greetings while they are not safe greetings.

40. Until its plains and depressions wrap
A flame from the torches and unquenched fires.

41. O leader wise in his opinion
Amongst the people in affliction and blessing.

42. None settled before you in its rein
My strength nor controlled the bridle my peer.

43. So guard the reins of ambitions that you have protected
From these insects and cattle.

44. None was like you among kings nor was
Anyone like your father in peace and decisiveness.

45. I yearn for him when forelocks exchange
And when heads bow down to feet.

46. You have not ceased to overwhelm me with great bounties
And distinguish me with good news and honors.

47. Until the course of your love ran in my blood
And your affection walked in the joints of my bones.

48. The Nayrouz gifted you a thousand like it
Arranged like a pearl necklace in composition.

49. And you remained suckling the breast of fate
And attaining its pleasure without weaning.

50. Everything new, no matter the prolonging of its stay
Wears out, while you triumphed over events.

51. In the shade of a kingdom that has no worries
And a state fulfilled without increase but continuity.