1. Welcome, welcome, with ease
To a prince loved by all hearts

2. Joy and bliss come whenever
He turns to me even if he turns away

3. His glory grew so my humility in love grew
The one in love saw subservience beneficial so he submitted

4. It is said that love is the folly of the ignorant
And love itself fully occupies the mind of the wise

5. How often we have seen a rational man endure hardship
Yet unable to endure the hardship of love

6. When he lost control over his love
He was less able to control his temper against his foe

7. Nejd is not deserving of abandonment where it complains
Nor the sanctuary deserving of being filled

8. The day I left it, I found no rest from it
That would bring together love and settlement

9. Who can blame me if a critic persists
In advising me while he is more blameworthy?

10. I am angry that I preserved the glory of my master
And prohibited what he prohibited

11. Oh son of one whom if he called me to sacrifice myself
I would have sacrificed myself without hesitation

12. We did not ask you for anything so you would be prolix
Nor were you worthy of magnanimity

13. Come tell me, what is the excuse for estrangements
When she is not naturally disposed for estrangement?

14. She fell where the doves fell, sadly
After the carrion filled her and she was filled

15. She has the sanctity of settlement if
The lands where you reside were places to settle

16. A need has presented itself which the people overlooked
So we called upon the noble and great one for it

17. Who can openly harm an enemy if he wishes
Or harm craftily if he so chooses?

18. Oh best of people in opinion and management
And most perfect in creation and mind

19. How can you let yourself incline toward a people
Who see abundance in you as inadequate?

20. From an enemy who seeks to take away your nobility
And an envious one who dies of rage and hatred

21. Be aloof from their eyes and deaf to their hearing
With your hands tied and your arms restrained

22. And take the multitude of swords as a support
With them the mighty prevents the weak

23. While they are in the shade of clouds
Until the shade doubled for the shade

24. And suspect that each companion will return
An enemy except for spear and sword

25. So your loyal brother is he whom you do not plunge
Ignorantly or overburden with a load

26. May God grant victory to whoever the fate
Was difficult for yet met death easily

27. The alighting of doves when degradation is repelled
Is sweet but living in glory is sweeter

28. I wonder at one who dug you a well greedily
Hoping you would slip into it and fail

29. Satisfied with himself against countless men
Who were not routed in days of madness and defeat

30. God bears witness that when you were absent
He showed you their plot diminished

31. And secrets he related about the new crescent moon
That left the sun newly born

32. You were foremost with proofs and opinions during disputes
And words, actions and deeds

33. You did not distinguish between life and death
Until you opened the horizons

34. You were generous when goblets were filled
That you would not be the filled

35. Going high with yourself, making not
The sun your sandal for your feet

36. And you went about the platforms of the prophets
To the family of Hashim, place after place

37. Your father the successor was the first
To raise the minaret of guidance, prayed and fasted

38. Quraish spread his rope but only increased
It unto the cry of the resurrection

39. And Hussein, who saw death with honor as life
And living in humiliation as death

40. And Ali, father of the imams
And grandsons, virtues increased by him

41. Then Zaid, and what a Zaid! When it is said
To strike the foreheads, desist!

42. Then the emotional one who wore grief
As his garb and visions as his kohl

43. He did not find a supporter against the Marwan clan
So he instigated the enemies and empowered them

44. Then Yahya who was a light for the people
By whom the lamps are illuminated

45. Then above dew and hopes
A time of generosity and giving

46. And his son Ahmad who turned away
From the world and saw it as paltry

47. And his brother Yahya whom the land filled
With cavalry and infantry for al-Musta`in

48. And Hussein ibn Ahmad who was for leadership
A chapter and for governance justice

49. Then followed Yahya whom eyes never saw
For the like of people an equivalent

50. And your father the lesser saw the unseen as revelation
Without them being misguided for a hint

51. Then you, the destination of glory
And its districts wherever it descended

52. And so it does not cease, or the Riser emerges
The best of people for your progeny a progeny

53. Allies of God in this earth
And they were before the caliphate messengers

54. And if they separate or gather
The consensus of people for praise are inclusive

55. The stream of pearls, its water derives from it
So it cannot gain by your polishing, polish

56. We have praised Muhammad, finding him
Needless, too majestic to be lauded

57. None from the loins of Adam is more wondrous
A branch from Him, and an origin more generous

58. If he dies the livelihood of the poor dies
And widows do not suckle a baby

59. The naked truth appears in gesture and speech
And for the tongues of people a mind

60. People have not seen the like of your time
In the eras of people, madness and confusion

61. A thousand warriors, forts
As numberless as droplets, not afforded fodder

62. My brains are reassured and my insides comforted
Since I held fast to your ropes as a rope