1. My hopes in love are futile
And counsel from her rebuker increases my confusion

2. And if she who has forsaken me wanted
To return, I would bear her coquetry

3. Still the censurer says, until
You allowed him, making you hear the impossible

4. What is it to you and shyness when you have made
The hearts of lovers shackled to you

5. None have been tormented but my heart in which
Are scars from you - how can it incline elsewhere

6. You deserted while we were wakeful with love sickness
And you visited in the darkness of an imaginary specter

7. It is not abandonment for a reason but
You isolated yourself while we are not without yearning for you

8. A specter of you in the south of Najd
Shows me an example of your beauty

9. It stayed the night in our beds, conversing
When sleep left us, it departed

10. I indulged in vain dreams until
I wished the night would be prolonged for them

11. O night of Kakomah, make stray
your whiteness before engulfing us in misguidance

12. For dawn is not my concern, and it suffices me
The shadows of night make me dwell in shades

13. And the juicy pillows, if they quenched my thirst
Quenched me from their pure freshness

14. When will the smile loosen from the sincere
Scattered gravel that you suppose a torrent

15. As if in it the musk is pulverized and
Spread out or spilt wine is pouring

16. Fate made me wear black
Frightening the gazelles and the young bucks

17. I enjoyed its dye a short time
Then when years passed it changed

18. With the pride of the king I blamed the nights
And our bitterness turned fresh and pure

19. Time reconciled with it and there were
Battles with its caprices raging among us

20. And Iraq became of good condition
While the worst of lands changed

21. I entered his presence so he drew me near
And seated me in a position that cannot be surpassed

22. He honored me though in my life
I never carried favors for another

23. With kindness - if it's magnified and revered
The beginnings of it multiply in my heart

24. And words - whenever hearts are troubled
With my fortune, action follows

25. And good news the people take from it
Before the reach of his comfort, bounty

26. And when Badr called you to him
You rushed to his aid urgently

27. You saddened the plains, protected and bare
Impregnable, and you flattened the mountains

28. The crescent moon of polished swords saw them
The trailing edges bearing the crescent

29. Scowling - whenever they cast down a victim
They made his braided hair a turban

30. The polished swords made them as necklaces
And their hands did not reach long

31. As if upon their necks were stars
That slid down the slender necks or insects

32. And since they honed their swords on the whetstones
With the necks of foes, they abandoned the hones

33. War ignites from you with a blaze
That flares up when it wanes

34. And your heart, O audacious heart, is a heart
As if you never witnessed the fighting

35. With shining flanks
As if upon the horizons flags

36. In it is every unruly flame
That rivals the tall, erect

37. So you vanquished every high white fortress
With its domes, heads that cannot be transcended

38. And who but you, warded off enemies
When you increased the kings' boredom

39. And a towering fortress whose builder
Lengthened it cautiously lest it be seized

40. And you fortified it, and Allah knows
That you did not leave any weakness in it

41. You see it tapering to one who surmounted it
As if it was always straight, never bent

42. And its pinnacle touches the horizon until
You judge it aligned with the sun's cheek

43. You won it, and your guest from afar
Sees what was conferred on you

44. Never did time see upon it
Any but birds having open range

45. You transferred with what you transferred hearts of a people
And the wealthy suppose you transferred wealth

46. And you gave triumphal openings to the pillars of the faith
Each victory he sees as his dependents

47. And how many before it were conquering ones
Stretching the horizons, not fearing weariness

48. When the pillars of faith turn its sides by night
He wanders, intoxicated by it

49. So take it above what you covet of it
A gift you did not meet with refusal

50. And your glory is indeed a great share
You have exhausted men in the world

51. When they seek you, meet them graciously
And if they look at you, you captivate them with beauty

52. So why are you not satisfied with a position
As if you never attained perfection

53. Are you not the most perfect of us in manners and character?
And the most open handed of us right or left?

54. So what does he who sacrifices morning and night want
Having attained awe and majesty?

55. And who but him made people orderly
And the command discarded and disgraced?

56. So last, pride of the kings of the Buwayhids
Everlasting, which we do not wish to expire

57. And before you, my praise is prohibited
So take it today, made permitted and lawful