1. Leave her be, a respite for the blamers
And ask about what the clouds of blame pour

2. And learn all that you need in these days
Where do I miss its rightness and bargaining

3. With a rugged path behind me and in front of me
With clear proof, proper opinion

4. Like Sirius with a lantern in the darkness
Man was created imperfect and he aspires

5. To demonstrate maturity in seeking perfection
Whoever God has decided to entrust with responsibility

6. Wealth is not enough for his goals
And preoccupied with blocking the paths of death

7. While he is resting on the path of the dovecote
My ignorance has passed and dissipated from me

8. And my foolishness and bareness have been revealed
And I forgot what old age and hoary hair

9. Tell me, shining in my darkness
So my desisting from passion and my earnestness

10. And my devotion to prohibition and my standing
And I obeyed advice after having been

11. Renouncing advice, doffing my cloak
And I turned away willingly from God's racecourse

12. And the place of wishes and the shelter of the blamers
And I made the chiefs hope through status and money

13. To pull the gown of favor
And I learned that the delusion of wealth within us

14. Is like the delusion of dreams
And my position among the caliphs one day

15. When delegations gather is the best position
None but me has the likes of what I have from them

16. Of types of glorification and honor
They always have and always will extol my status

17. And recompense me abundantly
And stand in awe of me, and the poets

18. Have inclined toward my opinion in weighty matters
And when I judge a matter they close off

19. The ways of departing from my judgments
And they turn away any visitor with whom

20. There is no grant of mine
And they release their palms from the fruits of the lush

21. Unless my protection is upon them
They possessed my lead due to what they enabled

22. Of my adherence to loving them and my commitment
So if I pardon a sin one day it is for their sake

23. And for their sake my revenge will be
And toward them, if hostile tribes show

24. Hostility, will be my alignment and conjunction
And I specialized the kings, they answer

25. My call and listen to my speech
And if I blame them one day for some

26. Grave mistake, they carry out my reproach there
And when perils happened that enfeebled

27. The order of kings, or weakness befell the regime
They make me their guide in fiery chaos

28. Or they make me their morning in darkness
How often my word held back the hotheads

29. And restrained the swords with the pens
For they saw the day they provoked the king of al-Basrah

30. My keeping him from attacking
After the battle was intent, and swooping

31. Down to snatch the dearest plunder was rushing headlong
And there appeared to the people a dreadful, deaf

32. Commotion roaming the darkness without a bridle
They charged me with rectifying it, and put me forward

33. To seek peace in the most perilous exploits
So I warded it off by my moderation

34. And propped up its distortion with my pillars
And I gave back clarity after it was being dragged

35. By the fist of the dominant
How can my glory ebb when chance stumbled

36. On the error of the scantily ambitious?
And ignorant is he who imagines while behind me

37. That he is ahead of me in merit
My fault against him is none but my surplus

38. Over him and his falling short of my wholeness
I contended against those who reached out to possibility

39. Ambitiously trying to cut off all dispute
No embittered one has defamed me, and how many have I poisoned

40. And laid low with what would shame the embittered!
My roots were implanted in clay of pottery

41. And my green branches flourished, growing
So leave to the brave his nighttime bed and leave the lair

42. To the snarling wolf!
For if my silence tempts you, how many torrid

43. Deserts rage after slumber!
Between me and the first of my people is nothing

44. But righteousness or a messenger or an imam,
Or a great worthy man for tremendous, formidable

45. Mishaps or momentous events,
With bodies like boulders, staid,

46. And faces like full moons, perfect,
I want my sweet-smelling fame to spread through

47. Champions from every courageous cavalier
None but the chief above the rabble is there

48. A jump and a leap in youth like a boy
They left rain in the most desolate place and they were

49. The spirits in the wilds, in bodies
And if blood was split and the elite

50. Were about to die, fallen in disaster
They relinquished life to death and turned away

51. With piercing noses, disdainful of compulsion
And they took amusement while their honor remained

52. Unstained, the everlasting mantle undefiled by grit
And their striking nowhere but the throat of slaughter and smiting

53. Of the swords, none but the Hot and Cold Springs
And if you compared them with others besides them

54. The difference between foul and pure would be clear
Sometimes my guardianship flows over furious

55. As flooding water and an ocean of eloquence
And meanings refined more delicately than perceptions

56. Which I brought near to the perceptions
And fine details which I presented boldly

57. And licit things which I explicated from prohibited
How often I crushed an unsavory adversary in debate

58. As if I star-blazed him with stars
And a stubborn one I guided after he had been

59. Straying from the Sunna of Islam
And the loose-tongued, there poured upon him

60. Through my speech the clouds of silencing
And through my scattering and arranging, expeditions spread

61. To the horizons unfurling the surplus of the lead rope
Indeed, I have attained what I intended

62. And surpassed greatly what the tribes desired
I care not, seeing with my own eyes

63. What noble circles hoped of me
And if I were in a high place of glory

64. Above the dust of dreams
And if my skirt and train were exposed

65. For censured faults and sins
Then an inert life and a departure

66. Are impending, soon to come