1. Your question, where is its answer in this land?
Who does not understand speech, how can he respond?

2. You stood still, but standing avails you nothing in this abode,
The rain of early clouds watered this house.

3. Your singing in those dwellings, onlooker,
With tears that kept flowing copiously.

4. To shadows stronger, yet after them
Nothing of your companion remained, his nearness or avoidance.

5. You recalled the days of youth, that era,
But can youth return after old age?

6. That life and tender branch once
Pleased and purified like pure drink.

7. I found for my heart, not what you find,
Sorrow in my chest that parked its steeds.

8. The seal of tears flows, O Mayya, regrets,
The passing of youth that will not return.

9. And a lifetime whose calamities I suffer daily,
That is my wont, O Umayma, and its habit.

10. Led to the one with a gap tooth among the people his humiliation,
And standing by the free man in them his affliction.

11. It suffices you from me a patience most glorious,
When dwelling narrowed for my like its expanses.

12. He spends the night sighing worries every night,
With days prolonging for him blame.

13. Strangely determined he spent his life persevering,
And this life will not end its wonders.

14. The black of water exceeds his clearness
And the Euphrates eliminates its pure dogs.

15. Did not the brilliant heads bow down
As the leader of the people among them bent his tail?

16. And magnify through it the lowly, as it is great,
When the darkness enshrouded the shining its veil.

17. When will this darkness I see disperse
And the face of dawn uncover its mask?

18. And after despair shine the glimmer of hope
And he who promised hope prove his lies?

19. Who can I have, a lifetime that does not keep fighting me
Whose valleys collapse and whose wars flare up?

20. Disloyal, biting its fingers,
Its wolves raiding the meadows against us.

21. It threw insults and blame,
But its blame does not harm the villain’s honor.

22. I reviewed my brethren but did not see among them
One straight on the path of loyalty, accompanying.

23. Is there not, by Allah, among people one whose brotherhood
Ties the slings on the cracked bone?

24. The cup of worries keeps my company as if
Its pure poison moistened its lips.

25. The furthest I tried freely nearing it
Was your nearing of what pleases and its approach.

26. Your share of it is its honey without bees,
If it is mixed with honey is its bees.

27. It shows you contentment while fate is averse
And you hope for the matter you dread.

28. Your view is not law in the streets
Nor a fresh spring suitable for drinking.

29. People are only as you know them,
So do not seek what is dear in its quest.

30. I tested the sweet and bitter of fate,
To me they are equal, its sweetness and punishment.

31. It is as if I see Abdel Ghani with his family
Strange from nobles, prolonged his estrangement.

32. Distinguishes him from them composed manners
In the finest of the arrangement of stars and his aura.

33. Precious for the nights of the necklaces his state in it
Of superiority, necks of destinations and their napes.

34. If he turns from enduring sorrows, he
Turns to sorrows if he does not turn to them.

35. He shone so his loftiness drank full and quenched
By it the sorrow of his hopeful one and its valleys flooded.

36. Do you know other than that stubborn hero
Defiant of fate whether it hardens or softens?

37. He wore flowing robes of fatherhood entire
And the lion-like was clad in garments.

38. He did not alight on the ground that submitted
Even if that land was musk in its soil.

39. He struck above the lofty heights and stomped
Upon the peaks of eternal glory his domes.

40. The radiant suns became beneath him
And his eagle soared in the atmosphere of pride.

41. God refused and the defiant soul that his concerns
Be seen as other than the lofty and his gloom.

42. So dangers submitted to him after defiance
And those of every hardship bowed to him in hardness.

43. Had he willed he would have removed the harm and scattered its sum
And the Yemeni sword never left its sheath.

44. And exerting in every science of defiance
None exceeds it, by my life, in judgment.

45. With a reason that sees what no other reason sees
His meteors splitting the darkness of night.

46. Intent on his convoy never swerving
Aiming it and that is its aim and pouring.

47. While had that cloud gone barren then a refuge
In a little time its mist would fade.

48. As for elegy, if I were to elegize him
Suffices you the tribulations of matters elegizing him.

49. The weapon of might, essence of his wrath
As the Indian sword but for its flies.

50. Knowledgeable of what poetry necessitates and one
Who calls to great good, responding.

51. When a good deed pertains, it pertains
To the Lord of good, its pertinence.

52. Are favor and benevolence anything but His making?
Or praise and gratitude anything but its gain?

53. And I, whenever I am devoid of wealth
And the doors of hopes are shut to me,

54. It appears to me I should incline to the light of his fire
And lean toward that brilliant side.

55. So he drove me from it with diversions
Of bliss, bubbles of bounty its clouds.

56. And I became lofty in fortune after
Emptiness, then never ceased, fulfillment and its sweetness.

57. Whenever goodwill takes every course
To you despite misfortunes, its destination,

58. You will never see me, alive, hopeful
Of other than you, nor has baseness attached its blame to me.

59. Nor seeking from a lowly a rewarded
Forbidden to the free, its reward.

60. And none else have I raised to it the lightning of glory
Nor did a mirage in the thirsty deceive me.