1. Take pleasure and enjoy the delight of music,
And marry the son of heaven to the daughter of grapes.

2. Drink to the tune of melodious strings,
Melted from the softness of a golden cup.

3. Do not miss an opportunity when time is generous,
Hours of your joy between glory and play.

4. See how the garden mimics with its meadows
The hands of spring and the rain’s generosity.

5. The roses have shown with thorns their power,
And colored their cheeks with the blood of lies.

6. How the tears of clouds pleased when they began
To see the green buds smile from their mustache.

7. The winds revive souls if blended
Composing for them a crown of seeds.

8. If the darkness of night appears confused
It throws the devils of worries at man like meteors.

9. Cure with it whatever grief you complain of
For in the wine is that which heals grief.

10. Pass the cups around so you see them circle
For they orbit round comfort like the pole.

11. What is past of the days of youth through it
Returns, and he who did not indulge becomes young in it.

12. The mouth of the drinker exudes it fresh,
You'd think it was molded from flames.

13. In a garden of delicate sights its charm,
And tears of the cloud never cease pouring.

14. The leaves recite from leaves what was professed
On the pulpits of the vine's branches from sermons.

15. I have not stopped from days past being blithe,
The call of joy and gladness chanting to me,

16. Until time brought us its Eid in surprise,
My eye delighted when Shawwal followed Rajab,

17. With the Alid Hashimi Sayyid we have
A hoped for victory from purpose and profit.

18. I have revived his virtues I did not know
From early times past and epochs.

19. May God grant him understanding and knowledge
And good manners and natural wisdom,

20. I boast of him to all nobles combined
With that lofty lineage which is enough.

21. May he ransom all who are hostile to him
For neither lineage nor ancestry avail.

22. He is the happy one enemies mourn over
Who in life is his enemy and has not lost?

23. When the Prince called him as delegate
He responded and showed a better delegate.

24. He called him for aid in the army of mountains
Where the nature of the army fits the mountains.

25. So he marched, aided by success that day,
The most generous manned and accompanied march.

26. His planning enriched the armies,
Needless of brigades with pens and books.

27. How many anxieties which burdened the army
His zeal relieved, deserving title of reliever of woes.

28. He called for obeying the Sultan, so gathered
To him tribes from near and from far,

29. They obeyed him and submitted to his rule,
Though had another called them, they'd not respond.

30. He counseled them what virtues of his they saw,
Marvels of kindness that brought wonder.

31. Such qualities were inherited from ancestors,
May God perpetuate the glory they built.

32. Of masters God honored existence with,
Who left him sublimity, from father to father.

33. No tongue was found but eloquent about them,
No heart attracted toward them unwillingly pulled.

34. Do not compare them to people of less nobility,
How can the head be compared to the tail?

35. The victorious army's deputy sufficed it
To whom curves of the world kneel at its hills.

36. His swords set right all crookedness,
And calmed since he came every troubled one.

37. And God prospered our Master the Excellency through it,
His good fortune steady, not reversed.

38. And it was greatest cause for the openings he made,
What a remarkable cause, beyond any cause!

39. By your Lord, were it not for him, not subsided
Would be a fire whose fuel the fire feeds on.

40. Deceitful, whose gaping mouths have no way
To stop devouring the innards of the people.

41. Greedy for attaining glory themselves
They do not weary of daring and seeking.

42. Better for them had they returned
From their folly after that effort and trouble.

43. They wronged when the devil incited between them,
Transgression delivers its household to ruins.

44. Until they arranged for war its affair,
Veiled from reason and management.

45. So men came whose numbers have no limit,
And confounded the Turks with what Arab forces they met.

46. My God, what will you do?
You risked yourself, beyond wealth and life.

47. With war raging and fires stoked,
The cowards said, “It is war, flee!”

48. Death fell on its heroes, corpses
As date palms drop with fruit heavy.

49. You leapt at them with bared sword,
Unsheathed from its scabbard, and frightened all the people.

50. You restrained their hands from their aim,
So they gained nothing but disgrace in defeat.

51. God scattered those who tyrannized and wronged,
The mob of dissenters amidst killing and fleeing.

52. God destroyed among their feet a band,
So one was to another worse than scabies.

53. You wearied, so gave nations rest after,
What rest is gained by man from toil?

54. Your grace encompassed that land entire,
O excellent refuge in fertile and prosperous plain.

55. The chief of notables and nobles of Mudar,
Pride of chieftainship, pride of fine masters.

56. May victory and clear conquest gladden you
And what you attained in rank from the Prince.

57. If the planets have gifted you with success
In a conjunction whose luck has not set.

58. This counselor whom God strengthen his state
Showed your superiority plainly to all the ignorant.

59. Take for yourself the rest of days a final verse
Hinting from you the delight of literary grace.