1. The wind blew by it with the spirits.
So it yearned for the ruins and fervor.

2. Or did it recall its loved ones in Sallaj
So it stirred in it the covenant of ages past.

3. I see it cannot keep composure or fervor
And longing took hold in its heart and kindled.

4. Love sharpened in it the longing for the abode of Mayy.
So its journey came to a halt in the desert and cheek.

5. And passion for Najd's youth obsessed it.
So neither Sallaj nor Najd granted it respite.

6. And my tears are like the flowing tears
That flow back and forth on my cheeks.

7. I wish you both would relate to me
About loved ones who in my heart have affection.

8. For them I have an increasing passion
While they shun and avoid me.

9. I lost patience in their love
Yet I feel it is guidance and righteousness.

10. So their love created my cloak of endurance
While the cloak of fervor in them is renewable.

11. I poured myself out to them so they enslaved me
And pouring oneself out to the beloved is to be a slave.

12. And in their district I have a sly fox
Whose glance the valiant lions dread.

13. Whenever it rubbed against the lofty sands
And how many times it stabbed the tender breasts.

14. And a night at Al-Ubayriq where I spent
Its folds and my cheek carried from it.

15. Inclination makes us lean wherever we incline
While our livelihood in it is plentiful.

16. We rode our whims to exhaustion.
So we do not refuse delight.

17. Nights that passed down to us when they turned -
A moan arises in us that finds.

18. So will you bring me happiness, Saad?
For I lost patience from not seeing you lost.

19. And not all can be hoped for in time of need
When the timeless one disputes.

20. Except Mahmoud, Mahmoud of excellent traits.
For me he is the firmest pillar.

21. When the traits of a people's generous one are counted
The first of his traits to count.

22. My joy in worries when they beset me
And my plentiful life wherever life is arduous.

23. By the grace of his right hand and prey of his hands -
One accompanied succeeds and one opposed fails.

24. And the overflow of his knowledge openly
Indicates he is an abundant sea.

25. His springs have been sweetened so he has become
For all people from his purity a drink.

26. He has mastered knowledge, kindness and generosity -
A confluence that no limit can take stock of.

27. The generosity of his tongue is a precious pearl
And the generosity of his mind is generosity and boons.

28. He has assumed the sword of piety, ardor -
For him is the awesomeness of the Merciful an army.

29. Ask him the obscure points in sciences -
None quicker to reveal than him in response.

30. Sciences he set before his eyes dazzled
The minds of its seekers however they can find.

31. Brilliant, penetrating of thoughts in his mind -
So no flint to his mind can strike fire.

32. Question him and he reveals a stream of pearls
And reveals from the sword of severity a flame.

33. And how he has rendered the pretentious helpless in response
With answers, by your life, that cannot be countered.

34. When he uncovers the truths in his discourse
It is as if its prosody in prose is strung together.

35. And he answered the scholar of untruth with what
Neither Iran nor India can answer in response.

36. And in his presence the pretentious became mute
And their misguidance and his guidance became manifest.

37. Your Lord has certainly given him great bounty
And that is from the God of the Throne a promise.

38. He upheld the law of the honorable one through it
And with it the religion of God was supported.

39. A leader, exemplar of the scholars, a date palm -
He has certainly gathered virtues and he is unique.

40. So in two oceans of grace and knowledge
One gifted and visiting gains abundance.

41. To you, O father of praise, I stay up praising
Even if my tongue falters in praising you it efforts.

42. And of the duties recited to you
Is thanking your favor, bounty with praise.

43. May a happy feast delight you my master
For you through the years lasting return.

44. And here is from the needy a poem
Your pleasure with it is generosity and boon.

45. Permit me in praising you my saliva
For it is to me hope and purpose.