1. I implored God pleadingly for support,
So He granted me the weakest of what I asked for and said, “Here you are.”

2. And placed in your hands the kingdom when
The Turks began to desecrate and violate.

3. So you are for the Lord of this kingdom a sword -
Whenever He is wronged, you retaliate.

4. The ministry in Bukhara refused anyone
But you, just as it had refused all but your father before you.

5. And since I was disappointed by the minister,
He would fill it with men until they overwhelmed you.

6. The King spared you from it only
To test those besides you with what He tested you.

7. They were not of benefit without you to a poor man,
Nor were they of benefit without you to anyone else.

8. You were a sheathed sword on the day of peace,
But when war flared up, you were unsheathed.

9. Against the enemies you were most resolute
And decisive, more than their own swords.

10. If the men of the world rose to contend
With what burdened you, they would not match your singing.

11. You did with some of your words every deed,
And with your pardoning my view, you ennobled me.

12. You nurtured the young foal of the udder of knowledge as a child,
So you surpassed people in the cradle by your embrace.

13. You have never been destroyed by drinking deadly poison,
Nor harmed by eating poisonous food.

14. If the worries of kingdoms are nights of distress,
The dawn of your opinion or your making them dissipate.

15. So overlook the misstep of the wrongdoer
If you advance in a war that is your misstep.

16. And forgive the downpour of drops generously
If its pouring should strike your ear.

17. Your lips were never opened or pressed together in a day
Except by your hands closing or spreading.

18. The sea lagged behind your supply
When you marched, so we did not call it your brother.

19. The stars in Al-Muzannah did not race you
When they sped - they sped your supply, but did not speak of you.

20. Rather, the clouds understood and prostrated
On the earth’s face to you when they saw you.

21. You are too precious to compete
And too high in rank to be emulated.

22. You attained the sky though it was lofty
On the branch of glory in the land you developed.

23. So welcome it and whoever is in it, protecting
Yourself from all who sought you.

24. For it is a paradise for you, so seize it,
And they are for you a paradise from what you have prepared.

25. I almost console the two dear ones
By joining them, longing for that embrace.

26. If I let your glance flow in my heart,
I would see evidence of that as I see you.

27. I worship God - I chose no house
The length of days but yours to rise in.

28. How many hands you gave me authority over
Such that I do not see for them release!

29. You clothed me in robes of honor
And placed my feet atop the highest abode.

30. It is enough for me that you raised my heel -
By your raising it, it reached the highest abode.

31. Neither did the days debase glory for you
Nor did the Omnipotent take back what He granted you.

32. My poetry spread everywhere in the land
And settled when it saw you, not missing you.

33. You were resolute in purpose until
You prevented me, staying seeking your approval.

34. Had my state at nights not been limited,
I would not have journeyed on from protecting you.

35. You named two matters to me - it suffices me
To prefer one of them when I choose that.

36. Even if you do not make the star my sandal
Or the Milky Way my footstool,

37. Leave what you wish for us and lower -
For ourselves and what you possessed are your ransom.

38. I never disdained your generosity, but
Your affection’s devotion sufficed me from craving.

39. Had asking the sea’s permission been possible,
It would ask your permission and withdraw.

40. So I do not desire any sea but your supply,
Nor camp except in your pathway.