1. You wrong him while the turtledove coos near him,
A foe faults the full moon at its peak.

2. If the saying becomes common gossip
The eagles cannot equal his doves.

3. If our valley grows poetry as plants,
None hides its defects from its fruits.

4. No ungrateful person rightly thanks you
Even if he gives the world as ransom.

5. Do not oblige me with eloquence praising you
That makes my thoughts fall short of obligations.

6. You gained the boldness of the lofty, so much
The beasts wish they gained it from their audacity.

7. When the fragrant musk brags, it only claims
It is from the perfumes of his clothes.

8. When the prey of protection arrives at its nadir,
It settles there trusting its grip.

9. Dwellings - if the doves return with dignity -
None who seizes them will be disturbed by their cooing.

10. When your palms release the cheeks of a beggar,
They are not pleased with the crumbs from his meal.

11. Two whitened clouds - since Allah showed them to us -
We do not care for the darkness of clouds.

12. You are like the pond of elation lowering itself
To drink from its flowers until it was sated from its thorns.

13. You are like a sea pearl floating
Upon the water, so the land was deprived of its twin.

14. You are like the pillar of the house given ability
So it walked to its visitors to greet them.

15. You gave abundant wealth when you gained it
And you empowered fate before consulting it.

16. If Al-Qarnayn gained what you gained of wealth
He would build a dam from his vigor and power.

17. Does the ant hoard food for its day
When the ants hoard food for the year?

18. How many lands I left sighing over you
At dawn, the heart of its protector sighing over it.

19. The breeze almost informs us from its path to his land
Of its passion and love for him.

20. A steed that surpasses horses after it weakened
So how can it compete after the length of its bridle?

21. A band whose lions are timid of the courage of its people
They protect it from behind and in front.

22. The children of powerful tribes who rouse from slumber
Its elite, invaders, and heroes in its assaults.

23. Does the gloomy night claim that the sparks of its darkness
Equal the radiance of the sun from its rising?

24. The spear horn was not helped during battle
By the abundance of its arrows.

25. The half-breed Arab is not equal in his clothing
Or his adornments, saddle, or reins.

26. Whoever whets his swords before the battle
Distinguishes and knows the wrath from its sheath.

27. If not for Sa'eed who stayed up regretting a star
He would pour its rain upon the land.

28. It was the remnant graces of royal Udayd
That returned to Zoraa some of its concerns.

29. It progressed toward it while the dawn was dead, as though
Asking the ground about its pillar from its debris.

30. And it bent away except toward elation, as though
Deeming anything other than it excessive in its intent.

31. With a spying eye, it roams fate as though
Inspecting its contents for his benevolence.

32. Two whitened clouds - since Allah showed them -
We do not care for the darkness of clouds.

33. You remember from the water of capitals a drink
While the blueness of highlands without the blueness of its buffalo skin.

34. If the clear water spoke in submission to it
They would not repeat greeting it back.

35. Someone veiled in a curly forelock - it married him
But did not reveal the hidden of his veil.

36. How many springs between the Levant and Karkh
Whose sources are mixed with its poison.

37. It is as though the morning there lies in wait
Breaking out to it through its thicket.

38. The radiance of dawn passes it in disguise
Fearing it might attack him from its darkness.

39. A day as though the full moon endured its heat
So it returned with a pale color from its arrows.

40. Lands where the star loses its way
And its darkness folds its horizon from its banner.

41. Spearmint that keeps death away, if not for its donation
To people, death would have respected them.

42. The night hoped in it to last in its youth
But when it saw the land, it aged before maturity.

43. So Ali marched his cavalry and riders
And came only above obligation.

44. It plows through `Uqaylah while its eyes are still sleepy
Its sustenance all rationed from its swords.

45. It met the abodes of disorder, each misguided one
Leading the wicked by their bridle.

46. The harshest tragedies to it were maiming its she-camel
And the furthest thing from its guest is its food.

47. A brother of greed whose land the caravan does not alight
Except honored from his blame.

48. When the fire of firebrands blazed in the darkness
It hastened lighting from its fire with its flints.

49. And if its tent ropes were struck with a winnowing fork
The hyena kept away fearing its bellowing.

50. When the old camel bone was excited, it wished it
Ransomed it from barrenness with some of its bones.

51. No sound of strings was better to its ear
Than the gurgling of its sheep.

52. O Lord, do not let a house touched by affliction
Pass by it except empty of its germs.

53. If it is rain then divert it from its lands,
If it is death, then pour it from its calamities.

54. If not for Ali's disdain of him due to his status
Blame would unleash upon him its sword of vengeance.

55. It is honey but misfortunes made it bitter
And their mouths gaped to devour it.

56. Its enemies fear its might while it is still
Like the touch of embers before it flares.

57. Many armored men are feared while their swords are sheathed,
Serious matters the selves dread without reaching them.

58. When every city is amazed at laughing for him
Its wealth weeps from its injustice and seizure.

59. Many possessions of kingdoms were lost beneath his seal
Guarded from him in fear of his departure.

60. The corners of Iraq blamed it, but his departure from them
Is their greatest blame.

61. So when the morning found no fault in him
It blamed the people it faulted for their cessation.

62. If Baghdad could, it would stay up for him
Yearning in its corners for his stay.

63. When will the intense darkness imprison a bolt
To resist it and emerge radiant from its ashes?

64. I advise the rulers of the countries’ possessions
With advice given by one of merit in his positions.

65. I specify it over all of its eminent leaders
And shun the riffraff from it.

66. That Ali - all who gained wealth are poor
If they do not hoard some of his words.

67. I legislated praising him for the poets
As Abraham legislated pilgrimage to its site.

68. So Dhigham praises him with its roar,
And Shadin praises him with its groan.

69. This is legitimate and doctrinal for the eloquent,
Whoever disobeys me breaks his leader’s command.