1. If we come after being close, though far is the abode
Still yearning and memory for you remain my load

2. Our loved ones, parts have played us with, till we
Like bows and they arrows that hit the mark for you

3. No leaves for the boughs since we departed your land
No more a place for us there, not even a trace I find

4. When askers seek news of me, my state I do conceal
And steadfast stay, my secrets from them to withhold

5. You left my body, no meeting occurred, ere it was slain
So flowing are my tears, though patience makes no gain

6. From you's denied all comfort that I hoped to gain
Not even your image in dreams comes, but in vain

7. To God I commend a folk whose stay is but in my heart
Be they still, or be they far, or further depart

8. Quaking eyelids against cheeks sunken in do I bear
My body tormented, its innards aflame with despair

9. If they come, tears give me aid, while hosts in my love crowd
March on as oft as they're mirrored in pupils endowed

10. O you who blame me in my fervent youth, take pause
For less blame from you would be more proper cause

11. You blamed the Najdi fir, its sharp points abound
Yet for its sake excuses of love did surround

12. Clasping waist and flapping cloak, along with the knight
Of the cushions, teasing, bold, to mischief so bright

13. I weep when love sounds, but it laughs at my pain
Mocking my gloom, so mocking and coy its refrain

14. If our gaze should wound his cheek, why for his gaze
Do our inwards as fuel for its embers blaze?

15. For love rules unjustly, impartiality null
Against neighbor or stranger it takes not at all

16. Thus the light of faith from it warns the soul
Desire of the forbidden is shame on the whole

17. A judge, when two parties disputes occupy
For upholding the right, has questioning and reply

18. His glory and gifts thereby enhanced, just as one
Called Coward yet brazen enhances the feats he has done

19. Sways him to glory his gentle, mild bearing
As sword to be drawn, or dagger for tearing

20. Free handed relieves poverty, makes disgrace easy to bear
While eulogies of his grandeur as high as stars flare

21. Halls of his bounty he erected; and to him therein many a hall
Of prostration in worship, continually peopled withal

22. Though he denies his benefaction, his favors endure
As his grants make smooth the way for those helpless and poor

23. Begins with a favor, needs no reminder again
So he who asks receives, and receiving stays not in vain

24. Asking, when leaving, inhabitants of Zawra to tell
The Caliph he's sent as messenger chosen right well

25.
The envoy who serves at each dire strait and need

26. Seeking through him faces of victory to lead
He came to the Caliph and council, and thereupon

27. Eyes and ears and hearts with him were filled and won
So he was a sea, a fountain of knowledge and debate

28. His five fingers like rivers that run and create
You are the noble scions, yours is history glorious told

29. Deeds have marched, and news of great import enrolled
You are suns whose rising disperses gloom when events thicken

30. You are moons in the night of calamity that can enlighten
Kings by you have glory and grandeur made plain

31. From it over days radiant lights will reign
Your pens in the lands their domains with might grasped

32. Cutting the nails of misfortune and terror abashed
For every just Sultan are migrants, thanks to your worth

33. By whom he subdues and supporters of justice give birth
You mountains of resolve, firmly based, as we know

34. You oceans of knowledge, heaving and ebbing in flow
God bless the Shining Light of Faith, for his glory survives

35. With those who support him, immortalized in their lives
O Lord, be his defender from all he fears