1. Unless Salma visits today, we may
Drink from the bowl of playfulness, not being withdrawn

2. So leave her be, for you have excused mentioning her visit
And discussed her situation, both east and west

3. But for Abdullah, speak a praise
That will heal you from the distress of pressing times

4. I said to the nobles when praising him
Come, pass the night from now on wakeful

5. Careful and prudent in matters, experienced
When will the people’s affair show, then disperse and create

6. You see good flowing in the secrets of his face
As ornamentation flows on a sharpened sword

7. Noble, if he wishes, he counts as a father for him
He has a lineage above the high-flying birds

8. And a mother who has virtue over every free woman
Whenever her son competes with the people, he outpaces

9. You have taken the place of the heart from the Hashimites
So your nest is a refuge for their cracking eggs

10. You were not an aspirant to them, clinging
Nor with a tethered ship, clinging

11. So who is like Abdullah or like Ja'far
And like your father, the exhausted flier