1. Your sword sufficed to defend Islam from the aggression of disbelief
And you connected with the aggressors with might and victory

2. And the words of the falsifiers became disproved
And the Most Merciful extended your lifetime

3. And where is he who the astrologer determined his fate
When ten days passed for the fasting person from the month

4. And the news did not reach the ears that
God refused except to disbelieve the news

5. Tomorrow, the astrological calculations will be like wind in their contradiction
And its regulation became commonly known to be rejected

6. Why then did he not see his clear imprisonment
And walking in shackles as if lame and stumbling

7. And indeed Ali takes the sticks
With which he repels the extension of the enemies to the palace

8. Indeed the worshipers of the stars went astray and were not guided
By the sending of a messenger to the people or by a mention

9. And how much in this world did the brightly shining pass by them
Of bent people cloaked in ignorance

10. When he wanders in the knowledge of the unseen, you would think him
Musailima the liar risen from his grave

11. Superstitions run between them instead of truths
Of lies from them, not from the seven oft-repeated

12. And inclination towards them while in fact
Every vigilant person of reason turns away from them

13. The meteors are but like lamps that blaze
With the night for the sleepless and fade at dawn

14. So O you who are deceived by the star, tell us
Do you know a secret in it from its Lord made easy?

15. And between you two is a distant separation so what
Does the Pleiades dispute differently from the Pleiades?

16. O most patient of rulers over one crazed
Even if he is vehement in the matter that calls for vehemence

17. Save an ignorant gone astray or slipped or possessed
By madness since there is no doubting the sword in the throat

18. So turn your fine pardoning into his punishment
For your status is high above baseness of status

19. Your ease in attaining wishes did not stop
Coming from God, not from sun or moon

20. You held dominion so you smoothed the way
In order to smooth it by the view of the experienced, not the shallow

21. And you strung together hearts in loving affection
For you after they had been heterogeneous in compassion

22. For a matter in which you persisted in the siege in battle
And its battle is nothing but persistence in the siege

23. And you left the God-destroying Zarqis alone
With the whites slain in the island like pebbles

24. And they were not squeezed before this while in fact
The heating up of the fire produces boiling of the pot

25. With the march of armies in the seas towards them
Encircling them in assault together with the tide and ebb

26. When they transported prey I exclaimed in wonder
When did ever the ferocious ones transport the lions?

27. With white-feathered birds harmonious
To which the sweet waters flow red between the green thickets

28. And every captain who fears with oars
To challenge in simile the ten-fingered hand

29. You see the fat above the tar from it melted
So who saw a night crawl with the dawn

30. Blackness of crows amid the whiteness of doves
Flying with it gloriously on the water or running

31. You cut them off in life from every side
So they fell short in it from a systematic composition

32. And how many a bird whose wing you clipped
And he became imprisoned from flight in the nest

33. When they saw that the ones among them choked
You plugged with it the passage of breath in the chest

34. They relented and repented of sins that preceded
According to their claim, from cutting off the sea routes

35. So if they spread out obedience to you between them
After breasts had been cloaked in ignorance

36. Then in your possession is a fire that rides the water towards them
To which there are matches that are struck from struck matches

37. And arrows not unlike the arrows of spying eyes
That fly by borrowed feathers from eagles

38. Targeted for the enemies in war with destruction
When those are targeted in peace with sorcery

39. And they are not going to deceive in war while he who destroys them
Is a youth who was born amid war in the womb

40. And you are more cunning than the enemies
When you strike the army with the army in strategy

41. And you have sufficed in not provoking with prudence
Can one who set embers aflame avoid burning?

42. You were created for us from the essence of virtue, O leader
Your good fortune is from good fortune and your ease is from ease

43. And the meek have depended in hardship upon the dew
Of your hands and can one shattered ever do without splinting?

44. Your time never ceases to descend upon prey
Like a lion immense of fangs and claws

45. And your taste is of honey and so delights his people
While your manner is of ease upon them and of war

46. The lives of the son of Yahya are demise
For the enemies and their lifespans are truncated in lifespan

47. Indeed from him the lofty ones have prided
With a fraying mottled face shining with good news

48. With greatest who entreats any greatest
And he bows, bowing of humility to the hawk

49. When kings are praised he stands in praise of him
The world stands by his virtues in pride

50. Towards you we have ridden every riding horse with its surge
As the stubborn donkey stubbornly dragged itself

51. When it swells and extends in the wind, its extension
We liken it to your abundant, flooding beneficence

52. And if not for you, we would not ride ample ships
Flecked with meat therein to the age

53. And if articulating your glory with wealth eluded me
Then leaving the resolve clears the excuse

54. I have weakened from the strong resolve over time
And my stride was transferred after length to a span

55. And I guide in navigating the marvels of my wanderings
And the miracle of my composition every pristine gem

56. That whenever one builds a house of poetry from my utterances
Fate's pick turns away from demolishing it

57. And poetry is not devoid of metrical defects
But it is magic and its builder is my mind

58. And indeed I am certain beyond wishes
And how much sunrise has the lion had of downpour clouds?