1. O visitor of the Nile, where did you leave a kingdom
That knocked on your high door as a visitor?

2. And where is the crown raised in Damascus
That would crack the obstinacy of Capricorn?

3. And where are the troops around you flourishing
With processions carrying the momentous peril?

4. And where is the conquest you nurture in the meadows
And the cavalries you dispatch with warriors?

5. Your path aroused Ahmad's passion when it passed
By his dwelling and startled the friend.

6. And it enraged Umayyah in Damascus
Whose tumults unleash the creeping disease.

7. You descended upon Saladin as a guest
But did not accept the stay nor the departure.

8. Indeed you were the lord of the crown therein
You were the people and the noble king.

9. Leave Nu'man! You are more majestic a king
And sturdier of side and mightier of lineage.

10. And Maalik among the Banu Ghassan matches you
When they mention architecture and lineage.

11. Are you not of Hashim and the sons of his father
When the youth claims descent from a noble ancestor?

12. By your Lord! Does sorrow and passion persist
For a kingdom that lasted only briefly?

13. If Hashim grieves for it, Umayyah would hate
For it to disappear.

14. Comfort! The destinies surely have a decree
And your Lord's ordainment will not change.

15. And say to your father though regrets rage
With the band of his crown: patience is beautiful!

16. None defy the strikes of fate courageously
Like you who obeyed God and the Messenger.

17. After your palace, I will pity every palace
And envy after you the barren ruins!

18. And I will weep for the East time after time
And lament its realms of intellect.

19. Whoever desires a thing he sees is impossible
When contemplated, is no sage.

20. By your life! Existence is but an illusion
And opinion is but to rave deliriously!

21. When did raising the edifice of a kingdom
With chatter and say as its pillar, endure?

22. We want the merciful, and which mighty
And dear people have mercy for the disgraced?

23. Do you wonder to see the beasts of prey
And get angry for it to have a morsel?

24. So trust in God and see how He guides
The peoples of the East when they lost the path.

25. A momentous event shadowed their throngs
To uncover from them the momentous event.

26. No cure was harsh to an ailing one
When it thoroughly eliminated the creeping disease.

27. Say: O God, Forgiver of sins
To You we repent, so grant us acceptance!

28. We knew the truth after ignorance, we
Found ignorance makes people tyrannical.