1. Every crowned ruler protects the country
And follows moderation in its politics

2. Calamities sleep being reassured about it
And his sight refuses anything but to make it prosper

3. So his subjects do not suffer from worries
Nor complain of turmoil or corruption

4. Crowns bow down to his crown repeatedly
And ask him for care and increase

5. And souls redeem him on the belief
That his life gives life to the servants

6. The most beloved of kings to the subjects
Is a king who does not neglect to visit them

7. He penetrated to the position of senses from them
So the hearing in it and the heart became his

8. The most harmful of people is someone with a crown who assumed rule
But did not benefit the country nor brought any advantage

9. And he was the worst guardian for the subjects
And the most sinister owner in time who dominated

10. Thrones spend the night suffering from him
Experiencing horrors from him that are severe

11. And his rule wears in the evening the clothes of a bereaved woman
Whom the loss of her only one made her dress in black

12. It is as if the rule in his eyes is a dream
He enjoys with it so he does not refrain from sleeping

13. The shouter of events calls upon him
A young man who increases in dignity when called

14. And the subjects call him while he is inattentive
So the rocks crack before his hearing

15. He cannot be hoped for a day to bring benefit
By which he makes the subjects and the country mighty

16. Nor is he an owner who can relieve harm
When the plotter of events schemes

17. A life that enlarges the living with shame
And a mention that fills the whole world with darkness

18. Can a king become mighty without resolve?
By which he straightens the pillars of the rule

19. And wisdom before which calamities withdraw
And time surrenders the leads

20. Dear mighty Nile, hopes are confused
Asking you for guidance and integrity

21. Light the road of righteousness for them and reconcile
Its lonely travelers so they are about to be hostile

22. And lead it with the leadership of al-Ma’mun which is safe for it
He competes with it for the best it competes for

23. Woe to you, O mighty Nile, woe
Do you accept that your rule be demolished

24. And for the enchained people to see it
After he took off the handcuffs and shackles

25. Do you not see the country and how
Destiny destroyed it or it almost was destroyed

26. It suffers from worries it fights
Whose stubbornness increases over its calmness

27. Do you not see its sons in conflict
They never hoped during their lives for unity

28. Do you leave the evil blowing within them?
And the fire of worries blazing with flames

29. Do you hand them over to pitfalls that bend
The heart of time that trembles with tremors

30. Do you hurl them into the false pleasures
Of an amusement that mockingly diminishes them

31. The subjects asked through your hand
Good life and noble legacy

32. Take them to integrity in a life
That can support them or prepare means

33. And a fortress for which the nights’ calamities
Throw from its harm or keep away

34. Build its pillars and strengthen its powers
And strive in its politics in struggle

35. And if one of its ignorant aspired for corruption
Or deviance from your path and remoteness

36. Then bring him back to you for indeed the most sublime
Of your manners if for you to be an opponent for us

37. And train us to the manners of goodness indeed I
Saw goodness and evil by habit

38. The blackened one did not desire a manner
That exists with the blackened admired

39. Morals move to nations
Some countries of it currently approach or continue

40. So this one in its ignorances fell
And that in its flags proceeded

41. Wishes and ends accompany them
They do not flow in isolated people