1. The heights of life made you tall,
And its shadows stretched over your abode,

2. The rain tears did not cease pouring over you,
With its dragging tail sweeping down.

3. So your love cured the estrangement caused
By what it had reaped, and the joy of my union flourished,

4. Swaying with charm and grace,
And eyelids whose gaze is piercing.

5. The silence of night illuminates me with my tears,
And the brilliance of the Full Moon smiles through the darkness.

6. She appeared to me with modesty and pride,
So the moon set and the gazelle was startled.

7. How beautiful she looks when I hear her singing,
As she has travelled and her beauty stayed veiled.

8. You see me approaching her gently,
With a face still grasping its youth.

9. And a doe-eyed damsel whose eyelash
Is still flexing coquettishly when it flirts.

10. She is wayward but cannot be blamed
When she sways with a body of perfect poise.

11. She humbles her lover and shows her beauty,
While the flaw of beauty is to be vain.

12. I stopped at her songs, questioning,
But questioning is fruitless.

13. Clouds had risen from her eyelids,
Light clouds where heavy ones prevail.

14. My camel, worn out by me, was patched
Where no patches could hold.

15. It nearly caught fire when it galloped
With its reins aflame.

16. As if she were the morning in her prime,
The ostriches, the antelopes and the North wind.

17. When she breaks loose she outruns them all,
A winner unmatched in her vigor.

18. To my Master Abu Al-Faraj Al-Arjee
For he is the destination of hopes and wealth.

19. The means of livelihood straiten around us
Until we come to him, and space widens.

20. We take up praising him and are immersed,
And he enables us when we speak.

21. Giving good news to the destitute of what they hope for through him,
Give them the good news of fresh soft water.

22. A pleasing draft that fulfills wishes
When the draft is troubled with demands.

23. He directs soft rain when the skies are miserly,
And he gives before men do.

24. He has resolve with which he leads,
And sharp-witted wisdom like sharpened swords.

25. And knowledge like bursting seas,
And patience like mountains firm.

26. I swore to him by Mina and the multitudes
It contains, and by their noble blood.

27. That you, son of Abdullah, my Master
Were gifted their merits and refinement.

28. Every day for him is one of clamoring
Fires of war raging violently.

29. Armor like pouring rain,
And lances dripping with the blood of the slain.

30. His horses march into every narrow strait
Too narrow for imagination to tread.

31. So, supporter of religion and life, O you
Who attains what none other attains.

32. Your help is beyond counting,
And how can sand be counted?

33. Behold! O son of the exalted, your origins are pure
And you attained the highest ranks and lasted long.

34. Warriors when the executioner attacked them,
Champions when the contention intensified.

35. I am not your permanent dweller, I must depart,
And these words are not mine to keep.

36. We see you sometimes gentle, sometimes stern,
In you is clemency and punishment altogether.

37. You cared for the orphan so you are his family,
And apart from you, others are false kin.

38. When generosity becomes a habit,
Yours surpasses that habit and excels.

39. So celebrate and defeat the enemies, and submit
To the eternal kingdom that will never decline.

40. Vow sincerely that you are nothing but
The right hand of glory while people are the left.

41. So hopes raced towards you hastily,
And your glories never halted the racers.