1. Tell Amin al-Din, O you whose
Hand takes the place of the raining clouds

2. And when the ambitious one is given good news
I saw a radiant, cheerful face

3. Do not blame me from Babylon until I see
It thriving, immersed

4. And how can I not pray against a country
Since you became its forbidder and commander there

5. You cut off ties with me and forgot me
Yet you were still remembering our connection

6. And if you changed, there is no solution
I think of you as the writer and the overseer

7. Two whom my desire to praise never
Occured to me, nor did I ever have the notion

8. So let him know, by Allah, I am a man
Who thanks them both sincerely

9. Please, my lord, pay generously
The poet skilled in perfection

10. And keep giving thanks, and do not refuse
One who has only seen you as thankful and spreading