1. Your right hand, if the clouds are sparse,
And your determination, if the darkness of affairs becomes illuminated,

2. And your patience, if the dreams of a nation have vanished,
Are steadfast and cannot be matched by the hills.

3. You have become one who sets in the west and rises in the east,
With your plentiful gifts rising.

4. You possess the two realms of this and that,
Whenever the sky of war pours forth rain.

5. You grant generously and kill prudently,
So none but you is hoped for or feared.

6. Through the generosity of Ibn al-Muzaffar the hoped-for,
Wishes were granted and yearnings fulfilled.

7. My friend suited to occasions, like my sword,
Whose equipment is swords and bedouin Arabs.

8. He is the king whom I extended my hands to
And whom my praise has delighted caravans about.

9. Passionate in bestowing sustenance from his rain-clouds,
So his heart cannot turn away from it.

10. When the miser sulks over abundant rain,
He has none but praise while frowning.

11. His seas overflow and the signs of rain on his cheeks
Drown his neighbors, quenching their thirst.

12. Its lightning bolts kindled my clouds’ desire,
With a Lord over the weak ones, for it bridled mounts.

13. It has the determination to continue travelling nights,
Its might makes the towering mountains submissive.

14. An intimate neighbor whom misfortunes do not draw near,
And deeds from which propriety is never absent.

15. Wealth which has no slick terrain to make it slide back from him
And which no door can bar against reaching him.

16. So glorifying wealth did not distract him
With diverting conversations and escapism.

17. Truthful to his promise, smiling to the lightning,
Embracing it, responsive to the thunder.

18. With fresher and more delicate cheeks and a face
From which drink its everpouring splendor.

19. O pillar of guidance and religion, O you from whom
The devout find reward and the sinful, punishment.

20. In your territory, bounty floods;
In your presence, hope restores ruins.

21. The Caliph was enraged at those
Who renounced allegiance to him, kinsmen.

22. The enemy battalions flee from him.
No correspondence shakes him, nor books.

23. He is not too weak to stand before you,
Can a mirage avail over water?

24. Your advice is free of any doubt,
Your love, the love of sincere brotherhood.

25. So last and endure, giving shade to the exalted, until
The Pleiades sets and does not return.

26. And may your feast day return to you, for as long
As the sun’s brow hides itself and the clouds pour down.

27. And may the vast plains of life never constrict
The generous man on the day he seeks you.