1. Stay, farewell us before the parting's imminence
For I won't live to when we reunite

2. I grew old but white hairs did not sprout on my temple
And love took not my soul nor the doves my bosom

3. You condemned us to humiliation, in passion's creed
And did not distinguish between happy and miserable

4. You paired acceptance with anger, nearness with remoteness
And you shredded the robe of union, all shreds

5. You accepted estrangement's commands without an advisor
And revived estrangement's saying without a sympathizer

6.
You severed my days with estrangement and burdened me

7. The eve you prepared for travel, where to will I migrate
Fate has decreed parting, so be patient with it

8. And do not blame its actions, be gentle
It is ugly of us to blame time, even if it wronged

9. When in it is Ghazi ibn Urtuqi
The pillar of God's religion who protected people

10. With an eye, when looking at fate, it shrinks
Close when called, distant when affiliated

11. Gloomy when met, smiling when encountered
His heart was hard in generosity, so he exceeded

12. Wronging his money, the injustice of a strangler
Necklaces of men's necks are his gifts

13. You see people wearing them like ringed doves
He decreed to destroy money in generosity's creed

14. So he gave freely until his asker said: Be gentle!
A group spoke highly of him when they saw his flowing generosity

15. And whoever does not learn the descent's place will drown
The strong opponent - if fate wrestled him, it would

16. Tomorrow be defeated, in its tattered armor
Short strides towards sins, though they are

17. Long when the devil roams in an elephant's chest
Able against God's soldiers, powerless

18. Pious against the horrors of tumult, without God consciousness
He wore praise as a garment for pride, yet

19. Through time's severity it did not rip
Resolve yourself and continue, oh Abu al-Fath, safely

20. For fate has folded its wing for you to ascend
The nights rejoiced in you, though their

21. Joy in others is for flattery
Near is the caller so whoever wants help

22. Will find you, and whoever seeks you in distress will attain
You divided provision for the worshippers, dividing it

23. And said: “Of what we provided you, spend”
We sought you, star of kings, because we

24. Saw the world drawing from your sea of generosity
We travelled to you, sending eulogies

25. Their jewels from your pouring sea
Poems in whose verses are intentions

26. Magic of speech hovering over their eyelids
Rhymes, when set in a critic's hearing

27. They did to him the work of aged wine
I came with my praise, visiting, so you met me

28. With excellent acceptance, fulfilling hope
Yearn little for Iraq’s land

29. Your generosity is a contract with virtues, my pillar
Events fell short of your glory when they saw