1. Ask the world after you ask about me
For they witnessed what they never saw from you and me

2. They saw me upholding the promise I made to you
And thinking well of you as much as my thoughts of you

3. I had accumulated so much fear of the injustice of your abandonment
Yet when I endured your injustice, I regained my safety

4. I sought the love of you all and spent my soul and wealth
Until this honor dwelled in my heart and mind

5. And when I saw this honor was honored by you
And I had no patience between death and tranquility

6. I turned my reigns along with my praise of you
Thus I remained restraining the second rein

7. And I have no other friend in the darkness but my sword
Smooth sharp edge, balanced blade

8. As if the crawling of ants in its side
And no people have seen Māzin’s feet falter in battle

9. With a gaze as if the waves toyed with his chest
So he quickly advances then slowly goes

10. I lean towards the plains with it, carefully with it
It saddens him if I don’t keep moving in grief

11. My knowledge kept pursuing me to the heights
Until it surpassed those who listen attentively

12. I visited kings whom I heard described
My passion arousing me and my safety making me sit

13. When we met with resentment having left
My gaze saw multiples of what my ears heard

14. I sought the love of their fiery hearts
Thus I gained the protected honor within the fortress

15. Whenever they saw me like this, it was said here he is
If they had seem me aspiring, they would have turned from me

16. When I compose with the proper weight in describing them
Their hands overflow without measure in bounty

17. My enemies taunt me for being away from them
Yet the judgements of fate were not without my permission

18. You claim poetry belittled my merits
And denied my actions though you knew of me

19. You witnessed my prose and verse in battle
Charging at the enemies, slaughtering with blows and stabs

20. If my words penetrate the barriers, impacting
The ears of the listeners without permission

21. O how often an impressive one of them came
Speaking words that made me praise the silence of ineloquence!

22. An ugly one until I became familiar with his nature
And my heart was certain he is beauty itself

23. If they envied my merits and blamed my fine traits
That was due to falling short of them and out of resentment

24. By my life, they are like stars, brilliants
The envious reluctantly acknowledge despite their loss

25. These fine traits are what I inherited from a line of fine traits
And does fruit come except by the measure of its branch?

26. I spend my nights awake while my neighbor sleeps
I am restless with fear and he is at peace

27. As if the sword of the son of Ḥamzah when drawn
Does not return one day to its sheath

28. A young man whose pens and insight
Were like pouring rains in times of drought for Māzin

29. If fate were to make an inscription for its intention
It would inscribe the title upon its obedient servant

30. A noble young man who disdained one day
To count among the oppressors except nobility and generosity like Ma‘n

31. And never counted among men as a usurper
Besides the might of ‘Amr and graciousness from Ma‘in

32. And never said to not know
The faults of his neighbor, blame and cowardice

33. He returned the attacks of enemies in battles
Mountains shaken by the storm of death like old ruins

34. If the days slipped in war from its limit
The days never ceased to harvest its people

35. If battles earned me experiences
Then they granted me multiples of what they took from me