1. I am captive, and my heart captive of love
And all my care that pleases the beloved is easy

2. So why does she of graceful veil blame me
When no coolness in love from me appeared?

3. I cannot bear her tyranny,
And even if the solace of my soul and pride

4. Restrain, restrain the tears if her mention passes
And at her mention people walk

5. So if they mentioned a day, Saad and Zainab
Reckon my night bids farewell

6. As if all creatures in her persona
And by your name, O Laila, things revolve

7. Leave me and my affairs, O critics
For I am patient with the humiliation of love

8. I was not saddened by the estrangement of censurers
Like the words of a friend that I am a warner

9. And the turning of fate from me as if I
Killed its son for it or have dues

10. So I am not one who fears, leave my opponent
And nothing between us until the resurrection is a wall

11. And do I fear one day his harm and violence?
When my patron the minister is a supporter

12. A renowned, virtuous minister and son of virtuous
An influential counselor for the honorable, a mark

13. A minister for whom the forehead of time is a boon
Assistance that illuminated the wilderness a light

14. A minister whose rank rose above the highest
And under his banner the best walk

15. If he moved his right hand one day in earnest
The scripts of lawful magic shine from the dawn

16. Before you see the treasure of knowledge his chest
With no observation in it and no guard

17. In any place he settled, awe descended
Wondrous, and all praising and grateful

18. He oversees the judiciary, its justice
And in it senior and junior are equal

19. He stands and the constitution in his palm
Organizing a kingdom in which he is fit

20. He plunges into seas of problems with resolve
And emerges while the heart is content

21. An expert who sees the future present
Thus the miracles of men come to pass

22. We gesture to him with fingers for we
Have none but him in this new age we gesture to

23. Greatness like his bounty is rare in the world
And is there like our minister a minister?

24. If we called bounty in time of trials
Our equal answers quickly and rescues

25. O planet in the east shining bright
God is yours and the distant west lights

26. If our pens do not excel in praising him
Then his history in the horizons flows

27. My patron, I in eloquence fall short
And in containing your eloquent meaning am small

28. So I fail to enumerate what you contained
Though my lifetime is advanced and my evenings near

29. My patron, I have saddled my steed
At your door, so pardon, and the generous forgives