1. Their ruins robbed the valley of its blood
And replaced them with a beast that crouched and prowled

2. O abode that misfortunes made their ruler
With no respite or delaying

3. Your stream gave drink to the meadow and breathed
A breath through your hills, soft winds unbound

4. The clouds were awed by your courtyard, and sometimes
Your loved one quenched the thirst of yearning hearts

5. And if the guest of sorrows made his home with you
Surely, he found a hospitable host

6. For those misfortunes never ceased to become tribulations
That made accustomed the familiar place

7. Your hills have outlived years, for long indeed
The days of time towards you were shy

8. Days where no calamity befell your people
Except fate turned it away, averted

9. And when events glanced at you fleetingly
Your lofty spirit glanced back, repelled

10. We who longed for love, our hearts' affection
Became devoted to you, fixed in place

11. And the companion of moments - her company
Follows kindness with might against deluded hearts

12. The finest of manners - companions and friends
And faces, brows, and slender noses

13. They were the rising stars and so brought out for us
The setting and eclipse of wishes

14. It was the rest of the living whose souls blood seeped
Leaving you the wine of parting bleeding grief

15. They were the cool of their time, so they cracked
As if time itself was clothed in wool

16. The smooth necks bent for them, and sometimes
The forbidden was tempting and pliant

17. I tied the generosity of my father Sa`eed, truly
Hope was thin in him, and he was slender

18. And I was strengthened by the lion whose roar
Made the borders growl morning and night

19. He exemplified severity and gentleness in himself
So he became great yet kind in hearts

20. So if he walked - the horses walked, or if he sped -
The speeding continued, or if he went on - he went on, swaying

21. Worrisome events shook him and he shook them
And he was revered, revered in the essence of God

22. The harvest of experiences awakened his resolve
Like tinder, and his determination was cultivated

23. And I gained from his opinions flames
That if they were forged would have been swords

24. The old man of purpose, the youth of joy, when
He marched to war he was the heavy-stepping gallant one

25. And the brother of action - when the valiant one, every valiant one
Was armed and renowned, he was the successor

26. How many times when you were generous with the dew
Where you went and I went, it was plucked

27. You were both good to me, but you were to me
Like Spring, alive, while he was Autumn

28. And you both mounted the heights, so you rode them
At the very top, and he came as your companion

29. If the water of affliction overflowed, you poured out
And if the liver of time was harsh to me, you were compassionate

30. And if their natures grew or were barren
You began to pave for me plentiful natures

31. And sought-after, attained gifts
That left the noble through them, prosperous

32. He meets through them the free of birth and the slave
When asked, dead and fallen

33. Listen - a green, vibrant blessing made its home in your abode
Flowing gently

34. Moving about when blessings move, gathering
Over you in throngs when they flee

35. I am one whose bond with you is love, no fault
The poet whose odes were composed with rhythm

36. An intimate whose dissolution is halal - he composed wonders
That became wondrous to the ears of kings

37. Loyal - when favor was limited he did not cease to see
The face of your favor upon him revealed

38. And when favor became unknown, the favor of your palm
Became known to him as favor

39. This - to the foot of flaws through you, which
If it were a son would have been a companion

40. And a beast whom advice and love set aflame
If it were a season would have been a summer

41. And the shelter of a breast within you remains fervent
If it were a mouth it would have been fearful

42. And if I prolonged my praises of excellencies for you
There is no end or description for you

43. You lowered the days upon me after adversity
That left its fangs upon me biting

44. The lasting fruits of true knowledge - its decrees
Will be spent if I return biting

45. My life for the greatness of religion, my munificence of dew
Denying powers and affirming duties

46. I will speak the saying of an advisor for you that comes from
A heart pure in your contentment, cleansed

47. For you is the plateau of forbearance which if it weighed
Against firebrands, however heavy, would be light

48. And the sweetness of character that if mixed
With the morals of this bloody time would be refined

49. And I see you in the land of enemies, a conqueror
You do not awaken to kisses or dry lips

50. If through piety the people built highness
Or through conscience the noble became noble

51. Why then was he brought forward immaculate and prosperous
And a sin concealed though he was chaste?

52. And Hatim built generosity in his partnership
While another destroyed it, though he was upright