1. They greet you standing tall, determined,
Describing the arrows, ready and poised.

2. If your night grows dark, they are the spark,
Lighting up the gloom which darkness enjoyed.

3. You were transformed from the thunder of borders,
To a lightning flash when loved ones called out.

4. If anyone's heart held hate in days past,
Mine for him would certainly harbor doubt.

5. Hatred assuredly wanes in its lands,
From fires of hate you assembled and poised.

6. Time was not just to evoke passion at first,
Then decree your anguish before it rejoiced.

7. I have days that if one laid down in bliss,
His eyes would not open, content and enjoyed.

8. Seek not sustenance once it has fled,
Lest you find it consumed after you pined.

9. None feels loss replaced unless he sees,
What was missed was less than what he enjoyed.

10. Oh Ahmad son of Abu Dawud a plea,
That humbles with thanks I employed.

11. I called you for struggles and they sufficed,
Though the sword aids not until employed.

12. I've watched beneath the shelter of wishes,
For a face like yours so gentle and poised.

13. How many times were you inclined and deferred,
Praise with the Imam you employed?

14. Without you the prospect of meeting him later,
Exceeds encounters in days since destroyed.

15. The bent sprout of sadness you straightened,
Till it breathed easy by your grace enjoyed.

16. You brought me autumn's lease after decay,
While the swollen clouds their first drops employed.

17. With verses you pulled like drawing the veil,
Attracting softly with coyness enjoyed.

18. You loved it though once it drew hate,
And loved more when disdain it employed.

19. You gave life when I thought nothing could
Return from death after it destroyed.

20. You carried glory's weight self-reliant,
While your feet ensured you would not be toppled.

21. A load if one claimed it who did not bear it,
Its name not its weight would crush and destroy.

22. The state complained and you eased its plight,
With care no passage of time has nullified.

23. What excuse has it not to awaken,
When you have cared for its illness employed?

24. However you are, qualities in you I hope for,
My prospects in your being enjoy.

25. Glory refuses to accept one's contentment,
Unless those who seek you are likewise employed.