1. The camps of Yusuf and his companions -
With resolve and feet, the seeker attained what he sought.

2. When a man does not make himself resolute,
His heights belong to events and his setting.

3. My camel litter, I did not find the night rougher journeying -
Yet in disasters, rougher than it is its rider.

4. Leave me and the terrors of time, let them perish,
For mightier than them are the terrors that follow.

5. Do you not know that tenacity on journeys
Is the brother of success with misfortunes and their companion?

6. Leave me to my sullen manners, whether it is abundance
Or a flock of sheep bleating to their lambs.

7. The Indian sword - its hardness only remains
If its edge is not nicked by the blows of battle.

8. Some news startled me from Khurasan, its clamor,
So I said, "Calm yourself, the meadow's pasture will return."

9. A band of riders, like spear-tips made their she-camels kneel down
At night the same as them, while its darkness spread its coverings.

10. Due to something that must happen through them
Not that its consequences must happen through them.

11. The lofty settlement of every meadow visitor has collapsed,
Its high summit diminished, its milk-filled udders folded.

12. The wild cows grazed it after it had been an era
Grazing it, while the meadow's water poured copiously.

13. So the old man renewed his youth in the pasture of life
While previously youth sported with him.

14. How many rough tree trunks roughness surmounted the summit of a dune,
Yet yesterday its twisting sides embraced them.

15. Toward you we complained at sunset whenever
We descended a stretch - its twilights prayed upon you.

16. If only fate steered a convoy to attain it -
Its destinations would lead to you.

17. To a king at whom no warrior cast his glance
Except abasement befell the glance's companion.

18. To one who robbed the tyrant of the egg of his kingdom,
While its hopes in him set out to rob him.

19. What aim leaps beyond his leaping place
Other than mares neighing loudly as camels bellow?

20. While his far goal, hope brought near,
And the earth was made easy by his conquering troops.

21. Whenever you set your mounts toward a purpose,
You realize the taste of water - whether you are its drinker.

22. Worthy that the dawn be shy before him
Then the dew be shy and watch him.

23. Elevated to the heights on both flanks
The rising of clouds' dust - its coverings darkened.

24. So he turned away until he found none to attain him
And fought until he found none to fight him.

25. With constant bitter vigilance
When disasters met with him, their misfortunes weakened.

26. While by the face of resolution, where is he from it? Rather,
The controversial matters of affairs are its trials.

27. I see the people practice coquetry after
Its perfect gallantry and smoothness have vanished.

28. So in every outlying region and desolate place in the land
Are gifts not from it - though they are its gifts.

29. To create for it days which bring stammering gratitude
Pleasant to Najd's youth and its sides.

30. By God, if time had not clothed its deed in forgetfulness,
Its faults would have corrupted water and made it bitter.

31. O you who travel, travel unconcerned in the darkness of gardens
Or a barren tract - whether you are its roamer.

32. Abdullah has spread the fear of his vengeance
Upon the night until its fingertips do not creep.

33.
They say the lion is a fainthearted lion

34. Its claws sheathed and its paws blunt.
The lion is not every lion, just the son of a stumble

35. Who lives on the hump of a camel while it is his mount.
On a day before the King, your stance refuted him

36. Were religion to slip in it, its grasping hands would take it.
With it you purified the face of the caliphate and cares

37. Between ribs its directions had expanded.
You healed its echo, and the armor of its surface

38. A pasture whose surroundings are a tormenting drink.
Nights your sword did not sit so death could be seen

39. Except your pardon overcame it.

40. If war spoke, it would say vanquished,
"Not so - let the glory's winner win it like this."

41. So it would be known that the deluge from Musab's family
The morning after battle, they are the deluge's kinfolk."

42. Stars of glory, the night knows that when they shine,
The other stars seem small next to its stars.

43. O you who strive to attain excellence,
The worst assumption has strayed - lying are its doubts.

44.
It suffices you to attain glorious deeds that you be seen