1. O quarter that has faded and its inhabitants have gone
In you, purpose found what it seeks

2. I stood still while my insides were homes to sorrow
For it while it was desolate with its homes collapsing

3. I ask you why decay has ruled over it
Else leave me be asking it

4. Indeed, after wrongdoing dwelled inside the heart
Tears defended well

5. Its longing called, O fulfiller of longing, a call
So the downpour of tears responded profusely

6. A day you will see death in the form of purpose
Its latter fraught with regret and its beginning

7. We stood on the embers of farewell one evening
With every heart boiling and its pots

8. Our she-camels, we have saddened them by our worries
Until we thought they were his she-camels

9. When the night takes off its dress, you see them
Responding with their saddlebags from every side

10. To the pole of life, who if I praised people for his virtues
Their palms would not encompass his merits

11. Of might, benevolence, generosity and piety
Are dependants whose provisions are his traits

12. Remove the darkness of injustice from the face of a nation
Lit for it by the setting star of truth

13. The caliphate sought refuge in his steadfastness and gathered
Around its bosom his spears and swords

14. She came to him providing while it was as though
She had been corresponding with him before undoubtedly

15. With al-Mu'tasim billah, through whom the bonds of religion were protected
And its means converged around him

16. God cared through him for the subjects with mercy
Whose worldliness does not make it abandon him

17. So they became in the morning, with their hearts pouring unto him
And his mercy pouring upon them, its reach

18. He stood up so justice stood up in every town
As an orator, and kingship's knot was untied

19. He unsheathed the sword of truth until it was as though
Its scabbard was soft iron and its straps

20. We approved despite the nights his rule
And is there one to repeal what the Lord of the Throne decrees?

21. Indeed, the time has come for one to guide his unsullied heart
To the edge of a blade in God's hand, its worker

22. And how many covenant-breakers whose hopes
Were ruined by it and whose falsehood for your truth was demolished

23. You enabled him from your mercy's breadth forgiveness
And pardon when your fighter enabled you to fight him

24. And acknowledging the sin clothed his soul
And his body when his tribes did not clothe him

25. When a betrayer seeks betrayal through betrayal
It is right that his dishonorable acts shame him

26. If he undertakes travels, then white tombs
And waterways of death are his destinations

27. And if he builds walls against himself
Then those are his shackles, not his strongholds

28. Unless make him know you are angry
And leave him be, for fear is undoubtedly his killer

29. Through Abu Ishaq's prosperity, the Almighty's hand reached long
And the channel of religion stood up, its shoulder strengthened

30. He is a sea, whichever coast you come to him from
Its shores are benevolence and generosity

31. He grew accustomed to extending his palm until if
He folded it for clasping, his fingers would not respond to him

32. If there was nothing in his palm but his soul
He would give it generously, so let its asker beware of God

33. A bestowal, if the one made bashful by it could avoid it
He would become, among people, one who blames him

34. When a hopeful person designates its plenty as his wishes
His gifts until his hopeful one becomes hopeful

35. Distractions that stir the heart, if not for their connection
To the merit of defending God, their whisperer allures him

36. The imam of guidance and the son of guidance, what felicity
Which the ode hastened unto you and its sayer

37. Your hope for the usurper is readily ample wealth
And the first day of meeting you is its fulfiller