1. I bear witness, you have donned, O Abu Sa'id
Virtues that dazzle higher nobility

2. When hard times befall, your hands flow freely
Shading the world with your thick shadows

3. And the soul of a man whose insight we've tested
By the arena of your generosity, sublime glory

4. And slog saved you from folk who never extended
A right hand to act, nor a left hand at all

5. My gaze you've raised, and my condition returned
To my far-reaching plains a new state

6. And tribes and far lands have encircled me
As my dependents, and I was their dependent

7. So I've become, greater than them in bounty
And before you, greater than them asking

8. When they intercede with me, no shame they feel
From disgrace, or bare feet on the ground

9. I clamber about needs, if lightly I went
To you with them or heavily I vent

10. If need sends forth its hands, you've made
Refusing it, for it, an impossibility

11. Where are poems for me about you that refuse
And disdain that I be disgraced or humiliated

12. Of the lawful magic to its conjurer
And I've never seen before it lawful magic

13. So your stream for me is never disturbed, for I
Extend to you hopes, long lasting

14. And bestow on you my glory, for glory indeed
If one day absent, becomes but riches