1. In receiving the greetings of the eminent professor,
My sufficiency, my reference, and my protection,

2. The shield of the honored kings, the revealer of
Majesty, and the Lord of abundant favors,

3. One who went around boasting of knowledge and wisdom
While adorning himself with clothes and trinkets,

4. He took virtues gloriously from the glorious
By the grace of his elevation from the formidable,

5. He is the son of the royal falcon who aspires for glory
And fervently seeks good with delight,

6. With his hands he solved knotty problems and unveiled them
And the crisis of stagnation and obstruction,

7. And I have a sound opinion, lofty,
Beyond the penetrating view of kings,

8. Far be it that the arrows speak with ignorance
Of the thought of the guide among the thickets,

9. He is the clothes of bounty which I gained
From his comfort with whatever gain,

10. I will lead the caravan of poetry with praises
Which the earth takes to with claws,

11. And I will weave with eulogy verses as though
Their words are made of steel,

12. Lawful magic flows fluently, dissolving
From lines like the hissing sword,

13. Chaste ideas became adorned
With the jewelry of eloquence, not with wretched patches,

14. And I present them to the overflowing spring of dew,
The heaping clouds, the affirmation of principles,

15. It did not fail you in your praise, a piece
That ascends to the highest peak and contends,

16. And none competent but you for the like of it
And the age of your father the best refuge,

17. For none succeeds when calamities abound
Except by your door the pleading of the desperate.