1. My endurance is exhausted by distance, beloved
And my wings are bloodied by separation, beloved

2. I am consumed by secretive love for you
And my tears flow as my liver burns, and in my chest is an ember

3. I suffer beyond what people normally endure from passion
But I refused to let the lion's heart wilt for a rose

4. O you who shows me the right course regarding whom I love
When will requited love and propriety meet?

5. I toyed with passions until they played with me
I did not know the jest of love would become serious

6. I am afflicted by one whose heart feels no tenderness
Yet for me even solid rock has softened

7. I bear what time itself cannot bear some of
And carry what effort itself has been too weak to carry

8. If I come to him one day and find fault with him
I set out with more painful sighs the next day

9. I shield him, though my soul resists
Can the thirsty be turned away from water?

10. When she-camel litter threatens me with
Deaths made by God, not by India

11. Mourning unsheathed, death gleaming on its blades
Sheaths in every limb, every hand a scabbard

12. As if slaughter itself has marked them
They have no choice but what they attempt

13. You see in them the ferocity of fate
Ever increasing in devastation and harshness

14. As if in the arena of injustice two horsemen
Racing, each rider spurring his mount

15. I will be startled by the tyranny of afflictions and bend
To justice, to whom judgment and authority belong

16. A protector, none but him is hoped for and feared
Though man's sons increase and multiply

17. Through him complexities are solved and clarified
Without him grace and merit are counted as naught

18. By my life - his palm cannot be stopped
By wealth, though treasuries and envoys are filled

19. He is the son of Imad al-Din of the firmly constructed
Lineage, from whom the goal is attained in all directions

20. He has bounties that the eminent flock to
And caravans of wealth trail their skirts

21. And knowledge encompassing the seas of the land in their entirety
And wisdom that destroys greed - it has no limit

22. Learned - when the meteors of his thoughts appear
They illuminate the gloomy night and kindle tinder

23. As if he has an all-seeing eye in his heart
Hidden and visible are equal before him

24. He stood for the victory of religion after its humiliation
Restoring the devious times to straightness

25. He managed the affairs of Muslims, and his superiority
A sword that severed the neck of ignorance

26. The one by whom days shine, and he is their light
He has no equal or match in them

27. I swear that he who gathers to his breast
The highborn like fledglings in a nest

28. Treasures the likes of which time does not spend
Three glories as though a necklace

29. From the verdant garden and the basin where
Glory and might shake their skirts

30. By it the lines of praise flourish
And the bouquet of splendor diffuses its scent

31. If a breeze from it reached Ridwan
Eternality would not have occurred to his mind

32. A garden of might that grows might beyond it
And a basin of glory - all glory is its blossoms

33. Through it, O son of great souls, comes the call
For in it eulogies have borne fruit, and so has purpose

34. Upon you, of stacked glory, belongs
Advance bestowal, set down in order

35. Still I remain, celebrated sir, a protected king
At whose gates glory has closed