1. Neither your generosity nor the clouds' rain
Are equal when their clouds pour down together.

2. You give abundantly with praise,
While the rain's generous pouring is with tears.

3. Whoever compares you to the sea out of ignorance
His ignorance cannot be concealed.

4. Can this sea, which overflows with well-being,
Be equal to that of mere water?

5. May he who spends the evening praising you,
Find no comfort though he wish to flatter.

6. How often Ahmad is moved to tenderness,
Recognized in his joys by his generosity!

7. And how often his gifts have cunningly tempted
Those who by them obtain what they desire!

8. The generous man is deceived if you deceive him
By disguise, though not out of foolishness.

9. My Lord, those gifts which came to Your servant -
Through them Your blessings were made complete.

10. You see they were not for this fleeting world,
To say that would be a calumny.

11. Besides God, You are witness
And theirs, deriving at first from You.

12. They handed them to me and today deny them,
Though the judgment belongs to the judge and the decree to the decree-maker.

13. Your Lord of the Throne told You, "Do not fear them!"
Nor dread the tyranny of enemies!