1. He who retrieves the plunder has come to you,
And who forbids pillage,

2. So seek protection in glory from meeting him,
For Yahya cannot be withstood in war,

3. He has come to you from above while you are
Below him, if only you would settle the clouds,

4. And whoever throws at what is above him a stone,
It comes back to his pate wrapped up,

5. Do not think your fortresses will stop him
From you, so a sheath does not stop wrath,

6. Citadels, but they make you reason
Until the one who was far from you became near,

7. Turn aside from them, for whoever sees what
He hates, leaves whom he loves,

8. Do not out of ignorance overcome yourselves
Thus becoming under the soil as ashes,

9. And whoever tasks himself beyond his ability
In the matter hopes for nothing but defeat,

10. The most ignorant of men, weak, powerless,
Wages war on the hide of the strong,

11. Thus throwing himself into ruin,
Which throws him down, crushed,

12. Indeed the son of Ismael has warned you
Woe to whomever he warns but refuses!

13. The victorious king of glorious renown,
If he calls to a caller, his call is heard,

14. And he overflowed until, if his delegation said
His munificence is endless, inexhaustible,

15. If his right hand went beyond the clouds of heaven
You would see victory in the face of the clouds,

16. Do not ask, besides Him, anyone for a need,
Which Yahya counts against you as a sin,

17. For it displeases him that a man
Should ask, besides Him, increase,

18. So that he see for Him no partner in what
He guides to him of praise and tribute,

19. And it is the way of people, if a man suffices
In plight and closes the door to love,

20. But you, between the grave and the soil
Have widened for us the strangeness from you and them,

21. If they sufficed the questioner, they were cheerful, but if
You sufficed him, you strode off angry,

22. Never before Yahya was there anyone like him
We have heard and read the books,

23. This one, for whom God enlisted soldiers
For he intends war for the soldiers of God,

24. By God, he did not seize the saddlebags through deception
Nor is taking them from you difficult,

25. Rather, in the hearts of these people more tender
Appeared to the adversary, so he took heart,

26. They did not consent to the leadership of some of them
To necessitate for him a step or nearness,

27. Nor did he seize them through trickery
Of the miraculous feats of your good fortune,

28. Good fortune in which the father becomes enemy to his son,
And the son enemy to his father, if he refuses!

29. Thanks be to God who ordains destiny
Through his servant Yahya as he loves,

30. There is none today who has not feared
The outpouring of fear of you upon him,

31. And the people of each province have held
For it a funeral and eulogy,

32. Destruction befell them from the ill-omened Buyid
Who disobeyed God, the Prophet and the Companions,

33. He said to them, "A noble command has come to me
From my Lord, so obey the Lord!"

34. "He has permitted me to kill a people whom Muhammad
Forbade killing and plunder,"

35. And the scholars said, "Do not weary yourselves with him
For he has transmitted lies about God,"

36. But they opposed them and imitated his actions
Oh, evil is that which they undertook seriously as play!

37. The Buyid has no mention in the world today
Where do you see him? He is destroyed or hidden,

38. Where are his claims with which he claimed
And where is the ally of his play army?

39. The truth that destroyed his falsehood came to him
So he fled from it in fear and alarm,

40. So achieve your hopes and be as you desire
A heart of compassion and a chest of breadth.