1. There is no courage in the stingy despite their doubts,
Stinginess is cowardice against the fall of the kingdom,

2. If he is generous with money, beware of his nearness,
On the day of battle he is surely deceitful,

3. Courage is certainty like generosity,
And humiliation and stinginess are the result of doubt,

4. I knew that provision is already decreed,
For man whatever is inseparable from him,

5. You did not fear scarcity with what you spent,
When you cut off doubt you cut off doubt itself,

6. Who said generosity flows,
In people we denied him in what is narrated,

7. If your chroniclers saw your generosity,
They would regret and say who can surpass us?

8. The kings laughed in truth whoever lived with him,
And saw the lowness of his worth should weep,

9. All the sons of Adam are from clay,
But Yahya’s clay is made from musk,

10. Generous, pure metal, the best of all men,
A man, though they matched him after refining,

11. Al-Tare son of Al-Ashraf the king who,
Became a sign in the kingdom through his generosity,

12. Stinginess is a trait among the sons of Adam,
While generosity is an obligation like fasting,

13. And Yahya's nature is generosity, if it were refined,
He would fear stinginess like the fear of idolatry,

14. He combines all virtues from their edges,
Arranged as if threaded on a string,

15. He gives and if you thank him he gives you more,
So you are shy to thank him, though gratitude calls for gratitude,

16. The guardian of glory, his generosity never,
Ceased to flow, shedding his wealth in outpouring,

17. His gifts increased over his money,
So I was silent about what reached them of disclosure,

18. And I thought to leave some of it but he,
Gives independently so my leaving did not benefit me,

19. O Lord, I knew that Yahya,
With his gifts, eased every straitened life,

20. O Lord, you love those below him,
In generosity, so guarantee him the security of paradise,

21. And perpetuate his blessings and expand them,
And destroy his enemies with perdition,

22. And aid him, and aid every army he marched,
And repel with him the darkened afflictions,