1. What pride is there in blaming the withered honeybee
Or striking a chest already sick with illnesses?

2. True pride is to master your own tyranny
As rage boils like the boiling of a steaming pot.

3. And if fetters are replaced
With bracelets from the neck of the heroic knight.

4. O you who depend on my crime to favor you
You are not worth blowing on to move a little mountain.

5. If my hand fails to reward you
Then you are too weak against my might and scheming.

6. I pretended to agree with myself for a while
Until the pasture mixed with the salty silt.

7. I rose up against them with my bad opinion, steadfast,
And stood firm, scheming to topple the mighty mountain.

8. Like one butting against deaf rock to crack it
Yet it cracks not except by the ibex's skull.

9. I undertook a great matter, which justifies
A father shedding the blood of his long-hoped-for son.

10. You disputed my rule and my hand seized you
While the guide of death precedes the eggs and newborns.

11. I would not have spared you were it not for my forbearance,
As you looked at me with defeated eyes.

12. So I sheathed my sword and spared your blood,
Saying: what pride if I killed you now?

13. Ignorant am I to protect the gazelle from its family out of nobility
And sheathe the sword around them heedlessly,

14. And he who schemed to trick me into dishonoring my manners
I did not obey him, for the free and noble have no shame.

15. He said "take revenge and quench your rage," I said "It stops me
From obeying you, what I already repaired of my deeds."

16. Except to turn it, alas! Passion and to bear it,
The view of the wise companion on slippery slopes.

17. O scattered praise, I have cooked its price
Inclined towards one ascetic in praise when it boils.

18. I disdain to wait in ambush for them
Until I seize them as easy prey in haste.

19. Rather I shelter and hold back, so if they return
To righteousness, otherwise the sword is in the breach.

20. One who fears missing out, go slowly,
For you will attain what you seek gently.

21. I will treat them well while they are under my protection,
But if they do evil while in the spaciousness of hope,

22. Leave me and my soul's morals to rest and relax
For with nobility, the value of a man excels.

23. Today I forgive a sin that
Others magnified, and show clemency beyond imitation.

24. For God has against our necks from us,
Morals with which we shepherd people like a anxious warrior.

25. We are the kings, so ask in both horizons about us,
And follow our footsteps in ancient eras.

26. You will find the prideful traces of us kings
Carried forward to my noble forefathers and I.

27. We blocked the way for kings and guided every insolent one
From the open country and protected our dependents.

28. We were kings while the mother of time suckled
In our laps, and the kings of earth were like calves.

29. Whenever a king among us passed away
A king appeared from his lineage other than fleeting or vanishing.

30. Special virtue we were particularized with over kings - is there
A fine kingship like the eternal rule of Ta'lab?

31. So praise be to God - I cannot enumerate praise enough for Him
To reward His blessings before me.