1. Poetry has admonished you, so do not ignore it
And I have often tried its words

2. It has continued to inform about the past
As if God had revealed to it about you

3. It has seen your army and victory in
Its banners dragging its tails

4. And the vast green prairie arrogantly flaunting
With your approaching kingdom embellished

5. And a Muslim without it is a Muslim
Nothing can prevent him once he attains it

6. When your horses swoop down from Balis
Heading to Mosul fully adorned

7. So recognize the good tidings for him and be a guarantor
Of his hopes in you and aspirations

8. Indeed if you make him speak with wealth
You unlock the unseen without its locks

9. And you do not want afterwards a soothsayer
Who mumbles words when he says them

10. O seeker of my people, and I have for them
Messages carrying advice loaded

11. Tell them from me and the messenger does not
Lie about the news he carries

12. Beware of a fierce lion
Who has passed to pounce its cubs

13. Magnificent, unaware of his neighbors
Or the events of time and its swamps

14. As if he is an old reddish camel saddle
With the sword in his grip rusting

15. His uncles were not pushed in glory
Except when he counts his in-laws

16. Have you not heard his nonsensical talks
Wandering in the land as he roams

17. In every horizon from his gloomy dwellings
A cloud with blood it drawn

18. And well-known incidents in the land
From which Syria shook with tremors

19. O supporter of the kingdom, though much of it
Was lost from the kingdom’s negligence

20. How much they wasted it so you restored it
And the lion does not surrender his prey

21. Everyday one of them travels
Seeking humiliation and striving for it

22. And another leaves the glory of his land
Spending his wealth in exile

23. Neighbors would have been better had he managed it well
The full moon would not have strayed from its halo

24. While you without them must
Struggle against time and its horrors

25. In a battle where you kill its heroes
Or are laden with its burdens

26. After Wathab and the likes
None among them were like Numairiyya

27. And they have no obscure betrayal with you
That makes the pitcher pour its contents

28. Had they sought your peace, it would have been
A kinship of your affection sought

29. But a deceiver deluded them
They reckoned their misguidance as gods

30. An idea was not made clear to their minds
And how numerous were their ignorances

31. Take it with forgiving wisdom if it departs
From natural disposition and its smooth flow

32. If elation reaches the listener
It is because she is an impulsive young gazelle

33. Sincere to you, she does not claim
The folly of love and its nonsense

34. Nor has the piercing thought from her mind
Moved to a place describing its ruins

35. Praising you distracts her from others
And she could not be fit except for it