1. O guide of yearnings, where are you inclined
It is an affliction, and its questioning is reasoning

2. What is this - the first stop in the meadows
It stopped, so it calls out, a killer, killed

3. We were confused by the delineation of its image, so it was perplexed
In it tears that have no outlet

4. And it endured for the hand of clouds their long necks
From us while we are clouds and long necks

5. And by the lover, no coy beloved appears
Whose shadow, were it not for sickness, is thin

6. And a willow in the ponds that the breeze thinks
Is a branch bending in its bitterness and leaning

7. It carried to it a greeting, and its breeze
Is forever an apostle in the religion of love

8. I was not telling about an anklet before it
Except your perfume bore witness, well received

9. And it reveals what the meadow concealed, and if it knew
What from you was for its mouth a kiss

10. And horsemen who knew the spears as if
Before the thrusting their blades were attached

11. They startled the darkness, so there does not pass upon them
Except the knot of its stars undone

12. Their hopes and banners aspired with them
A decree with what the generous promised delayed

13. And the rider of deceit fell, having mounted it slick
Its back on the day of meeting is humiliated

14. How did you come upon settled ‘Amir, and its pastures
Are shelter and veil of its extent drawn together

15. The arrogance snarled at you until you stirred it
Vicious, its slain strewn about pulled

16. And its tents seemed illuminated before you
If with you there was for the dawn a guide

17. You thought ‘Auf with the spears was with Julas
A thought - by your life - beautiful with the dove

18. Or did Sanjar not have for your people a fate
Witnessed by the blades' remnants

19. They sought salvation, so in their lifespans was
Brevity, and in the thick of calamities, length

20. So leave Iraq forsaken, travelled ahead of it
The swift, its lead ropes cut

21. And prevent your ally in Iraq, and say to him
Alas! Repelling the Euphrates was the Nile!

22. And beware of the Kufa fodder, it
Is a pasture with spearheads sown and chaff

23. It turned healthful, so nothing but the eyelids are sick
In them, and none but the breeze ailing

24. And the leader of the faith folded his wings, so
The night is dawn and the winds acceptance

25. If it befell him and he left his abode
The lion, his might scatters, not the elephant

26. Joy dances for the dew in fervor
They knew through it that the clement are encompassing

27. He takes the initiative of misfortunes calmly
And attains the utmost composure while he is hasty

28. The glory of praise perfumed his traits
Sweetly, so every mouth by it is sugared

29. It was not known before the outpouring of his bestowal
That when the clouds appear, it means steeds

30. His resolves scattered, so the darkness worries
And it effects the crescent, bent

31. If only the days had the fire of his vitality
There would not be in them morn and eve

32. The clan of ‘Abdul Rahim were ennobled by his pillar
And sometimes branches can be roots

33. He made thereby the scent of praise last for his folk
And praise is fortune abundant for the noble

34. A people, when speech runs out and the reflections
Of speakers darken, and minds and hearts

35. They quenched thirsts of Arabic eloquent tongues
Digressing, and the vanished trails meager

36. If they miss a cloak to wrap in, and a pulpit
The seat of kingship and the crown are theirs

37. A lineage the blossoms of stars took as beacon
And other than it, its outcome is unknown

38. O gatherer of hopes while they are scattered about
And tender of days while they are altered

39. I mean, may your perfection be counted a virtue
Like the dawn, no blemish or disgrace

40. If not for you, palms would not sway, so there would not be
In time, hope or expected thing

41. It does not harm that it was circulated while your view of them
Is that the polished sword its sheath not leave

42. Say to the prince Abu Al-Aghar, and below him
For seekers, gray hairs and follies

43. The ways of your grandfather in enmity stand erect
Forever, and your sword guarantees and suffices

44. You owed Julutha a renowned favor
So you fulfilled it, while loyalty is scarce

45. And the son of your uncle settled in Iraq, he and his people
Like sheep, their ram understood

46. Neither estrangement drove them from you, but rather
They inclined with the days wherever they tilt

47. And it went far, in which we desire only
Affection, so is there to it a way?

48. If its hopes are interceded in attaining it
Let the eloquent hear how I say