1. Calm your heart, let not thoughts take it away
What will lamenting and caution do to you?

2. And restrain your eyes, do not let them weep
Be patient, for you have endured calamities before

3. If fate has turned against your desire
There is no reversing what destiny brings

4. And if you have faced one disappointment in life
How often have you been victorious, with your supporters around you

5. If you are confused by the crime of a criminal
Your innocence amidst the darkness is like the moon

6. How many sighs rise from the chambers of the heart
And tears of grief flow down from the eyes

7. Entrust to God what you fear
And seek His support, He is forgiving

8. Do not let misfortunes alarm you if times get difficult
God will defend, and the victorious will triumph

9. Be patient, for you are from a people of resilience
When adversity strikes them, they endure

10. Who is like your people, and the brave King Abu
Amr, your father, his glory and pride are renowned

11. Sameda is mighty, bestowing thousands bountifully
Yet sees his gifts as trivial, taking pride in them

12. He has a hand, each tyrant kisses it
If not for his benevolence, we'd think it was stone

13. O courageous warrior, killing champions voraciously
Do not weaken me, for I am fierce and triumphant

14. A horseman feared by his peers for his charge
Protect your obedient slave, his mention is sword

15. He whose right hand has never been polluted
Except to fulfill a purpose and conclude a matter

16. You created me, turns of fate you know
And their course said, I cannot bear them

17. My soul quakes, my eyes weep
My voice raised, my secret exposed

18. My worries increased, sickness in my body
I grew old in hair, but not in age

19. I wasted away to only skin and bones
You I knew would pardon when able

20. Your slave came with no sin deserving rebuke
No sin except upon hostile traitorous people

21. Your promised covenant with them was sufficient, when they betrayed
A people whose loyalty is deceit, truth betrayal

22. Their benefit, if schemed, is harm
Hatred discerned in their words, if they speak

23. Malice recognized, if their eyes look
Their breath burns the heart like sparks of flame

24. My Master, a slave thirsty for your grace prays
In your mercy are unfettered vines, evergreen

25. Answer the call of a brother, heart possessed by grief
Sleepless nights have brought him ruin

26. I was not given in my time, things to secretly delight in
So I am unaccustomed to wine or lute

27. I was mastered by neither cupbearer nor singer
No houri adorned my palace, nor maiden fair

28. Your approval is repose for my soul, without it
I am distressed, so it is the custom I hoard for fate

29. It is the wine I sip to forget my sorrows, so when
I lack it, thoughts wander lost inside me

30. Wine I did not leave for asceticism or piety
For since my youth, it never left me

31. Rather I strive for your approval, so if
I fail in it, life will not expand for me

32. I was not delighted, evading your bounty
The day helmet and armor clanked and scattered

33. Yes, I have another comfort I clung to
Poems flow when helmet and armor scatter

34. How many clear battle victories I had
Nights pass, but their tales do not fade

35. The travellers carried them throughout the lands, so they
Spread, and in every neighborhood their gossip stirred

36. You remain with imposing eternal glory
Neither thoughts can reach its depths, nor eyes make out

37. And your excellent counsel is a burden I still
Take refuge in - what an excellent cave and burden!

38. To you my soul's garden flowed, sprouting
With the blessing of your right hand, no rising or rain

39. I made your remembrance throughout it into trees
So in all its times, fruit is plentiful for the picker