1. If you revive my hopes by seeing Jesus
The branches have long leaned towards him

2. And I was blessed after despair with the green one
Who kept ascending and narrating about Idris

3. If it were not for the existence of the two friends
The houses of both worlds would become desolate

4. How much I said when the father begot his son
It’s no wonder the precious begets the precious

5. For God the sun of religion is a sun that rose
Among us cycles of guidance and suns

6. His hand returned us and settled with justice
The quarrelsome miscreants

7. His generosity enriched the poor and fed
Those who were hopeless in the good days

8. An ink that took the lead in gifts and continued
Reciting lessons about it from praise

9. Ibn Sina was called the Chief and had Jesus seen
He would have called himself the subordinate

10. And I reckoned him by his courage and intelligence
Like Bahram who equaled Burjīs in elevation

11. They are a group who hasten to chaos
Quarrelling over the dovecote like pigeons

12. The chuckles of discord when the feathers clash
They did not make iron their armor

13. And a brother of chivalry is one who goes out bare-armed
On the day of battle not guarded

14. They fulfill what they promise as if their promises
Were an oath sworn to fulfillment

15. O my master, O minister, and whoever
Has wisdom that surpassed Aristotle’s

16. You were assigned leadership renewing
For the people their law from its origin

17. You were sent as a mercy from it to all creatures
Encompassing their standing and sitting

18. And it is as if its reader sees you one day
Arabizing the glorification and sanctification

19. And you united the realm with the pen you adorned
The lines with for official correspondence

20. And by covering faults the deluded ones revealed
To you in prayer responding heads

21. I sighed in relief for everyone choked by distress
His strangling I relieved with release

22. You extinguished the fires of enmity after
You had trampled their igniters and rubble

23. And gave them rest from the tribulation that revived for them
Every day a Dahis and Basus

24. Jadis and Tasm perished when they opposed
And it is as if Tasm did not exist and Jadis

25. O son of one who meets cavaliers with a name
Far be it from you to meet guests with frowning

26. The companions were fortunate through you so beware some of them
For perhaps the companion does injustice to a companion

27. They diminished the share of God’s guests with you
While your share with them was diminished

28. And I seek refuge for your glory from being in a group
Of enviers with insinuations from a demon

29. For God taught Adam every knowledge
And Adam obeyed, neglecting Iblees

30. Indeed, time wastes the rewards of one who loses them
And is distracted from them by the precious miserable

31. So turn to good praise, for they are not equal in mention
Good and miserable

32. You are not one who takes liberties with their innards
Out of hatred, nor one who dishonors their honour

33. I call you to beautiful reconciliation, so if you respond
You will establish a lofty building on a foundation

34. And of politics is to watch over
The righteous, absolving and pardoning them

35. A people, if appointed to an arduous day
You would find one of them turn back a fifth

36. By God, one who pleads for them in ease or hardship will not fail
And do not leave my words about them doubtful and presumptive

37. And I saw in them what I did not see in others
And stayed amongst them a lifetime as a spy

38. One confused by their talk
I removed from it the obscurity

39. The denials of the adversary did not harm them
For they are, by their actions, the strongest in resolves

40. How much they were blamed in ignorance and their state denied
By people who wear out judgment and teaching

41. So I rebutted their words, setting as an example
Upon Al-Khidhr peace and Moses

42. And upon Solomon the prophet for he
Swayed his mount towards Bilqis

43. And upon the young man of beauty whose assaults
Passed by the enemies like a dangling hair

44. O Lord of knowledge who saw my advice to him
So he answered me, would Galen approve?

45. He did not know that whenever I appealed to him
It was iron and I was a magnet

46. If I were pleased with the ignorance like him
I would have dictated what fills hearts with pit fire

47. And ignited the fire of enmity that cannot be put out
Rather, not even the enemy can stand its heat

48. The fear of the Hereafter did not leave for me an adversary
To provoke from me someone prone to rage

49. Or do you not see the love of wellbeing making me
Cast peace, appeasing and wise

50. Does it assign me the composition of amorous verse when it saw
The fresh branch of youth turn dry and withered

51. As for amorous verse, its words do not suit
An old shaykh bent over leaning on his stick

52. No eager one seeking to dye his grey hairs
Fearing the sin except the era of youth returned

53. When he saw the era of youth leaving
He took off the armor and put on the gown

54. The loved ones and youth have passed leaving
Me memories as a night companion and friend

55. You reminded me of the days of spearing but I could not find
A lance to straighten or a mallet

56. The days of my resolve whose arrows do not
Miss a target and my wound does not heal

57. The years bent the spikes of my ascent which
Did not find a second rider or a footman

58. So the course of my war I do not want fixed
For spearing except it returns it to spearing

59. Yesterday it had the suns subjugated for it
And today subjugation became its suns

60. It did not realize the harm of grey hair, its stars
Leave the happy man from men miserable

61. How is the path to a gathering making
The home livable with an intimate inhabitant?

62. If I had in my paternal uncle’s home a supporter
Who gathered the sincere and the wise

63. And advice I expressed so it leaned over
Like the dawn its light dispelling the gloom

64. Verily the Christians of the city, their love
If its mosque were a church

65. Do you see the Christians judging
Whoever frequented prisons becomes a prisoner?

66. If Isaac returned to it a second time
They would strike its doors with the bells

67. God averted evil from you by averting it
So avert it from us and slap the priest

68. I ransom those employed with it, and I only
Ransom with a goat like the Jews a ewe

69. If I controlled their matter from my zeal
I would not leave the employed with ammunition

70. They graze the wealth of the subjects with harm
If they were milked they would resemble buffaloes

71. God sent them upon His provisions
Locusts while they secured from it locusts

72. It filled their homes with spoils so you do not see
Among it, like my home, empty and locked

73. Whoever did not stand with me in my duties
I belled him with my blame, belittling

74. I warn some of them as if I am
Striking a drum in the ear of a horse, striking drums

75. I have a friend whose clothes the thieves stole
At night so he spent the night locked in his home

76. And he complained to the Minister of War about his stolen home
As if complaining to him about Francis

77. And as if he is a judge saying to his opponent
“This is your creditor, bankruptcy is proven against you”

78. And the landlords plead against him
And give him priority so he shows frowning

79. And sometimes they request him with money they
Stole so he became touching the tangible

80. They filled their homes with his money and had he complained
They would have filled the children of the grieved with prisoners

81. How much I said when the governors heard their talk
Do you think power corrupts the cotton wick?

82. He flipped pennies to millions and how much of his knowledge
Made the dinars the weights and the pennies millions

83. So see whose money the thieves took
And with his mind meanings the thieves as prisoners

84. They raised the foundations from the hems of his clothes
And uprooted the grammatical constructs and semantics

85. I had feared from fear of the thieves that
I would send you from the poem a bride

86. You have not ceased to recount in elevation
Your noble blessed forefathers

87. As long as an astrologer follows the stars
And informs about the Trinity and Divinity