1. None before you in time gone by
Put deeds before words, nor mounted high.

2. Then you came and sufficed with your glory,
Silencing question and hope's allegory.

3. Not content with the honor you inherited,
You matched high with higher and carried.

4. Renewing the ways of Barmak's line,
Giving in hardship what pardon declined.

5. They gave in plenty and worldly things,
Not what you give in your winnowings.

6. They made asking the way and means,
While seekers throng to you for no means.

7. By your duty you came with no peer in the world,
A high model built with no former.

8. Saving her from slur, untruth and ferment
And guarding her glory in grace and betterment.

9. Skilled in war and giving, belying thereby
In her the coward's and miser's lie.

10. Aspiring men tried for her hand,
But you attained her, their goals as sand.

11. Her ways were distant save for your feet,
Her bridal gifts out of others' reach.

12. They looked on her from valley's floor,
While you came down from a prospect more.

13. By resolve and concision you guarded her from
All that they thought by default to strengthen.

14. And had they been earnest and keen, your own
Sincerity foiled them, their efforts thrown.

15. When men of your day aspire to such extent,
Where are the resolute ones from frailer bent?

16. You paid high prices for praise, then gave
More when they sought eulogy for nought and wave.

17. When you don new raiment of acclaim,
They rest content with old robe and name.

18. And when they attain not the highest place,
They lean on uncle and cousin's grace.

19. They wasted her then sought to guard
One far nobler under the dust's shard.

20. God chose Mohammed from your midst,
Still guarded by his noblest kin.

21. Your origin from a musky clay,
When He created men from base metal and clay.

22. The Prophet's father is foremost of his kin,
Not like other brethren and their origin.

23. How can he share in an uncle, but not
Share in an uncle and a father in allot?

24. Banu Al Ala traced from him too far,
As Chapter Al Anfal settles that bar.

25. Lofty spirits rose with the dynasty's pride,
Attaining utmost glory and wide.

26. Of generous disposition it holds,
Foiling the mean ones' hopes andfolds.

27. When bounties seem to reach an end,
At his hand strange graces descend.

28. Loyal in ties, no break in affection,
Pleased with no discontent and true selection.

29. Sword blades shine when burnished by fights,
And minds shine when burnished by rights.

30. Living by the eulogy of its youth,
Traces that revive the languid, the uncouth.

31. No wealth is safe from the grasp of his hand,
Can allotment be safe from the ruler's command?

32. How oft a hope nursed in the heart's nest,
Only to be severed from the breast!

33. To seek from others is seeking
Mirage water with dreaming.

34. Yet best people after Mohammed
Are fiercest in battle furnace flamed.

35. In you, my nights were done when gone long,
The water unclear now limpid and strong.

36. Time is ever derelict since you subdued it,
As days go by distanced from misdeed.

37. How oft were hopes denied by fate,
In the plunder of joys winds abate!

38. Your word was matched by deed, leaving no glory
To words or claims of vainglory.

39. Yours are resolves, nothing replaces,
What roaming dunes hold or far oases.

40. With death blows you clarified for seekers,
The ways of right and error's beacons.

41. They craved your gifts but none could reach
A droplet of that distant beach.

42. You made me needless of them, as a staff
Of branches makes a lost one laugh.

43. Long their ties aspired to my hands,
But my right and left made unclasped stands.

44. And I see the rhymes - such innovations! -
Yet thanks for creating go to you, my patience.

45. No blame if they fall short, having carried
Burdens heavy, tiring, harried.

46. You honored them, so wide is their Lord's clemency,
If they come to you devoid of urgency.

47. Long forbidden, since your tie inaugurated,
I made them lawful, though night purple-belated.

48. As if the hand that brought them in dawn's candle
Mixed hot with cool and kindled.

49. From all who dwell or roam the land,
The far and wide of every stretch and band,

50. Unique in attributes but few
In likenesses, this ageBeing shy or obscure fails as their excuse,

51. That a beauty be described as shy or obtuse.
If others bring their poor ones,

52. I but yawn, though night's daughters and sons.
Some are clowns and mimes,

53. And some words hecklers and mimes.
You honored them, so vaster their thanks swell,

54. Should they come, tardy and slow to excell.
No shapes or riddles trouble their pure frame,

55. Yet loss alludes; is this to be blamed?
If others come with their little rhymes,

56. I frown though night's daughters and sons.
Some are clowns and mimes,

57. And some words hecklers and crimes.
Long you clarified the verse craft's course,

58. Making cheap the speech once held choice.
They craved your gifts but none could reach

59. A droplet of that distant beach.
You spared me their need, as a staff

60. Of branches makes the lost one laugh.
And long their ties aspired to my hands,

61. But my right and left made unclasped stands.
I view the rhymes - such innovations! -

62. Yet thanks for creating go to you, my patience.
No blame if they fall short, having carried

63. Burdens heavy, tiring, harried.
You honored them, so vaster their thanks swell,

64. Should they come, tardy and slow to excell.
No shapes or riddles trouble their frame,

65. Though loss alludes; is this to blame?
Your sky poured on me, no rain supplicated,

66. Except it was successive, unsated.
I roamed in meadows limpid at heart,

67. Entrusted to kin, ne'er distant or apart.
You showed me home status brings disgrace,

68. While honor is in travel's race.
After some fates bent my pride and comrades,

69. I chose your gift over mean mouths' dictates.
I sought of it pearls to hoard,

70. And ignored what leads to the slavecord.
You fulfilled my expectation, then redoubled

71. What imagination never troubled.
You pioneered the roads to praise for me,

72. With gifts succeeded by gifts continually.
When the lofty defeated the seekers,

73. After long quest and its bleakness.
You tamed the recalcitrant without force,

74. And stopped the wanderers without recourse,
Save offering you eulogy's diction,

75. That made my songs' concepts fruition.
So lofty and profound it made wisdom's stars

76. Join ignorance' children in learning's cars.
Your sky poured on me, no rain beseeched,

77. Except it was successive, never breeched.
And I roamed in meadows limpid at heart,

78. Entrusted to kin, from stranger and the far.
You showed the degradation in settled ways,

79. Honor being only in traveling days.
When some fate bent my spirit's pride,

80. I chose your gift, not the mean mouth's side.
I sought of your gift gems to hoard,

81. Not what leads to the slavecord.
You fulfilled my expectation, then redoubled

82. What no imagination ever troubled.
You pioneered the roads of praise for me,

83. With gifts succeeded endlessly.
When the lofty defeated the seekers' all,

84. After long vain quest and its pall.
You tamed the defiant without might,

85. Stopped the wanderers without recourse or rite,
Save offering you eulogy's expression,

86. That gave my songs' concepts fruition.
So lofty, profound, the wise men class

87. Cannot know, with children, its compass.
Your sky poured on me, no rain beseeched,

88. Except in succession, never breeched.
In meadows I roamed, their waters sweet,

89. Watched by your eye, from beyond's seat.
You showed me home disgraces the man,

90. While honor is in the caravan.
When fate bent my soul's pride, somewhiles,

91. I chose your gift, not the mean's wiles.
I sought of it gems to hoard and store,

92. Not what leads to servitude's floor.
You fulfilled, then doubled expectation,

93. Beyond imagination's equation.
You paved praise's course, your gifts to draw,

94. With visits graced, and gifts evermore.
When the lofty defeated the seekers,

95. After long travail and its meekness,
You tamed their colt without a rein,