1. You slept away from your anxious heart's yearning
Then you commanded relaxation though it was intolerable

2. Do not blame the one whom you wearied
In every graceful, well-proportioned form

3. The staff tells of the time the dawn passed by it
Its movements and his extending it with its knob

4. And the one girded who sings to the boon companion with his face
About his brimming cup and his ewer

5. The acts of wine, its color and taste
In his eyelids, cheeks, and saliva

6. And my soul is imprinted though it flowed
In the doctrine of turning away at the time of its rising

7. So his coming near is like his distance, and his union
Is not frank estrangement, and his loyalty is like his disavowal

8. I will always show him falseness in my intimacy
And confide in him - oh would that I could prove it!

9. Passion like that of Abu Muzaffar for the dew
Everyone who yearns for his beloved

10. You have trodden the path of praise with excellence
You originated it and turned from the trodden path

11. And you appeared in this kingdom with an exemplary lifestyle
With which hope leads to its verification

12. Like the setting of the sun, its light was completed
Not like the dawn before its rising

13. Fortunate is he who divides his life
Between its morning and evening

14. Wait, you have transcended glory since you embraced it
And distinguished between its lies and its truths

15. Not for its attainer over its pursuer
But for its Creator over its created

16. So what you have striven for is far from what is near
And but for you what is near is like what is far

17. So let wealth be asked, which the people
Became immersed in amassing and you were immersed in distributing

18. And let the horses that faded at dawn
With stabbing be asked about the abundance and scarcity of trickery

19. About whom protected their heels stingily
Not whom asked about their freedom and driving

20. O supporter of the Hanifi religion with determination
That was proven true so falsehood yielded with its defeat

21. The shameless will only be safeguarded by a swordsman
Who has unsheathed blades to obtain rights

22. So let those seeking protection take refuge in Manbij
With blood still exposed to being shed

23. For you have cast at them one who overwhelms disorder
Who sees parting with the soul unlike parting with his comrade

24. One who bends from the blood of oppressors ragged
Like a bride smeared with her bracelets

25. And ferocious, who goes looking for combat when
A brother appeals and delays supporting his brother

26. And a warrior who returns to fighting as if
He is called to his opinion and tribe

27. Why is their governor justifying himself
At times and announcing his patience for its position?

28. Exposing himself to the combat of one superior to him
Ignorantly, with an arrow already shot from above him

29. And the inability of sights is the greatest preacher
If only he were guided to his success

30. In a circumstance in which there are deaths and wishes
That bring and challenge before the flashing of its lightning

31. The beasts fear its attack in their thickets
Always and the birds of prey are awed by its swooping

32. Your grandfather was righteous while prisoner of one
Who prevented escape and increased its confinement

33. Until when Allah released him, he judged
By removing his captor and [getting] control of his release

34. And He will do the same with you, so make a determination
That dispels the darkness of slander after its arising

35. How many self-indulgent people has Antioch contained
Busy with its wine and music

36. And before Constantinople and behind it
Are important matters the essence of which is subtle

37. What has prevented the King of Rome from aiding
His Duke and from [aiding] his Patriarch?

38. Hope stopped at his failing
And fear obligates his heart with its pounding

39. Polytheism will surely not feel safe from the grip
Of one hoped to cut off its branches and veins

40. And from misguidance, the combat of one superior to it
Is foolish, with an arrow already shot from above it

41. And let him seek protection in one who has overpowered hostility
Until his enemy yielded to his friend

42. Your giving sufficed without a denied bequest
More worthy of good mention than its bestowed

43. A generosity with which you have transcended kings, so they have not
A day aspired to it or been guided to its path

44. They advanced requesting and the one censuring you is upon Allah -
Who can return an arrow after its shooting?

45. You have exceeded in its abundance and become eminent in
Its denial and been generous to not impeding it

46. So let hopes truly know
That they have alighted at the Best of Carpenters' loftiest

47. The extent of its bestowal has made praise
Repellent to me, and I have become needless of investigating it

48. Previously, I would ignore it and it had no market
But now, I have become one who sells it in its market

49. Permissible because I purchase it with a
Questing idea and refrain from its stolen

50. In every miracle undertaken for me
A favor has protected speech from any patchworking

51. Until I joined its pearls with its rubies
And compared its pearls to its carnelians

52. From an ocean of victory whose scout
Brought it to me, and opportunity is for the sublime in its driving

53. An ocean abundantly wealthy so none escapes
Destruction but its drowned