1. He who seeks solace in illusory dreams,
Can reality be cured with the impossible?

2. A tradition the lovers ignorantly made,
Like asking ruins and deserted abodes.

3. Or like one who stirs trouble without intent,
Or hopes for generosity from the miserly.

4. Or like one who strives with those I shall not name,
Certain that his efforts are in vain.

5. By the one other than my enemies, even if they eulogized me,
And trespass brings joy to the lover, so I do not care,

6. Distraction does not cross my mind.
With blame, though not for a crime, and aloofness, not from boredom.

7. Savagery seized two companionships,
Both led to the path of ruin.

8. One moment it violently subdues with severity,
Another it frolics with the eyes of a gazelle.

9. Its violence intensified and the cunning of battle gathered in it,
And the pounce of the ambusher.

10. Thus I still recite a heart,
Lost between guidance and temptation.

11. I feared not its straying, nor did I fear
That the beloved would become one of my blamers.

12. Indeed, the time has come for me to cure my youth,
With a cure for the incurable disease of old age.

13. Being just in poetry to the ways of passion,
To a lover of the beauty of deeds.

14. One whom when perfection raised him above kings,
He increased beyond perfection.

15. His glory and the son of his crown, spreader of hopes,
Generous and killer of burdens.

16. He raced with zeal, a stallion in spirit,
So he disobeyed the blame, transcended the boredom.

17. And towered high, thus surpassing the lofty,
After greying and exhaustion.

18. And a boiling spirit that refuses, however numerous the solicitors,
To let them obtain anything but honesty.

19. Thus you see the neighbour in his care well-off,
And hope is revived through him for the wretched.

20. He made glory clear to all creation and protected it,
So he is manifest but difficult to attain.

21. The attainment of wishes flowed, even if greed deluded
A people whose greed deluded them with the impossible.

22. Desolation is answered with generosity and welcome,
Not with leanness and limping.

23. Deserted places where one who walked in them
Would be exposed to perdition or straying.

24. The preceding son of Mahmoud crossed them,
The preceding on the day of dew and the day of contention.

25. And he strove with the endeavor of the foremost,
So he attained the peak of virtues and intellect.

26. And he was true to his noble name and nickname,
So both took the place of good omen.

27. The efforts of his ancestors will not be far from him,
For they are clear in the present.

28. It sufficed them that the Father of Knights charged them,
For the changes of time to flow through them.

29. O son of one who defended my hopes and praise
Against all the riffraff and scum.

30. They are a faction whose means are effective,
Just as greying is effective for those with thick locks.

31. And their help is needed by the destitute, so if they give it,
It is charity for prolonged hopes.

32. And when needs are presented to them,
They are obedient to procrastination and disregard.

33. I visited him to shade me, so his gifts
Made me generosity's ample shade.

34. He left no envious one to denounce me,
Though I came full of hopes.

35. Since my hopes in him are dependent on success,
And my fortune is proven since he was true to me.

36. His traces scattered my guided arrows,
And he honored me with expansiveness until

37. I attained the deeds of servants with their masters,
And some of what I gained of his honor,

38. Lord of bounty, Lord of bounty.
Had I persisted improperly in other than its abundance,

39. Such persistence would have sufficed through humiliation.
So Allah watered a land in which settled

40. The abode of virtue, the source of favor.
The firmest lion, whether docile

41. Or ferocious, and the most resolute in contention.
I have long said about those who asked of you,

42. While my confidence was the guide to the lost,
If you want knowledge of their condition from certainty,

43. Meet them in generosity or war.
You will meet the whites of honors with the blacks of accursed blood,

44. The greens of meadows with the reds of sharp swords.
Nobles, if the nobles of glory wronged them,

45. They would topple mountain foundations.
And if they fought, you would see the hearts of lions

46. Entrusted into the breasts of men.
Through them the land where they battled was shaken,

47. And they are its safety from tremors.
Yours are the glories of swords, and with them

48. Is the shaking of the buzzing spears.
And you have in praise the most enduring attributes,

49. Left by words in epics.
If the House of Darim ibn Tamim

50. Were given some of your continuous superiority,
They would veil a veiler if lineage were listed,

51. And not release a released one's reins.
The overflowing love of souls and wealth

52. Prevented people from aspiring for your likeness.
And the modern is content with mention of the ancient,

53. Satisfied with old garments.
So when summoned with what necessitates praise,

54. They refer it to moldering bones.
And you refused to allow yourselves proximity

55. To the whites of oryxes and browns of gazelles.
Like the refusal of stars where they descended,

56. Not the refusal of lions in thickets.
And your generosity raced impulsively until

57. The judgment of scales and measurement ceased.
And long ago you were known, since you ruled,

58. To surpass the successor; the predecessor's merit.
For this we forget with Mahmoud's deeds

59. The glories of victory and riches of spoils.
You are their most helpful when the world is arid,

60. And their guide to the roads of glory.
The predecessors fell short of its extent,

61. And you possessed it through six traits.
Honors with apology, pardon with power,

62. And chastity in beauty.
And truly you were peerless in them,

63. Yet you reached them without an equal.
A morsel you won without proof,

64. Obscure in meaning, narrow in scope.
Taking with your right what your right necessitated,

65. The right, sister of the left.
I have not recalled homelands since my eyelid

66. Rested in the majesty of these realms.
With a side whose humiliation of wealth

67. Expressed the attainment of hopes.
And whenever I said you are some of the nobles of the time,

68. I aimed with certainty at the impossibles.
If the daughters of vigor galloped,

69. They do not race with the daughters of the knight.
How you outstripped wishes with a right inclination,

70. With abundant spontaneity.
They outweighed all cheapness with glory,

71. And were exalted, so made all expensive cheap.
Whenever the promises of lightning lagged,

72. It lagged behind every pouring cloud.
Honors, when attributes sculpted them,

73. The arrows of hyperbole fell short of them.
Had I exaggerated beyond them, I would be

74. Considered to be upon impossible impossibles.
Who distinguished between encirclements and shackles

75. Did not desire them from other than you.
You remain in what your hands encompassed and contain,

76. Safe from change or decline.
Indeed, the month of fasting revealed something

77. We never witnessed in past eras.
The Night of Power was especially in it

78. Created for worshipers and the righteous.
And it came to us this season in general,

79. Before its time by seven nights.
So we thanked Him, and gratitude was not lacking,

80. A crescent that gave way to Shawwal.
And a crescent indeed won praise,

81. It gave tidings to the full moon with a crescent.
News the ears of your enemies never comprehended,

82. Until it choked them with mortification,
Fearing your struggle, and to the lions

83. The cubs' feet stumble with terror.
So it made both Eids auspicious with prosperity,

84. An inhabitant and assailant alike.
Your good deeds outdid my words, so they came after them,

85. Overburdened by your favors, so forgive their slackness.
Then do not blame them if they are lost

86. Among your lofty, copious favors.
My gratitude is continuous and my loyalty proven,

87. So accept the excuse of the loyal loyal one.
And lighten me if I fall short, though

88. The stumbling of speech is no stumbling.
Although I have not slighted your kingdom with

89. Verses that remain like the nights.
Wild cattle went astray when they sought them,

90. And the crescent gleaned not a crescent from their sea.