1. Victory is attained through your aid,
And in your presence difficult times are endured.

2. Your neighbor is the enemy of your possession since the beginning of time,
You give might to one and humiliate the other.

3. Honor is permitted to those you allow,
Both chaste and defiled according to your command.

4. With your bravery enemies are defeated,
With your kindness eyes are delighted.

5. Your hands possess the gems of glory,
Yet your subjects shun such treasures.

6. Before long high and low were made equal,
Glories and sorrows leveled in your domain.

7. In your court generosity and stinginess prevail,
Thus hopes and disappointments are in your hands.

8. If the envious ignore your gifts,
The experienced still know the truth.

9. Hands once empty are now clouds,
Raining beyond what clouds can contain.

10. You have connected the generous house of Najar,
Grinding the enemy like flour in a mill.

11. By restoring their lost pride you have proven worthy,
While you wear their crown, their pillar.

12. After thousands you have granted a heap,
Rich is he who takes, and he who is content.

13. Virtuous ladies no men have mounted,
Nor scoundrels approached in their quarters.

14. No leather has marked their skin,
Nor file tainted their cheeks.

15. If others sought them, violation would be resisted
And chaste isolation upheld.

16. If Jarir saw them he would forget his Hyneid,
For with musk, jasmine is ignored.

17. I swear by the Lord of dawn and dusk,
What the valley and mountain range contain.

18. Patience, for aggressive talk
Will breed conflict, and conflict has its sorrows.

19. Quraysh agreed to arbitration,
Not satisfied without the input of Batin.

20. With Abi Salama healing is found
When medicine cannot cure madness.

21. Freed slaves who none surpassed in merit,
And drinking friends no cup diminished passion for.

22. Hearts will not forget their grievances,
When hatred is kindled its coals smoulder.

23. Numayr alive would not accept
A solution that does not firmly resolve.

24. As if defeated they plainly schemed
Like foxes turning on the innocent lamb.

25. If not for his oppression they would have supported him
As eyelids envelop the eyeball.

26. If they follow their leader and gain
What was deemed impossible, doubts are dispelled.

27. They only turned on him deceitfully,
As cattle turn without purpose.

28. If not for his injustice they would have embraced him
As eyelids embrace the pupils.

29. And I know what they have concealed will appear
When eyelids reveal their secrets.

30. How will they be when swords are drawn
Executing their sharp justice?

31. He harvested, fooled by a truce,
Aided by those who do not come to aid.

32. He broke with those who ward off wars,
Unafraid of the predators' howls.

33. The free and slaves are feared among you,
While the infant and unborn are hoped for.

34. May your glorious sky never lack
Suns obscured by no clouds.

35. You are a palm tree, tall and fertile,
Watered by the vine and faith.

36. Fruiting each season without cease,
Its branches reaching to the sky's ceiling.

37. If you free my two captors, my thanks
To whom my secret remains captive forever.

38. You have multiplied my enviers, now many
More than Adam's though he was but clay.

39. Winter is here, I have supplies
I publically announce to you each new moon.

40. With such gifts I have remained
To know you are righteous and trustworthy.

41. You dress my faults so before me
Is praise that does not waiver or betray.

42. Each day my voice visits your abode
Singing songs that do not tire.

43. If I spent a year in any other sea
These precious pearls would be missed.