1. My blaming mistress is prone to blame
You're far from my manners or desire

2. She refuses to accept any blame I make
An open reproach, neither little nor much

3. My flattery faltered and plunged into reproving me
And she held back tears on her cheek that poured

4. White and pretty, prettiness itself made just
A visage with no deceit or blemish struck

5. As though beauty itself was her judge and withdrew
From precision and chose to take the finest share

6. And took for herself origins without peer
In beauty and gave others the extras

7. A palace dressed with grandeur and filled
With so much sedition beneath that dress and cloak

8. I imagined my shortcoming and deviance
In love for you though you are young and childish

9. In you is meaning uplifting to a wholesome heart
And meaning curing whatever may ail

10. Contrasts kindling glances igniting
Ardent longing and a mouth cooling fervor

11. An alluring logic no army of censure faced
Except it captivated them with magic words or otherwise

12. A watcher whose gaze met no maiden’s
Except he glance away out of shortcoming or solve

13. Between your clothes a bending bouquet
Over tenderness it sways and gentleness it lists

14. You slipped in flirting so turn from it my blamer
Any clear mouth blamed is itself to blame

15. Hear my words and know my excuse
And be good after conceding to God’s command

16. It failed me in things that were under my control
Oh beauty the state has become distorted

17. My grey hairs planets appeared
In darkness from blackness of miserable fate

18. And youth which interceded for me is seen leaving
Each interceding for the other clearly

19. So this sums up sufficient excuse
Sparing you details with a summary

20. My house was a sanctuary for the healthy
A band would come to it and after it another band

21. I was a fortress for whoever sought refuge in me
Like a overlooking wall beneath it is shade

22. My money was protecting my honor
Loss is easier than what is precious lost

23. I spent much so it kept diminishing
Until I was relegated to poverty and scarcity

24. I had enough but my unemployment shows
Excess though the present unemployment concealed it

25. A sword unknown of traits in its sheath
Only the discerning eye sees it when drawn

26. How many latent qualities if tried
Would lead to glory or close the breach

27. Ambition positioned like a star
And determination never weak in hardship

28. Humiliation earning me esteemed honor
Though sometimes honor is gained through humiliation

29. I accompanied masters of people so they never
Stumbled upon a shortcoming from me or lapse

30. They enjoyed my competency and I was to them
More protective than a shield or more conclusive than proof

31. A script pleasant and refined expressions
No coarse prose but carefully chosen and plain

32. Had I been a spring of it irrigation for the thirst of a desolate land
Its echo would have quenched without needing cause

33. How many conventions I instituted without confusion
That guided whoever pursued them before

34. The state archives were never satisfied with them
Nor were scribes of official correspondence enough

35. I was accompanied by extraordinary men I spent for
What was mine and my generosity called for spending

36. So time deceived me with its schemes
And time schemes against the eminent with deception

37. Yet I was content never coveting anyone
As the free man carries the burden of them all

38. That despite my never waking or
Being awake from a journey after it a journey

39. No fault in the moon's illumination
Though it never stops moving and transporting

40. I take refuge in shame so suffice myself with it and when
A people cross the line excellent is patience to rein them

41. I made some of my hopes of nobility and
My father Ali materialize all of them

42. How can lowliness be when protected by my kin
Who found me access to prominence

43. Wakeful of beautiful mention gaining it
No forgetfulness from it or negligence

44. Purified plants well-bred branches
From a spring its pole is never barren of glory

45. It flows to glory leaving peoples behind
And after it who sought it before

46. They vied with it but resolve always
Kept it atop their skulls beneath its slipper

47. They fell short that they obtain remoteness of the precedence of a youth
Who sped and won distinction in his running track

48. As though water flows in its natural forms
And fire is kindled from his weighty words

49. Increasing affectionately when we inform him
Unlike what they say diminish it if you coddle it

50. If you doubt suspicion in his leadership
Then smell it or test him to admit his nobility

51. Candidates for what only those knew his merit
Enemies recognized his superiority

52. They never openly admitted chest bitterness to him
Until they saw they never saw his like

53. A hero when his palm drafted by the quill
I said how many pens does his blade sharpen

54. He blots out two lines of pleasure and honey
And two meanings of coquetry and affability

55. The position of his blow weeps an ocean
From where he solved though his tear is potent

56. Executing command in purest and swiftest
No pause or tarry back and forth glance

57. Sublimities yearn to him as though they
Fancied the sublime in him for his appearance

58. Many a fawn for a great leader lowers its gaze
When it beholds one day the children of fawns

59. None can clarify paths in glory
Except those realizing paths to tread

60. Gifts from God’s favors specially blessed
And brilliance from generous steed and sublime ascent

61. Time cannot defame its confidant
Nor can any rope reach what his rope reached

62. The nights' turns refuse to change for he who
Came to him in affection or otherwise

63. Plentiful donor of prestige in protecting the sublime
You perfected that protection be gained through spending

64. I became your neighbor so cloak me with your view
From a time I see determined to draw out its arrows

65. Join with your rope a rope many hands
Of men have extended seeking connection

66. I am a place of intimacy when you check on me
Though busy sufficing me your busyness

67. Said be neighbor of sea or the wasting of a king
While you are my neighbor and refuge at Armageddon

68. When will your shade oh brother of nobles
Give shade to their brethren with its shade

69. I never ask you but prestige you spend
So replace with it my praise that adorns

70. God exalts him that you give life to the deserving one
Like knowledge exalts to love through it its people

71. Time is unjust time it aggrieved me
Unjustly so its righteousness compensated its injustice

72. You are one obtaining want for the free man
And safety from its time of due no delay