1. He was accustomed to being driven away and driving others away
What horseman atop the back of a steed?

2. And suffice with saving its sides when needed
For help comes only when desperately needed

3. If its love for her didn't turn white from fright
Then there's nothing that didn't turn his heart white

4. By God, he didn't recount his tales
Between a coquette whose teeth he filed or a tormentor

5. Either the cups of life are passed around
Or the resolves of the wine-pourers are passed around

6. The night heard his news
As they flowed from the whispers of the lovesick

7. Where it mounted the star Al Nakeeb fascinately
And the cloud above it took the ladder scornfully

8. And the weather during its morning mourned
Having dressed the night in black

9. This is glory, and who is it
That ruled when he kept to his pillow?

10. By God, O thorns of the roads, conceal yourself
From a bare observer, armed with the thorns of spears

11. After he established his glories with the hands of integrity
There is no view for the misguided concerning him

12. How far misfortune is from one who praises
Ahmad the Sponsor of Increase

13. What pride has mounted its back
And surpassed the star, and almost reached?

14. Call out loudly if you visit him
By God, the glories have made every companion deaf

15. In the folds of its prosperity lies the purpose of wealth
So seek that intended purpose

16. Aflame, critical - oh what
Hidden criticism lies in his flaming

17. The backings are not sent
Unless they depend on the Hashimite

18. A consistent narration whose text
In the soundness of its precision - what momentum!

19. And only its outstanding ones, they are the ones
Who judge for us the knots of belief

20. It scrawls from its tranquility scribbles
That plunge in the inkpot the saliva of pens

21. That unsheathe sharp swords
The Sultan pursues his purposes

22. So the Ruler appeases him in what he wants
If an early time contained him

23. Despite his being first in reliance
He would have interceded for Al-Nu'man

24. With a mention of him in what Ziyad bestowed
This is the eloquent tongue pouring forth

25. Informing us of what saddened the heart
The Most Fortunate clothed his words with it

26. So love for him turned away from bliss
And look at Suhban in Wael

27. What harshness addressing restoration!
An eloquence that almost

28. Shook with rapture the cliff of the inanimate
This is news that spread when they

29. Witnessed what surpassed and excelled it
The companions did not present

30. Except his name, though repeating their mention is not repeated
They drew near a King whose soul

31. Was gentle from his soul even when distant
And a speaker said, why have you not aligned

32. Yourself with the path of one who passed nobly and justly?
I said to him, my excuse is that I am a man

33. Who must obey the judgment of time
And the saying of intimidation - do not cast

34. We hide if the countries conceal your thoughts
Take them, for they have come to you from a mind

35. That raves with love for you in every valley
From a sea of flowery speech which overflowed

36. And took two seas of flowery speech as loot