1. His virtues made him discreet,
So his worth portrayed his elite.

2. He gently wiped the shoulder of ardent longing,
With the ease of eloquence bending its rein.

3. And inclined his heart with a soaring wing,
If not for the ribs, it would have flown from his body.

4. Until when love mounted its steed,
Sighs raced with it from his sorrows.

5. Has not a pearl shed tears down the cheek of carnelian,
Its luster dissatisfied without its coral.

6. I wore a garment with which I adorned revelry,
And promenaded in what I tailored from silk brocade.

7. As if the shoulders were branches from its boughs,
Or the hips were from its dunes.

8. Where the left hand hustles with inclusion,
Intoxicated it tilts in its robes.

9. And the leaves turn in their pages,
With sorrows the tunes are lost in its melodies.

10. Separation has picked and chosen,
From his lamentations what was of its lamentations.

11. And the fragrance of sighs went forth by its name,
Singing to the soul without its basil.

12. So I took off from his shoulder a mocha-colored robe,
And dressed him in it so I rose in his domain.

13. And even if I indulged in the wine of youth,
And collected glory from its cups.

14. And raced in perilous praise with a mind,
To which is allotted precedence in its arena.

15. And opened the scent of his praise from ambergris,
With seasoned ambergris without its smoke.

16. And sent from it his stranger to his majesty,
Who returned it with generosity in his homeland.

17. Like the Mashriqi who adorned with the water of Firind,
And the Samhari who prided with the fire of Binan.

18. It would not harm he whose hands are bound by his rope,
If fate is not of his aides.

19. A grief that diminishes you from the unique of his resolve,
Added to the unique of his eloquence.

20. Two swords, if the sunset of his decrees passes,
Or the sunset of his tongue passes.

21. And a strategist, if he engaged the wild beasts,
Their lions would cower to his fawns.

22. Justice that apportions in the subjects impartially,
Not tilting injustice in its scale.

23. The luster of a firm resolve flew in its atmosphere,
Torches to its devil.

24. Neither the unrelenting warrior among his comrades,
Nor the literary man from his brothers.

25. Alexandria looked upon it as the ambition,
Of Alexander gone and remote his place.

26. God reward you, you who collect blessings,
Who would not accept other than generosity from his treasury.

27. I said to the one praising his benevolence,
Take the banner of eulogy from his eulogizer.

28. Why not, when you have met an ocean, if
The children of Jafnah were drowned in its abyss.

29. O happiest of the happy, your generosity has indeed
Flooded me, were it not for swimming I would have drowned in its deluge.

30. None feels poetry but one praising
Whose couplets embroidered your name upon its compilation.

31. Blasphemy to camphor and ugliness after it,
To the unique son of Hussein in his generosity.

32. If the example of Jesus before you,
Or after you in times was your parallel.

33. Then I become absolved with the absolution of a polytheist,
From Ahmad of the past and from his faith.

34. If they preceded, I have succeeded latterly,
With the name of the book, superior to its title.

35. Or camphor was with Ahmad’s miracles,
If he was human to the time of his time.

36. For fate knows you are the kohl,
With which it conferred beauty upon mankind.

37. And dyed his pillows and the moles upon his cheeks,
And kindled his affection and the secret of his soul.

38. A hue in the face of the full moon from it a sign,
Elevated others so raised his status.

39. As if youth clung to his love,
And lent him what delighted of its prime.

40. So make peace, and reconstruct the house of virtues, sublimity,
Beneficence and reinforce its pillars.