1. Is your generosity or the rain's generosity more bountiful?
Is the good news of your coming or the fragrance of flowers more delightful?

2. Your hands are the place of munificence and bounty.
One person is mistreated while another is honored.

3. If attributes of perfection have been attributed to you,
Then that report has confirmed the truthful news.

4. You are tall in stature and your voice sounds melodious,
You have never been devoid of a full moon or pearls.

5. Your hospitality makes the house teem,
With throngs of visitors flocking to it.

6. If it were not for your giving hands
We would have called them stones.

7. O guardian of the faith, O you who
Is endowed with traits that have made you renowned.

8. If I am held in high esteem by you
Then there is none other like what has appeared for the people.

9. The shortcoming of a person makes him lose a dirham.
How can he who loses twelve be like that?

10. You are too noble for me to see
And your wont is to bring aid when there is harm.

11. So be generous and fulfill my wish, however it may be.
If it were not for you, my desire would not have occurred.

12. Despite the enemy's resentment, you have remained
For whoever comes early or late.