1. You have wearied my ears with your endless blame, so be brief,
What matters it to you if I sleep or stay up?

2. You have lacked wisdom, how much sleep is there on an inflamed wound?
Tell me, were you shaped from stone or human?

3. O you who lie down for the arrows of humiliation to strike you,
You are nothing but a victim of weakness and scorn.

4. Stand up and brave dangers fearlessly,
For only the brave ride into danger.

5. And be not like what one of them has said,
A cloud that protected the sun but did not rain or travel.

6. Can I in this matter remain thus, a follower,
While my people and the lords of high station are my comrades?

7. How long is this waiting while my breath is in tumult,
And the darkness is extended and lifetime shortened?

8. By my sword and resolve I will not fail them,
Rather my firmness is toward the Lord of High Station.

9. Why should I dread death or fear destruction
When the bearer of the dead is himself carried thereafter?

10. I am not one whom when fate befalls,
Shows weakness and fear of destiny.

11. O ruin of a lifetime among people you deem
Human, though they are naught but forms without essence.

12. If the forbearing Qays had arbitrated among them
He would wish for them loss of hearing and sight.

13. If Noah lived among them a year,
He would say, O Lord this is the limit of life.

14. Alas from me by an eloquence that will dispel
What stubbornness and stupidity used to be in me.

15. Draw near, O noble steed, for travel and slacken
Its bridle for it and mix the gentle winds with the virgin morn,

16. And trace for it a path meandering and be the first to journey
With no regret, and leave behind the abandoned dwellings,

17. Places corrupted by the people of corruption
Who destroyed them without thought or consideration,

18. No excellence remains in their good, nor capacity
To benefit a friend or harm a foe,

19. But for Ibn Abdillah it would have been destroyed
Between the fangs of evil and victory,

20. If not for the determination of Ibn Abdillah it would have collapsed
Into pebbles with no pulp or moisture,

21. But he never ceased to uncover it with his resolve
From the darkness of humiliation and destitution,

22. How many fires of evil blazed in it which he quenched
After they had filled the horizons with sparks,

23. And how much dear wealth did its wealth ruin
From the vicissitudes of fate and others,

24. He gave wealth to it without being asked
Thus is the action of noble, generous men.

25. And how many an oppressed who wished from his oppression
A death which would lead to Paradise or Hellfire,

26. He helped and removed his injustice so he no longer
Fears aught but God whether in the lands or towns.

27. He made life and world appealing to him though
Life only grows sweet when fear and harm depart.

28. And how many a tyrant, severe in might, unjust
In his arrogance, clad in misguidance and wrapped in evil,

29. Who mentions not God except at thunder
When ascending or when thunder and rain clash,

30. Who meets winds when they blow over his plains
Bare of sword, from ignorance and evil,

31. Accompanied by every misguided wastrel when
Fate laments him, swifter dispersing than goat dung scattered,

32. Who knows no restraint in anything he covets
And reconsiders neither what is known nor strange,

33. The rulers have accustomed him to gaining
Anything he desires, a habit of the oppressed toward the oppressor.

34. He wanted from him what he used to expect from them
But met instead a twisted rope for the ambitious.

35. Brandishing arms entwined to fight transgression,
My resolve in this is firmer than solid rock.

36. So he avoided him whose greed was his motive
And yielded after lofty head and neck.

37. If another were deputed to Bahrain it would be ravaged
And people informed of the worst news about it.

38. Rather men whose affair it is have assumed it
And through them it was left no thing and nothing spared.

39. And which governor's son, which equipment of kingdoms and riches
Is more impudent in igniting every audacious resolute hero

40. Openhanded, who counts the abundance of wealth as a flaw
Among the generous if honor does not prosper?

41. If the Banu Shaiban had no other merit
Except his father, every boaster would be silenced,

42. And the heir of the sincere in religion did not die
For branches are made to flourish on the tree trunk.

43. The munificence of the generous is information but their munificence
Is something you see, and report is not like witnessing.

44. You are ransomed by every kinsman, O you of elevation and glory,
In the wilderness and towns against vile deeds.

45. When some misfortune mentions you, you recall
That ostrich who neither carried nor flew.

46. By Him to whom faces humble themselves, were it not for you
No minister would remain for the eminent.

47. They congratulated you on the Great Feast, and so
It has arrived while congratulations for the greatest are due to you.

48. By what feast are we congratulated when you are its delight?
Without you it would not be mentioned in hearing or sight.

49. You remained a shadow over all people and
You were always granted success and victory.

50. And the world in which you are its blossom was not
Devoid of you until the sun was likened to the moon.