1. Shall I be silent about the Master of the worlds or blame him,
And neglect my promise with him or demand it?

2. Do I see myself with the slightest request humiliated by him
While his gifts have drowned those unlike me?

3. Are you pleased with Abu Shukr with drawing a small cloud
For the likes of me while you are the sea with its plunging ships?

4. Is it for praise or the house or for chitchat
Exalted or for love from which its companion cannot be detached?

5. For whom do you hoard, O Egyptian, O Son of Muhammad
While every generous one, by the sword you have defeated?

6. Do you fear the assault of poverty or seek satisfaction
With it from an enemy whom, if you wish, you could vanquish?

7. So do not be miserly with me regarding what I deserve
For every precious thing, you must inevitably grant.

8. So the finest of your clothes that I am wearing
And the best of your steeds that I am riding.

9. And do not make the expensive one cheap, stop at its value,
And evaluate it with the most loyal, for the desirer was not tempted by it.

10. By your life, the wealth of the youth is nothing but what
His loved ones gained or his delegation or relatives.

11. Will you deprive me of what you give abundantly to a deceitful enemy
Whose tricks against me have persisted eternally?

12. Had you been miserly, I would have excused you and not said a word
And concealed what I blame you for.

13. I would not have shown despair nor taken
A stance - my life has passed and I am confused.

14. But you are the sea, the more cloudy it became
The clearer it was for those arriving to drink.

15. So O son of Kings, of hunting and the prominence which
Its shoulder of glorious elevation and its setting have.

16. I implore you not to accept any deficiency of glorious deeds
The pillars of the house which are purely its earnings.

17. Your ancestors, the masters of glories, his ancestors
And your ancestor the Guided One, may he bless you, cultivated it.

18. You roam night and day praising you
In every country, its horses and its ships.

19. So how much estranged poetry have I composed in praising you
Exquisite, and the finest poetry most expensive in its intricacies.

20. Without any obligation you granted me, or any hand
Stretching out to help me, yet the saying of a man is most false.

21. Yes, I have suffered tribulations in you
That would shake the resolute when the avenger grasped.

22. Had it not been for passion towards you, I would not have suffered misery nor
Would shackles have chafed my legs by one I do not fight.

23. Nor would enemies have seized my money nor would
He who has countless faults assail me.

24. Nor would the dogs of the son of Majid have barked at me
Aggressively, nor would his calamities have afflicted me.

25. The son of my uncle would have been a pillar and my compatriots
If genealogy one day matched its compatriots.

26. So do not accept for me other than yourself, and know that I
Am jealous, and none like me can tolerate deviation.

27. You are the only master left whom we intimately address
Regarding our needs and speak to.

28. As for others, I have refrained from standing openly at their doors
So let their doors be sealed by their guards.

29. And I said to Isa: “Avoid every deathly spring
From hell that would quench the face and snout of its drinker.”

30. For if I forget in this life, there would be no food left
Nor drink unless I had the finest of it.

31. I used to hope to have a day I prepare
For a master to boast to and a challenger to battle.

32. You are indeed the King who can deprive violence
Of its canal, but his generosity is the one depriving it.

33. Through my praise, I am averse to any but you
Even if estrangement befalls me every day with its oddities.

34. If you spurn me, I have aplenty with me
Ships of the sea and land convoys.

35. Do not deny my reproach upon you, for it is
Beautiful, and the worst of people is he who cannot be blamed.

36. I blame those I passionately love according to my devotion
And I have no devotion to those I do not blame.

37. And I treat the noble sons courteously
A generous man, if you blame him, would be pliant.

38. You have remained and been given good fortune whenever
A pigeon has cooed and stars shone at night.