1. I thought my enviers when their animosities intensified
Would return to sanity and their ropes would coil

2. And I said enough what I have endured and attained from
Destiny from what it tried long ago to attempt

3. So I closed an eyelid with specks filling my sight
And I showed tolerance that doesn’t fear its braids

4. And I extinguished the fire of ignorance with wisdom after
The fiery pot boiled and its spices were cooked

5. And I conditioned myself for tolerance whatever
I see and no matter what one says I say it

6. So the hateful one increasingly persisted
And his good news brought no comfort to the dejected

7. That’s how enviers are and their spite
And what their morals and traits necessitate

8. So never hope for affection from an envier one day
Even if you show him affection and indulge him

9. And don’t seek to please a slanderer with favors
For flattering a scoundrel never benefits the flatterer

10. So say to the villain whose concern is my harm
Gently, for the opportunity for the spear has missed its wielder

11. And don’t think I ever felt restricted with what has transpired
For a free soul isn’t restricted however high its ambitions swell

12. The full moon can be eclipsed and its
Darkness covers its light and shades

13. And the high tide ebbs at times
Speeding the one with flags ashore with a flow

14. So if the honorable people did me wrong and neglected
My rights though the glory of glory lies with them

15. For my paternal uncle Shann bin Ufaysah his nephews
Destroyed though virtues lie in him below the soil

16. This world must wake from its drunkenness
And its smog clear from it and depart

17. And the spirit of a young man may shine though unripe
And the draws of youth wound him while he ripens

18. So he speaks truthfully and listens consciously
And understands reasonably so falsehoods dissipate

19. Then a people like mirages disappear unobserved
With water covering their valleys’ streams

20. Damnation and destruction to time when decadent
Its beasts are its heroes and crows are its nobles

21. So let not the falling ask my demise to rejoice
For the turns of fate struck me no less than their blows

22. Yet I’m no subservient to events
With receiving and releasing equal from what comes my way

23. With a pot pouring tears like oozing sap
That I repeat while my chest is full with its flood

24. Do you frighten me of death like myself and with vows
Both its immediate and deferred to me are equal

25. For death is better than living in an abode
Where the freeman sees himself constantly duped

26. And no strangerhood away from a home of disgrace with a stranger
Even if dire the conditions and his winnings have dwindled

27. And many a stranger lives in bliss while a native
His own people make him weep before death makes him

28. My stay here oh people’s girl is but for turmoil
And injustice for the inability to escape what I can’t

29. So do not reject my crossing marshes and traversing
Plateaus if kinsmen openly flaunt vile deeds

30. For it’s the noble’s virtue to move from corruption
If riffraff are promoted and platforms disdained

31. An stop is inevitable before my trip
To trail my tears so they pour heavily as rain

32. Upon a grave where glory lies dormant
Where the Euphrates shores parallel on its other side

33. To ask that grave, did decrepitude change
The beauty that its winding sheets concealed

34. And did the dead consider blazing a raid
To avenge this dishonor piercing from all directions

35. For the living have slept from fighting, so equal
With every path are the lions and wild cats

36. What a wonder with an atheist who gathered matter
And oceans and mountains that the rational ride

37. The most pristine of morals and tents never inclined
To stupidity one day nor failed the hopeful to attain their wants

38. What abundant glory whose branches bent
And its crops have leaned and its bottoms caved

39. To lament it are nobleness, glory, valor and high spirit
Its valleys’ streams certainly flowed but now dried

40. And the white sharp swords and spears mourn
What his palm dispensed and what his fingers distributed

41. By my life if Prince Muhammad was killed
And fell one sinister day fighting the combatant

42. Surely the enemy was warned with rage
That refused to accept disgrace upon its shoulders

43. Oh Virtue no cessation for your favors to meet
Your excellence with the elite and the nobility at your service

44. I gave you an affection I gave before to your
Father and Muzain though no detractions could soil it

45. And I witnessed from your dignity what you knew
And does anyone else from all people not know it

46. And how many haters of mine by your love and defamers
Upon me with fires of hatred boiling their pots

47. So do not load me while tears heavily fall
Upon a stream where death tastes sweet to the drinker

48. I see you if you delay me and show contempt
With fate persistently harming and openly displaying its onslaught

49. And the Bahraini islands have passed with threat
And turned Omani with claims on its coasts

50. And the Yemeni encampment’s pegs are lodged
With its burdens and carriers settling upon it

51. Or it turned to the Hejazi soil heading
For the Hashemites while excellence lies with them decaying

52. Or it sheltered with the family of Muhanna so protection lies
Where its visitor feels no fear from fate assailing

53. Or it relied on the tribe whose traces
Are the progeny of all men who face the questioning

54. So tell me Imad al-Din what can I say
When everyone faces what questions him looming

55. If I’m told where did you come from and alight
The unrest upon you or who were you contacting before

56. And who are your closest company that you pride
And seek glory for those who don’t match your equal

57. Over there truthfulness would do you deficiency
And none enact lies except the most despised of vileness

58. Your sublime position to glory is my position
And your environs are mine and you are its superlative

59. So be with what your hands contain to the creation
And be sufficient with what I am saying to them

60. For musk is only from the pouches of its disclosure
And pearls hidden are only for their special qualities

61. Your view is higher and contentment is what pleases you
And all men face what question them in death hailing

62. There lies the truth’s flaw not except in its channels’ essence
And jewels concealed but for traits that define them

63. Your view is loftier and satisfaction is what you accept
And every person faces what questions him from the grim reaper hailing

64. So speak of what your hands contain to the people
And be satisfied with what I’m telling them

65. For musk but screams from the pouches of its harvest
And pearls concealed have qualities that reveal them

66. Your view is loftier, and happiness is what makes you happy,
While every man is met by the questions of mortality