1. Your mention amongst the nobles is never undeserved,
For love of you has made mandatory what is deserved.

2. What business have I with the critic and his rant?
Why does he pester the enamored, for what cause or reason?

3. O heart, heed not the words of the slanderer,
And race your steeds in fields of joy.

4. And if he prohibits you, say to him mockingly,
"Relieve the heart of reproach and fatigue,

5. And make your companion, if you drink, riotous,
And quench your thirst with sweet drinks, not grapes.

6. And in passion shed your restraints,
Free the reins and fill them with desire.

7. And by strength of purpose cut off the argument of the dissenter
Who prohibits you from joining the beloved, and do not waver.

8. And if you are blamed, let no critic prevent you
From a happiness that makes your heart deaf and wrapped.

9. An impudent, wandering vagrant, crooked and bent,
Cursed are the hands of those who blame me.

10. How can I be blamed, when before what I have faced
None have escaped from its horrors in love.

11. My generous mind has never ceased, since my youth,
To race towards the goals on the field of literature.

12. Until I took pride in praising the highest lord,
Protector of the territory of our lands, of high lineage.

13. Our Abbas, the prince - with his might
For the faith, and its protector of the states of Arabia.

14. He is the mighty in his Egypt, and through him it reached its pinnacle,
And through his wisdom its honor rose, so fear no calamity.

15. And through his justice spreading in its corners,
No injustice remains, and distress departs from it.

16. Egypt prides itself on him,
And through him positions and ranks are ennobled.

17. I sacrifice him - an equitable, forbearing king
Chosen for the heights, sublime.

18. Can I forget what Hatim's generosity gave,
Or Mayn's favours, or Arabah's gifts, if he presented.

19. O prince, prince of Egypt,
From the fortune of your ancestors you have risen, and no wonder.

20. O best of those who protected Hejaz willingly,
Good tidings to you - your pilgrimage is accepted and gained.

21. He established the sanctuary of the Caliphate, striving
To fulfill its purpose, like your ancestor's gaining of the Arabs.

22. Continue rising through the heights,
For to your sublimity this lineage leads.