1. Ibn 'Ammar recites with sincere words
To the lord of Turkistan gracefully and elegantly

2. To you Abu 'Uthman I present greetings
And praise like the fragrance of the scented gardens

3. I thanked you for bestowing on me
The noble affections you graciously granted

4. You returned my hopes after their long absence
Thus I attained glorious splendor against all who seek splendor

5. And you gave my heart assurance not to accept humiliation
So it was relieved of its fear against all who cause fear

6. You erased with the bitterness of truth suspected doubts
That passed away, and whatever truth erases fades away

7. The truth was all but dead except as mere rubble
But you breathed life into all that breathes

8. So it sees between enemies and itself
Through your protection a vast expanse

9. Without doubt you have destroyed falsehood with truth
So many falsehoods destroyed justly by you

10. Ibn 'Ammar had hoped you would be there
In times of hardship, they say "alas!"

11. You were the one who cared for those seeking refuge
With knowledge of the Master and returning to the brother

12. Had my abode been the limit of your concerns
Its courtyard in custom would have reached a thousand leagues

13. How could you see harming me in its precincts
That refused, a lofty glory against all who climb high

14. I say to Jesus, she came with her seductions
To tempt, freely flowing after flowing

15. Upon you, son of Takish, so my mother yields to him
Placidly bending over to be mounted

16. A man unlike the rest of creation after it
Nor of effeminate pampering like the perfumed

17. The eye meets in him at his rising
A brilliance, however much it pours onto the night it peels off

18. A steed who sees the purification of honor and dress
And the sullying of cooks and blackening of kitchens

19. His generosity reproaches or completes him
Though there be no reproachable act on his part

20. When glory is prepared, who is the regulator
Of it but Abu 'Uthman the recorder?