1. Stay your tears though parting be tomorrow
For my journey is that you may live in ease

2. She said, “Will you journey while yearning has come?”
I said, “The like of me is stripped bare in such times”

3. O my lady, time has sat in grief with us
And none like me in such times remains seated

4. She said, “Will you seek refuge in Al-‘Abbas?” I said to her
“Nay, the gallant alive and the steed still being ridden”

5. That is his name and it has meaning contrary to it
Save when he is the mark of injustice and bandage

6. There call him Al-‘Abbas when the protected
Are protected through him and name him when the afflicted are tended

7. He has not ceased being openhanded as is his appellation
Sparing no wealth till it reaches its utmost

8. And unsparing to enemies felling them
As corpses though he face their throng alone

9. Of that you see of his wellbeing and those hostile to him
He goes a raincloud and at times a lion

10. How many people hoped for his favors, hastened
Then slackened, lagging having lost hope of term

11. She said, “Is not the youth generous?” I said to her
“Nay, the upright youth, praiseworthy and refined”

12. She said, “You speak true, but this is a trait
Like the evil eye, hurting the eye of one who envies”

13. May God protect him from it and make it
A shield for him and defense on which he relies

14. And that God adorned him with it to protect him
From an eye that hurts and a hand that knots ties

15. O you whose wealth the people now share
And you who were unique in benevolence and withdrew

16. And adorned yourself with the best of mannerisms
So none sees the like of you in refinement

17. I complain to you of adversities which have hardened me
Leaving me no Lamb nor even skin

18. Between you and I are causes to which I cling
Were I to count them I could not number them all

19. And you reminded me of them when time confused me
A time whose companion I struggle with bitterly

20. And you promised to relieve me of its woes
A promise the noblest of people fulfilled

21. If we are not bound by blood then binding faith
For which a father would sever ties with his son

22. The words of justice and divine oneness gather us
Beyond the likes of the hypocrite and unbeliever

23. And between two straying in blindness a fellowship
That guides, so how can two who stray find guidance?

24. Remain by your virtues that were made
Incumbent on you, restricted for all time

25. What excuse has a capable recluse who forbids
His palm, secluding himself, shackled in fetters?

26. Does he claim ordained fate discouraged him?
If he says that then he has undone what was knotted

27. Or is the giver unworthy of his merit?
How, when he swerved not from purpose or aid?

28. Or can he not do what he deems right for him,
Sparing a brother what an able brother can spare?

29. I see no excuse for one like you
To not hit the mark of rectitude

30. I used to bear the summer's heat
And those poisons and sometimes the furnace's flames

31. By your life I've no hand with winter's cold
And it brought me pulling the chain and fetter

32. With none behind my back hoping for anyone
But you from fate but the One Eternal

33. Winter came and your brother counted against it
O son of nobles, only the sun and lightning

34. I seek God's forgiveness for inapt words I uttered
Nay, you are equipment enough to suffice me

35. So show kindness to us and clothe us both in an encompassing
Feathered mantle that banishes misery and chain

36. Truly I am the man who if you grant him a favor
You will not lack thanks from him everlasting

37. And if you follow it with emulating a deed
That wearies men, reaching excellence and endurance

38. Do not deprive a man led to you by hope
When he borrowed envy from his neighbors

39. And you were once seen by all the beholders
Hopeful of your wealth, a boundless domain