1. For your affairs, completion and perfection,
And for your destiny, aggrandizement and exaltation.

2. O you who is pleased with praises, knowing
That the despicable among men is despicable.

3. O you who is protected by tributaries, certain
That the stingy among men is damned.

4. O you under whose protection the noble dwells,
He is the most gracious, and whoever emulates him is noble.

5. O you whom when I attribute my poetry to your name,
My poetry is not debased by that attribution.

6. Whoever is gentle with the weak and a companion to them,
I say that you are intimate with the weak.

7. You surpass men, so your striving for elevation
Is not a striving we see, nor is your ambition a ambition.

8. With righteousness you conceal him, and he discloses himself
Forever, while you conceal him, though he is defective.

9. Hope is a rain and from you it is expected,
And good news is lightning and from you it originates.

10. You made the mother of generosity fertile after her barrenness,
And the mother of glory gave birth while she was sterile.

11. You belittled the greatest of what you attain through your generosity,
So from us came its aggrandizement unsolicited.

12. Always humble while you are eminent,
Always self-effacing while you are great.

13. So when men boast, your silence suffices,
While from them comes submission.

14. They testified while they are scholars that you are master,
And you were silent, sufficing, though you are knowledgeable.

15. Why not, when you are, if we ask, preferential,
And if we slip, you are forbearing?

16. And if we thank you for your initial favor, you reward again,
And if we complain of your aloofness, you have mercy.

17. Our hope in you is certainty itself,
While our hope in others is doubt.

18. We come early while the doors of kings bar us,
And at your door is supplication and humility.

19. God has traits whose purity
Is like the breeze in its gentle wafting.

20. Your generosity has roamed freely through your wealth,
So wealth becomes scarce but reputation remains unblemished.

21. God's gratitude to you is all-encompassing,
No treasure was forbidden for Him to reward you.

22. But how can the Maker of makers thank you
When the sincerity of your affection is longstanding?

23. I am amazed that you were rewarded when in truth
Your bestowal of bounty is for you a bliss.

24. But the grace of God is not forbidden,
Since He deprived the grace of a miser of blessing.

25. Retribution for good and bad deeds is made sweet or bitter,
If it is bitter then it is from the bitter.

26. O House of Hammad, the lofty, none among you
Except the generous, glorious, and wise.

27. With you our sky clouds over during our barrenness,
And doubts dissipate when they gather.

28. And I say after the duty of praising you,
Neither frivolity has mixed with it nor blame.

29. And of speech there are required duties and voluntary ones,
The required takes precedence over the voluntary.

30. You have a habit in autumn, not contemptible,
Which is partridge hunting, and you are Abraham.

31. And for its loss, two years you were chastised,
Due to our incapacity and silence.

32. You did not wrong, you did not hurt, but the one
Who deprived you of your pleasure is a wrongdoer and brutal.

33. And when we were averse to you, but we were barred
By a nature that leads in depriving of fortunes.

34. The despicable flaunted his shamelessness, so he distanced us,
Shame in front of the noble is despicable.

35. We have become independent, and regret is repentance,
And we have demanded, and the deserving is resolute.

36. So portion to us from the yield of your cotton a share,
The generous is a partner to his hopeful one.

37. Please, and increase if you do so, for you have not ceased
To bestow the ample, so do not say it is ample.

38. With hands that stretch from a preferential bestower
Since his forefathers never lacked a destitute.

39. Both of them for a kisser and a hoper,
Who hopes for your downpour like Zamzam and the torrent.

40. Do not invalidate a kindness you started,
Surely its right is to complete it.

41. Shame on a suckling nursed to satiation
For you to see him and he still suckles.

42. And attend to the likes of me, for I cite
An example, and from you comes understanding and comprehension.

43. The earth grows vegetation every season,
It has vegetation one time and stubble another.

44. But you are more generous by trait, for you have not ceased
To have growth for your hands that does not diminish.

45. And when I think the earth awakens its generosity
For various benefits while you are asleep.

46. It is most fitting for one to remain on his habits
An outright tear in generosity and its essence.

47. Far from you that you would cut off what the soil perpetuates,
Do I see you cutting off while the soil perpetuates?

48. How, when your resolve in generosity is as if
It is the buyers' sword whose motto is arbitration.

49. A resolve the slender ones warn of after
The slender ones knew it is decisiveness.

50. I am confident you are glorious,
So it is as if I am a rival in what I say.

51. And I prolong in my need from you greedily,
So it is as if I am entitled in what you possess.

52. Glory protects me through you while you are comfortable,
In it the might of honor dwells, it does not dwindle.

53. So accept the injury of intended glory,
For one may become honored while injured.

54. I reminded you of a favor though not a teacher,
And for your like, reminding not teaching.

55. How can one corrected by his sustenance be corrected?
Correction preceded sustenance and so was dropped.

56. Wealth is spent, favor is a contract,
Abundance expires, and praise remains.

57. And from my praise I will radiate to you a whiff
Like musk brought to you by a breeze.

58. And I will clothe you from your deeds a robe
Adorned with embroidery and marking.

59. And I will make you blissful or languidly inclining
As if for the nap you are a companion.

60. And I will leave you among men and others
As if the mention of you in the bushes is twittering.

61. Take it, Abu Al-Abbas, from a pretentious one
From whom a benefactor and prolonger liberates you.

62. For your day, postponement for as long as distance stretches,
And for your stature, precedence.