1. My tears did not deter fate's determination,
So leave the raven to caw each cry.

2. My preoccupation is with praising him who, though he claims,
My eulogy corrects his claim.

3. I mean him named with the name of the most truthful promising one,
A promise slaughtered by God - the best slaughtered.

4. To God is Ismael, the debate of writing,
I mean the brother of Shayban not the son of Sabeeh.

5. He carried burdens so he gained independence, and the like of him
Carried burdens other than the exhausted.

6. It did not harm that he made writing his career,
If his origin was in the land of Sheeh.

7. It did not harm him that his offspring were not
Date palms pollinated by those of pollination.

8. He relieved the helpless, so he began
With gentleness and stroking.

9. And gave relief to the people of redemption, so their
Raids became safe at dawn.

10. Except he removes the illness of the subjects with his justice,
So nothing of it remains with them.

11. His imam and prince tested him,
Yet he found both to be truly advising.

12. And he saw him not forget loyalty despite
Severity that makes one forget loyalty, and not due to apathy.

13. How many deadly blows, but how many fatal stabs,
And how many deathly shots.

14. His palms warded off from his imam
In the shade of a day lethal for palms.

15. Ask regarding this the war of the Guided one,
And its ferocious camels of butting and goring.

16. So let it inform you of the brave plunging,
And let it inform you of the quick stabbing.

17. And let it inform you of the eager struggle
For Yathrib - what great ambition.

18. When he incites the arrows with his bow,
Their snakes pour out deadly hisses.

19. He gave ugliness its right from another,
And sufficed to fight death - every gasping.

20. And war grows fierce with swords bared,
Evidence to the letters of no beauty.

21. Difficult when a mate becomes difficult for him
Until she allows what allowance she allows.

22. So when the mate allowed, he did not show her
A manner from manners other than honorable.

23. His hands were created - a hand to wound the enemies
And a hand to dress the wound of every wounded.

24. And if he opines an opinion - the most insightful
Insight, and the furthest in its scope.

25. Divination reveals to him the unseen secrets
Suggested by dreams like the dreams of the truthful.

26. His instinct surpassed experiences, so his nature
Sufficed without refinement.

27. If not for Abu Al-Saqr Al-Faseeh in manners,
The spacious earth would be other than spacious.

28. It welcomed him over its inhabitants
After it had been like a burial ground.

29. Easy, gentle, soft hands,
Easy pardon, loud voice.

30. Shyness weakened his eyelids and speech
So he became outwardly healthy but inwardly sick.

31. Not of low worldly pleasures, but he is
Generous without taste or seasoning.

32. His bright face appears to the asker
As if a sword in a graceful palm.

33. And as if in it is the stimulation of delight
From coffee that loosens the waistband.

34. He extols virtues after easiness, he
Buys its impurities with any profit.

35. A merchant of generosity in magnanimity,
His trade is too lofty for bartering.

36. A protector whose reality a bestower makes public his wealth -
Not to mention one who protects and makes public.

37. He gives spontaneously without stinginess,
To a cheeky one of noble lineage yet miserly.

38. Except that the course of time makes his wealth incline
At times he inclines it without any incliner.

39. The thirst quenchers became - through his generosity -
Overfilled, their sides spilling over.

40. They returned to his springs so they wiped off and quenched their thirst
From them - the sweetest and most gratifying drink.

41. If he marked the gardens with his generosity,
Their orchards would be safe from plunder.

42. Of lunar beauty and human handsomeness -
That makes mouths pronounce the declaration of faith.

43. And if he contemplates himself, he does not stop
At depicting and adorning himself.

44. Until he adorns it with the decoration of glory
That is not a crown or jewelry.

45. His beauty dazzled so he truthfully swore
To not expose it to vilification.

46. But to vaguely hint to the bashful ladies,
To reveal their wrists with that hinting.

47. He keeps sending his desires to them
And startling their sayers with pretense of departure.

48. And every purpose guides determination,
And the purpose of the generous is far reaching.

49. Until he wore the garb of authority as a youth,
And so those of nomination nominated him for that.

50. He loved knowledge and it loved him, so it is as if
He fulfilled the love of the beloved of the son of Dhareeh.

51. And the supreme pen gifted him determination
That refused the pens - all of them flexing.

52. I did not praise him for a fault I found
In his glory, so I corrected it with eulogy.

53. But so that the beauty of his description manifests,
My poetry beautifies every ugliness.

54. I scented my poetry with his name - his name
In poetry is like perfume and glorification.

55. When I saw poetry become languid,
I awakened it with a witty youth.

56. The caravan does not beat the hills toward him,
But with his name they spur on every hill.

57. The riders are challenged by mentioning him, so you see
The pebbles between manjul and burial.

58. And every lazy one shakes his shoulders
Agitated like the intoxicated shaking.

59. After the ends of his mind were picked
And his brain cells withered from burning.

60. Trusting in a sword from him that nothing stops
No matter what presents itself of easy or calamity.

61. A king - if needs tighten their reins
And seek refuge with him for quick relief.

62. Of what you see time produces
For an obtaining before asking - success.

63. O you - if allusion greets your hearing
The eloquent are satisfied with it over clarification.

64. I complain to you of reticence and mannerism
That detached from me - what detachment.

65. To protect my face from faces censured
With refusal - protection over protection.

66. Asked though they asked, so in their pages
Is distress over distress for refusal.

67. O you who gave rest to the estranged poetry that
Without you every comforter estranged it.

68. You made our confused eloquent, so he became a poet,
And you loaned our foreigner an eloquent tongue.

69. Confused, so you opened eloquence to men, so they are all
Of smooth, fluent speech - eased.

70. You revived dead poetry after its writhing
In the sands under plaited palm leaves and pebbles.

71. Until people said about you and exaggerated:
"This is the Messiah" - if not the Messiah.