1. The pleasures of a fleeting life have departed,
And the favors of ascending fortune have released their knots.

2. The state of generosity, prosperity, and happiness
Is as if the sorrows of fate have rained their tears in it.

3. A rain has shaded the land, east and west,
So its drifting clouds are green with sprouting plants.

4. A gazelle with magical eyes and melody for it,
Who awakens your passion when it plays.

5. It harmonizes strings articulating delightful sounds,
Lingering as it modulates and thrums them.

6. And it glances with love-inspiring gazes, as if
They wink at one who desires it and flirt.

7. So it makes you cry with the magic in its eyes,
And affects you with the spell which it emits.

8. The heart yearns for it though it is its sickness,
And its mention is intimate though it is its separater.

9. It starves the doe’s fawn of its pasture,
And satiates the young hyena of its game.

10. Good fortune and all luck have risen for us,
While the land is verdant and its discussions grow clear.

11. Three festivals - one for Fitr, another for the Urf,
And a third for Lahw - are celebrated

12. By a fragrant branch of glory,
Which yields it when the branch sheds its thorns.

13. Come, serve me on Fitr a refreshing drink,
That the panting of fasting may quench its thirst!

14. Sparkling, while the lute sings to it,
Chanting odes for us and repeating their themes,

15. Along with the son of a minister whose abode
The Prophet would approve and his inheritor.

16. I would not be lying nor deceiving,
Before God, if I said: the Prophet and his messenger

17. From the righteous reformers, through his prosperity,
Life has become praiseworthy and its disgraces are erased.

18. If he does not act immorally out of his chastity,
Then the sin which corrupts is not known.

19. He undertook to humble fate, so its
Obstacles for us have relented and its knotted ropes untied.

20. He is supported by a son like him in his riches;
If the misfortunes of a wicked age multiply.

21. I boast, named for Al-Husayn, comprising
His virtues. Will his saviors be absent?

22. When servant of God Ubayd Allah is matched by Qasim,
The ancient glory is matched by its modern counterpart.

23. Bless the crop which he plants,
Of righteousness and plowing which he harvests!

24. By the one who swears, none has seen the like of Qasim
On the back of effort, which you have harvested.

25. You were dutiful, fulfilling the manifest covenant of God,
Even if the discord of one who betrays and breaks covenants is abundant.

26. The wrongful one refused to see the truth he usurps
From his brother, or the covenant which he violates.

27. Forbearing, Wise. If his time ignores him,
Generous, noble, even if its disasters plague him.

28. He is shaded while managing the kingdoms is his work,
And bestowing overflowing gifts is his hobby.

29. A young man who spends wealth in the path of loftiness,
That glorious age-old glory may inherit him.

30. An urgent need, beneficial immediately, manifold his benefit
To his loyalists, postponing harm which awaits him.

31. His generosity prevented all reproach and stinginess.
The fragrance of speech, until he perfected speech and depleted it.

32. You see his companions, one asking and he dignifies him,
Or another consulting him and engaging him in discourse.

33. He does not hoard surplus wealth from one who never visits him,
Nor scattered pearls from one who never speaks to him.

34. Either he marched ahead vigorously on a plan,
With neither frustration nor doubt awaiting him.

35. If his plot and enemies meet,
The result is a barren wasteland and desolate ruins.

36. Or if he resolved prudence for adversity once,
Neither fatigue exhausts him, nor does adversity harm him.

37. I live in his shadow when I meet the radiance of his face,
And my night is a day, settled with its permanent shade.

38. So the day in the shadow of joy is shortened for him
And age which lasts is not shortened.

39. The palace cage remains his most enduring abode
In it and in an era which suits him and does not trouble him.

40. His merit and praise are pretentious claims,
Rather they are pure musk and its fragrance.