1. Praise be to Allah, who has no partner
The Manager of affairs, Sender of rain

2. You have been supported by two sons who in
Managing affairs became like two hands to the back

3. Thank Him by easing their way and
Overlooking, O Most Praiseworthy and Honored

4. O most perfect of people in virtues
Amongst Bedouins and settled folk

5. By the right of the one whose rights are due
Of your Hashemite family, stars of time

6. Bless us by completing the contentment of my father
Isaac, made happy by praise and reward

7. You granted half the contentment to him, so grant
All, for perfection is not in halves

8. He won the noble council, so replace it
With a glance of contentment from the brows

9. You straighten what is crooked
And lift up those who stumble

10. You whom your resolve has placed
In the position of polestars and eagles

11. You in modesty of conduct and
Knowledge are like your grandfather the scholar

12. No blessing of God in him makes you
Turn your bright face away from him

13. How many said, when it was said Abu
Isaac is leaving tomorrow on a journey

14. None like that lad should be exposed to
Harm and its pitfalls, not even the sea

15. But by your blessings it is a decree
That has taken the place of oath and vow

16. I shall not cease advising while I can, though
I meet with frowns and rebuke

17. I bear witness that today if he
Is absent, you would grieve with patience

18. But how can there be patience, when you two are mixed
Like the mixing of limpid and wine

19. Protect him from violence, if he is blamed
For your habitual gentleness, not harshness

20. In exceeding limits is corruption
Not everything can be accomplished by force

21. Do you not see, if you force a branch
You exceed correcting it, to breaking

22. I am not one to break the healthy
But a mender of breaks, of poverty

23. You have not ceased righting what time
Corrupts since you were of the ten

24. You mend what events break so
Breaking is theirs but mending is yours

25. Take her as a bride - I ask of you
For her only contentment, no bride price

26. But if you persist in offending us
Therein we complain to Father of the Hawk