1. You came like the full moon rising to its zenith
And your status is high, ever ascending like it

2. You donned its brightness and rose to its height
And we hope you enjoy its eternal permanence

3. You came like a bountiful sea in its surging waves
Atop an abundant sea surging in its tides

4. I swear by the One who raised you in status and rank
Your generosity with goodness is manifold that of others

5. The commendable support you provide is not from any supporter
Whose flaws altogether would taint its purity

6. The sea’s bounties melt after freezing
While yours is a bounty melted after its solidity

7. And when you surpass limits, you bring us benefit
While the sea, having crossed its lowest depths, brings harm

8. You have never ceased in all matters to demonstrate
What the wise cannot reckon, nor bounds comprehend

9. The sea I know well recognized you
And bowed its towering waves and surge

10. Its back has become submissive as you rode it
For glory that will destroy time before its ruin

11. For you the north has donned its coolness
Approaching softly cloaked in its chill

12. Had it not been for you, the south would have readied its weapons
And the blossoms of war would have bloomed before their season

13. But it saw your stars shining above it
So it went gently, its pace like its calm

14. May God grant you wellness upon your arrival
Despite the resentment of your envious enemies

15. May God honor you by vanquishing
And in every state, O son of glory and his promise

16. As for me, though able, I remained seated
None before me remained seated in their place

17. That is only because the best support altogether
Sufficed me from one noble to his pact

18. Though his reproach changed my state
For some of my obstinacy, not his own

19. My place in generosity was by his grace
So he changed me from its depths to its summit

20. Is there no speaker to him, kind and humble
With gentle temperament and majestic resolve

21. Your servant has the right to self-respect, it being necessary
That the best tents refused the blemish of ingratitude

22. On his neck is a collar of your blessings, adhered
His Lord refused but to stand by his testimony

23. You who refuses the dissolution of his pacts
Although he does not refuse the untying of his braids

24. So renew your blessings upon him with pardon and hopes fulfilled
For you have never ceased to favor a master through his aims

25. And glad tidings of beautiful heralding, it has not stopped
Heralding the dawn with the rising of its pillars

26. I singled out and praised inclusively, I was not
Like a sleeping companion roused after slumber

27. Rather I began to shine and have not ceased
Combatting the causes of evil with its soldiers

28. You remained, O Banu Wahb, despite your enemy
And the intensity of his tribulation and prostration's length

29. The white of hands did not leave you
And the days of time have extended from you white and black

30. You were pushed to abundant empire, firm its pillars
So the openings of the kingdom doubled its pillars

31. With a plot against you I have made its gloom depart
Supporting you is a plot against them in their gloom

32. You found the pasture greatly jet-black
So you exemplified amongst its sheep the blackest

33. No matter you sought to set right but burdened you
Beyond it of worries grasp

34. So turn from us every evil with its face
And make the aspect of good approach after its avoidance

35. Increase those who bow to you in its bowing
Increase those who prostrate to you in its prostration

36. May we never be devoid of your greeting and its healing
For it has cooled our entrails with its chill

37. Nor devoid of the custom you exemplify
An inkwell, the sea's springs before their springing

38. To you the hopeful saw the tightening of his bonds
And in you the protected saw the rest of his bonds

39. He came to you without mediation so your duration accepted him
Slow fulfillments of what he hoped before its time

40. The imagining of souls had been constrained
But you released their imagining from their bonds