1. His ears were trained in refutation
So blame was disobeyed by eyes and cheeks

2. He intended ingratitude with endurance, so it supplied him
The negligence of the lines of his tears as witnesses

3. It was not the day of separation, but there was no one
Who called it, yet every bowing one was awed

4. If not for the separation, my eyelids would not have doubted
The era of estrangement in your accustomed time

5. I see days where ignorance is bought with prohibition
And the ally of righteousness is not righteous

6. Last night I was felled in an assembly
Whose joys were moments at the bending of the neck

7. It boasts of every lad whose pillow
Were the arms of every pliant and pliant one

8. And for many a torn place whose terror is not confronted
I tore through the darkness of the black nights

9. With a despised vehicle for traveling
Its legs were trained for kneeling

10. Breaking through the awe of darkness with a poet
Like an armored sword against the awe of calamity

11. Moving on to novelties, no opinion returned to him
With the banner of an impotent, spurned one

12. How many like him were laden, moving
With she-camels carrying delegations

13. Until they descended after a great distance
At the offspring of Aaron's son, Sa'eed

14. Halab has come to extract its bounty through him
After barrenness with its blocked mouth

15. The Euphrates attained peacefully to Syria
With its praised, dangling bucket

16. His generosity invites to his kindness
The hope of the hopeless and the wish of the weary

17. The facile one of rhetoric and eloquence, the tough
Of argument and understanding, the rigid of will

18. Of a tribe who preceded kings in their pride
And advanced in generosity every leader

19. With their demise, magnanimity planted its banner
And might, the sword of victory and support

20. Indeed, Ibn Harun the most courageous, steadfast
Rises like the moon among the stars of good fortune

21. His might and swordsmanship covered the wild
Between a true promise and a threat

22. Abu Othman was saved from the blade of misery
In a blessing that every envious one needs