1. Will time restore to me my days,
'Mid white palaces and dark wines,

2. When meeting secretly was not with haste,
Nor was parting with them marked by the waving of hands.

3. Hours of playfulness, whose memory renews
Only to renew in me my passion,

4. And a love that has kept me sleepless at night,
As though it were an illness without cure.

5. I am thankful to fate
That healed the anguish in my heart.

6. I am not pleased with the beginnings of a blessing
Unless it clothes its people in completion.

7. He sought the turban and the staff though where did
The foolishness of that barber reach.

8. Does he imagine he deserves them,
In ignorant excess beyond these delusions?

9. He wanted to divide the loyalists after they
Were united under a king whose ambition aroused them,

10. One strengthened by God who became a perfect blessing
Upon Islam, abundant and wide.

11. Steadfast of purpose when his opinion prevailed
And justly final in unraveling and tying matters.

12. He led matters with his resolve so they came to be watered
By one successful in his command, determined.

13. A frowning face that, when it took up arms, you were amazed
By a full moon gleaming amid the darkness of clouds.

14. Wearing the garb of war, rolling up
The forearms of a lion, with a zealous soul.

15. He routed the soft life until the doubts were dispelled
And the darkness of confusion lifted.

16. When he doubted what he doubted, he stirred
With the sword of sharpness, showing no cowardice.

17. He went with an eye that does not sleep on the slain
To destroy the swift fugitives on chargers dozing.

18. They played and a stubborn deceiver goaded them
To make war easy upon the submissive.

19. You awakened him while you slept through a raging assault
That crushed the shoulders of one emaciated and starved.

20. What seduced you from him when you had already experienced
His power in bygone years?

21. He abandoned gentleness when he intended you
With a resolute separation and a glancing blow.

22. And he attacked in the morning while the spear-tips harbored
Death from him and the lion's refuge in the thickets.

23. His loyalists marshaled ranks for him
In bands that strike below him and stretch wide.

24. Had they not been the first to advance, they would have learned
Advancement in the hour of daring from him.

25. Assailing the dustcloud with them while his determination
Was to mix banners with banners.

26. They ask him for patience therein though they had seen
Surging seas raging with it.

27. Concerned for the best of humankind, all of them,
A soul and the finest of lords and imams.

28. When you brandished the sword, drawing near,
The slaves were restless, each set on his goal.

29. You approached from nearby and his house was not
A home when you stormed against it.

30. He gathered resolve and fleeing in remarkable
Haste that humiliated him among the tribes.

31. Seeking safety while no safety is for a deserter.
He flung away the staff and made all things permitted.

32. So today the caliphate regained its glory
And the face of kingship shone after darkness.

33. The transgressors, and those who supported and acclaimed them
Became like a dream among dreams.

34. They fell and no eyes wept for them
With their tears, and they passed without farewell.

35. So surrender the Commander of the Faithful, enjoying
The succession of blessings and boons!