1. Truly I say my heart is worn down
And the duration of my wandering has been prolonged

2. With constant passion - if you felt its affliction
You would find it unlike the usual passion

3. And I have known the passion of love in my infatuation
And seen the obedience of my compliant heart

4. Love is a complaint to souls that delights me
Forgetting habits is easy for it and habitual

5. Are you one who diverts white hairs if they sneak
In time or hasten the appointed time?

6. Some came forward before dawns
That comfort me while others depart

7. The brother of the pretty one is a merchant in beauty
Who shows off its new whiteness with blackness

8. Do not deny that youth still remains with us
Nor is the time of youth gone

9. And I see youth in the splendor of its beauty
And its beauty a number of numbers

10. The caliphate has boasted of Ahmad
Manners by which it excels in praise

11. A king saluted by kings, and under him
Especially the mark of piety and the humility of ascetics

12. The concord of fasting controls behavior
From the thirsty glance of fasting pilgrims

13. Devout, he hides his prayers though
The mark of prostration refuses to be hidden

14. Open-handed, when he gathers in an assembly
Generosity becomes the trait of that gathering

15. Look at him when he turns to give
Access and say in the sea and the rivers

16. And when he speaks, listen to a sermon
That clarifies the blindness of the confused wanderer

17. The Muslims yielded to him and found
The least of creation in piety and integrity

18. With a virtue in himself that connected him
To the virtues of fathers and ancestors

19. And a status that rises above which fall
The ambitions of enemies and spite of enviers

20. And they weighed his lineage and in fact
Weighed with it a towering mountain

21. And behind that forbearance a hidden lion
Beyond their territory, and a serpent of the valley

22. Vigilant, the first steps of his command were protected
With reins of sound reason, tightly pulled

23. Like the sword in God’s essence, and he may be seen
As a vine, like the called upon spring

24. A shepherd whom truth guided on his path
So he came to struggle beneath it and clash

25. His subjects wished that nights
Would pass with him in kingship and birth

26. The Abbasids followed the guidance of triumphant Muwaffaq
Of insight through argument, a guide

27. Seeking their utmost effort of advice
From supporters and warding of enemies

28. As if when they followed his traces
They followed the light of the blazing star

29. He forgets sins and the oldness of their time
Casting aside grudges, erasing hatreds

30. You pardon seeking God’s pardon for you
And pardon is the best trait of glories

31. Your precautions have reached every tribe
And your justice relieved all countries

32. You will never lack a life whose happiness
Brings you eternal joy and fortune

33. And you remain ransomed by people - and truly
The ransomed's worth is little for the ransomer

34. I fear the tax though I called on
The King of Kings, supporter of the supported