1. For your love I swore by my perseverance
That staying away from you is the right path

2. Parting from you kindled a fire in my love
And showed between my eyes and sleeplessness

3. Will time bring us back a day
Of meeting you that I yearn for more?

4. Happy are the slanderers in their intense longing
While I am present but my love is lost

5. The cure for my condition was in a place
We will return to or in an appointed time

6. My sad song continues to protect me
Amidst the houses of sadness, the song walks

7. It needed and pulled a heart that refused
Then accompanied me on my journey

8. I did not call you out of longing
Except I hastened, obedient to the caller

9. The sin of a night that passes while
No sweet dreams of happiness disturb me

10. Being far from her was more beloved
To the longing lover than the union of distances

11. The ambitions will reach me and the seas
Will suffice me instead of the sands

12. I consider it great to be compared to Fatah
Like a generous cloud or valley stream

13. Generous, he still has gifts
That change the ways of the inert years

14. Nothing excessive in him but generosity
The rest is for guidance and moderation

15. A young man whose inclination was never filled
To reconcile them and set things right

16. When desires were accompanied by misguidance
He refused except stubbornness towards the masses

17. Intense in enmity and longstanding resentment
To the sympathizers among them and the obstinate

18. The Abbasids consider him a treasure
For the day of principle or the day of fighting

19. He has for them solidarity in piety
And power that rivals the palaces of enemies

20. Advice that no slave of the suns found
In the presence of Hajjaj before or Ziyad after

21. He often refrains from the sword until
It shines when unsheathed in battle

22. Majestic, the great ones respect him
For his magnificent and amazing awe

23. They greet from afar like a moon
In the hall that has no pillars

24. Whether he stands in rank or sits
In composure, deliberation, and steadiness

25. So neither a glance nor repeated words
To him are frivolous or repetitive

26. Suffice me the turns of fate, I
Rely on Fatah bin Khagan

27. I tied hopes with him, I
Love the traits of generous wisdom

28. I left my Levant, my comfort
And the most cherished of my soul and heart

29. The like of your company has astonished me, my beloved
And granted me tranquility away from my home

30. How many white hands do I have through you
With merit like yours and generosity

31. And blessings that make those close to me jealous
My family, loved ones, and friends

32. Through it I met adversaries like a warrior
And gained loyal allies like a friend

33. I have two concerns of slander and plotting
And for each I have taken my supplies

34. So if I settle, I strengthen my pillar
And if I travel, I have prepared provisions