1. Those homes and the remains of their heights
Submit to the difficulties, subtle and magnificent,

2. Abandoned to the winds between their south and north,
And their backs and fronts.

3. And of ignorance that you aggrieve a weeping one,
And passion stopped at its unknown.

4. Verily tears are the outpouring, so discard
Some of the outpouring and it will rest in its abundance.

5. And I have wronged circumstances and my companion
Is resolve that wraps its sorrow in ease.

6. And I spread the cloak of darkness and folded it,
While the billy goat is between its corpse and tail.

7. Lightning of an honorable Qurashi cloud flashed,
The cycles of fate drowned between its floods.

8. And a young man who reaches out to the Nile of elevation,
So it is as if Egypt extends to him from her Nile.

9. Vice does not come near his side, and he does
Not come from morals except the beautiful of them.

10. And if matters become difficult, their similitude,
His training preceded in facilitating them.

11. He knew the sources before the time of their arrival,
And the places of marvels before their advent.

12. Abu Al-Hasan exhausted all the virtues,
With traits for the rain some of its pouring.

13. Verily the virtues, O cousin of Muhammad,
Found your actions standing in their way.

14. And when Quraysh ennobled you, you ennobled them,
By their intimate friend and uncle of their Messenger.

15. And stars that shone from his children,
Were it not for you, the dew would have set in their setting.

16. Abdul Malik, Saleh, and his Ali,
And his father, best of their youth and elders.

17. The verses raised them in their revelation,
And judged for them with virtue in their interpretation.

18. They took prophethood and the caliphate so they gathered
With the venerations, many and few.

19. If the days had walked in their lifespans,
To attain them, they would have been severed in their length.

20. And those are the glorious deeds, the like of which
None shall build, nor rise to change.

21. The poets become confused in composing them,
And the eminent fall short of evaluating them.

22. And you are a victor over every victor on the day of glory,
Bountiful in its plenty and abundant.

23. Its generous one, son of its generous one, and its noble one, son
Of its noble one, and its eminent one, son of its eminent one.

24. And if you diverge, you take the best of its branches,
And if you return, you take the best of its roots.