1. A herd with affection or guides?
The day their camels were decked at Ramah.

2. They turned from the trouble of the rod and strayed,
From nearby, as the gazelle strays.

3. You knew me in my prime,
When life was new and I donned it.

4. She saw me as wisdom left me
And abstinence turned from my folly.

5. If estrangement returns anew, it had been
Anew for us and for her, reunion.

6. When the margins of time are green meadows
And the canal of days holds composure,

7. By the sandhill she has, from the side of Hazwa,
A dwelling, alive and pure company.

8. The ruins and relics reminded me
Of pleasures whose memory leads astray.

9. It suits dreaming to obey sudden ideas.
And distraction for the resolute to turn gray.

10. Life left, so grayness in the eyes of the mature,
And youth is beauty.

11. Give us a gift, where is a gift like yours?
Or make us promises, and promises like yours are empty.

12. I'm satisfied for you to give generously
With a lying word, or a phantom of you to haunt me.

13. Oh you who seek to compete with destiny,
You tried to attain what cannot be attained.

14. Where are those morals in you, when you hurl
Accusations, and where are those fine traits?

15. The seas will not compete, when the tide rages in them,
Nor will the mountains equal each other in height.

16. The distant is conspicuous in its separation
While types and forms draw near each other.

17. The leadership was not handed over to him until
It knew his superiority over it, the men.

18. Tanookh raised his glory above it,
So he has an outlook higher than anyone else's.

19. A speaker and a doer, and a saying does not become
Glory until it becomes action.

20. Honest generosity between people
In whose temperaments toward us crookedness hides.

21. Firm in scheming, when there is opportunity for the horsemen
Space on the side of the fallen enemy.

22. A king who has independent judgement like a king's
And lives nobly in his exceeding nobility.

23. And if you seek the quarter of Abul Fadl,
Then forgiveness, deference, and regard are there.

24. Haughty over misfortunes, when the unlucky one
Stumbles in diverting them, there is nothing to say.

25. And he stands listening to matters in which
There is deviation from their directions and separation.

26. He tries over the caliphate, nothing is lacking
In his fortune, and he does not cheat.

27. Showing openness to its rights, resolves
Which its hated aspects shun, the heroes.

28. And swords whose lighting is deadly
For the enemies, and their striking, fateful.

29. Polished, for them when darkness
Falls over them, kindling and flaming.

30. Constantly it brings news to them of blood
From their enemy, and burnishing.

31. Whenever I came to him I recognized glory
To be gained, a place for the eye.

32. Where rights are not denied the petitioners
And giving does not wait for asking.

33. The knower of generosity has needed no one but you
And hopes in other than you have failed.

34. I am the one who your voice called out,
And your abundant generous gifts lifted up.

35. Favours from you carried me, messages and slight gifts,
Laden, and they are noble steeds.

36. Filled with your mention, the earth in gratitude
And praise, and its course, sending forth.

37. Rising, those planets, so in every
Dwelling they have speech there.