1. I pledge to you that my eyes do not sleep,
And that my heart is never devoid of passion for you.

2. And if you wished, you could on the day of distress, alleviate his illness,
A lover seeking union with you, if union were possible.

3. Indeed a lover whose yearning might be chased away,
And indeed a remedy that might cure madness.

4. The seeker of your favor is not in want before you,
Rather bounty is in want and generosity indebted.

5. Yielding to it is an alluring, clear guide,
Distracted yet focused, tender yet firm.

6. And glances of an eye that did not cling to empty spaces,
So we left it until it would be preoccupied.

7. And I have an inner self that yearns intensely
For it while the heart is heedless in passion for other than it.

8. And distance did not increase the distance between us,
Nor did passion flow unrestrained in my core, or exceed.

9. For the estrangement of the beloved is aimless wandering,
And knowing the effects of old age is senility.

10. I have found the youth addressed with names,
Beautiful in name but contradicted by deeds.

11. Favors but did not favor with any gains we would count,
Beauties but did not beautify with true knowledge of beauty.

12. I gained wisdom and so bid farewell to madness,
For the perfection of reason is to resist the foolhardiness of man.

13. I see forbearance as misery in the life of a youth,
And no life except what ignorance has granted you with madness.

14. O clan of Taghlib, it honors me to see
Your dwellings become desolate with no inhabitants.

15. A land emptied of its inhabitants and deserted
Of encampments, with desolation howling through it.

16. And a formidable attacker disquieted the people of meadows
With a war containing no jest or frivolity.

17. And the cliffs of a towering rebel were set ablaze
By the fires of battle, unrestrained over the dunes.

18. Is it that every day a band of all of you
Perish, and a house of your assemblies lies empty?

19. Battlefields of aggression whose injustice between them
In an instant of glory concluded with humiliation.

20. When they met on a day of fury they were averse,
And in their midst death had a fair share.

21. The two bands set out at dawn, their rejection cruelty,
So in this, a register, and in that, a register.

22. When there is a debt owed among a people
It will be repaid, no procrastination or delay.

23. The living have met their match,
And the exemplars, their similitude creeps up to match them.

24. When a brother dragged his spear,
A brother leapt forth, neither slow in piercing nor burdened.

25. They are roused by white banners and a gloomy resolve,
Freed captives, and accounts by which one reaches maturity.

26. Death is but to witness an hour
When their horsemen are trapped and they are on foot.

27. With a stab whose blow fells the armored,
And a blow that spills guts like a water skin.

28. The young lad bears the hardship until
The gray elders turn him back from its horrors.

29. The Commander of the Faithful has turned away from she
Whom you came to, while for the guilty in the like of it is loss.

30. And he returned bestowing bounties upon you
With merits that came while he was their rightful guardian.

31. In your presence the hand of conquest of Khagan's son
Was like the rain's hand to the scorched earth.

32. Were it not for him, your blood would have been shed in defiance,
No blood money given for the lowly or the wise.

33. O Fatah, you followed the wounds with remedies,
After poisoning them with the deadly venom of arrows.

34. You granted them the remainder of their lives through peace
Though killing had almost finished them entirely.

35. Delegations of gratitude came to you praising
What blessings of yours preceded for them before.

36. Never have I seen a day more crowded
Than this day with paths leading them to your court.

37. You could see them from the outskirts of Samarra,
Their steps hurried though they had crossed the plain walking.

38. When they traversed Samarra and converged,
Upon a smiling hand whose nature is generosity.

39. When they began a speech, the splendor
Of the radiance of your face's aspect distracted them.

40. When they averted their gaze in awe
And turned with a glance, you would think them facing you before.

41. You set for them a piercing gaze, an eloquent tongue,
And a sound opinion like an unsheathed blade.

42. It probed the diseases of their chests, so your doing
Is beautiful, and the finest remedy for their malice, your decisive words.

43. They did not stop until their palms
Took your charity, neither stingy nor lacking.

44. They dragged the coolness of fresh vines, their trailing hems
Bestowing gifts of a generous one whom greed has never spoiled.

45. Amr ibn Ghanm did not generalize against them
As your grant did yesterday in favor.

46. Through you the common people became united
When once estranged from them and separated.

47. So whatever delight they saw in their reconciliation
Is from your bounty flowing, and to you belongs grace.