1. Reproach me not if patience brings me solace,
For the face of my beloved is excuse enough.

2. A songstress with whom love brought me no joy;
Her sorcery slays between her lids.

3. If she glanced my way, submissiveness I claimed;
If thoughts of her stirred, her arrogance I proclaimed.

4. Her anklet she raises, that it might free her,
A rider whom her hips do inhibit.

5. I've lost hope of union, my solace is but
Estrangement, which forever shall persist.

6. At times life grants what we hope to achieve,
And sometimes what we ne'er hoped to receive.

7. No noble deed in this world remains
Save Abu Is’haq and his rain.

8. A white knight of the tribe of Mus'ab
Whose feats all other feats surpass.

9. None raced mankind to generosity
But he went furthest, his name extolled.

10. No man we ever praised for a trait
But in him tenfold that trait was found.

11. I know not which of his lands
Is sweetest, if one lists them in verse.

12. Is it his radiant face, his steadfast grace,
Or the flood of gifts that he disbursed?

13. The judiciary was blessed, when he
Oversaw them, commanding and curbing.

14. In his hand the spear is like
A star in the night sky, ringed by the moon.