1. My pledge to you is serenity,
Its darkness dispelled by their radiant cheeks.

2. As guide in my house, my longing for you
Suffices me, greater than all other desire.

3. In his breast at night kindles a flame
That flares as darkness gathers.

4. A night that finds me sleepless, while my love
Slumbers, my wakefulness her lullaby.

5. Veiled, she seems the full moon in sky
At its peak, its perfection complete.

6. I met her, but no use was my sacrifice,
For her words cannot be comprehended.

7. A greeter, his cure the day we part
Is that his greeting be returned.

8. The valley's streams were watered, Harran and Sail
And Arak, Bisham too, were sated.

9. Yet many who reveled in passion
Saw not their nights or days improved.

10. Who will convey from me to the minister,
Though veiled in darkness his abode,

11. That loyalty to him remains unbroken,
Gratitude encompassing its parts,

12. I gathered its obtainment and exceeded not
The Tigris, though it brimmed over.

13. I left him for a time of rest
And found him after, his destination Sham.

14. Supererogations from Ahmad ibn Muhammad
Whose authenticity was proven.

15. Your gifts to me contend and yet
They, and the showers and spears preceding,

16. Adorn the necks of the honored with necklaces,
Bought or gifted that he endows.

17. When faced with matters weighty, his resolve
Suffices, his determination a sword.

18. The guardian of two glories, neither lances
Nor pens surpassed his agents.

19. From poverty he enriched us,
Our need and asking but to praise him.

20. Extending his hands to virtuous works,
His foundations forget and remember.

21. Expected without warning was his favor,
His gift only a beginning.

22. It came like a torrent in your valleys,
Dawn dispersing the clouds' veil.

23. Pleasing him was matching a violent lion,
His hand subduing its fury.

24. When the friend curved toward me crookedly,
He proceeded upright, halting not.

25. The enemy wished to wrong me,
But my protector from injustice refused.

26. He made me forget when time
Brought fears, lasting, persisting.

27. His standing by me when enemies approached,
My goal, and when shelter was his stance.

28. A matter whose praise and thanks
Some blamed while others found fault.

29. Evident of truth before its occurrence,
Dispelling the darkness of his doubter's side.

30. And I saw the beautiful in one adorned
By haste, not waiting to perfect.

31. And a sign of a fertile year to one experienced
Is the early bloom of its first flower.