1. O dwellings of my loved ones, you have become ruins
And time has become blameworthy to me in you

2. Misery has settled in your courtyard though once
You were to us a meadow and bliss

3. The people have departed from you, leaving
In the edges of my heart lasting sadness

4. Where are those gazelles? They have become
In beauty distant stars, and in distance moons

5. They have found peace and tranquility though we
Found passion painful and severe

6. O Abu al-Fadl, inheritor of merit from the
Meritorious, latest and earliest

7. By my life, your qualities have made time
Noble after being ignoble

8. You have from the two excellencies traits
That give you abundant glory

9. Attributes in you which if divided among
People would leave no wretch wretched

10. A giving nature going and coming gently
Like a breeze in its blowing and softness

11. Your great deeds have risen so high
We imagine you a companion of the heavens

12. Each day our hopes in you for leadership
Are dictated by the stars

13. O Aal Sahl, you are rescues for mankind
In generosity, aid, and clemency

14. What merit, giving, or munificence has not
Befriended this open-handed one, Ibrahim?

15. Like a lion he met in war the Kisrawi
And in wisdom the philosopher

16. Bright of face and deed when the face
Of time was fierce and brutal

17. A Hibrizi who attained of every art
Of the literary arts an ample share

18. And refined of diction, stringing pearls
And precious gems into poetry

19. Exertions wearied him, leaving traces
Of wearying wounds on his body

20. So you find him in a state to be envied
And find him in a state to be pitied

21. Every day giving and munificence profit him
Whether he be resident or traveling

22. He praises the virtuous and blames the wicked, becoming
Esteemed in abundant glory, and despised in disgrace.