1. We are the ransom, so we are taken and awaited,
To take your place when misfortunes threaten you,

2. The joys of life have met you smiling,
And joined you though they avoided you yesterday,

3. A boundless blessing from the Trustee of God,
Upon you in a rank below which are all ranks,

4. Fill it, O Abu Ayyoub, it surely has,
The glory of life, in it are desire and awe,

5. How many hopes at dawn you exemplified their practice,
To you the buckets and jugs were pulled in them,

6. What nights I see are not united in one state,
And a lineage unites them from their severed parts,

7. Behold they are a party who came discordantly,
Some to others, so we thought they were allies,

8. And we blame fate, though it afflicted us with calamity,
Yet fate had no hand in what befell us,

9. Praise be to God, praise that its obligation is complete,
And we thank God, thanks like what is obligated,

10. Time pleased souls long displeased,
And fate pardoned a people long displeased,

11. And God disappointed with loss the aggressive,
On a promise, and invalidated what they said and lied,

12. For joy to adorn you, its side green
After it had yellowed, in its quarters the herbage,

13. And a resentful envious man was given from it
A request, and a vicious slanderer fault found in it,

14. From tears of eyes that rarely weep,
And hearts that rarely respond,

15. Harm afflicted you, He singled you out, then it cleared from them,
Then faces brightened, gloomy with pallor,

16. With the good opinion of the Commander of the Faithful, and what
Ancestor is linked to him by lineage,

17. It was nothing but reward and honor,
This satisfaction and testing that anger,

18. And the hated matters sometimes
Are reason to what is loved, the like of it no reason,

19. These are imaginations of lightning followed by rain,
Generosity and irrigation of clouds followed by flames,

20. And the blue of dawn comes before its whiteness,
And the first of rain is drops then it pours down,

21. The Caliph is truly determined,
In what he wants, and there is no frivolity in his determination,

22. He saw you preceding them in guidance if they halted in the matter,
And aflame if they wavered in opinion,

23. It is as if I saw you entrusted with the greatest of them,
In command, so no rejection, innovation, or wonder,

24. So do not intend shortcoming or nature,
And if you intended, religion and propriety would forbid you,

25. A heart that reflects on its thoughts, a hand
That accomplishes matters, and a soul whose distraction is fatigue,

26. And cutting off opponents' insolence if
Their hearts were malignant, for his resolved armies are chosen,

27. He does not seek like the stingy person sought,
And does not love of his money except what he donates,

28. Sweet of speech when he gives, his conversation
Those wonders, the stern caravan listens,

29. If not for gifts he hides and discloses,
I would say what they told of Hatim was lies,

30. O seeker of glory, do not waver from
Striving seriously as if he was fleeing,

31. Submit and you are safe from the days as long as they last,
Settlements of fate and eras and spans,

32. And I do not trust you will thank me continuously,
When I'm far and deny when I'm near,

33. And I did not accompany you out of fear or greed,
But manners and morals accompany,