1. O you who struts with arrogance
Bragging amid his lightning and thunder

2. Had you wished, you would have returned to the lands of Najd
And descended between Aqeeq and Zaroud

3. To be generous in a land with twisting valleys
A desert whose wildness has changed because of him

4. Separation raised its domes so they bore it
With hearts that struggled, though broken within

5. The ransom is for a delicate youth whose charm
Is in his dress, his turban and his necklaces

6. His greeting fell short so he was generous with his cheek
On the day we parted, and he blinked his eyelids

7. The watchman's eye was fixed on him but did not stop
Him gaining his sought, save for the most chaste kiss

8. Had it been possible, his day of union
Would have been for the swooner like his day of rejection

9. A lover slipping in the night to mix his “Where?” with prostration
Is not rejected by the beautiful lady

10. The plains hinted of him and left their marks
On his right and left hand and rolled up sleeves

11. The beauty of his sword with ornamented silver
Girded, and its flashing against its steel

12. The clan of Khakan attained no glory higher
Their morals forever bound to its foundation

13. And to Abu Al-Hassan I turned my resolve
From all easily-attained plenty, though paltry

14. I praise his blessing which preceded for him
And his increase from the Bestower before his increase

15. And his supremacy in noble deeds, his generosity
In them, lifelong, above his munificence

16. If praise falls short, it is revived in its repetition
Or glory decays, it is renewed in its pursuit

17. To preserve his exemplary approach, leading
To endless supremacy and humbling his ancestors

18. When he points to the non-Arabs, he expresses
The noble lineage, long-standing in its descendants

19. Of one established in the ranks of their glories
In a distant, far-removed place

20. His morals flow even if life freezes
With the agony of his foe and spite of his envious

21. He ransoms the slaves of God from their haters
Who become estranged from them through their own slaves

22. The dew of favour springs from his custom
Increasing in its affirmation and concentration

23. Revered amid the easygoing and the solemn
For his rising and their rising when he sits

24. Time smiles at the cheer of his happy news
And life is moistened by the lushness of his return

25. The advice of the Sultan focuses his gaze
His deliverance, wisdom and restraint

26. If some confusing matter befalls the writers
Perplexed, they turn to him for guidance

27. And sagacity unerringly travels
To correct it in view or elevate in counsel

28. He dispelled the darkness of doubts like
Dawn striking the gloom with its pillars

29. We count him the treasure of supremacy and its apparatus
And see him as the age's nobility and generosity

30. So may God sustain him for us and surround him
And strengthen and increase him in his support