1. Save me from the slanderer who abused and transgressed,
And from burning desire which overwhelmed me and then assisted.

2. Or else make me happy with your tears, they
Ease what is in me, that I see you sympathizing.

3. The rain watered meadows which I knew in their prosperity
A gazelle grazing, protected by the foliage.

4. When fate brought his image to me
His nearness cured my sickness or the echo subsided.

5. When an awakening snatched him from my hands
I counted him a lover who had left me or became absent.

6. And I did not see any two like us or any story like ours
Suffering while awake and blissful while dreaming.

7. My breath ascends in ardour and yearning
When the lightning rises from my Euphrates in the west.

8. And that is only because I long for you, increased
By the remoteness of home and kindling.

9. So whoever is absent with intention from his beloved
And estranged, I was absent from you in order to witness.

10. And closeness in some places is not for one
Who sees wisdom only in caution and distance.

11. To the son of the Commander of the Faithful, the wild beasts shared us
A pitch-black night, intensely dark.

12. To a benefactor whose generosity is not withheld by meanness
Nor kindness by him withheld and made bitter.

13. We saw the sons of glory in every group
Yet to Abdullah they were most glorious in glory.

14. Upon him from the Proud of God is delight
Which illuminated, so if the riders travelled by it they would be guided.

15. When the summit of the galaxy claimed descent
From stars which did not cease to bring good fortune to kingship.

16. To the successors of a Sunnah who vied
That it weigh heavy on their necks and be reiterated.

17. It pleases gazing eyes with an appearance
Of beauty, if the full moon contended with it from afar.

18. For him in the hearts of the loyal there is love
By which the enemies count armies fully armed.

19. Contemplate the trustee of God overflowing with majesty
And brilliance which appears on him when he presents himself.

20. If today his created nature has astonished you,
Refined, tomorrow it would grant you the like of it.

21. Sought after to the furthest extent after extent
If you were to say one day he has reached his limit, he would increase.

22. It delights us that you have appointed him and established him
As a flag for us, we take shelter in its shade tomorrow.

23. And the striking of dinars with his name gladdened us
As did his assumption from our authority of that which he assumed.

24. Why then is his equal not seen in the authority
You were specialized with, his equal in generosity and dew?

25. He is worthy that you cast at him the side
Which schemes and that you yield to him and make firm.

26. And the likes of you have surrounded the Muslims with the likes of him
Correctly and he did not neglect his subjects in vain.

27. So if something else lasted until the end of time, we would be
Content with him present and you remained immortalized.

28. Clarify his excellence and publicize the brilliance of his worth
And keep for him amongst people a renewed recollection.

29. For indeed the unsheathed sword inspires greater awe
And shows more sharpness than the sheathed sword.

30. You continued hoping for him and he lived full of promise
Observing connection from your eternal life.

31. The bands of horsemen were indeed flanked
By a troop which renewed the charge angrily.

32. They protected him from all sides on the plains of the land
So he remained roaming in the mountains, expelled.

33. Rascals and bedouins hoping for his defeat
Lost direction until he rebelled and transgressed.

34. They appoint him caliph after he herded sheep among them
An old man who is weak.

35. Why then did deterrents not prevent him and avoid
Hostility to Mansur the Oppressor in transgression?

36. Had he consulted the days before his rebellion
Ibn Umm Al-Kalb's son would have forbidden him to attack.

37. It is as if I see him either slain, blood-stained
At the hands of slaves or a prisoner, shackled.