1. You may see those fascinated by poetry
And the one blamed for his passion therein standing

2. Asking for songs and drawing
A handful from a tattooed palm

3. Indeed the weakest ropes are those of love
The twists of passionate madness are about to snap

4. Its darkness has persisted, and were it not
For the intercession of love, the darkness of the oppressive would have persisted

5. And the triumph of one who has been wronged by
A crude and glittering tyrant is diminished

6. Commanding me to dishonor myself when my honor
Is a borrowed patch from my own leather

7. Magnifying that I am worthless and my worthlessness
Is from the loss of vanishing nobility

8. How can you decree my nights with a decree
That resembles justice when the nights dispute me

9. And it is wondrous that rain is hoped for
When its clouds are not seen in their place

10. Fate has prevented equality in dividing
Between the fortunate and deprived

11. Is it destined or a right
That the astrologers claim?

12. And the goal of kindness is difficult if
You do not seek it from a noble Arab

13. And if you ask for the aid of Jonas you will be granted
Greatness sufficient for the affair of the great

14. Generosity that wards off disasters, and nothing
Wards off the evils of disasters but the generous

15. Apparent in the beauty of his fame
Which was not concealed

16. Kind acts pause, not inclining
To any face except where it leans

17. We are of his divided horses given to us
In a living rain pouring upon us

18. Of the assets of a bankrupt that you see him
Embarrassed in repaying an old debt

19. The enemy of bankruptcy appeals to the covenant
Of the covenants of Azdi other than the blemished

20. A master whose rhymes speak of his blessings
Whereas before they were sullen

21. Oh boy of Azd, oh pillar, oh Abu Al-Abbas
Oh Ahmad ibn Ibrahim

22. We only praise the Doer of good
When he receives the act of the atrocious

23. If your palm dried up, we would ask
About the absent slow to arrive from it

24. If what I sought is right, it obligates itself
To satisfy a creditor

25. Or to pardon abundantly, for abundant
Is the poverty that the noble pardons