1. They refute while they are closer to refutation
And guide while they are far from guidance

2. How can one with a heart locked inside them listen to them
When the liver is a hostage among them

3. Are you here out of love for Layla taking me by the hand
Or supporting me against torment and persecution

4. Have tears poured down whose flow brings nearness
Or heals from despair

5. The embers still burn inside my chest
And doubt of purpose and the loss of petty pleasures

6. The one who was patient has awoken desperate
And the one who was brave returns fearful

7. If I get angry at estrangement, I will not go back on it
And if I seek solace I will not find it

8. Two desires have pulled me between an offer
From one well dressed and finely adorned

9. Neither the life of displacement makes me forget the life of peace
Nor does the passion of nearness distract from the longing of distance

10. Lightning stood tall and arrogant, so I said to it
If you were to find generosity, you would not increase if given more

11. They have made the excellent characteristics
Like generous wealth, a defect for them

12. So you will not be rid of gratitude and hope
Repeated day after day by them

13. They devised the best plan according to principles
Without wronging him and traded wisdom for deviance

14. The sons of Gharr built the glory of life for them
And made it eternal for them

15. They inherit from it only good, however much is counted
It goes beyond the count in virtue

16. The pillars of the kingdom remain steadfast through them
Throughout the breadth of the land and country

17. With the advice of one who makes effort, his determination succeeded
Or the resolve of one focused, or the firmness of one who braces

18. So God will protect the servant of God, indeed he possesses
Virtues that suffice even if only some are commissioned

19. An ocean - when the waves of its abundance are summoned -
Overflows, and a rain - when sought - brings rain

20. The arena of writers showed joy when they flowed
Beyond precedent, uniquely possessing the merits of precedence

21. If they commit injustice, his dealings with it aim
To make things right, while if they exceed in authority he shows restraint

22. He fulfilled the trust, his competence
Did not fall short of it, nor was he dependent on anyone for it

23. Handling the peripheries of authority, prostecting them
With the heedful opinion of one firmly centered around it

24. Indeed, politics came into the hands of one vigilant
And successful towards the path of truth, reliable

25. He did not tilt it with the lies of assumptions nor
Incline towards attaining it when absent from it

26. He found guidance like his father in an approach
Matching it in extent and moving with it towards perpetuity

27. With an unprecedented way or nature
Attaining the unvisited without any pillar or support

28. Authority has revolved around a pole
Of steadfast opinion, seeking support unto a backbone

29. The enmity towards it is feared without its realm
As the enmity and fear towards a lion is feared

30. He repels any hand outstretched to diminish it
Scraped by the sharp edge or severed at the bone

31. Abu Salih has submitted to acts of grace so you
Have revived them while nearing death and demise

32. Your crafts have encompassed the hopeful and awakened
Hopes for those who did not strive nor seek

33. Your governance returned the world to order, and properly it has,
It would not have succeeded if not for you, nor continued

34. There is no defect in the caliphate for him to mend
No weakness in the conduit of the kingdom to repair

35. Nor do stars in the spring night pour
Rain more delightful than your renewing days