1. I am determined that the stages reveal
Whether a land is fertile as we were fertile

2. We enjoy the nearness of those we held little
And forbid the nearness of those we loved

3. How many places of rest for them, if only
We shared its bitterness for a while

4. We gathered from its nights months
And from the count of its months years

5. We fall sick with love when it afflicts us
And recover from it before it afflicts us

6. And of an illness, the person spends night alone
While he spends night held hostage without illness

7. We shared love, we don't leave yearning
For one, and she doesn't leave yearning

8. When she started a way of longing for us
We saw in the tryst what you show us

9. By your life, how can we accept what enriched us
From the world and resent what impoverished us

10. What we couldn't remove from ourselves
And the pretense of what sufficed us burdened us

11. Frustration is destined for the greedy openly
And fortunes turn to those we were destined

12. What will happen, even if we pave
A way to it, is about to be

13. So don't be fooled by days, and look
To its types from those who were favored

14. I guaranteed the success of the riding beasts
If they sneak to your firewood

15. To the fear of enemies until they spend night
Restless and secure from fear

16. The best of the best in world and religion
The young man of young men, knowledgeable and courageous

17. He permitted protected lands in wars
That quenched the thirst of spears until we watered

18. When they wanted his equals, they were
Wonders never heard or seen

19. And I entrust his land to be inhabited by fiercer beasts
And roofed less than a ground squirrel’s den

20. So those mountains became plains
And they were sad before his conquests

21. And they were all one kingdom so they ended up
Scattered tribes in their burrows, saddened

22. And the son of Jashtan escaped nothing
Except the predestined laws that conquered mortality

23. And how many events in which he intended
To make the ground’s backs its bellies

24. He drives away ten horsemen with the drive of one
As if they were two hundred

25. Seeking refuge now left, now right
As the swords point him

26. Glory to his insight, if the formidable presented itself
He would make it trivial

27. Except for his lasting generosity to us
Generosity would be the most stingy thing we were given

28. He was supported in scheming against enemies
By the son of Shalmighan with what we supported

29. With the most splendid of the Sasanians whom
Recipients meet with their precious

30. You underestimate his hands’ example in knowledge
So you underestimate by doubting

31. Which is no more than plunging into doubt
To it, where you do not find certainty

32. And the channels of adversaries were hardened
To the belief they would never soften

33. And when war uncovered him, it sparked for it
A blaze that terrifies the kindlers

34. You see his awe-inspiring sword subdued
Yet protected from exposing its reality

35. Confirming a blessing and removing another
If his rebels disobeyed

36. It pursues the fleeting good things until
We publish what was hidden from us

37. He sees the cycles of prosperity with the eye of one aware
He almost returns them as they began

38. Whenever the habit doesn’t prove right in Arabs
It descends to the level of non-Arabs

39. We befriend a group who drew near us
And exclude those who kept their distance

40. The kinship of the furthest, for what they attained
Distinguishes you over the kinship of the nearest

41. The tribe of our paternal uncles are closer to us
And the giver of bounty, the tribe of our father