1. O lightning, be excessive in your ascent
Or rain down generously with your downpour

2. Or reveal the darkness with the illuminating
Light radiating from your glory

3. You are not like Al-Hasan ibn Makhlad
In your approaching and twisting about

4. Indeed, I found his praise
Among people more noble than your praise

5. And I see his munificence with his wealth
Higher than your munificence with your water

6. And his splendor among mankind is
Superior in merit to your splendor

7. And his superiority in pursuing glory is
Lofier than your supremacy and climbing

8. My soul is yours for sacrifice, indeed my share
Is that my soul be among your sacrifices

9. The travelers have gone with the wondrous
Story of your loyalty

10. And they spoke of your good fortune in success
And your sincerity and trueness of promise

11. Why then should I set out to urge you
Or emigrate to meet your requirement

12. Especially when yesterday you
Were just beginning

13. And it grieves me to abandon reliance
On you and to delay seeing you

14. And disgracing Al-Sayyabi against
You and depriving him of your gift

15. With his request, indeed I prepare
His request without your approval