1. Ahmad, the displaced one who changed his purpose
In determination, and loved what he used to hate

2. The hand of separation made him grateful
Patience with love became his habit

3. How can one who enjoyed travel refuse an ambassadorship
When he passionately loves every journey

4. A resolve came leading gently
As youth once led his gaze

5. Not every energetic and violent one
Has languid and indifferent eyelids

6. And it is weakness if I say a charming one
Passed by me stimulating my mind and senses

7. Except that I feel within my ribs
After ember, an ember I fear for you

8. Who thinks I remember one I love
If so, I forgot the remembrance of him

9. He turned away, and my resolves contain
No anger for me, nor any revenge in them

10. And if he turned away after union, for days
Among us there is harm and joy

11. I do not complain of their vicissitudes, after
Abu Gharra rose against them and was indignant

12. I ruled them, so I freed them from blame
Thus becoming with that blame, free

13. And Ali son of Mulhim won the best
Glory over all people, good and bad

14. Smoothness of interaction in peace
And a soul bitter in tribulation

15. A hand that wards off harm when
A time it would be harmful

16. We tasted under his generosity every abundance
And saw him diving into every abundance

17. And heard his voice calling out
The injustice of time against all who blamed fate

18. And we saw his journey, and in every
Path he had for glory, his danger

19. The roads became smooth for him until
They took him to the heights though steep

20. Then the high pursuits were confused by him
Avoiding his rejection and fearing his abandonment

21. Whenever a place was too high for his reach
He made it, as you see, his stable abode

22. O clouds pouring generosity and might
And a sword whose mark people witnessed

23. Take the reins of my state from fate
And be cautious, for I do not feel safe from its betrayal

24. No blame rests on the poet who falls short in his
Description, if you accept his excuse

25. These virtues were so numerous that
He knows not what to include in his poetry