1. God willed that you prevail and excel
foiling the schemes of enviers, frustrating them

2. Saving you from all that you fear
Graceful is He who protected you, prolonging (your success)

3. So the envious will not attain what they wished of you
And you will attain that which you hoped from them

4. I have strived for a perfect command obeying it
Through it obeying God's command, revealed

5. My journey therein was the most fulfilling
With the surplus of the envious becoming charity

6. An Indian sword is only unsheathed to be used
And an Iraqi pen case is only loaded to be carried

7. So for God there is a day you are surrendered to Him
And you have granted Him the injustice of times gone by

8. If they mention a day that confused an addled man
It is that day they mean – the most confusing day

9. Indeed lost is he who seeks through harming victory
His efforts fail him, benevolence betraying him

10. A prince peerlessly generous
at the mention of whom narrators thrill and extoll

11. The greatest in status, most protected in sanctuary
noblest in character, highest in renown

12. Never have I judged him to the people save with glory
Even if he is distinguished, he is purer and superior

13. It matters not to him to ready his determination
whether faced with tribulation or stringing his sword

14. A brother of Ya’qub – if only some of his intelligence
would set fire to the wicks of events – it would ignite

15. Through him Taym became proud and his tribe honored
by him their glory manifest, emblazoned

16. My Master – you have attained that which you hoped
and you have remained for those who seek you, hoped for

17. You were congratulated with honorable noble sons
you saw them as lion cubs

18. Their habit in generosity has become tradition
their requesting of people will never need lower themselves

19. If they ride forth their shoulders make your procession vibrate
and if they alight their gathering makes your council quake

20. Brides in munificence, grooms in shelter
saviors in dire straits, lions in isolated spots

21. May they never lack your abounding bounty
which has lodged them in the garden of prosperity

22. Perhaps a glance of good opinion from you by chance
might bring water and rain to my barren land

23. though I disdain, my highest aspirations are to lower myself for you
Resident in a land with no refuge like it

24. if not for you, I would not have delayed to depart
Show me fine opinion that perhaps

25. I may see time from what transpired disjoined
It suffices a man as wealth your hands

26. when disasters befall structural
And I have not ceased since appearing among the people, seeking

27. your noble side, the most noble destination
Could I have been other than the sword mixed with the polisher

28. so you were the one, O source of gifts, polishing me?
Why would I not rise to every aspiration

29. if you are my helper in time – and how not?