1. Your life is still young while time grows old,
And the eyes of your enviers in it grow bleary.

2. O you dressed in blessings, adorned with them
Are garments that their like makes magnificent.

3. The ugliest thing is to blame a time
In which, for you, good is Muhammad.

4. O eyes of loving ones, get rest through a young man
In the first light of the highly placed, from it he set forth.

5. That one whose two hands are both soft,
The healthy feel ease from them at the pond.

6. Blessed of feature, awe-inspiring in zeal,
In his furs are a moon and a lion.

7. Honored of assembly, of lofty position,
His charms upon a string are threaded.

8. In the prime of spring, the spokesman of excellence,
It is as if his tongue is made smooth.

9. Descending, for you, from his eloquence, a snippet
Or a pearl in his prose embellished.

10. A garden of virtue whose keeper
Plucks from it, through the spreading of publishing, a flower that he witnesses.

11. He brings out for a people created in time
Gems whose value therein the eternal measures.

12. They are better than any he nominated for envy
Glory and more fragrant than any he angered.