1. I swore by the declining shadows,
Clinging to it are pliant branches, swaying at its steps.

2. I will seek glory until I attain it,
And wrest splendor from its dwellings.

3. So better for one who closes his eyelids on motes
And supplicates his enemies, losing his life.

4. How pleasant, no pleasant but Iraq and its Lord
Who is deceived about its groans.

5. They seduce Him against me, while adamance is my nature,
When they frighten me with His overwhelming power.

6. So I resorted to the pillar of the faith, adhering to him,
My arms binding the paws of the lion in its leaping.

7. He believed my suspicions, May God confirm his suspicions,
With that which hopes do not share from its gifts.

8. I am deterred by him from one who, if he looked at my sword,
Saw death inclining toward him from its sharpness.

9. But he turned away after fate had outstripped
In the morning at dawn, the chest of its scoop.

10. He left me the brightness of worries in a position
That the ignorant impugn in its separation.

11. So rise, O servants of God, with the rising of the glorious,
Whose sword was borrowed for his determination.

12. Do not think wealth pleases me,
For we have transcended, thanks to Him, its aspects.

13. I have an ambition that aspires to every lofty seat
My forefathers branched out in its plateaus.

14. It seeks your victory over a man
Whose glory, if reckoned, was among its ruins

15. And his forefathers are those you know among mankind
And were it not for piety, I would have made his mothers known.

16. Clinging to security is he who is your neighbor
Even if the lions of evil are his comrades.

17. So heed the rights of virtue regarding me and do not
Say an enemy who harmed me with his stumbling.

18. Below you is poetry which if you unseal its conclude
The winds of Šīḥ will roar in its transmission.

19. I clothed an epoch you own its submission
With gems that sparkle across its expanse.

20. So, O you who recited it, had you reached the goal with it
You would have known who was foremost in its arenas.

21. And which gallant between the two Abī province
Has events that would turn a child grey because of his inexperience of them.

22. I am not, even if he wrongs me,
One who blames an era for your merits.

23. Its people preceded in vanguards I train
So do not make me a target for its daughters.