1. Good fortune smiled on you, auspicious bird,
And you fulfilled the heights of fame and virtues,

2. And God the Most High lent you support, glory to Him,
With immediate victory, strong and victorious vanquisher.

3. And you remain replenishing every proud one,
With praiseworthy, fortunate springs,

4. Indeed the Caliph honoring you indicates
That you are the best of the people of his days, the superior one.

5. And that in defending the religion you have determination,
With which you deserve victory from every supporter,

6. You donned the ferocity of the exalted state, the kingdom its pride,
And pride belongs only to effective, penetrating swords.

7. You knew the value of his gifts to you,
And uncovered what was veiled in consciences,

8. You alerted only one of vigilance,
As the meadow was watered, the eloquent one, with rain.

9. It was only fragrant ambergris, its deed,
Added to the diffusion of aromatic musk,

10. It only desired that it establish your station with him
As one whose love he harbored and disseminated.

11. And that you are bound with the greatest determination,
And counted among his treasures,

12. Sincerity of inner self is not revealed by time
If you do not prove it with the outer.

13. He saw you with the eye of affection, in the highest,
And happier than the blossoms of brilliant stars,

14. And finest in station in hearts and position,
And most delicious to the gaze of beholding eyes.

15. And most nourishing in intimacy while time is arid,
And most piercing in the chest of the venturesome.

16. So he surpassed quickly in choosing you
Over all remaining in time and passing away.

17. This is not strange from the Caliph,
Nor wonder, the outpouring of stormy seas,

18. And it counts only among his outstanding qualities,
That were exemplified through him in deed, good traits.

19. It was not a noble, exalted deed,
For it to be denied by people of ethics and insights.

20. You are the one whose might in regiments,
And whose glory among kinfolk and clans,

21. With penetrating judgments of glory, their concerns,
And views of a kingdom, reaping insights,

22. Those harboring grudges see it as a web of problems,
Yet it is only arrows in throats.

23. And brilliant signs of evident glory, as if
They are marvelous novel concepts.

24. And manners of the beloved traits, as though
He offered you from them a cup of vintage to sip.

25. Far it remains that any blemish be directed
Toward his reputation, while time remains testing morals.

26. When the insistence of insistent seekers is deflected,
You are the one who does not defend with excuses.

27. It is not for full moons to veil their illumination,
Nor is stinginess in the nature of pouring clouds.

28. By my life, you have exhausted with thanks my rhetoric,
And multiplied the occupation of roving rhymes.

29. The rhymes have not roused you with any sluggish one,
But I saw poetry bound by pride.

30. If you do not make for it through you an aspect,
Then who attains praise as gathering jewels?

31. You remain passionate toward me, infatuated
With every bit of inspiration from spontaneous thoughts.

32. They, if the favor of benevolence attends your glory,
And the visiting of intimate thoughts, secrets.

33. Return from your side a flourishing spring,
And pasture in the wake of pouring rains,

34. And I am saying to every ode,
If it is said there is poetry, it provokes every poet,

35. So from anxiety that makes my liver ache,
And from poverty that casts them with spears.

36. Oh if only my poetry gains a state
That guides my palm in the reins of fate,

37. And if only the days carry me to opponents
That stand long for time and command.

38. For it is clear incapacity while you are for me
My descent into the judgment of cruel nights.