1. O son of Hussein, you who planted benevolence
In your hands, which then bore good deeds abundantly,

2. With generosity that gave your reputation wide renown,
So that talk of you became copious,

3. You are most noble in lineage when it comes to virtues,
Unlike one known for anything else.

4. When a young man has generosity for a comrade,
He lives and wakes to praise as a comrade.

5. How much trembling for you, and comfort for benevolence!
Without it the noble would not be noble.

6. You spent your wealth pursuing the sublime,
And accompanied the days of time aloof.

7. The treachery of fate did no harm to its generosity—
It left the hopeful weak.

8. May it not be that ease is upon the virtuous
And misfortunes and caprices upon the vile!