1. Were you not a crown for the virtuous kings,
And a lamp for the world and its affairs?

2. Did you not eagerly pursue the particles of glory
With the most noble and joyous of goals?

3. The era was ennobled by your pride,
Just as people rejoiced in your joy.

4. They saw a king whose acts were seas
Of benevolence overflowing with generosity.

5. It is truly right to reciprocate these nights
With the garment of praise and felicity.

6. The rain resembles you in its generosity
When it pours forth copiously with abundance.

7. The most fragrant aroma stirs up passionate love,
And yearning hearts that long for you.

8. My stead mounts the saddle at night
As anxieties churn within me.

9. It is as if the stallion gallops towards one
Who traverses the rugged terrain and clefts.

10. As if attaining hopes leads those who call to you
At night to privately confide in you.

11. A formidable king when threatened by enemies,
And the firmest of all when embroiled in fury,

12. His horsemen roam confusedly
With the bravest who witnessed the battles.

13. Pure musk is not befitting when carried
By the unworthy; it would be adulterated.

14. The ground is lengthened when it meets him,
And the roads expanded wherever he travels.

15. It is as if his plains and sorrows
Are like windows or perforated coverings.

16. You have extended your hand to gain praise
While the sea of generosity has ebbed.

17. You have abandoned vanity for noble deeds
As a despised lion still garners might.

18. You have made a lineage between them
Through what your forefathers established.

19. You have made impregnable walls against calamities
And a fence of spear thorns around them.

20. You have never sheathed a sword to attain glory
Except by boldly drawing it forth.

21. If not for the piercing sparks of swords
Their blades would not have been so sharpened.

22. When the days brought an illness,
You prepared a remedy or cure for them.

23. You made healing poultices of eggs
And the ripest cure is the most potent.

24. How many torrents have you diverted, and slopes
Leveled, leaving no crookedness?

25. How many enemies have you confronted with horses
Like sparks of flint colliding and scattering?

26. It is as if there are locusts swarming
Making the thorns and bushes rustle.

27. They have ravaged his glory and struck
The tightly-knotted alliances.

28. When you rode the backs of noble steeds,
You filled the land with safety and tremors.

29. How many have you liberated from the shackles of neighbors,
Without tightening or unbinding a knot?

30. When the noble ladies are sleepless at night
With breasts churning restlessly,

31. May God reward you with victory over exertions
To preserve the dignity of the faith.

32. So you have not been, when the earth quakes,
And mountains tremble and shake,

33. Like a fearful gap, except a barrier,
And a closed door, except its bolt.

34. Adversities' darkness did not narrow
Except that your aid made an opening for us.

35. Your joy diminishing gloom and nights
Is enough, like the unveiling of dawn.

36. A feast with you is the only holiday needed,
Not expecting any other celebration.

37. So may you remain, and your bounties
With which you came to your Lord as a crown,

38. That shine brilliantly when the rain drips
With its soft droplets and showers.

39. If you are a crown above all others, then who
Could be the forehead or the pulpit for you?

40. I have presented to you the prime of my poems
Pristine, like chaste brides or pairs.

41. The summits of my concerns do not transcend you in praise
When the heart churns with them restlessly.

42. They visit your ascension time and again
With purpose, eulogies, and devotion.

43. How many have been ecstatic and enraptured by them,
Singing praises at dawn and twilight!

44. How many conveyors are as though by them
Is the buzzing of bees dripping with honey!

45. They increase the lover's passion and fervor,
And the dreamer is frenzied by their rapture.

46. I say in truth without reserve or bias,
Not in the right of one who stubbornly refused.

47. You have prepared radiant white nights for me
To replace my gloomy bleak nights.

48. I came to you without making excuses
For fate against me or using it as a plea.

49. I did not make you my sole pursuit
So you would make me need all the people.

50. I will settle for longing as long as I am not
Deprived of the dear rose and objected to.

51. How much sweet delicate water have I passed
To reach you, counting it as briny!

52. To a king who freely bestowed kindness
Without leaving a remainder or portion.

53. Of beautiful giving - his promises
Did not carry unfulfilled, nor any burden.

54. The swiftest requitals for good deeds are
With you the finest offspring.

55. When a freeman complains of days
To other than you, it only increases anguish.