1. O swords and spears with bent tips,
Victory and whoever you have supported will not be failed.

2. Had you willed with a will conforming to the Divine Will,
Time would have been generous and would not have been miserly with the high positions.

3. You have debased my honor and the protection of both of you,
To defend the ignoble and help the despised one.

4. And you disobeyed me in my affairs and said:
Tamim learned and the light cavalry is isolated.

5. How many kings have departed, so be determined
and the last of them in it will surpass the status of the first.

6. So suffice with your pride, O compliant one, and know
That for you from my determination I am in the army formation.

7. I am the brave knight of the days of plea
and clamor that I establish with my sword and my saying.

8. Indeed, ink and the prolific man both
Are rooted out by battle and crisis.

9. Youth has departed so it was said that eminence missed it.
Slow down, for my determination has not departed.

10. Both my old age and youth are equally in veneration,
For that is how it is in achieving every hopeful one.

11. Nobility denied what would disgrace me so I did not spend the night
In fear of the advent of the coming dawn.

12. So if I gained a swimmer from fate I am
A custodian racing with the pride of the first entrusted one.

13. And if I aimed then a sword with luster
Its gems were hidden for lack of polishing.

14. And if I am unknown and others describe my poetry
Then the fault is that I am determined and have not shown ignorance.

15. Why have the kings assumed its lofty positions
While I remained in the depth of the lowest abyss?

16. If it was about courage then wars and clamor
Or if it was about merit then it is the right of the most meritorious.

17. My merits were wronged just as
The beauty of Jamal al-Din was wronged, the shelter of the wretched one.

18. They praised him so they could include the virtues of his soul
So it overflowed with praise as the water skin overflows.

19. So I have come to give what I could, and there is no shame
In moving dregs to the place of sale.

20. A sun whose light has spread to be an argument
Rather a clear verse has come as evidence from the Sender.

21. Its inimitability is the lack of an equal, and a gentleness
That sufficed the builder, the prolonger.

22. So people vary between the generosity of my brother Nada's success
A storyteller, and another one being stingy in gifting.

23. Muhammad's success and generosity
Both compete to the drawn sword.

24. He gives generously to those asking his favors
He is charitable with blessings even if he is not asked.

25. And the difficulties of life increase his composure
So he becomes the most cheerful face in predicaments.

26. If the darkness of night masked him
It would not contain him like one showing favor.

27. Neither severe poverty changed his face
Nor did winter come to him with clenched teeth.

28. Necks weighed down by the blessings of his dew
So the mind is burdened by that weight.

29. So when people meet, their talk
Is about every eyelid closed in shame.

30. The captives of the minister's favors, all of them
A helper you see him as though shackled.

31. From Samarkand to Tihama a witness
To the superiority of beauty over the fox with wagging tail.

32. The clouds rain what his existence covers
Flowing while his abode is in Mosul.

33. And the eye of Muhammad is delighted with Muhammad
Reviver of his law and place of descent,

34. Builder of his tomb and guardian of his religion,
And helper of his nation with flowing generosity.

35. He made Medina a populated countryside
Luxuriant, frolicking in adorned bliss.

36. So it is as if it became fertile by his gifts
A land on the coast of the chained Euphrates.

37. If in his time the chapters of the Book were revealed praising him
It would be a patch sewing his shirt and cloak

38. With the thickets of Zakhkar and ridges of Yathbul
A servant, brother in his hospitality and love

39. Who does not change and master in the assembly.
If he lodged in a barren desert, his embers lit up

40. A back that would be transformed into blossoming spring.
And a spurned outcast whose harm he alleviates

41. Fearing it would show him safety like death.
The lands have flourished through him so every bridegroom

42. Is worried about him, crying "Do not depart!"
The mottled star clusters of its horizons trouble him

43. The left side of its Pleiades is ugly like an awl.
Ugly, deprived of its stars, its south

44. Expelled from its atmosphere with arrows.
The blind make up for its tastes

45. With urine and measures rotten colocynth.
The prayers have left with its blinkers and leaders

46. So the living is not shaken and departing.
If desolation and fertility lodged him

47. He would make both for others, the earth sprinkler.
I sheltered him so I protected him and aided him

48. He became, despite the injustice of fate, inattentive.
Indeed, with the sword of your view you uncovered layers

49. That copied daylight with pitch black night.
And you returned them to tombs as if their limbs

50. Were piled up with cloud mass and darkness.
They left the water springs while their extremities were thirsty

51. And they smelled roses from forgetfulness or colocynth.
They flowed with zeal against the armor as if they were

52. Jinn of Abqar or soldiers of Ghitl.
They ground the armor on boulders and tied

53. Their resolve on the honeycombed cliffs.
And they dragged the looters fiercely

54. A harmful one who got hold of the tasty meal.
So you sufficed them with a scheme and a stratagem

55. That made their homes the dust of al-Qistl.
O Muhammad, I have called you the praised one and the colors

56. Of success are a fair, generous call.
This is the time and these are the opportunities of eminence

57. And I am the one pointing, so do what seems best.