1. You have surpassed the best wishes of days, sublime,
My praise for you has exhausted speech,

2. You have succeeded between softness and firmness until
Even your jealous rivals and the clouds are awed by you.

3. For every asker you are a rain-bursting cloud,
For every respondent you are an obliging keeper of trusts.

4. You volunteer help and supply whenever hosts retreat and nobles withdraw.
Your possession rules the plains therein,

5. And your neighbor in al-Khasifah cannot be touched.
The thought of glorious deeds makes your warriors flee

6. Whenever the thought of fleeing seems sweet.
So the sultanate of sleep among them is a fugitive,

7. Having from it flight and retreat.
And the sun of your opinion rises in the darkness

8. And illuminates it though gloom had not withdrawn.
Every towering, lofty palm tree

9. Has its birds and poisonous vermin take flight.
For the lord of many tents there is a land of highness,

10. While by others there is only pleasure or insignificance.
He has gained glorious qualities by effort and labor,

11. So for him they are magnificent pillars.
Abu-l Faraj the advocate possessed them

12. When the cultured and the swordsmen were humbled.
And so every feast and holiday has congratulated

13. Him when even the hot wind was still.