1. He is virtue itself, so virtues cannot be counted,
But resolve itself, so that demands seek you,

2. For man is only capable of what he can do,
And people's ranks are according to their abilities.

3. The young man established glory's state,
With a leader watching him and chamberlain,

4. Our days have been excused for their sins through it,
And the times smiled at us in penitence.

5. It is led by reason and resolute purpose,
And protected by might and erudite wisdom,

6. To aid there is for people health and illness,
And in it there is, as with them, sincere and liar.

7. He is entrusted with it, even if he chose to take it off,
He would be inclined to it while lamenting and grieving,

8. And whoever does not fulfil glory's rights,
His fine efforts are blemishes.

9. Have you not seen how Muhammad acquired it,
As it dragged its train and he dragged it,

10. If water were not created for a fresh drinker,
It would never be fresh for him however much he drank

11. So he disciplined its rebels and contented its servants,
And for him it made a minister and chamberlain,

12. It contained a mind that seems brilliant in his face,
And its piercing stars gaze at his eyes.

13. It sets unwilling for the stars' rays a place,
And its like, wherever wonders settled.

14. Sublimity called him in yearning, so he responded,
While others called him, so he responded to the charming ladies.

15. Whoever loses pleasures gains highness,
And some men's losses are gains.

16. So he came with what enrages the enemy and delights him,
Disasters for a people are gains for a people.

17. Let his highness rejoice in an office he long strove for,
Rather, it rejoices that offices contain him,

18. Some people refuse them, so he prevents them, steadfast,
And some know them, so he is open-handed.

19. Low and high are indebted to him for glory,
And they attribute to them merit, whether late or early,

20. For through them, or else praise is not said,
Or else desires are not sought.

21. To you, leader of merit, from us came
Groups, though they are processions,

22. Meanings that shame the eye with the magic of their eyes,
And mock it with their plaited strands,

23. They have strewn their lines amidst the Pleiades,
As the ornaments strewed themselves on the chests.

24. For them the ardour of yearning is guide and leader
To you, and meeting you is caller and speaker,

25. Carrying from me congratulations on the office,
Going happily with youth and song.

26. So if news of you coming brings me joy,
Estimating that I am absent brings me sorrow.

27. The gulf of longing has widened between us
And the ways to meet have narrowed.

28. So greet the loyal slave with a return
With which he may guide a heart separation made obligatory,

29. Hopes may be fulfilled and anguish stilled,
And the sorrowful may rejoice and all smile.