1. How much grief melts away, and how much endures
Where is the helper for him, and where is the one who brings joy?

2. Shall I spend my days in the winding valley, while you are alive?
I keep the pledges I made to you, and make new ones

3. Do not blame me for my ardour towards you, my youthfulness
This sadness, and the tears of my eyes bear witness

4. My heart has never betrayed its pledge to you, nor
Have my arms ever extended to my patience

5. Am I your brother, yet love a people other than you?
I and your pledge to me are affirmed

6. O emigrants! I have no fault except
Overflowing tears and anguish that renews

7. And my heavy load - the agonizing youthfulness
Whose burning in my heart does not diminish

8. Is this the reward of one who preserved passion
And kept your pledges, to be disgraced and banished?

9. And my cheek, from which
A burning ember lights up in every heart

10. My eyelid is sleepless from it, my cheek
Reddened by it, my forehead adorned

11. He spends the night and wakes safely among his flock
While I fear, for he is the deliberate killer

12. He captivates hearts with a sorcerous glance
Harut of his sedition ties and unties

13. With a tall, alluring figure
Raised above wide hips that straighten and bend

14. His robes intoxicated by his pleasure cup
Thus possessing harmony at times, and gentleness

15. As if the memory of Ahmad appeared to them
And at his mention, the frozen inanimate melts

16. O King of barren kingship, he who has
In every land, blessings that cannot be denied

17. Stop! What is above the sky is for the seeker
No destination, nor above the stars, a seat

18. You spent your wealth creating the dew, making yourself
A Lord whose treasures of grace never deplete

19. By Allah, none remained but that your grace in them
Echoes and reiterates

20. Or the students strive for glorious character
Except that you are their attainment and destination

21. Knowledge and wisdom shine, and generosity
So let them be guided, follow example, and excel

22. They gained felicity by your mention in the lands
You adorned them with favors, so they sing joyfully

23. And they learned praise from you, so from you comes
Generosity, while you are the leading composer

24. Your guarded domain is nothing but a paradise
Where if one entered, he would gain eternity

25. Your sword remains bared, never sheathed
Except in the hearts of enemies, on a day of battle

26. What shall I say, when all words fall short
And your excellence upon me is greater and more

27. Fate is fearful of the blows of your spear
And death shudders from your piercing sword

28. How many formidable stands you took
Where death, for it, was a threat

29. Your victory in it is as if
In your grip, is its reins

30. Until it was said, who is this? Is it
The clear conquest, or the swords, or the thrusting spears

31. Or is it fate casting toward whom you desire?
Is it good fortune, when you head into battle

32. Bearing you aloft, or the towering determination
Or is it the armies, or the deaths you lead

33. To war, or a tumultuous sea?
Far from it! No human can accomplish what you achieve

34. But angels
O best of those who rode steeds, and who

35. Rules the banners of governance in the universe
You vanquished every impregnable fortress in the lands

36. Thus all the kingdoms of the earth
None remains but Mecca - so rise to it

37. For God, Majestic, will grant you victory in it
Unveil for it your swords of resolve - it is

38. The rise of your star with good fortune
And fate is obedient toward your desires

39. Good luck accompanies what you undertake
What would prevent you from it, o people who have no

40. Footing to ascend high?
While you, below all mankind, are most rightful to it

41. For the Sacred House of your father is in it
Purify its terrain from the tyrannical Turks

42. For too long they have wreaked havoc there
Enemies of God returning to defeat

43. As your father never allowed their habitation
Unveil your sword, for in its sheath, it holds

44. Embers of fury toward them when it sees Mecca
And unleash upon them the piercing swords and spears

45. A war that terrifies when seen
And command time against them, for your sword

46. Scatters their unity in every land they fled or sought refuge
Where can they escape with your sword behind them?

47. If they disgracefully brandished their swords against you
They will soon be sheathed in their skulls

48. Or if they ignited the fires of their spears, these will
Be extinguished by their blood, in no time

49. What fires could they ignite with their schemes
While your Lord extinguishes what they ignited?

50. Do not worry about their actions, for the ordained fate
Upon them may suffice you

51. What they do, while God's hand is upon them
Is like the blow of a sword no arm can withstand

52. They are predatory dogs, who tasted the sweetness
Of your forbearance, so became emboldened

53. May God favor you and disgrace their multitude
God debases whom He wills, and graces whom He wills

54. And God wanted from you - may His Majesty be Exalted -
Continuous victory for this religion, as you are accustomed

55. Soon your swords will ignite sparks in them
Melting the frozen with the hottest fires

56. It will be said: a people killed among them, a people
Taken captive, and a people scattered

57. And to you, O King of the land, praise
That almost made the shining sun bow down

58. From one sincere in love for the Family of Muhammed
Whose passion lasts as your mention echoes in the land

59. And the Family - as long as the Najdi winds blow -
Are fervently devoted to your mention

60. He complains to you of poverty he endured
That weighed down his heart with sorrows that reside and settle

61. A poverty that pitched its tents over his dependents
And in its midst, I said to his sword "what is born?"

62. Send upon it from your bounty, a raid
That would disperse its army and shatter it

63. And pour upon me seas of your generous boons
Until the envious dies of his envy

64. You remain hoped for in every glorious matter
Building the edifices of supremacy and height

65. And you - may Allah's prayers be upon you after Muhammad
As long as your mention in the land is recited

66. And the Family - as long as the Najdi winds blow
Passionately devoted to your memory

67. This gift, so stop O camel-driver
For it I lost my senses and sleep

68. And withhold your camels, singing
Why should tears flow like a valley's torrent?

69. And recount to the love-struck, tales of past passion
Who became intimacy's companion and confidante

70. Beware of the valley of trouble, and beware
The foothills, abode of lions

71. And I ransom the Babylonian charmer
Whose beauty's departure clad all in mourning

72. A gazelle from the Turks, its posture a branch
That mocks the posture of the swaying bamboo

73. When I parted from him, I parted with my heart
As if they had an appointment to meet

74. How much torment for his love have I endured
That I embedded fiery coals in every inanimate thing

75. I have suffered from his estrangement and distance
And the aroma of blame within it, going and returning

76. O my reproacher! Cease blaming, I know
My wrong in passion, and my right guidance

77. Leave me be, and let me have my way
Or be my aid, the mount is worthier of aid

78. The vicissitudes of fate that oppress my side
And come between me and my desire suffice me

79. How I complain of the injustice of time, but see
No one to support me against time's oppression

80. Until fortune called me: do not yield, and be
Under the protection of the loyal, and call upon the beloved of the beloved

81. The exemplary master, the distinguished chosen one
Sanctuary of the spurned, and the pilgrims' Kaaba

82. The King, Sword of the Faith, superior to
Every sword unsheathed against the enemies on a day of carnage

83. A lion whose opponents, when war approaches
Are terrified whites and scattering sparks

84. A generosity that makes the sea wish to recount it
With might that melts the whites in the scabbards

85. A King who raised the banners of pride with an ambition
That lifted him above the celestial sphere

86. He surpassed the deeds of past predecessors
In every matter, long of repute and glory

87. And they inherited the legacy of glory from their fathers
And the inheritance of fathers belongs to the children

88. And they attained the most noble seat of glory
And ascended, above the constellation Al-Jawza, the highest summit

89. Informing of long hopes, and inheriting
Ancient glory, and shelter of archers

90. Unveiling swords that do not sheathe
In anything but skulls and inner organs

91. You possess, in resolve, independence from wealthy swords
So leave the swords resting in their sheaths

92. Of what use is my deficient praise, saying
Your merits are endless seas and summits?

93. Your mention remained my companion wherever
I ascended in the ruins and valley

94. So boast over a people who passed away, having nothing
In pride but precedence in birth

95. And listen to the lament of a sincere lover
And captive of poverty, having no redeemer

96. A servant fate stepped over
And the days oppressed, returning to afflict me

97. Staying with you was not out of boredom or dislike
Does the heart weary of sweet water, O hunter?

98. Rather, my longing to pursue knowledge and attain it
Prolonged, as did my study

99. Would my time be pleasant when I do not
Spur in the pure arena of knowledge my steed?

100. My Master, I came to your door as a visitor
And the generous rewards the devoted visitor

101. I rode from my resolve toward you, a doctrine
And made your remembrance, in desolation, my provision

102. I left the kingdoms of the land from a hand
That made you my destination and desire

103. And I folded toward you every obscure darkness
From the heat of hearts and evident harm

104. I came to your noble presence when
Fate turned against me and distanced me

105. I reached it while ill fate weakened my hand
But good fortune strengthened my limbs

106. I found solace from my family and homeland in it
For wherever you were in the lands, there was my homeland

107. And the turns of fate gained security from me when
Your armies rose to aid me

108. You granted me success, and how many boons in it
Adorning the necks of all creation, and hands

109. Thank you Abu Hassan for your bounties which
My loyal friend envied and grudged

110. Ways of grace from you never deviated
From the ways of fathers and forefathers

111. And the beauty of your view of me, O you whose
Opinions are always coupled with wisdom

112. And an unmarried maiden enamored with a handsome youth
So Al-Walid lusted, and Ziyad's deficiency was evident

113. And may your Lord's peace be upon you always
And His prayers upon the guiding Prophet