1. My Master, this is a poem of praise from a poet
Who knows not flattery or glorification

2. Used to never recite a poem
Until all people chant it as a hymn

3. Of every rhyme with vice he crossed
Its talk crossed the Euphrates and the Nile

4. And I had left poetry for a while, forced
And abandoned it like a friend abandoned a friend

5. Not out of boredom or tiredness, but I
Became with other things preoccupied

6. Seeking sustenance and striving for it
Striving of racers, morning and evening

7. What can poetry accomplish in a time when
A pound of barley is the hardest thing to obtain

8. It is a crisis, no sooner it passes and ends
Than it stretches its hand, so it passes again

9. In you, not other, our hopes are pinned
So extend your hands and fulfill the wished

10. And the matter, I know, is among the hardest things
No matter how common and oft said

11. But the likes of you among rulers seasoned
Do not see the mighty calamity as mighty

12. Are you not resolute like the resolute whose
Resolve makes the sorrowful see plains from rough hills

13. The uncoverer of distress with determination
Of early dawn that bent the brow of time in eve

14. How many nights you stayed awake in
The stars wish to kiss their eyelids in sleep

15. You give life to their darkness working wakeful
While others in villages remain rolled in slumber

16. In service of the sacred nation unfailing
In pursuit of heights or gains unceasing

17. These are your glorious feats among us
In them the proof, for those who want proof

18. Shelters and schools you built
Entrusted in them reputations and minds

19. How many orphans spent the night bemoaning their lot
Only to find in them parents' replacement

20. And a maiden whose chastity poverty nearly touched
Seeing it as a monster, was it deterred

21. Protecting the flower of chastity, though
The most precious thing women seek is a crown

22. And if I listed your feats, it would task me
Calling it you'd gain abundant praise

23. Calling to the chaste, virtuous girls first
To the lofty, fatherhood and brotherhood

24. To the singers, through them the jewelry
To the brilliant, beauty and wisdom

25. To the inclined to learning and piety
The trailers of skirts from disgrace

26. To the gentle, charming, righteous
The disclosers on the land of dormancy

27. O girl of the East, here is an opportunity
Time was stingy to you with before

28. Rise to pursue knowledge and renew
An era of Islam that was beautiful

29. And arouse the worries of men and belie
What the rumormongers spoke of you so long

30. Knowledge is the best jewelry, so learn
For it paves the way to advancement

31. A beautiful face benefits not our country
If not paired with beautiful morals as its peer