1. The blamer blames the lover unjustly,
While my heart and his heart are distracted.

2. He has always found fault with me because
I pine for love while he lacks it.

3. I roam freely for love, safe and sound,
While he flows with youth, secure.

4. My advisor knows not what is within me,
And an advisor without knowledge brings loss.

5. Leave off, O companion, blaming a passionate lover,
And one afflicted by the agonies of passion.

6. Do not fault one who does not fear
The blame of the critic in the path of love.

7. Do not think that love has left my heart,
For it is a trait, as you know, suited to me.

8. My heart has a pledge and passion
That have ruined it without a companion or lover.

9. The fire of my love, its smoke is in my pallor,
And my heart is aflame while my face is ashen.

10. I concealed my love but my blood betrayed it -
Explain what is between one who reveals and one who hides!

11. One struck by the arrows of misery,
His love does not leave his soul.

12. The white, piercing eyelids have a whiteness
That has not ceased to be piercing.

13. And in the valley of torment, startled gazelles
Whose glances are adorned with kohl.

14. And in myself, wearing darkness over suffering,
My tortured heart confused.

15. So the passion's fever rid the dwellers of the ruins,
While the fever of patience immunized those of noble traits.

16. Bewitching are his eyes, and the place between his eyes,
And I stay up nightlong, desirous, sleepless.

17. The phantom brought me his apparition while he slept,
And came to me while I was awake and he slept.

18. Be fair - have you ever seen an oppressed one
Whose love was ended by the love of an oppressor?

19. Good fortune, while the beloved avoids me,
Is eager, while the envious hates me against his will.

20. May God water our life which flows together,
And may God shepherd our old covenant.

21. When the days of youth were like my state,
And it was like the dreams of a dreamer.

22. So the nights of Iraq are white like the white
Of protected gazelles, desired.

23. My times are favorable and my companion
In love is fortunate, and my fate is peaceful.

24. The caller of wishes responds to me,
And the questioner of success is my boon companion.

25. Of the generous, each boon companion
Whom I do not regret as time passes.

26. We lost no joy except sorrow guided us -
Every guide to what the worries demolished.

27. By that noble one, my homelands
Are like the most precious gains.

28. The attainment of hopes by nobility
And the comfort of worries happily obtained.

29. Its sun shone upon us, my father Nasr's aid,
And the emblems of the highest glory were completed through him.

30. With resolution he attains every request -
By my life, how many resolute ones desired the resolute!

31. The words of Judge and the opinion of Qays,
And the stepping forth of Ali and the generosity of Ka'b and Hatim.

32. His palm distributed treasures ungrudgingly
To the needy, destroying wealth through treasures.

33. It gave good tidings to people seeking refuge
Of lasting goodness and lasting triumph.

34. A brilliant rising, a clear beginning,
A long arm, an open palm, and a smiling mouth.

35. Abundant gifts, a torrent of hands,
And excellent qualities and pure determinations.

36. His palms guaranteed the fulfillment of hopes
And the establishment of aspirations, lasting.

37. In piety he has the legacy of the devout -
His excellent qualities are far from all blame.

38. No gardens bloomed with agreeable qualities
Whose plants were adorned with agreeable qualities.

39. Their scattering lights outshone
And illuminated the darkest of clouds.

40. Like necklaces hanging, with hearts
Of passion, branches, and doves.

41. With the song of leaves the boughs trill
And the doves' lament is a funeral dirge.

42. Among the excellent qualities of the victorious are more wondrous
And their beautiful deeds are most generous.

43. The Sunna of law and the religion of guidance
And the state of Hashim stand straight through them.

44. The celestial sphere of opinion stands among their resolute ones,
The kings among them by the foundations of kingship.

45. They have shown clemency and pardoning
Until they established sanctity for sinners.

46. How the eyes of nights had wept and now
Today they smile with laughter!

47. By the sun of the world, through my father Nasr's aid
The darkness of oppressions was dispelled from us.

48. Possessing attainment for each respected attainer
And cure for the hopes of the hopeful, lasting.

49. May you be ransomed, O victorious ones, by an obedient one
Whose order no order could disobey.

50. He who erased the exemplary practices of good
And has not ceased to treat alike the equal.

51. How many wicked ones repelled! How many ambushes set!
In hellfire and ungrateful, attacking me!

52. O son of one whose rule was most excellent over people
And who summoned to account those hoping from his wealth!

53. I wander freely, composing your praise in lofty verses,
And capturing the patterns of eulogy in verse.

54. Without falling short for one seeking to know you,
For the destitute in their destitution are humbled.

55. Every hopeful in you remains successful
In sincerity of hopes - while any fault-finder is repelled.

56. Through loyalty is strength for the loyal,
And through defenders, the rising of the loyal.