1. O moon that rises calmly
Swords gleam upon your eyelids

2. Your beauty increases every day
While my body wastes away and withers

3. Illness knows not the way to my body
But he whom I love points the way

4. He averts his Turkish gaze from me
You speak true, narrowed eyes are stingy

5. When his tresses are let loose upon him
You'd see water cascading over him like shade

6. And the morn of his cheek may guide some
Lost in the night of his hair, gone astray

7. O king of hearts, you conquered them
But your conquest of subjects is not lawful

8. A little union satisfies them, but if not
A downpour of you upon them they seek

9. Pass the wine cup to the regretful
For in your cheeks I find solace and sweetness

10. My fires, without you, cannot be quenched
And my passions, without you, are not fulfilled

11. With your wondrous visage, you lead astray
While I have a king, by his reign, am led

12. Abu Al-Fath Al-Karim, refined Musa
A man who gives plenty and values little

13. By him, the barrens of earth grew verdant
So what place is there, in any land, like his?

14. On his throne, more precious than Solomon
And people of the world but ants to him

15. Others fill purse upon purse
While his era is bounty and justice

16. They said hoarding wealth is wisdom
He said: Yes, and some wisdom is ignorance

17. None criticizes him but destitute mounts
That flock to his doors from trails and roads

18. He rules lands both vast and confined
And whatever contends with it, abased

19. When his armies march forth, expanding
Grief and plains are straitened before them

20. Their lightning blinds the eye of the sun
And their dust is kohl to the eye of the sun

21. For our master the Caliph he is resolute
Steel that wavers not, nor ever falters

22. He contemplated archery, and from him, an arrow
True, that strays not, nor does it slip

23. He opened it, and corresponded with it intimately
And narrated the tale, such is his merit

24. So this bounty increased, and endured
For he is most deserving of good