1. If reproach availed in this age, I would reproach it while it babbles
We kneaded dough over it and asked for its form

2. If he who asked for long life were answered
An era for loved ones whose abodes we love

3. Because of them it is as if they are loved ones
When we made their dust in the eyes dust

4. No dust remained in those meadows
After multitudes of tears flowed for them, tears and streams flowed for them

5. O meadow, time has marred you and Zainab and Rabab have often adorned your terraces
Days when the dust is gathered when maidens with ornaments walked in your skirts

6. Like suns over the backs of gazelles they disappear from you when the raven cries
Their affection is not lasting with one step if wealth and youth do not last for you

7. Leave their love for they are fleeting
And their words are deceitful and fraudulent

8. And if you seek something from time with the sword, craving will not torment you
Kingdoms, their faces are only protected by spears and blows

9. And glory is what the glorious one has raised with his sword
After time has passed with it the eras

10. His rage was kindled against his people so it regained for them
Kingdoms and kings - wrath

11. And it restored the glory of the sons of Kilab after
The vicious Kilab were stripped of glory

12. They witnessed to the favor of his father, so the necks
Of the vanquished armies confessed his favor

13. And the clan was sure that he is
Victory for it in adversities and bending

14. They slept while his eye was awake in their glory
Until he built his lands while in ruins

15. And he pardoned the one who wronged him, and his pardon
Over power like punishment is punishment

16. And he built for them in glory a house that Zufar and Jabaw
Did not build the like, nor pegs were driven for it, nor ropes extended

17. So let them thank a king who, by him and his horse
Elders and youths of them fell

18. Praise him, for they knew the nature of others
And honey is praised when strained from the comb

19. He has granted them a livelihood that did not humiliate them
In it a food before it and a drink

20. And he fulfilled what his rage had plundered and returned it
And when are plunders ever returned from rage?

21. Had he not demanded what he had taken
The cravers would have taken it from his wealth

22. And when the generous man encompasses the corpulent, he is generous with him
Like the sea - what mastery does anything have over it?

23. Do not wonder at what you have done, for everything
You do in the two worlds is wondrous

24. You have indeed restrained from the harem and there was not
Within you an essence that the blamer blames

25. And you have veiled them from the eyes with a jealousy
That is a veil over them along with the veil, a veil

26. And you disdained to accept them as wives
While their husbands are young ragamuffins

27. Your rage gained double what they gained
Truly the generous man is triumphant and victorious

28. And you sought your revenge so you became famous and returned what
The cutting, slashing sword had taken from you

29. And you met with ambition and supremacy an ambition, so you are
The one who aspires and the fulfiller