1. With determination, every determined person rises
And no flood of worries is like determination

2. Glory is found in two places:
Either the swords of youth or the pens of elders

3. And I know people by how clever they are with worldly matters
Who look to comfort except one who looks to oblivion

4. The shame of the ignoble whom it makes wretched with hardship
And the poverty of the noble is salvation from disease

5. The wealthy man increases in worries and troubles with wealth
Like plants whose numerous spears cause more pain

6. Be whoever you want and gain a fortune you can live by
For fertility lies in the valley like on the hill

7. Fortunes are not divided by onlookers lacking wisdom
No free man is lessened by what he lacks in means

8. Nor does the noble's esteem fall due to meager fortune
The youth takes pride in plenty of spears striking him

9. And the sword takes pride in its sharpness and nicks
I praise the life I’ve lived and gratitude still stands

10. On blessings though complaints keep coming in
I sought a generous one I could lean on

11. So he singled me out with the prophet of generosity and nobility
With Majid from the Banu Shaddad he strengthened my resolve

12. And revived my wisdom which had died
He protected my face so I would not have to lower it to anyone

13. Protecting my face like protecting my blood
A lord who clothes me with his favors

14. And dressed me in the garb of generosity before all the people
And I was dead yet his gifts kept

15. Coming back to me until they mended my bones
A young man who resents those in need getting from him

16. Resentment in generosity is like blindness in discernment
Barefoot he mounts, his clothes hitched up

17. Between his sides like a barefoot man with clothes hitched
Where the mounts are red, their tongues

18. Dyed as if the saddlebags were dipped in cochineal
A king mounts the throne so he rises above all others

19. His hands more beneficial in this world than blood money
Smell his palm which gained him palms that grasped

20. Through the long years, remoteness, and estrangement
The veil from which a moon appears

21. Is better wrapped around a young man, concealed and veiled
His blessed face from which rain is sought when seen

22. And by his brilliance caravans are guided in the darkness
He protected the lands with his ink, so they became impregnable

23. And lions are impregnable wherever they lair
And he secured Syria until people were at peace

24. As if safe from the world's turmoil in a sanctuary
Praise of him echoes in nomad camps and cities

25. As names echoed among nations in generations past
From a people whose honor remained unsullied and whose

26. Roots were unsullied by foul suspicions
Smell the steeds of devoted heroes who gained

27. From swords striking the high points
The prince built them a glory not to be undone

28. When the foundations of time crumble and slide
Kings slept forgetting high ambitions while he, a youth,

29. Since having high ambitions, has not slept
Had I been fair, I'd not have come to praise him,

30. My cheek would have walked on cobblestones, not my feet
I was ignorant of the right way to approach sublimity

31. Before the prince, and ignorance is not my trait