1. Peace from the garden of peace
Specifically for you, O son of the Imam

2. It comes with the morning breeze every dawn
And flows in the evening with the clouds

3. When darkness clouds it, it flashes
The lightning of intellect in the gloom of darkness

4. To inform about a heart in you that yearns
A pillar since between you it leaned

5. And about a covenant the Master distanced Himself from
So the heart swooned for Him in passion

6. Food and drink pass him by though they are sweet
And he dislikes food and drink

7. Ready to fly in longing and desire
To you, but the pace of the doves stopped him

8. And I have a yearning like the yearning of birds
With it flew the determination of my limit and resolve

9. If I fall short then it is from lack of loyalty
And if the arrow misses, the feather is to blame

10. Whoever aspires to rise without wings
Is like one who mounts a skittish horse without reins

11. And I have no choice but to journey
To your abode shedding feathers like ostriches

12. My pride is in visiting your home
And my humility in staying in my place

13. The light of poetry has dimmed in your absence
And speech has dried up without your progeny

14. Words cannot convey meaning to us
Nor can verse flow with composition

15. After you we met an age - what an age!
And this year without you - what a year!

16. Its harm has drawn near and its benefit is far
A boon to villains and bane to the honorable

17. I fear the fever of Valencia which once
Birds used to fly from it to the dovecotes

18. And around it cavalry of Christians roamed
Though protected from you who guarded it

19. They passed securely by its outskirts
Though they were afraid of you in their dreams

20. A den is not feared without a lion
Nor are tombs frightening without a sword

21. It used not to fear turmoil within it
As if one were in the sacred precincts

22. Now to its inhabitants it gives no life
Except a life like that of doves

23. Our lord Abū Zayd who suckled us
The teat of righteousness and great bounties

24. After his departure we became like old men
Returned to the bitterness of weaning

25. He brought rain and protected the borders from enemies
May God protect him from poison and fever

26. O son of the rightly guided Caliph
And protector of our Imam best of all men

27. Yours is the old wont of gaining glory
And unraveling great tribulations

28. And raising known matters high
On firmly anchored lead ropes and clarifying affairs

29. No Qays ibn ‘Aylān whose father was
Dull in matters or imprudent

30. Perhaps the servant errs at times
So he helps him catch the hints

31. And saves him from the injustice of twists
With a smooth, gentle, controlled bridle

32. To bring me tidings of receiving the gift of a king
At which my bones acknowledge the favor of his grace

33. That I may kiss the dust of his shoes and so fulfill
Some of my hopes by kissing their dust