1. God gave him feet that brought him
To heights beyond ambitious minds

2. He traversed the path seeking glory until he attained it
While his brethren remained in the dark with their stars

3. He took dangerous risks upon himself
Plunging ahead or able to rein himself in

4. Time tests him while he remains a bird
Competing against fate with his onslaught

5. Yet he sits chaste and content
With the ample provisions he has stored in his mouth

6. No sweetness in his face has diminished
Nor has the question of begging made him deaf

7. He hurts for every drop that drips
From his water as if it were his blood

8. People's natures have been colored by him
So his gray hair and sorrows have molded him

9. He tested people so if you bargain with him
For his brotherly affection he will feel ashamed

10. If he is only given sustenance by begging
Then his thankful rizq is from what is forbidden to him

11. What a name hides behind its evil
Yet the lion cannot be fooled by its smile

12. If God and resolute reason had not helped him
The arrows of correctness would not have hit their mark

13. With abundant kingdom, legacy and satisfaction
Whatever he desired, nothing would be missing

14. He rained in summer so he thought
His rain had saturated the earth completely

15. He keeps me up praising him without
Arrogance and sleeps heedless of his duties

16. His acceptance and wisdom are not straitened
But my understanding falls short of grasping him

17. Joy and generosity shine from his face
So his cheer is for me and his generosity for others

18. Yesterday I had mercy on my lot in what I missed
Of his money and today I have mercy on him

19. My friendship matches his perfectly
The full moon is born a twin unable to be separated

20. His heart wanted me close
But ideals I hold myself to kept me aloof

21. He thought and deemed his money too much for me
Calculating, while I could not afford a dirham from him

22. If there is still a connection then it is from me
Or if there is a rope of harmony let him tie it fast

23. I wish Hussein who carries me would, among them
Guide me on the clear path so I meet him

24. Make him eternal in this world and keep him for me
While others come and go or pass away

25. Or I wish he would lighten my load
For it has weighed heavily on me, his blessings

26. Loss upon loss as the pearls of Muzn broke apart
And its string snapped

27. It's as if what we gain of his wealth
Is a burden whose loss we fear and so snatch up

28. I tire of abundance so while his excellence
Builds it up, a request comes and tears it down

29. It's as if he swore never to attain wealth
So whatever he gives, his oath obliges it

30. He tied me in friendship so no creditor
Can unravel it nor can any envious one sever it

31. He does good even if I cut off
My kinship to him, it's as if our love were a womb relation

32. Melancholy gave him a towering origin
And discerning wisdom perfects it

33. He brings together every pair of opposites
Until his sword and his pen are reconciled

34. No delusion about you dims the brilliance
In you nor does any doubt about you make him suspicious

35. Rather faults that anger carps at
He vents now and then but then suppresses

36. God reveals their excellence though he hides them
As gray hair loudly proclaims its owner though he hides it

37. Hear its glorification as the singer eulogizes its splendor and proclaims it
It let fall for them the starred dusk and wept

38. From the blaze of noon its hot tears
Its lush plants vied turbulently

39. Where the stirrings of the wind murmured
Walk among them and you will smell a recognizable scent

40. The fragrance of the jasmine, pure and pungent
Witnessing for the eloquent mouth that

41. Free speech is a slave that serves it
When people see you wearing its cloak

42. Bearing it, reciting it or rendering it song
They are amazed by its form on you

43. And your description of it, ordered and from it I order my poem
Every generous, eloquent soul

44. And you surpass it in your generosity and silence it