1. If the sun above has a path for the one who seeks,
A soaring spirit will rise above worries.

2. So seek beyond what you have attained,
And ask for more of what you have gained and threw.

3. Perfection has left no flaw in you,
Of which it can be said "I wish this flaw was gone!"

4. Except for immortality - so become immortal
However you wish, despite whoever resents.

5. Fold time and unfold it,
While you remain a new speaker yet old.

6. Get some of your kingdom freely,
With its excess flowing back to you.

7. Impregnable, whose sequence
Has no crevice confused or crack broken.

8. How enemies seek faults in you
While fangs wear out and pebbles do not grind.

9. They think a stumble what the watcher
Of stars' stumbles sees in the dark.

10. Rubbish of night whose lightning laughed at
The truth of dawn and whoever slept, dreamt.

11. God has known the goodness of His creation through you
So He decreed what He knew.

12. And the kingdom, since you took it, knows who
Opens its gates for it and who shuts.

13. How you pleased its child in youth
And sprayed its elder with dignity in old age.

14. One day an equal sharing himself
In all hardships, another day you are the pillar.

15. And a bird of diverse views gone
Lost in wilderness, you drove the wolf from the sheep.

16. You sent your strategy to its edges
To gather it from its corners until it came together.

17. None provoked you to share rule
Not even the full moon - had it consulted, it would not have reached perfection.

18. And a dissenter severing the rope of allegiance
Who consulted a rising eastern star.

19. You bent his staff and split it
And he knew not with which palm it would be spliced.

20. The glory of religion rose from its supporters
Like rising eagles and roaring lions.

21. He claimed he would not return without fulfilling his goal
Had you not been, he would have been truthful in his claim.

22. You went against him with a silent army
As if you met him without rising.

23. Leading a beautiful-faced bay, her face
Was never seen ugly, never stubborn in battle.

24. She impersonates people in what she has polished
Of perfect brown and white and reddish hide.

25. The water of her whiteness and blackness drips
Signaling that tomorrow blood will drip.

26. And perfectly straight though her sire crooked,
She stands in the paths of turmoil upon slices.

27. You have trained her for war, she does not panic
Like vessels of butter from the striking of minted coins.

28. And you cunningly entangled the battle's legs
Grasping it with the legs of words.

29. You stripped away from yourself for it a cutter
On the day of reckoning that kills the rival's horn.

30. The people of war said, and you wrote it,
It leaned to the sword in loyalty to the pen.

31. Indeed the gifts you were gifted recently
Were great and plentiful beyond wishes.

32. No graceful neck has longed for its like,
Nor has any nose smelled its scent.

33. Are they robes of honor upon you or gifts
You gifted to gardens from rain?

34. Or were they minted and studded from your bounty
With the jewel of manners from you and excellence?

35. Ministers before were pleased with less
Than what followers gained from you and servants.

36. They would thank whatever clothes covered them
If bestowed, and whatever mounts if honored.

37. They were not qualified for what you built as a seat
For them, or what you served or sealed.

38. They never drew out pearls as an aunt's inheritance
Nor pulled the train of a judge's gown.

39. Their steeds' feet never walked with anklets
And necklaces dangling from their necks and temples.

40. You bridled for them a trained cross-girded
Mare fully equipped and evenly balanced.

41. The crop of sabers used to be harvested for it
But you have now left it to reap the harvest of the vast sea.

42. Blessings have been endowed through you in their stead
And a group you have erred in bestowing blessings.

43. Glory has tied you without contention
Wealth shared and virtues not usurped.

44. Of an essence unspoiled by the arrogance of rule
And reverence of nations.

45. O reviver of the dead through his grace
Why is my share singled out for stoning?

46. You have awakened the sustenance of all
While my sustenance sleeps and hoping in you does not sleep.

47. Some people say as I describe my state to them
And they perceive me as modest.

48. The pride of rule comes first then the overwhelming
Of night recedes when dawn arrives.

49. So I said I had complained of it earlier
If it had fulfilled, it would have been kind and merciful.

50. It had seen my state before its travel
As raw flesh as you now see it skinned.

51. But I asked it for more so it said to me
"Their adviser - if you ask for more, no doubt

52. Reproach is a sin". I said "I repent"
On condition repentance is abandonment and regret".