1. A poem either intended or achieved
Respond to her - where did you find intent?

2. Do not procrastinate with her gatherings
Justifying her dark nights with stargazing

3. Distance a dear one between his journeys
For the proud star’s glory is in remoteness

4. With his heart set on the soft and tender
Through the long nights and breadth of countries

5. He comes, either explaining himself
With excuses, or making clear his wants

6. Grief spurs him so the beds of love awaken
Soft pillows and firm mattresses beckon

7. If he feels humiliation, his pride
Stirs him, and he nearly says “enough!”

8. The days would wound him if he sulked
His heart hardened like stones in a pool

9. Ambition carried him until he escaped
Alone from this multitude’s darkness

10. Turning away the last of his needs
From the thickets of death and the pliant steeds

11. He swore - no matter how his eyes beguile -
None beguile like them, even in slumber

12. He sleeps content with little, thanking
For ease, sufficing with moderation

13. He accepts from fate spontaneously
For fate is only persistent effort

14. He sleeps with injustice as his pillow
Caressing cheeks and fluffing cushions

15. If his day brought wondrous events
He says, “My enemies fled like cowards!”

16. How many compromising glory for a living
Or desiring a gift or criticized in verse!

17. How many favoring money over honor
Striving yet diminishing what they own

18. Shun the world and its people
And distance their affection through absence

19. This lowly life is only mirage
Spread by the love of corruption

20. Save for one who disdains an existence
Valued by others, himself denied

21. And a state whose banners are unfurled
In another’s name, on the mountain peaks

22. One like Abu Al-Qasim, peerless
Benefitting from his honor as he benefits

23. He gives his soul freely, as he gave
Or rules with purpose, as he ruled

24. Alas! His miracles raise banners
His uniqueness appears, a clear sign

25. The earth births not another brother for him
Barren after long laborious birth

26. God established his edifice of glory
Firmly - and God builds as He wills!

27. He stood apart from the people, so none
Could blame him except comparing him to servants

28. Dazzling in every dark gloom
A blinding flame no flint can spark

29. He hits his mark with his first guess
None can take exception or make amends

30. The powers of forbearance and anger
Retreat to places strongly fortified

31. More penetrating than his views
Are opinions prone to blame

32. He led the enemies’ spying eyes
Who, without his hand, would not be led

33. Plaiting pretenders whose demise
Was between the lines of ancient verse

34. Their bridles would come loose if unleashed
By the excellence of guiding foreheads

35. Blame dyed them in purple berry juice
Coloring them amidst the roses

36. Patience allying with one who began
By repeating all he accomplished

37. Sacrificing his being to protect glory
Too proud for life itself to ransom

38. Seeing the students of honor or its coldness
In the heat of what he drinks on days of trial

39. A courage caused by his generosity
For the lad shows courage when he gives

40. O rider of ambitions - no journey
Satisfied them, nor songs of the dove

41. The high-reaching deemed them pure white
Clothed in mourning over a dark body

42. They twist not from thirst, while the earth
Burns with passion and the steeds pant

43. Spurred by one like him, rightly guiding
Though the pony may slip when calm

44. Riding easily in smooth plain, little pebbles
Lush meadow, grazing hillside forever

45. You have conveyed my best, excellently
Though the loop of fate tightened around him

46. Tell the minister: without you, again
The wolves of adversity gnaw my bones

47. And greed with its brood returned
When generosity loosed its grip on me

48. The dew diminished after you, O its sea!
And appeared, since you built with integrity

49. A dusty air you had verdant
So usury and swamps sprawled

50. A religion of justice, its code erased
Which you legislated after its absence

51. And a tradition of glory, undermined -
You supported its pillars and foundation

52. Neglected words, rarely uttered
Your praise dispersed after dormancy

53. Its reward will be fully returned
Before you, alive, not the Day of Reward

54. You knew him while people, out of envy
Or ignorance, blamed or criticized him

55. You left me lonesome - but did not deprive
Me of the tunes of your bounty and favor

56. The rein of command slipped from the hand
Of the shepherd, so it stampeded uncontrolled

57. The assembly and minbar - untenanted -
Bare saddle, reins severed, torn carpet

58. The holder grabbed its edges
With both hands clasping, unrelenting

59. As if the crow of ruin cried
In it after flocking and scattering

60. The head despaired of its crown
The shoulder denied the absence of its wrap

61. The face of Baghdad, despite its beauty
Is bleak, ashamed, donning a veil

62. It had been a protected harem
Now a home of struggle and trial

63. In every house, a widow wails
Fearfully, and groaning repeats

64. How not, when accustomed to security
But time surprises with abandonment

65. O beginner of kindness amongst us, return
For the moon, when it passes, returns

66. Arise - not weakened is your resolve
Nor diminished, save gaining strength

67. Hasten - fell the arrogance of tyrants
And heads that ripened for reaping

68. The enemy thinks it extinguished
Though your ember is under the ashes

69. Blame not the days for their frailty
Give them breadth with pardon and trust

70. Reveal not hearts that harbor
Grudges of killer or opponent

71. For however much good you show it
It only improves after corruption

72. I am the one whom time returned by your hands
After pulling me with you and propping me

73. The enemies coveted me
Until you were sweet morsels and scorn to them

74. You rectified my state and living
By my seeking your shade and care

75. God did not forget for you elevation
However much you increased my tools and goods

76. A favor whose burden you weighed my shoulders
Though it was a helping hand

77. How many detractors bruised my back
In thanking you! And enviers in praising you!

78. And deniers of my loyalty to you
Accusing me of error and dependence!

79. The mistaken has only my wrath
And the deviant only my assault

80. But constants toward you
Of pure thought and flexible principles

81. Mixing duty’s obligation in praising you
With the sincerity of affection and love

82. Honoring in you the covenants of brilliance
As dalliance honors the vows of gazelles

83. Rarely considering your hands
From afar as they were considered in nearness

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