1. You hastened to alight in it the travelers
I wished its effects safety upon you the worries

2. And guided it crooked like the bow
Among the lost the beasts fight fiercely

3. As Al-Shaddeny assumed yearning
With bellies shrinking and markets declining

4. Ships not fearing the high seas
Nor the night visitor ascending high

5. Relieve me as hardship has afflicted me
Branded with needs that will not be fulfilled

6. And by your generosity there will be
For a head sensibleness and for a foot strength

7. And glory if glory was the stranger
You will meet with him alive lawful

8. Or else describe my state and say
That fate is below the fulfillment of the soul's wishes

9. O gatherer who separated the eyelids
Were companions that became bored

10. Disputes arose in it the countries
And Baghdad has a debt upon you

11. Weakened to bear prolonging
In it and its people is honor

12. The governors did it injustice and degradation
Hasten to reform a people you see

13. Among their affairs disorder and imbalance
Herds who prolonged the sleep of the shepherds

14. From their guidance so they were lost
Save with your justice their lifelines

15. The fire left only the ashes
Seedlings of your first beneficence

16. With your kindness they were given life and shade
And since you never ceased to send graces

17. Distributing among them and spreading gifts
And you heed for them the sanctity of mixing

18. With them and visiting them and connection
Slaves while you in loyalty

19. Deem them uncles and aunts
An abode of bliss for you but an assembly

20. You slaughtered houses not separation
Pastures frequented by the hunters

21. They hunted its gazelles and fawn
Kings perished in love of it

22. And a son killed his father for it in war
Do you not long for the melody of love where it was good

23. And the place of growth of the branch of love where it lengthened
Is it not time for an emigrant to yearn

24. And for the connected to be humbled for reunion
After you it denied its beauty

25. And its condition changed from good to bad
It was far from events

26. So time took from it and attained
Heal it with your nearness from its disease

27. Remedy even if the disease is stubborn
And belie despite your envious enemies

28. Tales they assume impossible from it
And censurers of inability of governors over it

29. Rejection from it and neglect
Making equal in might both hands

30. Forgetting the favor of the right over the left
They thought you aware of Iraq's burden

31. As if they did not see you carry mountains
And you brought down the impenetrable fortresses

32. Unreachable by it and not domineered by war
How many times the turns of time

33. Afflicted it before so it was burdensome
If heaven was not high in elevation

34. Your booty from it would not be crescent
You went to it so you were intimate

35. To it and to its full moon father glory
New to trials, young to encounters

36. Wars did not make him frequently travel
And he admired the number that increased him

37. The next morning assuming defeat a calamity
He saw your war kindle fire so he sought

38. A crowd to extinguish it and celebration
He did not know confused

39. That by the fuel it increases inflammation
You sent swords so if time stumbled

40. I came to it submissive so it rose
So you healed it from the illness of disobedience

41. And taught it patience and endurance
And you changed from rings of armor

42. Light sandals the heavy rings
So he shortened his pace reluctantly

43. A consequence of yesterday's affliction
His legs grieve, his hands benefit

44. When raising the thread, unsuccessful
And frightened of the treasures of time

45. The long years dragged over it
And the truth entrusted them to a guardian

46. Who secured what he could, striving and ascending
He appointed the planets its guards

47. Eyes for Him not fearing assassination
And he sold himself and souls for it

48. A time so he cheapened and became expensive
A pain established in the throats of kings

49. When they are forbearing they see it a specter
Until you sent a sign for it

50. Your guidance eliminated misguidance in it
And taught the stingy one generosity

51. And beautified reliance for the toiler
So people did not fortify after it

52. Destination or hoard any money
And being in Baghdad one hopeful

53. And deterring regarding you so or more
And a thirsty one his mouth gaping

54. Observing your valley from where it flowed
Counting the day by its hours

55. Asking the morning and afternoon about you
And the likes of me from a dormant servant

56. Even if the star reached high in merit
And a collector of the good traits

57. While poverty vilified those traits
Perhaps you revive the faded fortunes

58. And fatten these emaciated bodies
Praise with the generous vanished

59. No words meaning no actions
Their questioned one still devoid

60. And you refrain until our eyes are devoid
I was silent for long until I found

61. A position I utter in it speech
A tongue a sword but no blade

62. If a sword melted, it would melt dissolving
It prepared to describe you its verses

63. To show purity for it and careful selection
And presented this future

64. Resemblance praising you and yearning
They crowd around you the delegation of praise

65. Even if attainment was lacking in the crowding
So do not let the multitude of visitors

66. For it a respite and upon it weakness
For who was peerless in time

67. The people upon him were dependents