1. My poetry, your existence, O Abu al-Abbas
Are two examples that have circulated among the people

2. The least of your generosity defeats all hostility
And the softness of my poetry melts every hardened heart

3. So if we meet, ambitious students
Will unite with stronger bonds and build on firm foundations

4. And if we part, what remains between us
Is the fragrant breath of affection’s ember

5. How many triumphs for you have unveiled
The light of hope upon the darkness of despair

6. And gestures from you in generosity have squeezed
The narrowness of worries with the relief of intimacy

7. You are the morning, so what does a hopeful care
If your brilliance is not weighed against the saw

8. And your victory is the near deliverance, even if
Some eyes still shout for the live coal

9. You have subjugated the turns of fate after writhing
And softened them after the long persistence

10. And you followed in your father’s footsteps, pelting generosity
And dodging time’s twists by being steadfast

11. Traits you have watered the clouds with as a downpour
And embers as flowers and mountains as firm roots

12. A resoluteness that does not harm it if it does not
Cut through meadows with the blade of a drawn sword

13. Well known among all noble deeds and glories
Curing their ailments and consoling them

14. They have spared me from the occurrences so they held
Me back with hands of disgrace and trials

15. Today I strip it bare, so grant me, I have not been
For its exposure, a deficient fabricator of trials

16. Abu Marwan has raised my status above it
And protected my flock, O Abu al-Abbas

17. A human exemplar of glory, they have named him as such
Not because he is people or forgetful of people

18. His glories have bent rhymes’ running course
Shaking off the bridles of its conventions

19. Where time and its people have frightened it
So it recoiled from strangeness and neglect

20. And its cheer was erased by inactivity, so it fell silent
As if it were vessels of a dark night

21. Deadened in breasts, and maybe
Restoration will return to it by constant doubts

22. Alas O Abu al-Abbas the wish of a hopeful
Of sincere conformity and excellent proportion

23. O keeper of prisoners, if my means are weak
Then preserve them among the prisoners

24. The turns of fate have toyed with me and my concerns
After my trials with them and milestones

25. Like a cup time’s turner circled round but was not
For me its periphery or tomorrow’s cup fragment

26. I call you between its ascent and nightfall
Like love between graying and bankruptcy

27. I submit to your glory or I submit, for I only
Place affection in the hand of an archer

28. And I send to you from my poetry a bride
I gained from its adornment and dress

29. She left with the beauty of roses, except she
Stood for your glories, aged as myrhh