1. Achieve your goal of might and firm control
And seek your fortune in this world and faith

2. Empty yourself for your affair of valor and generosity
A severe grip and bounty beyond measure

3. Set your enemies about to what torments their hearts
Enough for them, enough for me, enough for you

4. Vie with the star in its high orbit
Your worth is neither low nor mean

5. Make your life for me a secret joy
If you do so my lot is not denied

6. Incline yourself to praise both near and far
For it is the trait of the Hamdan clan

7. The guarantors of their word though some men
Degrade it, with no guarantee or measure

8. The judges of what they desire if some men
Demean it, rejected and dishonored

9. Moons of beauty and kindness, lords who bought evil
And a grieving ally of hopes and security

10. What you wish in peace of patience and generosity
And in the fury of war like madmen

11. Success is not purified for one who tests
Until it has a share of gentleness

12. Of the archers they loosed each day clamor
For each archer gallops over the hissing of arrows

13. Their father's bows prevailed when he unleashed them
With every twisted branch of the lofty concealed

14. Rabia the Qurashi, sublime in his ambition
From him to lineage associated with the stars

15. From Kulayb they exemplified every honor
Slaying kings and giving life to the wretched

16. When his brother Adi rose there
On the day of calamity in weakness but no disgrace

17. A life of sincerity and a death in the path of generosity
O soul of every generous one, be thus

18. How many a father, were it not for his noble origin
Goodness would not be found innate in the delightful