1. Your side is an impregnable fortress for the exalted,
And your mention is a worldly and religious bliss.

2. The least of your goals is safe,
And both your comforts are blessed by it.

3. Time stood in awe of you as the leader of justice,
So wars clung to you, yielding.

4. A sword that fate drew only
To know who would be loyal and who would betray.

5. The elegance of the blade is fanciful hopes,
And the firmness of its edge is inevitable death.

6. Its path is the pinnacle of all glory,
And its question is certain knowledge.

7. If you speak of it during turmoil,
Indeed, its talk amidst that is melancholy.

8. When dew relied on it, blades became unsheathed,
And if tumult witnessed it, eyelids turned yellow.

9. Yearning for the king of kings, my heart fluttered,
As sights grew weary of it.

10. Had love of him mentioned anything else,
I would say it was intoxication or madness.

11. Yearning for a king accustomed to extending a palm
That assists its Creator and seeks help from Him.

12. Firm in defending the sublime,
Almost trailing what relents.

13. Unyielding when the bold approach,
Strong when the safe herd it.

14. It flattened a lion and shone like a full moon,
As grinding stones spun around blades.

15. Spears stared at it until they weakened;
Is my family alive or lying still?

16. It looked into the privacy of everything
With a mind not disturbed by suspicions.

17. So water has no stillness on land,
Nor fire concealment in stone.

18. Kings craved it - fervently and fearfully -
For a king who is obeyed and does not obey.

19. For one with beaming fortunes openly displayed,
As if its brilliant dawn is a forehead.

20. Generous in homelands and what they contained,
Even if time was stingy with them.

21. With it, mounts and rhymes become dear
When they are insignificant to some people.

22. Father of goodness and master of all beauty,
A prayer that does not waver or lean.

23. The nights shook with your bounties,
As branches shake with fruit.

24. You brought around the simple cup of joy,
Taken by the easygoing and the gloomy.

25. So every toast is precious musk,
And every melody is excellent ambergris.

26. The vanguard of your army is obvious victory,
And the shade of your banner is clear triumph.

27. A hawk that whenever it alights on land,
Nothing remains except the chests as abode.

28. You raised over the borders a minaret of justice
That illuminated while these days are unjust.

29. If time promises the joy of something,
It is your vow or oath over it.

30. I yearn for you - ask about me and inquire of me,
For yearning’s peak is what the heartsick endure.

31. Without you, every slight downpour is devastating,
As if its daylight is a saddened heart.

32. The violent winds blew in it until
Its summits seemed like exposed bellies.

33. When you unleashed your gaze you said: A sea,
Where sight is humiliated and surrenders.

34. A mirage gleamed, so you said: Water,
With floating creatures swirling in it.

35. As if its slopes and dunes appear
In it a wave dances with two vessels.

36. While another like it except for ponds
As if its stillness is a buried corpse.

37. As if its pillars are sand dunes
Subservient to you, though it may have meteors.

38. My heir, your love is a pact with me,
As if my praises of it are an oath.

39. You aimed my words and fortified my name,
So the mighty submitted and the wolves obeyed.

40. Wealth was imagined for me, so I spoke of it,
Knowing it is among what may exist.