1. I have not indulged in praise or flirtation,
Nor have I wavered between passion and humiliation,

2. I have not described a cup, nor wept over an abode,
I have not claimed glory or dressed with affectation,

3. So there was no room left in my heart for your praise
Where memories of a beloved and home might wander.

4. I saw you while eyes around you were downcast
So I said: "Is that Abu Hafs or is it Ali?"

5. And I lowered my sadness for the glory of a nation
You saved when misfortune climbed and took hold,

6. You rose with it in blessing from the best of dawns
And for its triumph you were like Ibn Muqbil’s wine cup.

7. You unsheathed for the youths a sword of resolve
With two edges: Quranic signs, a revelation descended!

8. With it you erased in religion every misguidance
And affirmed what no one astray could make firm.

9. If jurisprudence is blessed by an exceptional one through you,
Islam is blessed by the best one through you!

10. No one has untied tangled problems with wisdom
But you, no one more fitting for each twisted turn!