1. If you knew my inner thoughts and feelings
You would not be affected except by what happens in my life

2. But your heart did not ignite from the fire of my heart
Nor from the sparks of my burning soul

3. Sometimes I think of leaving but I am held back
By feelings for you in my heart and mind

4. And an image and words from you that did not disappear
Since you were a delight to my hearing and vision

5. O you, with longing that carries me
To be faithful to the heir of the treacherous covenant

6. What is it with your glances that you cast at me
And made me drink then did not let me quench my thirst

7. What is it with your lips that did not smile
In the darkness of your branches to guide the lost traveler

8. What is it with my days that with them I became
Perplexed, multiplying my fifths with tenths

9. They shortened what was long for me and amazed me
That my arms in them became like my fingers

10. I swore by the inhabited house, its corners
Filled with pilgrims and builders

11. You took on a matter that the fathers of knights cannot undertake
Neither Bedouins nor settlers

12. You are the one around whom Islam ties its belt
In every income and expenditure

13. How many positions you have of heroism and generosity
Where the kingdom was purified through you after turbidity

14. You did not accept an advisor to consult
Other than the sincere advisors of sword and dinar

15. Shawir never disappeared from the garment you wore
As the cub protects the lair of the vicious hyena

16. You prevented the scheming of men to be completed
What they secretly plotted of deceit and harm

17. You collared them with the collar of benevolence, so when they rebelled
You collared them with the ruling of the stern west with loss

18. How soon they took loans from you with what they paid
Promptly without procrastination or delay

19. In the period of pregnancy you grasped their crime
Against your ascendancy by taking the kingdom and revenge

20. If you left the ministry it would have returned
To you willingly without compulsion

21. But we saw you in the first and second
Take the kingdom only forcefully like a conqueror

22. If people cling to its guardianship
You release it from an undesirable husband

23. Those who propose marriage to it do not extend a hand
Except you break the mighty sword upon it

24. We have not known a minister before your state
Who returned a face that was denied after rejection

25. The days will apologize to you
When this incident passes away

26. O father of knights, my love for your state
Does not fear so it needs my clarification and manifestation

27. I love Shawir sincerely and his family
And is there any restoration among you other than Amr?

28. I praise you since no one could
Speak out of fear of shortcoming and failure

29. So how can I complain about the nights while they are proceeding
With what you want of benefit and harm

30. Fate was not satisfied that poetry is a mark for me
I prepare it from the marks of deficiency and shame

31. Until it was jealous of my abundance and made it
Torn between the hands of raiders and fire

32. And the looting and burning destroyed what disasters left me
Of money and house

33. I resist anguish in my heart but it overcomes me
What you wish of loss of homelands and dwellings

34. My master, the prayer of a servant who never
Ceased to dedicate praise to you from help and virginity

35. Protect the water of my face from those unsuited for me
For the free man only has the help of the noble

36. And recommend, O viceroy, my guarantor, good for me forever
For I have the sanctity of guest and neighbor

37. And consider the abundance of poems I praised with
Nothing satisfies you among them but my poems

38. Poems, if I praised the planets with them
Would only flow with my intention and preference

39. Do not abandon them, for this is the time of their need
For victory, O best supporters and helpers

40. So make your hand a stranger with no equal
In bestowing kindness, a stranger in merit and abode

41. And I do not ask, O father of knights, for your favors that preceded
Except food and housing

42. And what excuse when your pen has become
One that flows in obedience controlling fate