1. Do you think my love and melancholy
Have retreated since I started avoiding you?

2. That separation has brought me solace
Whose cold soothes the heat of my inflammation?

3. That when I reached forty,
The springtime of youth turned ugly in rivalry?

4. Had the whiteness of old age not prevented me
The dawn of old age in the night of youth

5. And days that in every moment
Have sins too grave for reproach

6. I spend them and they count from my life
Though I’ve wasted them without heed

7. Their worries pour and the torrent buries
When the rains of spring feed it

8. If I fix them, they spoil, as if I
Call them to the palms of ruin

9. Lands that never cease to help
Join me with hands like paws

10. As if fate rejoices to see me
Restless throughout the journey

11. As if fate only rejoices when
My face pours tears searching for water

12. And how can that be easy for a soul
That fears disgrace from the clouds' favor?

13. How much heat considers cold honey
So it pains with the taste of torment?

14. The clan of Ruzayq came between me
And fate with pleasing, acceptable favors

15. I left estrangement though I had been
Yearning to embark on estrangement

16. I visited more special than Ghassan
A stranger in an abode of no return

17. Were it not for the righteous restoration of rhymes
Virtue had been to avoid meter

18. I was one who abandoned mirage for water
And my choice did not flutter or fail

19. Thanks be to God, my effort never
Faltered toward Egypt or chose wrong

20. But I visited Ablaj's called
Whose ruin the hope of glory rebuilt

21. He removed his veil and my eyes
Saw him veiled in majesty

22. His kindness brought me near but
Awe kept me distant when approaching

23. He taught me concise praise for him
Perpetual generosities concise

24. More rewarding and more thanked
Such is his custom and mine

25. I divided the shared glories of your glory
In two sorts of sort and pour

26. So half in blinking eyelids
And half in lids like answers

27. When you decided to rise high
And people treasured your worth in discourse

28. You established the victorious reviver, and revived
Ways that had been in ruin

29. And spread justice in the world, so it became
A flock of sheep friendly with wolves

30. You are a true celestial flame and he is to it
Like the glow is to the flame

31. His efforts in generosity and warfollowed yours
And he was raised on your noble qualities

32. So he became the exemplar of both creeds when
He contained the honor of ancestry and merit

33. And protected the kingdom from resolute badrs
With the auspicious early dawn and the riders

34. The best that in every border
The chief of the tribe, the domed encampment

35. Feared in war and peace, unique in the sword
Whose sharpness is feared even sheathed

36. If summoned to glorious endeavors
No glory or help but his betides

37. And if his hands sparked the fire of war
Victory sparked a spark not dying

38. The sword of the deceased victor, whenever
The whites of swords rose from their scabbards

39. And the plateau of his might and glory that spurns
Your climbing its summit between the plateaus

40. Have you not seen the house of Ruzayq restore
The faces of glory unveiled?

41. Kings they became, in peace and war,
Succors of refuge and lions of thickets

42. They rose with the righteous guiding one over those
Who walked in their time on the earth

43. They ascended with the most singular
Though kin shared ancestry and tie

44. The wing of his favor spread over them
And his glory soared over high aims

45. Guardian of imams the Quran praises
In its clear verses and ayahs

46. He answered their call when the mute failed response
And their order grew firm after confusion

47. His tongue was sharp yet he sheathed it from them
So their meadow became the buzzing of flies

48. A fighter each day or disputant
He counts them for sermons or speeches

49. He consulted noble, patient resolve
In the struggle, and wisely accountable

50. He implemented his rule though fate declined
And fulfilled his decree though the sword rebelled

51. He persisted in pounding the door of might until
Opening every door was the conquest

52. And sent them as lancers
Pouring from ponds onto the watering places

53. Showing you the land as a sea of iron
Great of wave, tumultuous of foam

54. If battalions marched in night darkness
They marched with stars blue like armor

55. When the war fire was lit, they were only
Shadows of eagles or eagles

56. With them he humbled the kings of idols, a king
Who vanquishes the hardy Nubians

57. Fearsome of might, abundant in gifts
Full of reward and punishment

58. You see the angels before him images
Of awe, heads bowed in reverence

59. When the forearms tire of drawing swords
The glory of the wise king appears

60. I leaned toward staying in their precincts
And leaned toward nothing but right

61. The Euphrates' water is no haven for me
Nor the folds of Tigris any peace

62. And when I found no requital for you
But fair thanks and praise

63. I redeemed the jewels of words for you
With raised prayers sure to be answered