1. Her sadness eased, and her love and passion grew
After enduring the pangs of yearning and torment

2. Her youth poured out after holding back
When the hand of desire took the reins

3. And when the coldness of youth leaves the young man
Songs of love cease their play

4. It is the way of days that the companion of youth
Is like a dream in wakefulness or slumber

5. And time will not give you its sweet milk
Without following it with the bitterness of weaning

6. So when the ignorant night darkens and you find
No refuge from its darkness and gloom

7. Then meet the dawns of time with its full moons
And turn aside its worries as they come and go

8. With a supporter whom armies follow
And before whom armies of fear march

9. Victory flashes from the blades of his swords
And triumph flutters from the tips of his banners

10. A king whom you see other kings bow down in dread
And forced to kiss the dirt where his feet tread

11. The mighty are humbled by his mighty power
And the great are made small by his greatness

12. Fate runs its course according to his preference
Destroying at times, and at others showing clemency

13. He is gentle when at peace, fearsome when at war
Advancing or holding back like gathering clouds

14. War's lion is tormented by his piercing blades
And peace's lambs are fed at his gatherings

15. His horses' hooves thunder around his tents
And hopes gather in his encampments

16. Scenes of him standing fast as pigeons took flight
Fleeing from or bravely facing the enemy

17. Battalions of support surround him
Whether they come from front or from behind

18. How many pure abodes of victory
Clear the darkness of night with the dawn

19. The hypocrite's fraud was pierced by his sincerity
And the demon's wiles faded from his mind

20. His lofty determinations and liberating deeds
Matched the determination of the victorious to achieve their hopes

21. The lion of Hubaik the Sabre took the pride
Of his ancestors, and of his paternal uncles

22. With him the race was won, and the highest fortune
Secured from the cast of fate's arrows

23. His writings have become like an unsheathed sword
And his tongue as sharp as an Indian blade

24. Scripts that make battalions tremble whenever
They come forth from his pen to the lands

25. And his feared reputation that suffices him
In the heat of battle against the enemy host

26. Scenes where he faced the pigeons in combat
Sometimes fleeing, sometimes showing valour

27. Fully armed where the coward approaches lightly
Veiled except for his eyes above his face-cover

28. While his supporting troops watch closely
Whether they come at him from front or behind

29. How often the victorious had noble stands
Where dawn dispelled the darkness of night

30. The hypocrite's fraud was blunted by his sincerity
And the demon's wiles faded from his mind

31. His lofty goals and liberating zeal
Matched the determination of the victorious to attain their hopes

32. The lion of Hubaik took up his sword
Adorned with its decorated scabbard

33. He divided favour and calamity with justice
And did not accept the rule of tyranny in his laws

34. So he rages fiercely when resolved on war
And aims true when the clouds gather

35. War's lion is tormented by his stabs
And peace's lambs are fed at his feasts

36. Horses mill around his tent poles
And hopes gather in his encampments

37. A sanctuary wherein he established the pillars of munificence
Between its corners and his standing place

38. He pastures the flocks of good opinion on his meadows
And fattens them on the plants of his bounty

39. I have no fault to find with time
Now that Badr bin Rizik is its noble star

40. Time persisted in its course
Until I was able to forgive its misdeeds

41. From the moment I comprehended greed
I rejected it, and understood the meaning of generosity from his gifts

42. I aspired to the farthest reach of wealth, and attained it
And served when I entered into his service

43. And I was certain that the turns of nights and days
Would not find me shirking in my duties to him

44. And sublime honour beyond what I had hoped for in my striving
For his patronage came to me

45. The least of my words to him suffice
To proclaim the needy man's want for their completion

46.
And quenched the thirst of poetic fortune after its drought

47. And cured the illness of panegyric after its sickness
And I gained from him the pinnacle of that glory

48. That transcends all glories in its loftiness
So I saw the Lord of the Kingdom when I saw him

49. And heard the refined words he spoke
"O knight of Islam," calls out a servant

50. Whom existence had erased through neglect
You were delighted in Rajab by the arrival