1. Your resolve in matters witnessed by mosques
And your blessed ambition is witness

2. The success of your efforts in governance bore fruit
Among the people, so what can the denier say?

3. What do the envious plot, and what might
They conceal, yet your good name remains evident

4. The eyelids of others sleep, ignorant
Of high ranks, while your eyelid remains awake

5. Until you gathered from the pottery ranks
Proving you as one of highest honors

6. You witnessed what time did to a mosque
Ruin befell it as the worshipper fled

7. As if a raven were its caller to prayer
And a widow its prostrating worshipper

8. Lamenting the cracking of his heart from its abandonment
Saying "Why have the emigrants grown distant?"

9. You answered him and mended his heart
While many before you were aloof

10. And you gathered its congregation at all times
With worshippers, and its reward is yours

11. You attributed it to the Praiseworthy, what an
Attribution bearing witness you are one who praises

12. Its completion restored the finest mosque
Time passes, yet your name in it remains eternal