1. The luster of sincere advice faded in injustice,
So be upright, you are not immune from stumbling.

2. To every arrow people think is unfailing,
It will be deflected from you, except fate's arrows.

3. My heart became infatuated with a sun it never parts from,
Whether it's the setting due to separation or clouds of sleep.

4. It leaks the tears of yearning and delight and their gardens,
Rarely has the cheek been free of moisture.

5. Nothing is more ungrateful than your mischievous flirtation,
Raising what did not leaf out or lengthen.

6. The embers of passion are hidden in the nectar of her saliva,
As lethal poison hides in honey.

7. And in the roots of her teeth there is numbing disease,
My soul is sacrificed for that numbing disease.

8. I seek God's forgiveness, no, her saliva is sweeter than honey
after bitterness.

9. Beware, beware her naughty fingering,
For it is the combs in neglected beehives.

10. Why doesn't your gaze loose its arrows?
As if it were shooting arrows from the clan of Tha'labah.

11. She visited Najd and dwelled in Tripoli,
While between us is a neck for ships and camels.

12. In her tent's folds that reflect our eyes
With their glow like the sun's reflection on water.

13. Hearts are led to love them as they were led
To Allah's gift, the noble son of Ali.

14. A young man who adorns the state when it is ruled,
As kingdoms are adorned when they rule.

15. His smile never ceases to blossom,
And rain indicates which clouds pour forth.

16. He adorns it beyond how it adorned him, so through it
He is in splendor while he is above splendors.

17. He bids the delegation welcome until it leaves
While the confederate bids it farewell by delaying death.

18. Exalted, wealth does not settle in his hand,
How can he hold what is like a mountain's canal?

19. He judges with wisdom in predicaments as
The arbitrator rules at the moment of confusion.

20. He has allied with justice in his rulings forever,
And justice is the best provision for a heroic knight.

21. Injustice always fears the open-handed one's chest,
As injustice thought it a chest without armor.

22. In the ruggedness of the mountain, were it not for his tolerance,
Emptiness would have left it barren from frequent fires.

23. It is as if the red camels are wine beneath them
While their white ones are seeds floating atop mountains.

24. I imagined that, knowing he is a singular man,
So I saw all people through one man.

25. He lends an ear to those asking his capable hands as
A lover lends an ear to singing and amorousness.

26. If he wished he could have said without lying in his information,
About every merit he sees, that it belongs to me.

27. For he discovered remarkable feats long ago
While the rest of mankind are reciters and plagiarizers.

28. The ruler al-Mansur fortified his state
Through the Banu Haydarah in plains and mountains.

29. Their writings have satisfied his furthest battalions
Against increasing enemies and locking them out.

30. Coats of mail and shields are pleased with them
As are turtle shells, chests of mail, and horse armor.

31. The Islamic state wandered lost without them and steadied
With their resolve as the sun steadies itself in Aries.

32. They have supported and ruled with the generosity they build upon,
Its firm eternal foundation is their glory.

33. They resemble each other despite differences in their time
In obedience, prohibition, words, and deeds.

34. Like a spear whose front aids its back
And the back of a spear aids its front.

35. You followed your father in generosity and nobility and did not
Lie as al-Wasmi followed the rightful one.

36. Two rains whose hands were generous wherever they poured
In a land that flourished with wealth and cavalry.

37. You two adorned religion and life with your might
Which the Merciful will never annul.

38. Our eyes have never seen in our time's afflictions
Anyone like you two who are kohl in its infections.

39. You two lived eternally in the shade of a kingdom
That sought refuge from change and dynasties.

40. The Pleiades have not sprinkled their tears over the land
And no one yearned on the day of departure.