1. Your advice regarding what the skeptic says is strange,
And your attitude towards blamers is wondrous.

2. Indeed, the one whose excesses you have blamed
Bears the scars of fate's blows.

3. His hearing is not prone to blamers,
Nor is his heart amenable to detractors.

4. When I come to the valley of Tihama,
A vigilant watcher looks towards me.

5. They say "Who is this stranger, what is his business,
And why has he come while strangers are suspect?"

6. Tomorrow he will wander the dwellings reciting verse
While we see the misguided as liars.

7. And who am I but a bard in their abodes
With a heart afflicted by what causes wounds.

8. What is it to them if a brother in need,
Far from his shrine, wanders their land a stranger?

9. They were not deterred by the virtues of Majid,
How excellent, the noble are indeed excellent!

10. If some of the clan slept or was absent a night,
Eyes would well up and chests would clench.

11. My friend, be patient despite the wounds,
Is anguish forbidden on riverbanks?

12. Can a blue pearl etched by the morning breeze
There be anything but the sweetest wine?

13. My promise to him - times are fruitful and passion
Is but watered saplings and old age frost.

14. At the foothills, frequenter of gardens settled,
In the trunk, companion of meadows a stranger.

15. On a prairie, its breeze as if
Praise for the glory of kings in which he has a share.

16. He is the brightest blossom, his bent stature
Humility, and his fragrance the cross.

17. Gold from the lofty, in every doctrine,
Tempest, for what opposes him is destruction.

18. If hearts betray the views of men,
He accompanies his heart wherever it desires.

19. Protector of far reaches of realms, gatherer
Of the cream of the lofty, flowing hair.

20. Brother of resolve - distance is remote from him
While the watershed is near.

21. The outpouring of his right hand takes the place
Of the Pleiades when it sets.

22. His promise brings success to his dependents
While some in their speech are deceitful.

23. Manager of a kingdom whose resolve cannot tire
When troubles upon troubles come.

24. Protector of a regime whose steeds
Circle the frontier of foes and attack.

25. Through him the weakened kingdom grew strong again
And its repentance after neglect returned.

26. He erected the pillar of the kingdom in the east
And inclined to the nearby west.

27. When ambition called him to its side a second time,
Aspiring to the utmost of desires.

28. And he gathered under the banner's shade a band
Called by his name who would respond.

29. The rights of the kingdom were squandered except a few
And the hopes of loyalists almost dashed.

30. The sons of misguidance awakened a strife
Where the mistaken and the correct perished together.

31. It was facilitated for them the bitter brew
Fearsome, accompanied by hellish flames.

32. It flowed expelling the loyal troops with arrows -
Dune upon dune from the plateau.

33. Meteors that swallow the dust which
Their mantles of darkness envelop.

34. When the night clothed them like infants they stripped it
Off - the dawn wounds on them turning white.

35. They have the virility of lively water and vitality
From the meadows - most fertile pasture.

36. With them he counseled the land of Iraq
After ravaging the overgrown wilderness.

37. They attacked with cannonballs and spears
Peacocks atop their shoulders.

38. They skirmished on the flanks of the cannons
Like locusts made drunk by the evening breeze.

39. A leader of victory hastens among the steeds -
His mount rested wherever it found grass.

40. He repels the creeping of the rebels with a leap -
Can a creeping equal a leap?

41. A steadfast planner unraveled their scheme,
A skilled physician of tribulations.

42. Enmity sleeps because of his plot while he is awake
And falters from his resolve while he is steadfast.

43. When they secretly scheme he closely observes them,
Learned in the secrets of hearts, discerning.

44. The deluded one among those he showed virtue
Would not have been brought low except for the masses.

45. He intended - though fortune had abandoned his ancestors -
To challenge fate, but it was unassailable.

46. Destiny, from what I knew, did not intend
To bring good fortune to a servant or evil deeds make wretched.

47. Fate's time came to him while his ambition
Had a blood stained sword.

48. He did not know glory had been his cloak
Until it slipped and he was stripped.

49. I swear had it not been for your ancestor's fortune
Heads would have rolled and chests bled.

50. It was the great deluge - it rose and withdrew
By your judgment when it engulfed hearts.

51. Its eradication of wickedness crumbled
When it raged, thrust, and shot arrows.

52. I speak to you of the glory of the kingdom in truthful words
While a youth's lies in his tales are folly.

53. I see myself beyond reproach or contentment in adversity,
Nor pleased at crises when they come.

54. My virtue prevents me from the goal
To which an ignorant man aspires and attains.

55. My life is too short to obtain even a morsel
Of glory - savoring it would be sweet.

56. A man's ruin is that no enemy fears his might
Nor does a loved one hope for his aid.

57. So grant me a day from you whose mention
Spreads - you are the hope of nobles.

58. Live in peace forever, for your existence
Is beauty for the age and goodness.

59. For your star loftiness in the horizon of grandeur
And for the wind in the atmosphere gusts.