1. The splendor of the kingdom is from this splendor,
And the light of glory is from this illumination.

2. And there is nothing higher than the peaks of glories,
More deserving than the perspiring in the highest.

3. The shepherds do not care for one with a sword,
If he is not a shepherd of shepherds.

4. The kingdoms were never assembled like the past,
Fate completes its decree over the decree.

5. If the gamblers start early,
It rains on them on the day of reward.

6. If he sought dew, his hands came out
Like the dripping of dew from the midst of clouds.

7. Beware if he puts on the garment with spots,
Beware if he wears the banner.

8. Beware of the son of Ghytalah the Submissive,
Who seals the horizons from the strong white.

9. If he casts upon the edges of a mouth,
His angry hands, frightened of lances.

10. The clashes of armor pass from him,
Like the crackling of flames from embers.

11. And a hammer upon glancing moments, sharp
Making viewers sick with bashfulness.

12. He crouched like an ostrich, so if he rose high,
He went like an arrow that missed its shooting.

13. No remedy saves the bitten one when
He has become with an illness, what illness!

14. Nor does the stiffness of men hunt game
More than sounds in the anklets of women.

15. And a day of fighting the enemies is dreadful,
In which the slow are distinguished from the quick.

16. I shot their horses until they scattered
With the hands of the short and the thirsty blades.

17. Some of darkness as if they were lions
Upon hills, their necks like hyenas.

18. And some of whiteness as if their knights
Were passing the palms over the brilliance.

19. Flanks that the striking of valleys
Never left at all a place for escape.

20. And from falling he moaned in the highlands,
And disgrace that stayed in the bareness.

21. And another leaned like the bending branches,
His forelock dripping with fresh paint.

22. And I returned after I had concealed the war from him
To the ladder of desires and gifts.

23. For there is a day for virtues and gifts,
And a day for zeal and refusal.

24. You lead the horses, brighter than their spears,
With forelocks like torches of brilliance.

25. With raids like the pack of wolves, recurring
Upon the enemies, clear enmity.

26. Determinations like the winds passed, blowing
Over countries, close and distant.

27. And a heart like the courageous leaping up with resolve,
And pulling the highest with the pull of a rope.

28. And a palm like the clouds pouring until
It spreads over the land with supplies and water.

29. And a face that the water of beauty flooded over it,
And the mark of brightness shone upon it.

30. It rivals the moon of the nights in brilliance,
And surpasses it with an increase of brilliance.

31. You stripped the one clothed in majesty of it,
Hastily, the garment of arrogance.

32. So he became exiting from all glory,
Like a stick of wood stripped of bark.

33. And you held back the reins of his blessings, and they were
A cover not muddied by vileness.

34. With an opinion that fate proceeded from,
So it went forward like an incisor tooth to the meeting.

35. If a relative hints to you then cut off
With the edge of the sword the kinship of the closest.

36. And if your relatives fail you, be among those
Who lean to brotherhood with affection.

37. For how many a brother unsuitable for association,
And stranger worthy of companionship!

38. And do not draw near the envious one, for that is a disgrace
Incurable with gentleness.

39. Sufficient for you are the turns of fortune, enough is
The sharp and polished blade of resolve.

40. The Trustee of the Hidden looks after His confidant
Against the spreading disease.

41. He stood facing the heroes until
Every famous one weakened.

42. Facing war, he embraces the highlands
And hugs the corpses from the blood.

43. If it is said he hesitated, you see in him
Yearnings leaping to the encounter.

44. So test me and you will find me a sword of resolve,
That makes its west strong and eastern lightning.

45. And it marched opening every slaughter,
Like the start of dawn in a spring of water.

46. If your hands cling to it protectively,
You will fill your hands with the treasure of effort.

47. It gives you the right without hypocrisy,
And purifies your integrity without ostentation.

48. Moving on the day you send it to war,
And dignified on the day you seek its judgement.

49. If the qualified are slaves to it,
Then it suffices the qualified without dispute.

50. O Bahaa al-Dawla al-Mansur, I called you
After some of my prayers,

51. And I thought your richness would flow to me
With what was made clear of melody.

52. So why am I like a stranger behind a people,
Who if tested, would have been behind me?

53. Far from your protection while I have rights
That are binding you fulfill my dependencies.

54. Have I worn out only to show with my composition
When my afflictions sufficed me?

55. And I warded off the fence of Baghdad on foot
With the merit of resolve and the disobedient soul,

56. The morning the regions were shaded by it,
Drenched, dripping with blood.

57. A smoke that the winds ignited from it
Spanned between the flat lands and the sky.

58. I endured the soul, then over the afflictions
To the furthest exhaustion and suppression.

59. Hoping that the wicks of my speculation would win
And the powers of my hope twist in success.

60. And I have a right over you, and that is my sincerity,
Old in your consent and this is my praise.

61. And it is the way of kings in the nights
To reward the loyal one for loyalty.

62. This fast will show a rift from you,
Spacious and flowing the garment.

63. You fast but do not abstain from gifts
And bestowing desires and love.

64. Lo, so be happy with it and with every day
That the dawn elevates to evening.

65. And may the time remain forever, for you are most deserving,
O people of the world, to bare survival.

66. My seriousness has brought my wishes near,
Dear neighbor, land of demise.