1. My vision saw in you what it loves
And good tidings for it that it did not love

2. And how can it fail while it hoped in you?
Did the one hoping in you ever despair?

3. My words preceded with this arrival
And I abhor lying

4. My words are too lofty to
Say what is unlawful, but duty calls

5. From you I learned the truth of speech
And from you I learned good manners

6. From you I took possession of pearls of speech
And I left counterfeits for the vulgar world

7. From you I gleaned and from you I gained
So to me gold is the most worthless thing

8. You made me deserving of sublime rank
And I have from you many means to attain it

9. For a time my vision was ashamed
But it is a shame that went away

10. The letter "r" continuously served me
And was given to me as a title

11. Wasel punished it by ignoring it
And took it out of the Arabs' speech

12. So Wasel brought it bliss when he did not avoid it
And a rising star brought it elevation when he did not set

13. You rose upon us like the rising of the sun
And you came to us like the coming of clouds

14. You came and so you uncovered our worries for us
And you came and so you relieved our distresses for us

15. While we have not stopped seeing you
Even if your person was veiled from us

16. He whose excellence does not cease still comes
And he whose generosity is absent is not absent

17. Egypt cried about the Nile until it flooded
Drowning the highest ground in ancient times

18. But tears run out with prolonged weeping
So this year, the Nile in our land ran dry

19. The earth turned red
And its water was replaced by flames

20. Growth in its soil was killed
So its redness was colored with blood

21. The desert feared the death of echoes
And that they would not inhabit it after the death of cascades

22. Since he returned, he returned and watered the countries
And blamed with the irrigation one who blamed

23. So God saved us after destruction
And God delivered us after impairment

24. And no one remains in Egypt who has not come to you
To Damascus, out of enchantment or seeking

25. Their sights race their horses
One flies and another bounds

26. They came to you, so you hosted them generously
And they returned, so you sent them off with sustenance

27. They are with their Master wherever he was
Of the land, and man is with whom he loves

28. Everyone who came to you
Passion and yearning bring him closer

29. You are their chief, you made him sit
Because you fixed him in place firmly

30. They frequent the most sublime Master
And they come to the most generous and gave

31. The jewels of his deeds are collected
And the chastities of his money are seized

32. When the most generous of people bestows
The obtainer does not refrain from obtaining

33. He bestows as if he were sleeping
So in clemency he slept, and in generosity he gave

34. A minister whom kings come to
With their sons grouped around them

35. Hearing from him what they love
And seeing in his person one who is loved

36. His pens and the gray hair of heads
Are like their standards and yellow banners

37. Damascus attained what it desired through your auspicious opinion
And through your victorious resolve came the conquest

38. Struggle and fortune serve you
One does not disappear and the other does not depart

39. You crave, but the approach of prayers
While others crave beauty and curls

40. You seduce with the love of shyness
While others seduce with the love of charms

41. What a difference between one whose night continues
And one who has fallen obligated on his side

42. Before you, the eyes of suns are dimmed
And below you, the highest ranks are lowered

43. Your house flies above Suhā
And your fire burns above cottages

44. If you were pleased, then where is the glory?
But if you were angry, then how can one escape?

45. Your time asks you for safety
And your age takes etiquette from you

46. The enemy said many things but transgressed
And the envious one added but lied

47. Your enemies scheme what will not happen
So it does not go right and does not settle

48. They did not appoint you as they claimed
Rather, they were assigned to pitfall

49. True merit is not of the sort that can be bought
Nor is fortune of the kind that can be earned

50. The insolent one fails, and how many a sleeper
Is led to his fortune by force

51. He assumes things that do not exist
And things he did not account for come to him

52. One with merit, his merit abandons him
And comes to another with triviality

53. How many a wisher for what belongs to someone else
Who hates it! Oh what wonder!

54. The youth doubts the decree of God
In sustenance, so it throws him into fatigue

55. One who enjoys his world confused
Like a scabby wretch enjoys scratching scabies

56. So O most generous of people when pleased
And O most forbearing of creation when angry

57. The Arabs ennobled when you traced back
To them, elevating them through ancestry

58. And if they trace you back to Ya‘rub
It is only to you that he traces back

59. You raised the pillar for the people of pillars
And you brought out for their good fortune what set

60. You are their origin, O their branch
May God not cut off the origin of the Arabs