1. Return to the President's council and his shade
Confident in his opinion and his ways

2. And take wisdom from him, for nearly
Did the riders go astray behind his misguidance

3. Surely he who suffered after him
Suffered the like before him

4. O absent ones, and loneliness in consciences
From one who abandoned him and bitterness from one who blamed him

5. You angered him against you, and your criticism
More deserving of his anger and grievous his burden

6. And you busied with reproach from him a side
And the disputation of your opponent more deserving of busyness

7. Which of them frees the prisoners of their shackles
A hero, and among them one who cares to kill him

8. Surely he who bears harm from his opponent
More deserving to bear harm from his own family

9. The people are ignorant of the feud's end
And the people fear that they may die in their ignorance

10. This is hardest on defenders and greater than
The tyranny of its protector and its occupier

11. I sympathize about you and for you
And tell the complaint of the loving protector

12. And forbidden to the hospitable their guest
To honor him, and they are guests of his disgracer

13. If the people's excuse was messengers from you
Then today's arrivals are his best messengers

14. Does the victor enflame his defeated
With more fury? And refuse his excuse in his rage

15. And the owner of terrible might leads, and fears
The scream of the pained because of him

16. Judgment day is near, and where is what you prepared
For your enemy, his disorder and his request?

17. Will he repeat his game while you have fear
Of his might and longing for his guidance?

18. You have been tested by the leap of his lion
Do you feel safe today from the breath of his prayers?

19. And we read in the storms of his newspapers
What we do not delight to mention and convey

20. And after the meeting, your silence disturbed us
And he is proud of his words and his actions

21. How safety from him when he is stationed
Around the country, with his horses and his men?

22. And who is able to distribute its shares of water
When he surrounds its branches and its roots?

23. Shall I walk slowly from the passage of time and its flow
To the barrenness of space and its places?

24. Not equal is the strong in his fire and iron
To the strong in his heart and mind

25. And mistaken is he who claims his independence
If he does not find a means to it, whole

26. And if the clear truth comes volunteering
And generously, then treat it as you would the little

27. Greater than all your resources was national unity
And your elected representative gathering your nation

28. Return to him, for every condition is void
If he does not examine it and does not dictate it

29. I know, and examples abound
Of the difference between their register and his register

30. More deserving of them is he of firmness, and he
Is the punishment of the arrogant pretender

31. And for every rebel is an aspect of his wisdom
And for every freeman an aspect of his excellence

32. O Saad, declare my satisfaction with the truth of what
I recite, and which mujahid did you not raise?

33. I reward you for my country and people the best reward
You give, and I present what you have made alike

34. It is the loyal's trait to keep his oath and be
Content in his certainty and reassured by his justice