1. Your glory is glorious, charming and lasting,
And your merit is merit, close and far,

2. And for you is sincere praise - make it shine as
You made armies shine for wars,

3. And I march in your name, filling valleys as
You filled them with spears and flags.

4. And I defeat the arrogant oppressed as
You expelled the enemies from Egypt completely.

5. Whoever missed in his old age and youth
What you reached of ranks of pride and birth,

6. Whoever attained his life evilly and covetously
And you collected it with a content conscience,

7. He owns it so he is its glittering prisoner,
Committing sins deliberately witnessed.

8. His thieves kill innocent people
While you were hunting down rebels for game.

9. And he erects for the despicable shame, when
You tied glories, originating and repeating,

10. You see him thundering, so if asked for help
And if aided against harm, mean,

11. And if he saw repute or status for his kin
Or neighbor, he becomes their enemy and envier the next day,

12. And if he prays, then to sins, and when he rules
Then over widows and orphans, destroying,

13. The nature of the treacherous refuses
To observe for his good patron pacts,

14. He does not know Satan but his own chest
As a house for him, blocked off from guidance,

15. He still tempts him and hardens his heart
Until he becomes deaf, stubborn stone,

16. He disappointed so his singing did not save an insolvent
Complaining to him, nor did he relieve a suppressed one,

17. He listens to slanderers, celebrating what
They conveyed, and he loves the abusive babbler,

18. Boasting of sin, confessing it,
Sweetening rebuke and prosecution.

19. And of the afflictions that I see him settled
In a palace that houses concubines and slaves!

20. Do I teach him his grace and his jihad
That he spends evenings for the noble?

21. He is the blamer of conduct and efforts
And he is the despiser of lineage and ancestors!

22. There is none for sublime, religion or nation that
He built among us construction,

23. Spending mornings and evenings only wanting
From ill-gotten money increase,

24. Had there been mercy in him, he would not have spent his night away
From generosity to his own children, expelled,

25. To the point he shamelessly commits indecencies
And why does he meet blasphemers brazenly?

26. His life was pleasant for him in evil
Or did he reckon the unjust oppressor eternity?

27. The tyrants died, their callers and protectors
And I see him after them persist, alone,

28. Oh what a pity! Why does he not fear
Might of God nor dread threats?

29. So when will punishment and ruin afflict him
And what has struck Thamud strike him?

30. He did not seek his King’s pardon for what he stole
Except to call him patron of people,

31. Of what benefit is pardoning him after
He wasted a lifetime, misguided and misguiding?

32. Wait! I fear he would be appointed
Throne of the country and its extended rule!

33. If I were among the judges, I would sentence him away
From Egypt’s land exiled,

34. And I would throw him in prison crying for his son
And dragging chains and shackles in it,

35. And I would make the painful whip split
His palm, head and cheeks in gulches

36. And I would take just vengeance for the group
His cruelty returned doves and roses,

37. And I would deprive him of what he plundered
Until I return the people’s rights to them,

38. And I would heal the resent of those against him, but
Rather extinguish the zeal of the generous their firewood

39. And I would make the dearest of their gloating over him
A goal he reached with effort exhausted,

40. He shows loyalty falsely to gain it
So it is rejected and barred from him

41. And he imitates princes in their manners
So the severity of his ignorance corrupts imitation.

42. I have not met in my life a praising sycophant
In Egypt whom he honored and was rightly-guided,

43. O vizier of Egypt - to you greetings and consent
And praise to you echoing and repeating!

44. Had God guided him to one whom
Your king would be pleased with as a loving loyalist,

45. We do not forget the era of your ministry which
Awake, its command you reinforce supporting,

46. So you won your master’s favor - a boon
That made your old reward in you renewed!

47. It suits the likes of you that your chest be appointed
Garlands of stars, if they did you justice,

48. You still invite us to the approach in which
You show your commended sincerity,

49. And you establish in us the ruler’s obligation
Which had before you been among us absent,

50. You celebrate the anniversary of his assumption
So pleasing to him always festive!

51. You spend nights advancing with wishes
White - and your enemy spends them black,

52. So accept the praises of a poet, nay flying thing,
Who spends evenings praising you, singing!