1. Speak of the loftiness of Ali or Aliya in best rhyme,
And leave the dwelling of Mayya in Alia for the litters.

2. For every lover there is an opinion he values,
Though if eccentricities roam in the eyes that would nullify opinion.

3. Have you not seen her, she answered in annoyance without finding
His questions anything but nonsense and fantasies.

4. It suffices Ziyad to mourn deserted encampments,
While it suffices me to kindle the embers of love, fresh and tender.

5. When the vestiges have appealed, what can the eye do
With one whose knot accepts no weakness or bending.

6. I came to Aliya undeterred,
With a heart exposed to affliction, fulfilling its vows.

7. I did not see the living crawling under her
Multiplying thereby killing and capturing.

8. It suffices me that her aversion firmly
Estranged me, so I have no longer survival or meeting.

9. She rewarded me the reward of suspicion and ornament, for
Her charms refused to wear suspicion and ornament.

10. It is as if I did not descend on the settlements of her people,
And courted amidst her tents some gazelle.

11. And I did not brandish in my patrol for her bending neckline
A pomegranate on the throat that I may pluck or breast that I may squeeze.

12. I did not know the coquetries of the tender girls, so their
Estrangement, I do not suffer estrangement and remoteness.

13. I profess you forever enamored
So I am not for the other nor am I for the world.

14. My heart was inspired with commotion
By a branch it bent, made tender by a zephyr’s bending.

15. The keeper of vows must inevitably have an outcome
Whereby he fulfills for her the command and the forbiddance.

16. Does not my graying hair forewarn and foretell
So why do I resemble the deaf and the blind?

17. Thanking my lord Amir Abi Yahya is more warranted for me
Though thanking the Amir my lord Abi Yahya wearies me.

18. Pillars, when they purchase praise with what
Their hands contain, their seller then fears no bending.

19. He was nurtured between valor and munificence, just as
He frolicked in honored glory and loftiness.

20. Excelled in every field of success with what
Is required of fortune and desired of endeavor.

21. With his ease the boughs of noble deeds whenever
We saw him flash we saw for it flakes.

22. He prepared for the illnesses of nights their remedy
And does the unerring miss when he aims well?

23. His endeavors against his enemies and his governors
Pass by them evil and are sweet for us limpid.

24. He turns the fierce war into a tamed garden
Even if he only wants in it some slice of censure.

25. And he counts thekinds of rhyme his chastity
Whereby he grants life to those who lusted for their killing.

26. His guidance refused to be matched fulfilling
The varieties of transgression or erase the injustice and enmity.

27. Without doubt the brown race their nights are sleepless
And no doubt the white will destroy them entirely.

28. As if upon him for spears and strength
There are vows so neither morn are lost nor evening.

29. He comes and goes from one stage to another
Saving some transgressor and giving life to some pure.

30. He is the one who follows what his family
Deemed good, and does one follow but tranquility and guidance?

31. The imams of justice, the truth championed them
So they never deviated therefrom defending or protecting zealously.

32. They relieved the grief of events and their straits
With what satisfied the world and its children satisfaction.

33. And they supported the pure religion and elucidated
Its features while people were in the blindness of blindness.

34. And they gained virtues above kings
Whenever they assumed them, their concealment dazzled even the hidden.

35. They ascended the heights to a limit that
Every praise falls short no matter how tired.

36. Reconsider the days, envision them flourishing
For envisioning things is not truly envisioning.

37. Thus no day but by their light is an immolation
Nor night but by their most fortunate a brightening.

38. The family of Abi Hafs has the means of supporting
The religion and world, that is their relationship to the world.

39. Good tidings to those who took none but their love
As equipment and provision for death and life.

40. Truly they perspired in rule but they were many
So excellent their opinion and beautiful their view.

41. The strongest buildings are those they stood by the spearhead
And the best horses are those they rode bareback.

42. It suffices them of palace an open canopy in the plains
And their mention of springs distracted them from the cistern.

43. They socialized except for the tender edges that
Became finely spun customs and etiquette inclining toward them.

44. They avoided even the saddle for they only
Write with the pencase that exposes the shoulder.

45. The heir apparent wore the blossom of their regalia
So he has forbearance till eternity and knowledge till youth.

46. The call of Monotheism through him launched with the peerless
A feat that exhausted all who seek the heights.

47. You see the planets in their orbit among his servants
So he did not neglect what his obligation included.

48. A refuge for the days from the wrong of their misery
With a blessing upon blessing, and plenty upon plenty.

49. To him belongs what the right hand lavished with benevolence
Though if it spread in generosity it does not tire.

50. It is as if his arrival for the well-off and his day
Are happiness in livelihood and contentment in prosperity.

51. His liberality has quenched me with draft after draft
So excellent is the bearer and excellent is the quenching.

52. And he rendered the proper pronunciation a principle
And perfection has reached its utmost possibility.

53. He authorized me a flock with trusteeship
So God granted him adequacy and trusteeship.