1. Did you really rejoice at tambourines,
While the house crumbled, you did not rejoice?

2. Restrain yourself, youth has turned away from you,
It is enough for you to have white hair as a companion.

3. So how can you desire the eye of the alluring one,
And the shining one with prominent teeth please you?

4. Indeed infatuation in old age,
Is one of the major sins, so seek forgiveness.

5. After the water of youth has dried up,
And its lush greenery has withered,

6. You yearn for the playground of gazelles,
Among the sand dunes of Ramah or Ghurrab.

7. Why not head to the playground of lions,
Delighted by its awe-inspiring view.

8. Jihad and execution are carried out in it,
For every sharp-witted heroic young man.

9. He takes pride in attacking the vicious,
And if he overcomes the spearpoint he is not overcome.

10. You see him annihilating the people of the cross,
With the sharp edge of his five-fingered sword.

11. The claws of its lionesses,
Mock the gentleness of the deer's hoof.

12. It has ferocious lions, angry and roaring,
And snarling, hissing leopards.

13. Their instincts have been aroused, so they charge forth,
Racing in their vast plain.

14. Their roars deafen the ears,
Like howling hyenas in the valleys.

15. Eyes avert out of fear of their attack,
Brandishing fangs and claws.

16. They are lionesses, when they snarl they become resolute,
And if snarling is scarce, they are not subdued.

17. Biting at grievous, cutting blades,
If the bond is severed, it will not be mended.

18. Fangs sprouted from she-lions,
And forearms with the slaughtering sword.

19. Their tread is heavy but they
Are lighter garbed than the locust.

20. As if for them there is a battlefield in the sky,
So they ascend to gain the high ground.

21. And a raider of the pitfalls of destruction,
If people claim, he will not deny.

22. He toys with them when battle is heated,
So they flee from him in panic.

23. He pounces on them and no shield
Except leaping nimbly aside.

24. He knocks them down slowly bending them,
Treading carefully like a lynx.

25. I was amazed that she hesitated in fear,
And he advanced in might but did not dread.

26. The eagles of death watched him
From their vantage point thinking he had mounted it with difficulty.

27. And the bowstrings of the mighty archer tensed around him,
So he bubbled in the blink of an eye into a drinking trough.

28. And they slithered there with their tails,
Fleeing the slaughter like a scorpion.

29. So what fortresses have been turned
Into hedgehogs by the shooting arrows!

30. And what great feats, if enumerated,
Would exhaust the verbose orator.

31. Wondrous strange things dazzled minds,
Brought together under the king of the Maghreb.

32. If the mind is generous it will not go astray,
And if the poem is brief it will not sin.

33. A guiding imam whose light is penetrating,
And the blossom of stars has no holes.

34. On the doctrines of Imam Ar-Ridha,
He bases his principles and doctrinal schools.

35. He calls people to his cause,
Pleasing God and the Prophet.

36. Supporter of guidance, he guided views
To it, gaining a share without aiming.

37. Alone, he humbled himself in his glory,
His position is the zenith of the celestial sphere.

38. He has the nobility of the family, above kings,
And the perfume of the bride and ancestry.

39. Abu Al-Hasan Al-Murtadha raised him
To the most pure, good gathering.

40. And he attained his happiness from his father
Muhammad, the eminent chosen one.

41. He fulfilled the rights of the exalted,
With efforts on the most difficult path.

42. His brilliant virtues are too lofty
To be undermined by fickle time.

43. He assumed its emirate which gained,
Through his position, the noblest position.

44. And through it he called to a cause that tore apart,
With its lights, the veils of the unseen.

45. With a long reach, determined and aspiring,
Yet a comforting neighbor, loved and pleasing.

46. He ascended loftily and drew near lowly,
So glad tidings to you of the farthest yet nearest!

47. I have not seen the sun of morning before him,
Or a deep, surging sea at sunset.