1. Time was excessive, so why not be moderate?
What fault was it if healing the echo’s wound?

2. My day passes like my vain yesterday
Knocking forever on a closed door

3. My cup is long for the trusts that were broken
And the toil of a barren palm trunk

4. Alas, the prophecy since you blocked
Did not last being a hypocrite till it was blocked

5. The return of my states, opposing their beginning
Would that I know what was, besides what appeared

6. Eternally I carry worries that approached me
And in my worries, harm upon harm compacted

7. How many times I wished for misery in a living
That became for it the ribs of misery

8. I do not want a lifetime I spend
When rare in it what sets up affections

9. Enough is Allah for diverse sins
That an account does not count, never

10. I took off patience amidst it
Excess effort and wore perseverance

11. This is some of what strains my liver
Seething and smashing liver

12. I am a sea neighbour, but I have
From it at the time of influx, the brine

13. And based on that, O self, so do not
Despair, with today comes tomorrow

14. For Al-Murtada from what passed
A successor that gives you a plentiful living

15. And when you return to pleading to Him
You find return to Him best

16. A king close to his blockade
One gains the height and durability

17. Just as he gained from his fathers
The righteous caliphs and guidance

18. He divided time for formidable justice
And length between might and bounty

19. Why would not his hands care for us
When he is the highest of people, of eye and hand

20. Indeed, Yahya’s state is a mercy
For creation, and life for guidance

21. It blocked what misguidance dispersed, his rule
So contemplate! Do you see a thing misguided?

22. Or did it not settle what was chaotic
Or did it not fix what was corrupt?

23. It spread the call when it waned
And established truth when it settled

24. Clear signs in it, signs of the Sublime
At ease, good omen, and tomorrow went

25. An enemy in its valuables, and enough
That enemies acknowledged its virtues

26. He paved the path so willingly
Every obstinate threw in his hands

27. Conduct that made the states of the world
When religion was mighty in it, most devout

28. Below him, their bureaucracy presents them
Exporting or importing

29. Why then did they revere Al-Mu’tasim
And why did they prefer Al-Mu’tadid?

30. He clarified the difference with the one whose affair
Raised the height competing even with the Pleiades

31. They missed knowledge unto wisdom and who
United diversities was the solitary

32. The nomads take what they hear
Of tones the lonely turned away from

33. And he has favour over its states
A semblance they portrayed, and he portrayed Al-‘Asjad

34. No one but him, victory and support, when
A star beamed in the horizons