1. Beauty has been generous to loved ones, so they increased
But our loved ones were not generous in beauty

2. Among them are four gazelle-like ones
A group, perfume, eyelids, and steeds

3. And four have wept for lovers' agony
Incense, furnishings, late nights, and chronic pains

4. Concern for them grows, increased by four things
Increasing, worrying, spreading, and growing

5. And how can four remain in the eyes
Numbers, tears, kohl, and sleeplessness

6. Alas! Four believe your vows
A pact, love, words, and promises

7. It has four swaying branches
Tall, splendid, leaning, bending

8. It has four from the shining star
Scattering, thanking, issuing, giving

9. When the sword of praise is drawn, it has four
Rage, leaping, igniting, blazing

10. And I have from fate, for my hopes, four
Toil, prevention, exclusion, limitation

11. And for my efforts toward hopes, four
Strife, despair, failure, perishing

12. And the precious one has from the slave, four
A heart, speech, character, and acquiescence

13. Collected in my praise are four
Rhyming, composing, creating, reciting

14. The poet's dual answer has four
Copying, studying, repeating, presenting

15. Our days and nights have four
Deeds, intimacy, weddings, holidays

16. Yet four do not encompass people's beliefs
Affliction, rejection, association, atheism

17. Safety is not found where four are on earth
Land, sea, depths, and deserts

18. What's below the sky without end, four
Lion, wolf, bandits, and seekers

19. Four protect God's lands
Egypt, Shām, Khurāsān, Baghdad

20. If remnants remain, they are four
Fleeing, opening, resisting, submitting

21. Four manage the kingdom from Uthman
Resolve, caution, thoughts, and surveillance

22. Four praise him among times
A day, month, years, and forever

23. With your generosity, the year's regions drip four
Horizon, earth, breaths, and livers

24. And in it four truthful clouds
Rain, floods, lightning, and thunder

25. The precious, pride of victory, is given four
Justice, might, gentleness, aid

26. And his resolve in victory has spread four
Effort, fortune, banners, tent pegs

27. With it, the fire of enemy war has four
Raising, lowering, extinguishing, igniting

28. As for the kings, for our Master four
Submission, army, supporters, pillars

29. And for them, with truth, you have four
Kindness, kindness, education, guidance

30. For you, the subjects on the day of judgment have four
Praising, consenting, praising, witnessing

31. As they are, in your world, four
Content, returning, loyal, praying

32. And from the dew of your blessings they have four
Treasure, safekeeping, blessing, supplies

33. So with you alive no four afflict them
Worry, sorrow, misery, perishing

34. Seeking your open door are four
My weakness, my fervor, visitors, repeat visitors

35. Turn your munitions, today they are four
Slain, captive, fleeing, deserted

36. By your blessed arm, four suffer
Serpents, hands, swords, sheaths

37. And by you, four are judged among the infidels
Whites, browns, shackles, chains

38. For God on earth, from this House, four
Clouds, gardens, moons, pegs

39. Four inherited, by you, earth's kingdom
Son, grandson, fathers, forefathers

40. Namely the men of the Ayyubids, four
Whites, browns, glories, aid

41. And among them, four lion hearts
Pouncing, biting, hastening, charging

42. O you who speaks of their prowess, four
Speech, state, spirits, bodies

43. It pleases me and upsets others, four
Family, companions, enemies, enviers