1. The abodes prosper with a wise one, so be prosperous
Like a revelation in elegant script on parchment

2. A relic over which the winds drag trains
And spotted cattle graze among acacias

3. Every valley exposed by a downpour decays
Or every tempest whose pebbles it hurls far away

4. You have attained the need for which you strived
While with the beasts is another need, unattained

5. Gazelles of meadows that have not faced the arrows
Of archers nor the spears thrown in battle

6. One after another, the abandoned tents decayed
And the dwellings of the mortgaged faded away

7. Indeed, the hated one has dwellings with us
Not like the dwellings of the loved one, honored

8. No glance at you on a day that you place
The preference of a cloak and take caution with bracelets

9. I have traversed ignorant lands and watering places
And their camel saddles are the color of andam wood

10. And when the adorned camels ranged about
Their brands were counted as the claws of the monitor

11. Indeed, al-Walid is the caliph to a caliph
Who raised the edifice above a greater edifice

12. Your structure you ennobled and exalted
And for you are the plains of every valley teeming

13. How much sun-scorched wilderness have I traversed toward you
The night-darkness of which is like ambiguous night

14. I left the cameleer's song behind, crawling
After visiting at noon and earnest journeys

15. Indeed, al-Walid, he is the chosen imam
His banner stirs to victory and booty

16. He of the Throne has decreed that you be caliph
You were empowered, so submit, O speaker

17. He inherited the staffs and the swords and claimed ancestry
In a house of honor, with a lofty ladder

18. I have seen structures built then destroyed
While your throne's edifice is eternal, undiminished

19. He has abandoned salvation and settled where
His unruly steeds refused and scorned all good

20. The land knew that every caliph
From your noble line is like a seasoned phoenix

21. He broke the noses [i.e. humiliated enemies] and led
Every lofty structure, bold, unbroken

22. Al Walid's sons are to Al Walid in position
Like the full moon ringed by shining stars

23. You have soared against the Christians with a soaring
That shook for its impact the mountains of Edessa

24. Verily, the demolition of their church's structure
Was difficult, so it was a defeat for the noseless

25. Thus your Lord showed you when you destroyed their cross
The light of guidance and taught what we did not know

26. When the battalions raised their banners
It was as if they were the feathers of circling birds

27. He gored heads with resolve, so they scattered
From it, yet the expanse of its bed was not defeated

28. The stirring of wars when wars ignited
And the livelihoods when pillars of support multiplied

29. I am one of those who judge your contention
Which bubbles from the mighty Euphrates

30. I hope for the excellent ones' precedence of merit among them
Yet I fear the ferocity of the gloomy ignoble one

31. I complain to you, and perhaps you will protect me
From the bite of time and the debt of the infatuated

32. The land's expanse is harnessed, levied for you
And the sea is harnessed with ships fully laden

33. You see the leather buckets which the star of fortune
Extends like the channels filled to the brim

34. And the cooking pots bubble ambitiously and hurl
With fraud the murmur of the dusky steed