1. Perhaps parting from friends to the estranged was my purpose
On the eve of easterly departures of the ships

2. By my life! My youthfulness did not reward me
With them, nor the weaving of poems

3. And how many a faithful friend that was severed
And devout men of firm religion were tempted

4. So she who one day was coltish
Has a repentant heart bowing to God

5. I saw flirtatious singing girls
Graceful in granting favors, stingy when keeping trysts

6. Long has it been since hearts were tempted by eyes
To the stems that adorned humanity and supported it

7. Could you be blamed if after patience you showed
Fragments of sincere love that kept being rekindled

8. And we seek your love, if we could gain it
It would be the dearest of boons for us

9. So gather not the mention of sins to be stingy
And impose estrangement and distance

10. When you visit singing girls with a staff
Wishing to be quenched by drinking the blood of lions

11. I pardon a close neighbor though his tomb is neglected
And seek distant worries that wander far off

12. Indeed in Iraq there was an ailment, but they did not find
A healer who cured their diseases like Khalid

13. He healed them gently mixing wisdom and piety
And the path of a rightly-guided leader

14. Indeed the Commander of the Faithful blessed you
With one enlightened in religion, pride of mosques

15. And we hope that you will accompany a group
Who will be the first people entering Paradise

16. For the son of Abdallah, his positions are known
Where he is not disgraced before witnesses

17. So he was true to the Commander of the Faithful's trust
And was truthful in dire affairs

18. When people wanted injustice from him
He refused wrongdoing and defied every ruler

19. And how could people gain anything he prevented
Which desire kept between the jaws of attacking lions

20. When enemies gathered for a treacherous plot
God protected you from the cunning of plotters

21. You prepare coats of mail and spears
And disheveled forelocks like driving lions

22. When you meet the foe in the fray
He gasps from your passionate onslaught

23. And if the devil tempted the misguided people
They found in you a harsh unabating war

24. When there is safety, your heart is faithful
And when there is fear, you are the firmest protector

25. You continued aspiring to nobility and eminence
And built glory illuminated by flowing streams

26. When the days of generosity are counted, then boast
Of your tall noble forefathers of strong arms

27. How many for you are lofty buildings whose height
And among the Sa'bs, orators and newcomers

28. The days of battle delight you in remembering them
And when virtue's abode is mentioned with necklaces

29. You took hold firmly in Ma'ad's lifetime
And in Yemen the noblest place of birth

30. Branches and origin from Bajilah in Ma'ad
To the son of Nizar, who was an uncle and father

31. You defended the frontiers of Islam, never weakening
Remaining a leader and son of a leader

32. For you were granted victory over enemies
So you became a light whose glow does not dim

33. You built a structure the likes of which people never built
Its wall almost rivals the highest minarets

34. And you were given what confused past generations
So we praise the Bestower, Lord of praise

35. What you spent was wise and strong
So receive multiples of profit as surplus

36. There used to be bounty in the Euphrates rivers
And favor of an ancestor of the ascendant Caliph

37. Bestowal of Him who gave the Caliph his kingdom
And the sighs of envious souls are enough for him

38. Rivers of prosperity and good fortune flowed to you
To a paradise among the wild beasts' dens

39. Growing grapes and blessed palm trees
And bundles of goodness in harvested bushels

40. When we send a scout seeking dew
He brings us, praising God, the most praised scout

41. Do you have an ungrateful slave, so you may release him
From the long bite of shackles

42. He returns though evil was innate in him
Saying, "I regret," but not returning

43. You regret, but regret avails naught after
You fell from the snare of hunting falcons

44. How can Farazdaq survive after
Biting while in the grip of a conquering lion

45. Did you not see Khalid's palms which benefited
People with abundant provision from plentiful streams

46. O clan of Malik, Farazdaq was always
Degrading and disgracing indecent acts

47. So do not accept Farazdaq's slander, he is
Fraudulent, rejected by every critic

48. We found, when we came visiting you
Horses' chests and cavalry, most successful newcomers

49. Did you not see Yarbo when I mention them
And their days, they compose the finest poems

50. Who can compare if you count my knights
Who embraced wisdom, and Al-Hadhrami son of Khalid

51. He asked the blessed river, so he plunged
Like the foaming floods of overflowing terrain

52. Increase for Khalid the like of what is in his right hand
You will find him, for Islam, the noblest protector

53. As if, wrongfully, I fear no injustice for Khalid
From fear I am given poison of reptiles to drink

54. And I hope that Khalid will release me
And unleash from me the shackles of fetters

55. The darkness lifted from the light of his face
With the light of a comet whose glow does not fade

56. Do you not remember kinship or lend me money?
You have a nature of immense glorious generosity

57. You are like Khalid's palms when he buys
With every gentle act, every new honor

58. If my fetters are removed, worries might leave me
And I may touch the edges of distant worries

59. Praises be when worries were uncovered from me
And humiliated, hating the eulogizer

60. Does the son of Abdullah have a grateful slave
That you may release his fetters, praising?

61. No affliction but every eve and dawn
Increases without retreating

62. The blacksmith says, "Are you standing?"
Yet I am like another still seated

63. As if I am a lost donkey atop Kaaba
Thirty cunning beasts plotting against me

64. They did not openly show enmity above my leg
And they know my religion cannot be wiped out

65. And they recite poetry to me I did not say
Like one blocking the wind between prey