قَد وَجدنَا الدَّمعَ أشفَى لِلكَمَد

وَرَأَينَا الغَيَّ أدنَى لِلرَّشَد

We have found tears more healing than poultice for inflammation,

And we have seen abandonment closer than guidance to integrity.

والَّذي أَعطَى أَبَا عَامِرٍ ال

مُلكَ والدِّينَ ونَصرَ المُضطَهَد

He who gave Abu Amir authority,

Kingdom, religion and victory over the oppressed,

مَا رَأَت عَينَايَ شَمساً قَبلَهُ

طَلَعَت في الأُفقِ مِن وَجهِ أَسَد

My eyes had never seen a sun before it

Rose in the horizon with the face of a lion.

يَجمَعُ الدُّنيَا بِكَفَّي رأيِهِ

جَمعَكَ الآلاَفَ في عَقدِ العَدَد

He gathers the world in the palms of his opinion,

He gathered you in thousands in the necklace of number.

يَسأَلُ العَانيَ أَن يَسأَلَهُ

فَإِذَا أَولاَهُ مَعرُوفاً جَحَد

He asks the supplicant to ask him,

But when he grants him a kindness, he denies it.