يقول ابنُ عمَّارٍ مقالةَ مخلِصٍ

لسيد تُرْكُسْتَانَ طُرّاً وخُزْلَخِ

Ibn 'Ammar recites with sincere words

To the lord of Turkistan gracefully and elegantly

إليك أبا عثمان أهْدِي تحيةً

ثناءً كريحانِ الجِنَانِ المضَمَّخِ

To you Abu 'Uthman I present greetings

And praise like the fragrance of the scented gardens

شكرتُكَ أنْ أَوْلَيْتَنِي ومنحتني

عَوَاطِفَ نُعْمَى مَاجِدٍ منك أبْلَخِ

I thanked you for bestowing on me

The noble affections you graciously granted

رَدَدْتَ ليَ الإِشْرَاعَ بعد بُطُولِهِ

فَبُؤْتُ بِعِزٍّ بَاذِخٍ كلَّ مَبْذَخِ

You returned my hopes after their long absence

Thus I attained glorious splendor against all who seek splendor

وأمَّنْتَ قلبي أن أُسَامَ هَضِيمَةً

فأفْرَخَ عنْهُ روْعُهُ كلَّ مُفْرَخِ

And you gave my heart assurance not to accept humiliation

So it was relieved of its fear against all who cause fear

نَسَخْتَ بمُرِّ الحقُّ مظنونَ شُبْهَةٍ

أخَالَتْ ومَهْمَا ينْسِخ الحقُّ يُنْسَخِ

You erased with the bitterness of truth suspected doubts

That passed away, and whatever truth erases fades away

وقد كانَ ماتَ الحقُّ إلا حُشَاشَةً

ولكنْ نَفَخْتَ الرُّوحَ في كلِّ مَنْفَخِ

The truth was all but dead except as mere rubble

But you breathed life into all that breathes

فأضْحَى يرى بين العَداءِ وبيْنَهُ

بِمَنْعكَ منه بَرْزَخاً أَيَّ برْزَخِ

So it sees between enemies and itself

Through your protection a vast expanse

ولا بِدْعَ أن دَوَّخْتَ بالحق باطلاً

فكم باطلٍ بالعدل منك مُدَوَّخِ

Without doubt you have destroyed falsehood with truth

So many falsehoods destroyed justly by you

وكان ابنُ عمَّار يُرَجِّيكَ لِلَّتي

يقال لها عند الشدائد بَخْ بَخِ

Ibn 'Ammar had hoped you would be there

In times of hardship, they say "alas!"

وكنتَ الذي يحنُو على مستجِيرِهِ

بِعَارِفَةِ المولى وعائدة الأَخِ

You were the one who cared for those seeking refuge

With knowledge of the Master and returning to the brother

ولو أن داري حسْبُ هَمِّك في العُلا

وفي العُرفِ أضحى صَحْنُها ألفَ فرسخِ

Had my abode been the limit of your concerns

Its courtyard in custom would have reached a thousand leagues

فكيف ترى الإِضرار بي في جناحها

أبَى ذاك مجدٌ شامخٌ كلَّ مَشْمَخِ

How could you see harming me in its precincts

That refused, a lofty glory against all who climb high

أقولُ لِعيْسٍ أقبلت بمُخِبِّهَا

على الأَيْنِ تَفْرِي سَرْبَخاً بعد سربخِ

I say to Jesus, she came with her seductions

To tempt, freely flowing after flowing

عليكِ ابنُ تَكْسِينٍ فَأُمِّي جنابه

تُنَاخي إليه سهلةَ المتنوَّخِ

Upon you, son of Takish, so my mother yields to him

Placidly bending over to be mounted

فتى غيرُ ما عِلْجِ الخليقة خِلْفِها

ولا خَنِثِ الإِترافِ مثْلِ المُفَنَّخِ

A man unlike the rest of creation after it

Nor of effeminate pampering like the perfumed

تقابل منه العينُ عند طلوعه

ضياءً متى يُصْبَبْ على الليل يسْلخِ

The eye meets in him at his rising

A brilliance, however much it pours onto the night it peels off

جوادٌ يرى تطهير عرضٍ وملبسٍ

وتدنيس طَبَّاخ وتسويد مَطْبَخِ

A steed who sees the purification of honor and dress

And the sullying of cooks and blackening of kitchens

يُوَبِّخُهُ إحسانه أو يُتِمُّهُ

وإن لم يكن في فعله بالمُوَبَّخِ

His generosity reproaches or completes him

Though there be no reproachable act on his part

إذا ما العُلا عُدَّت فأيُّ مُصَدَّرٍ

به عن أبي عثمانها ومُؤَرَّخِ

When glory is prepared, who is the regulator

Of it but Abu 'Uthman the recorder?