1. Your eminence is assured, your good fortune plain;

    your striving for this world and for the faith succeeds.

  2. Many are the locks upon the gates of victory,

    but in your exalted hand lie all their keys.

  3. Thus you subdued the lands, and every gaze in them

    yearns toward the standards of your good fortune.

  4. You cured the islands of their maladies after

    a grievous calamity of evil befell them.

  5. Now tell the lords of ruin in Mīraqa—

    for many a counselor has been undone by counsel—

  6. “Return to the rightful course of sovereign command, for it

    summons to right guidance and is forbearing toward error.”

  7. Proverbs came to be coined about him:

    generosity when he gives, and valor when put to the test.

  8. Yours alone is the illustrious character, unrivaled

    in lofty resolve and exemplary conduct.

  9. Within you are the manifold virtues of al-Manṣūr;

    I perceived them with my senses and confirmed them by reason.

  10. He whose memory you revived through resemblance has not vanished;

    the lion is not lost when one finds the cub.

  11. You moved from one palace to another inferior to it,

    then, when you took residence there, bestowed excellence upon it.

  12. This one is like a bride trailing her jewels,

    and that like a bereaved woman clad in her threadbare robes.

  13. Blessed is an abode whose horizon you are the star,

    and welcome to a palace for which you have become a worthy dweller.

  14. You are nothing but the spirit, and humankind its limbs;

    it directs them as a head or a foot whenever it wills.

  15. Though petitioners throng around you from east and west

    and spend the night seeking your bounty, filling the roads,

  16. that is only because your cheerful face has never turned

    scowling, and because your generosity has never countenanced miserliness.

  17. May you endure as long as time, never departing from the heights,

    never wearying of piety and never losing excellence.

  18. Your glory stands high, never declining and never waning;

    your good fortune stays fresh, never perishing and never withering.

Sol 6.1