1. لَمّا جَفاني أَخِلّائي وَأَسلَمَني

    دَهري وَلحمُ عِظامي اليَومَ يُعتَرَقُ

    When my close friends shunned me and I was abandoned

    by my fate, while the flesh on my bones is gnawed away today,

  2. أَقبَلتُ نَحوَ أَبي قابوسَ أَمدَحُهُ

    إِنَّ الثَناءَ لَهُ وَالحَمدُ يَتَّفِقُ

    I turned toward Abu Qabus, praising him:

    Indeed, commendation and praise befit him.

  3. سَهلَ المَباءَةِ مُحضَرَاً مَحَلُّهُ

    ما يُصبِحُ الدَهرُ إِلّا حَولَهُ حَلَقُ

    Easy of access, his dwelling well attended,

    no day ever dawns without circles of men around him.

  4. لِلمُنذرينَ وَلِلمعَصوبِ لِمَّتُهُ

    أَنتَ الضياءُ الَّذي يُجلى بِهِ الأُفُقُ

    For the Mundhirs and for him whose locks are bound,

    you are the radiance by which the horizon is illumined.