1. The two cats departed after scheming,
So neither will Salma continue nor desist.

2. Far from duplicity neither lover comes nor
Obstinate make peace when unable.

3. As if their bleating at dawn proceeding
Is a wolf among the pasture or associates.

4. Or cool of summer, its fields overcast,
Black are the slopes from what estrangement cultivated.

5. Short spears and staffs it sways with
Withered and shriveled from the infidels.

6. They drink fresh undrinkable drafts,
Each submerging in the water immersed.

7. Between As-Safa and spring of the eye residing
Overwhelmed, prostrations which enclosure did not enter.

8. And in the valleys a wantonness not excessive
Pleasing to beholders, vision falls short of it.

9. As if its mouth when night clothes it
Is an unblemished, spotless sword.

10. It said one morning when we met at her neighbor’s
You are the one I would have married, if not for gray hair and old age.

11. So I said gray hair is not from aging,
If you knew, and with the scholar is knowledge.

12. If it were other than me, adversity would have changed him,
Except the resolute male, events do not alter.

13. Night does not prevent me from what I intend
Nor do I feel alien in travel when accustomed.

14. I endure tribulations, none can withstand,
Except the generous against its like, patience.

15. Loss of a master, you imagine the living his eyelids closed,
Or loss of wealth and loss of wealth is endured.

16. If you find in me, after death, a deficiency in manners,
Then I was heedless.

17. I do not begrudge the rain of favors when
The drizzle is as desired rain is craved.

18. I do not say when crisis befalls,
“Woe to me from what destiny has brought.”

19. I do not misguide companions whom I guided,
When the paved way in the darkness spreads.

20. I profit from trade though its abundance diminishes
Until around Suleiman gather comrades.

21. West of the canal praiseworthy its buildings
Unmindful of daytime, scorning night journey.

22. It narrates honest lines before night,
Resembling jinn, upon it lace and headbands.

23. If they destroy, they replace in every loss
What they ruined, seeking praise or they raided.

24. We give rights based on accounts guaranteed
Until among its maidens shines the blossoms.

25. And I mend the tear, its marks have vanished,
No eye perceives it and no trace.

26. With audacity that shakes the follies confiding,
When in eternity embers ignite.

27. As if after I exhausted her essence,
She is Khenasa effaced, cows eluded her.

28. She escapes escape of the gloomy atmosphere frightened by
North wind and gale upon her pearls.

29. She spent the night to the drums of drumming, digging
Into herself for an absent beloved, remembering.

30. When she calmed a little after digging,
She does not calm down to her burrows.

31. She builds homes on barrenness, demolished by
The curled soil, difficult in its hollows playing tricks.

32. Her night until the stars withdrew from her
And dawn almost set out.

33. She went hastily while the soul apprehensive
And sign of the apprehensive’s going early.

34. She met a brother of hunting, his dogs roaming
Habit of hunters, by him courageous dogs.

35. She turned and the first of its racers overtook her
So she faced without panic or confusion.

36. She fought in the shadows of panic and drew herself together
As the protector after panic gathers himself.