1. Oh companions, don't blame me, for my spirit is free
And my eloquent tongue speaks whatever it wants

2. With a beautiful maid, if only she would come down
Fortune's shadow would hover over her splendor and shine

3. A gazelle running on the back of a noble steed
Passing by gently, walking proudly on her way

4. I raised my hands praising her, and she reproached me
More arrogant than an Indian with braids in her hair

5. If only she saw in me a hint of nobility
And the honesty in my character brought her joy

6. Are you coming tomorrow morning or just teasing?
Perhaps until tomorrow what I hope for will come true

7. What you've attempted covertly may come openly
And what you fear will disappear and trouble you no more

8. Fate apportions to the youth and his peers
A share like dividing meat - or even more

9. Man loves to live long even if he suffers
And life seems ugly and unpleasant to him

10. The world tempts them and the pleasures of life entice them
But know the world is an illusion that will not last

11. In the end, what you rely on is what you forget
Even if it once brought you joy

12. And a day when the hot wind rages in the market
Stirring up dust, it does not calm

13. Severe in heat, guarding the shelter, its gusts
More severe in heat than the sun at its zenith

14. It rose until the shade shrank after spreading
Until it nearly covered the earth completely

15. The buzz of riding camels, so I said to my friends
"It's getting cold, get some fresh air," and they left

16. Quickly, then entered the darkness of night
Alas! We won't see them again where they've gone

17. With a tear like the pleats flickering over it
Along with the sun, no rather, before it can form

18. When people are thanking their companions at dawn
And kindness appears with the morning, ever eloquent

19. It drove the birds and friends away, so none are seen
No specter, nor a bird with wings

20. I passed by a female ostrich whose chick
Would be bloody drops in her urine as she's bred

21. Her hands are the hands of a wailing mourner
Calling for help for her husband, continuously lamenting

22. Her hands pour down more than her tears withheld
Sighing and moaning for his loss

23. She found her husband had been married to another
An old in-law of hers, bound to her family

24. When she learned after their wedding that he
Had betrayed her, she nearly barked in anguish

25. She of foul soul and wicked nature
Has standing among her people and struts about

26. Her neighbors put her down as she aspires
To satisfy her whims and eyes full of evil

27. But let that be, do you see a flash of lightning?
I sat watching for it late into the night

28. Illuminating patiently from clouds as though
They were mountains covered in snow, or even brighter

29. When the morning breeze stirred it, it crackled
And fell in streams on solitary sands overflowing

30. Tall, its scattering in the sea as though
It flowed, legs bound, held back

31. It watered Umm 'Amr's family, greetings
To her from you, from one far away who wishes you well

32. Quarrelsome, sweeping the water until
The stomachs of its riders were gorged with water

33. When its successive surges ebbed, its
Little ships almost broke apart and came undone

34. Of what was between us only remains that
I love, and if you allow, I will praise

35. Any wealth I refuse you that you desire
Would be forbidden for us to enjoy and delight in

36. I promised her, by the Living, a sly
Gazelle, that the watcher would think when glancing

37. Of the white pleats, that if she tried to walk
She would be dripping blood, stumbling all around

38. In the past days of the youth's life he suffered
And in the future more trials await

39. Few youths are patient, rewarding fate
With acceptance for what it brings day by day

40. Though if they have no means to what is not theirs
They should not be so bold as to overstep