1. You have tied your camel alongside its companion
So follow your path for it is the very path of it

2. And pass through its winding trails and rolling dunes
For the rein of your love is in the hand of its guide

3. The caravan of travelers sways whenever
The verses yearn for the tents of its beloved

4. You will find necks bending on its riders in the night
Between saddle-bags and elongated spearheads

5. It has cut through the land and sought refuge in the sanctuary
So the Most Cognizant has granted it hospitality

6. It settled there and shone with poetry without
The blood of protection money or tribal alliance

7. Listen to the wailing of elegy and what a
Sorrowful voice from its beautiful chant

8. It has raised its complaint upon the string of prohibition
And the protectors flowed forth in its recital

9. If your Lord willed additions to the Book
He would have added verses to His revelation

10. He revealed to the bees and elegy is its honey
Poetry for the stallion is cure for its sickness

11. By God, I will not refrain from its crafting
Or ever intend to suspend it

12. Prisons block it from me yet it
Is like light in its lamp

13. I live by it and through it I will revive souls
From it is the living's hope in its attainment

14. I have in this cause a journey its
Pen mapped, guiding proper interpretation

15. My palm inscribed it on the blankness of my page
And my talent breathed it in gently

16. My prison courtyards were indeed a garden
Of song, even the valley of piety with its palms

17. It is my spear whose arrows I readied
In each a death for its slain

18. I clothed it in the garments of rhetoric in full
And raised my banners over its crown

19. And I drew with feeling what I deduced
From memoirs unmatched in likeness

20. It unveiled the faces of truths in their seclusion
So discern them in the folds of its chapters

21. With it I escaped my incarceration triumphant
Ecstasies come over me from its inclusiveness

22. And I recited it with the tongue of truth in the open
Among the discerning throng and the noble of them

23. And I turned away with resolve today
From achieving our independence, steeped in its attainment

24. So I left one prison for another - pray for me
To soon attain my goal and its fulfillment

25. I am in it years steadfast and compelled
And I have the choice pounded in its analysis

26. They ruled I stay in office until
The ambassador is summoned to return

27. I am that emissary standing among them
Appointed with the duties of appearance

28. Until I complete what is upon me for Yemen
We strive with our awakening to smooth its way

29. It is that constitution we demand which
They carried out what satisfies you in its authorization

30. Greet your brother for this is the hand that
Placed it upon the Quran between its witnesses

31. And show sympathy to those testimonies with a testimony
And race the horses of poetry after its steeds

32. For each has served the nation with his poetry
So follow your path for it is the very path of it