1. Love did not prevent tongues from speaking
Nor did the most delicious complaint of a lover manifest

2. I wish my beloved had deserted the towns
Without sin, while joining me in estrangement's connection

3. We, if you had adorned us, you would not have known what
Our colors were, from what we were stained as we changed

4. And our breaths ignited until, indeed
I worried the maidens would burn between us

5. I sacrifice she who bid farewell whom I followed
With a look, alone, between sighs and moans

6. I denied the knocking of events once
Then admitted to it, so it became our habit

7. And I roamed the world, aimless, and passed my time
In it, and my prime and those deceived

8. And I stopped where the morning dew stopped me
And I reached the full moon of the son of 'Ammar

9. For Abi al-Husayn, my grandfather, whose capacity
Falls short of him, even if the vessel were most vast

10. And a courage that made its mention suffice him
And its discourse prevented the coward from cowardice

11. Its reins were tied to the shoulder of a warrior
Who never retreated, does he retreat? Nor bend

12. So it was as if, while stabbed from the front
He frightened from behind that he may be stabbed

13. The sharpness of his mind dismissed from him delusions
So the unknown matters were decided with certainty for him

14. The tyrant is startled by his suddenness
So he remains shrouded in his privacy

15. He accomplished his will so soon he will have power
And drew nearer the furthest so there he attained

16. He finds iron against the softness of his skin
A garment lighter than silk and smoother

17. And more bitter to him than the loss of loved ones
Is the loss of swords with missing sheaths

18. Neither does fear reside in his ribs one day
Nor generosity that he should not be generous

19. Inferring from his knowledge what tomorrow holds
As if what will happen in it is documented

20. Minds fall short of comprehending him
Like the heavens and the earth in which we and creation are

21. Who is not of those he killed of his peers
Who is not of those who yielded of those weAlerted?

22. When you turned from the coasts toward us
Desolation turned to them from our side

23. The path swayed so you did not pass a place
Except the wild beasts dwelt there as residents

24. If the trees you met could think
They would stretch greeting branches to you

25. The spirits of domes' statues walked from
Yearning through them so their eyes turned to you

26. Our ships were disturbed so we thought
If not for modesty, they would have danced with us

27. You came smiling and the steeds frowning
Biting the doubled bridle and cheekpiece

28. Their braids coiled upon them abundantly
If you sought a neck over them it enabled

29. And the matter is your matter, and hearts in harmony
In a stance between demise and purpose

30. So I was amazed until I was not amazed by gazelles
And I saw until I did not see from beauties

31. I see you a garrison of honors
In a garrison, and a mine of sublimities

32. So the heart perceived when I came by yearning
And when I left fearing you would perceive

33. Your separation has become a punishment upon it
Not easy, that which I suffered from it

34. So forgive, a ransom for you, and love me after it
To confer upon me a gift from it, I

35. And he who counseled you about me in error
For the free man is tested by the sons of fornication

36. And when the young man tosses words dismissively
In a sitting, the sarcastic takes the words

37. And the schemes of fools befall them
And the enmity of poets is a miserable acquisition

38. Cursed is the company of the base one, for it
Is a guest that drags regret as a guest

39. The anger of the envious when I meet you pleased
Is a mockery easier on me than to weigh us down

40. He who became with your Lord a disbeliever in the evening
Became from other than us, with us by your grace a believer

41. The countries became devoid of gazelles in their nights
So may God compensate you so you would not grieve