1. Do the lofty ones fear your disdain in the dark night
When you are a light amid the darkness?

2. The beauty is restless though she is musk whose wrapper is torn
And though she walks at night, she is brilliant

3. I grieve for my self-conceit which led me astray
From his knowledge, so it was hidden from me

4. And my complaint is the loss of well-being
For it was when my limbs were well

5. Your eyes resembled my wounded inner feelings
So both alike are tearful

6. The snub-nosed sword went through me
And perhaps the brown spear will pierce it

7. I am a rock of the valley when it is struck
And when I speak, I am the nut tree

8. And if I am obscure to the ignorant
It is no wonder a blind short-sighted one does not see me

9. It is the way of nights to cast doubt on my she-camel
And my breast opens to it or the open desert

10. She passes the night smoothening a place to sleep
Cushioning it in the soft sand

11. Her saddle-bags are crumpled and her provisions-bag
Torn, and her route unspoiled

12. Fear makes the waterskin change color
As the chameleon changes color

13. Between me and my father Ali is a distance
Like the smell of mountains and their hope

14. And like the eagle of Lebanon; how can it be reached
When it is winter and its summer is winter?

15. The snows clothed its passes against me
So that with their whiteness they seemed black

16. And so is the generous man when he stays in a country
Freshness flows in it and water rises

17. The train freezes and if it saw him as you see
It would be amazed and the streams would not flow

18. In his line of poetry every heart has a desire
As if its ink were desires

19. And for every eye a joy in his nearness
As if the far horizon were his disappearance

20. Who is guided to act though the poets do not guide
To speech until they act?

21. Every day the rhymes have a turn
In his heart and his ear listens

22. And a raid on what it contains, as if
In every line were a shooting star

23. Who wrongs the incompetent by testing them
Until they equal him in the morning?

24. And their weakness shows his merit
And through its opposite things are made clear

25. Whose harm lies in attacking him and whose benefit
In leaving him, if only the enemies understood!

26. Peace breaks with its bucket the reservoirs of his money
What raging [floods] cannot mend

27. He gives and gifts are given from the pleasures of his hand
And views are seen through the view of his opinion

28. He who unites different tastes and brings together forces
Is like good and bad fortune

29. And as if his unfailing supplies
Put on a show for their delegates as they wish

30. O you upon whom his soul is shown favor
Since asking does not bring her appearance

31. Praise his virtues and do not grieve for their loss
For the gifts of the departed do not [cease] giving

32. The dead are not numerous for their number being few
Except when through you the living are damned

33. And the heart does not split open for what is beneath it
Until partisanship comes over you

34. You were not named O Harun until after
The names contended and snatched your name

35. So you went out and your name in you has no partner
And people in what is in your hand are equal

36. You have filled the cities with yourself
And you have folded praise until you became its fold

37. And you were serious until you almost begrudged
An obstacle to the ultimate and tears of joy

38. You began something of yourself whose beginning is known
And you restored until creation was denied

39. So pride turns away from falling short of you
And glory from being asked to add purity

40. So if you are asked it is not because you are needy
And if you are silent, gifts scream about you

41. And if you are praised, it is not to gain high station
For those who thank God belongs praise

42. And if you are watered, it is not because you are barren
The fertile are watered and the plateaus get rain

43. The clouds did not meet your rain, but
Were driven to it and its flooding went wild

44. The sun of our day did not meet this face
Except by a face that has no shame

45. With which foot did you stride to the heights?
The new moon is shoes on your feet

46. And for you time protects from time
And for you the dove protects from the dove

47. If you were not in this world which is through you
Eve would be barren at the birth of its line