1. In cheek decided the mixture to depart
A rain you increase with cheeks more beautiful

2. Oh a look denied sleep and left
In my heart's cheek what revived embers

3. My questions were only from kohl
My life imagined in my heart distracted

4. I find grace except you gallantry
And patience except your coquetry beautiful

5. And I see your much coquetry lovely
And I see a little coquetry boring

6. You complain of your spirited mare above her
A complaint that found your love presumptuous

7. And the pulling of her bridle taunts me
So loosen her to you like a suitor seeking a kiss

8. The gazes of beasts glared at me
The day we parted raging and burning

9. A gaze that dims other killers beside it
Badr son of Ammar son of Ismael

10. Dispelling distresses with its like
And leaving the mighty king humiliated

11. A judgment when the adversary delays with his debt
It makes the sword with what it wants guarantor

12. A utterance when speech sheds its wrap
It gives hearts with its speech minds

13. Lavishness exceeded time so he was lavish with it
And time can through it be stingy

14. As if lightning in the bosom of clouds
Indian in his palm unsheathed

15. And the place of his pillar pours gifts
If they were a flood they would not find an outlet

16. His tent pegs so they are as though
They show from loving necks convulsed

17. Did you crack the lion cub's whip
For whom did you save the polished sword

18. There fell upon the Jordan through him an affliction
With which the zealots' resolves collapsed

19. A lion when he comes to drink at the well
And the Euphrates his roar and the Nile

20. Dyed with the blood of knights wearing
In his twisting from his sides twisting

21. His eyes were not met but were thought
Under darkness the fire of separation lodged

22. In the seclusion of monks but he
Knows no prohibition nor permissibility

23. He walks on land gently in his wanderings
As if a staff feeling out an invalid

24. And he returns his disheveled hair to his temples
Until it becomes for his head a wreath

25. And you would think from his snarling self
He is preoccupied with the intensity of his rage

26. His fear shortened his steps so it is as though
He rode his camel kneeled

27. He threw down his prey and pounced without it
And approached a relation making him dependent

28. So the two natures resembled in his audacity
And differed in enjoying that edible

29. A lion seeing in you his two kidneys
A prey pulled down and an arm unstrung

30. In the saddlebags of a bleary-eyed sly one a heap
Whose uniqueness it refuses to be an example

31. A drinking vessel of requests if not for
Giving room for its cup it would not be filled

32. Its conversations grow limp when you recall them
And its bridle is thought to be loosened

33. He never stopped gathering himself in his cunning
Until you thought the width was the length

34. And he pounds rocks with his chest as though he
Seeks a way to what is in the abyss

35. And as if an eye tempted him so he drew near
Not seeing the lofty, momentous peril

36. The noble's nose is above baseness
In his eye the many are few

37. And shame stings but is not fearful
Of his doom from whoever feared what was said

38. He preceded meeting you with the leap of an assailant
If he did not clash with you he would have passed you by a mile

39. His strength betrayed him though he struggled with you
So he sought aid in surrender and humility

40. His death grasped his hands and neck
So it was as if you met him fettered

41. The son of his paternal aunt heard of him and his state
So he escaped fleeing terrified from you yesterday

42. And more bitter than his fleeing what he fled from
Is that he did not die a victim

43. Lost is he who took insolence as a trait
And counseled he who took flight as a friend

44. If your knowledge of God was apportioned
Among people God would not have sent a messenger

45. If your words to them were what God sent down not
The Qur'an, Torah and Bible

46. If what you give them before you give
They would not have known delay

47. So you were known but not known truly
And you were unknown but not dim

48. Your adversities the doves sing of
And what you torment the steeds with neighs

49. Not all who sought the heights striving
In them and not all men are gallant