1. Towards the land of Arabs you have a moment's glance,
Does love of tribe Qais or Jurhum entrance?

2. Nay, but then love awoke
For them a chamber in the heart's expanse

3. Mayhap in their nearness
For me is the best of mankind's chance

4. The spirit of existence, Muhammad
Praised, neither coarse nor dense

5. A nature gentler than the soft fine silk
With it harsh to unbelievers, else intense

6. Content with what Allah content
And with what else discontented and incensed

7. Neither is heat hot for him
In his love, nor the sultry heat intense

8. However much the calamities of fate
Bare him, they leave him unblemished thence

9. He surpassed all speech entirely
In his book, meaning and elegance

10. And his eloquence encompassed
Stories, judgments and admonishments