1. For how long, O unjust one, will you avoid me?
When will my grievance be redressed?

2. If your affection is unattainable,
Then my love is unending torment.

3. Whoever's heart is free of passion's agony,
I'm not that stoic one.

4. Why do I conceal my love
As my aching heart grows more forlorn?

5. With my sorrows unspoken
My teary eyes already tell.

6. My eyes and heart in passion enslaved,
Who else but me is to blame?

7. O you whose nature is steeped in grace,
Be generous in excusing your lover's state.

8. Though you're absent at dawn,
Within my heart you'll remain.

9. You know well the ordeals I've endured,
Yet you ask about me as though oblivious.

10. O you who reproached me at noon
As if I were a startled beast.

11. Camels of Nejd, though far, yearn
For their ancient abode.

12. Ask the tavern's songs if the old traditions
Have since changed.

13. A drink for days of sorrow,
When clouds bring sweet rain.

14. By the gazelles' meadow I pass,
A graceful and shy herd.

15. My heart's their pasture, while
For them are the bushes and brush.

16. Wondrous that my heart longs for them
Though its depths are unreached.

17. Glorious is their charm as
The stars tilt westward in the dusk.

18. The Gemini's necklace is a precise line
In its arrangement and thread.

19. The meadow is burnished by dewdrops
As the gentle breeze makes it sway.

20. The vines have now flourished
And doves are its friends.

21. Flowers smile amidst their cover
When clouds weep rains.

22. It's the abode of kindness -
Cares never descend in its yard.

23. The ground is fertile, roses ever bounteous,
And the desired one sublime.

24. Descend unto it and you'll gain
The wish and I your guide.

25. O you who brightened for us the gloomed night
With the illumination of your wisdom.

26. For us is a shaded refuge,
A general blessing and fresh rains.

27. You have set munificence as exemplar -
Even clouds learned from your charity.

28. O recent glorious one,
Noble deeds make ancient honor shine.

29. Lenient when fate is miserly,
Steadfast when tempers flare.

30. Of a folk whose nobility like perfume
Spreads as fresh aroma.

31. A people, within whom the prodded angry one Finds appeasing and deterring.
Nobility upon you, house of forgiveness -

32. Even stars cannot rival your stature.
By the best of caravans whose winding path

33. Was set straight by the winds.
None remain of them in crises and lands

34. Except the ancient and timeless.
They ply the sands, the winds their guide

35. And passion their driving force.
Sheltered she-camels who sense no

36. Heat or cold from the conditions.
Mecca's days escorted them, and the Revered,

37. As well as resolve and determination.
Without you, son of Muhammad,

38. No dignified one would grace this life.
Etiquette itself would be but

39. A market of no esteem.
You enriched me when no friend or confidant

40. Could provide warmth or solace.
I gained the triumph of my argument

41. Though all humankind protested.
May one of stern features but heart most kind

42. Sacrifice himself for you.
The rain of his gifts is abundant,

43. Wide and free his shelter.
His sky is never devoid of benevolence,

44. Nor does it bode ill.
The birds of hope circle his banquets,

45. Welcomed and soaring overhead.
His coins are flawless, though

46. His honor is truly sublime.
This is my brother's praise, sincere and plain,

47. His affection is sheer and untainted.
For the sky of your glory there are stars,

48. And for those who oppose you, meteorites.