1. He travels as the guide pleases, and sets right,
And toils in it, he who blames and makes excuses,

2. It is the sun rising, but I see
That I do not change from the sanctuary,

3. With my soul a spring from his virgins another
Spring raised from his pouring first,

4. And a mouth that mocks the lexicographer his correctness
And a face that has from the saliva of beauty a wrap,

5. For its charmer viewer an evidence of magic,
At the like of it my tear from the eye is sent,

6. And from wonder that I equal his stature
I moan and the tear of the eye continues below me,

7. If I brought my passion the laziness of his eyelids
To your like, O my heart, of patience I am most lazy,

8. And if the thinness of body knitted a garment for me
When I took it off, that I be adorned with it,

9. Yes, in the eyelids of the Turks for the soul alertness
And for the heart in those straits an entrance,

10. My heart gets wounded sometimes after sometimes
And testifies that I am a lover, so it makes excuses,

11. And how much a blamer blamed me, so I left him
To say and my heart in youth gets its fill,

12. And if my blamers on beauty were my brethren
I would say to them, my obedience to beauty is more beautiful,

13. Stand, O sons of my mother, your riding animals
For I incline to a people other than you,

14. To every branch it bent wandering on soft sand
Its hips almost twist,

15. And the full moon passed my time shining with its conjunction
So no wonder that after my full moon I am lost,

16. The dust of earth drinks the water of my tears
And between my ribs a burning ember eats away,

17. And I tremble with remembrance until as if
What I ate yesterday of the mention repeats itself to me,

18. The rain watered my times when living was possible
And servants of my matter with bliss hurry,

19. My time is well-chosen and my aim successful
And my comfort is aromatic and my full moon rising,

20. The night stretched my seeing eye, complaining,
To its kiss from its embrace I move about,

21. So I fell in love with that beauty, and it is the night that stretched
With my kiss sealed and my embrace locked,

22. To its like the love poem of a composer is gifted
And for the fellow son of a fellow the praise carries,

23. If a composer says a meaning in the son of Ya'qub
Then the meanings with his name are perfected,

24. If he counts the people of knowledge, forbearance and piety
And the works of hands, the son of Ya'qub is first,

25. If hopes held on to a supporter from him
Then glad tidings, the hopes will not be disappointed,

26. If he counts the positions of his glory twice over
A position over distinction that does not change,

27. A confidential confidant before youth is completed
And a sheikh of sheikhs before he is aged,

28. And a judge of judges correct in his perfection
Pious, nothing of him is hidden or distracted in error,

29. And sufficient for the sufficient what Ibn Abbad hunts
For him nor the titled judge is superior,

30. He established in the haven of Damascus a breast for his confidential talk
And his praises in west and east travel,

31. The people call his favors and diction and brilliance,
Yes, so be creative, then choose, then excel,

32. And no shortcoming in him but that he has a companion
Who answers the call of the healthy before he asks,

33. Gifts of his palms and wordings of his books
Upon Yemen what between peoples are sent,

34. And for steps after study from him benefits
That prefer in their channels and detail,

35. Sciences from the horizons of schools are picked out
And rhymed prose from the collections of notebooks is transmitted,

36. And diction with which to the logician manners,
And grammar with which to the Persian firmness,

37. And calligraphy as chained bracelets pleased
And poetry as poured nectar chained,

38. And an opinion on the path of glory and resolve
That hovers over the flower of stars sweetened by bees,

39. For the fine young man in religion and life together we gathered
And in the sermon of the two houses aptly prepared,

40. For him God whatever most is true and noble resolve
And successful whatever he does and contemplates,

41. It saw with my time how my humility was
So it faced it until it almost and it humbled collapsed,

42. And it relieved my concerns the complete in righteousness and piety
With favors from the door of increase enter,

43. And it is only when its army took the initiative
So they stood ranks for supplication and devoted themselves,

44. So I strung them pearls and the meteors a meadow
On the horizon it appeared and the galaxy a stream,

45. And the darkness of night whose crescent has a covering
Until it appeared at dawn and it is wrapped,

46. So for you two the effort of the loving and live as
You love for a people like it models itself,

47. With my love if only all the limbs
For your praise hearing among people and speaking,