1. The muttering of the love-sick is the speech of gazelles,
Alas for them - gazelles and youths!

2. The spring has passed, and after being joined with it,
I have dyed my tears for it with blood.

3. Alas! My carefree joys have grown short
And the times when I lost my spring and youth.

4. I have closed my eyelids from flirting with does,
And indeed its coldness has drawn down my eyelids.

5. And indeed I have wanted to break my spear
Into firewood, and make its place of casting into grass.

6. So I will turn either to wine with revelry,
Or to blood with brave warriors as my drink.

7. I lived in harmony with the does, who shied from
My sharp sword - jealous falcon of the flies.

8. Days in my shadow were spring and springtime,
Graced with gentle winds and clouds.

9. With every curly-tressed charmer,
Her glances matched their tendrils.

10. A fawn revealing lovely features
Her hair adorned my temple like a prayer niche.

11. She captivated a devoted heart with her gaze
Until I knew loss and gain.

12. If you wish for her cups or her mouth,
I would sip wine or kiss dew.

13. Or if you wish - when she is absent, her watchdog is too -
Then I recalled joined meeting and intimacy.

14. I exaggerated in praising the fawns, following their fraud,
Truthfully, imitating the son of the prophet.

15. And when Hussein is praised, his praise is beautiful,
So they have prolonged the appearance and made it excellent.

16. The purest lineage and highest of hand,
Branch, and most generous of lineage and side.

17. The greatest lineage - so how when
The brilliant chapters of the book praised his lineage?

18. Star of the Fatimids, from the bounties of Hashim,
And the nurtured ones from the generous clouds.

19. The five bodies were light before
The darkness embroidered its cloak.

20. Of overflowing virtue, his attacks can't be counted,
And his person alone shines like a flame.

21. The virtues of the house from which appeared like constitution
The stars, the law.

22. And wonders of knowledge from whose sea
The Pleiades skimmed, amazed.

23. And beauties of words and manners which
He allotted and named "etiquette."

24. His descriptions are sublime, sublime,
Conciseness and wordiness have become confused.

25. In his grasp is a pen, feared and hoped for
It hits and misses equally.

26. His benefits guard the strongholds, sometimes,
Straight arrows, and a correct, striking pilgrimage.

27. By his rectitude, misfortunes have been revealed and unravelled,
Directed towards speech, intimate conversations.

28. Wondrously, his lines illuminate
The paths of guidance, and confuse intellects.

29. By him the clouds of life solidified, and if
On a day of conflict, it touched iron - it would melt.

30. If he is generous, the foliage of his words
Grows grapes that intoxicate our minds.

31. Until when terrors of awe came from him
All its vegetation became thorns.

32. By God, your worth - O protector of Aleppo -
You have rained towards his call and correctness.

33. No matter how alluring the freely-flowing charmer appears to you
O Abdul Rahim, you would refrain.

34. And a composer - the nomads know that
In the heart of the cities, she has nomads.

35. Hashim broke the pottery of the Arabs, and contained
Even Quraish, capturing their flags.

36. She uprooted the pegs of every obstinate one,
And she held onto the ropes of heaven.

37. And how could her like go astray? So if
She is called "innovative" in her beginning and end,

38. O son of the trustee, a trust from one who weakened
His strength after striving and withering.

39. In composing it about you - and the quivering of his spear -
Smallness belittled, and excellence refused.

40. The gate of rhetoric - through you opened -
And I am a man, no ability in rhetoric or refusal.