1. I am amazed at the radiance of your face, bowing humbly,
As if you were preoccupied with grief after being joined together.

2. With a soft necklace and prominent breasts,
My neck was bent and my limbs emaciated,

3. After being inclined to pleasure and amusement in my youth.
I do not find rest from the insistence of the obstinate,

4. Or union with every intimate, delightful companion.
Leaning on her elbow fluttering coquettishly,

5. Swaying with a gait that stirs passion,
As if she were a leaf shaking on a branch.

6. A coolness radiating from a clear complexion,
White, yellow, with the yellowness of ivory.

7. Bleating among them and mingling together,
Like palm trees afflicted with a disease.

8. With bright faces but not cheeky,
Nor impudent, joking and laughing,

9. Exposing their teeth like hailstones.
As if lightning flashed during a commotion,

10. Their laughter with its radiance.
They teased me with their swaying hips,

11. The devil of every arrogant, audacious one,
With eloquent, lucid speech without stuttering,

12. And correct, understood language, not babbling,
And eyebrows frowning and scowling.

13. O Nadra, you have been inclined to impudence
And saying worthless, suspicious things,

14. That vanquish the soul I confide in
And forget the advice of the hot-tempered one,

15. Spurning the traits of ardency,
And the length of my intimacy with the quarrelsome,

16. Who have not mixed any lies or falsehood,
While I desire excuses and argumentation,

17. Fearing the jealousy of wives,
Which leads to the bed of the spurned,

18. Who spend the night lying awake in distress,
And select in intense darkness a gloomy, hidden corner,

19. Green, becoming green like withered grass,
Until it fades away from a bursting pillow,

20. Wiping tears from the dusty, travel-worn eye,
As if, from being held tightly, clutched,

21. And the afternoon, after ample bodies, fully matured,
And insistence with sighing and moaning,

22. Hollowed out like a water trough,
They cast toward me the echoes' reverberating sound,

23. With every burning thirst of firm argument,
As if they came from the heel of someone turned away.

24. Remains of sperm still sticky from discharge
The evil of grazing and confiding has not ceased,

25. With warning without gentle moderation,
And our constantly moving guide without rest,

26. Until we drove them along by force,
They threw off every hasty one, scared and alarmed,

27. No skin was retained in the blood of the slain.
It overlooked the wailing of the crying women,

28. The moaning of those journeying along the dusty road,
Who left him to the one-eyed cheat

29. And the wolf and the cunning decorated with stripes,
And an arrogant fool like a grape picker,

30. Who comes and goes bending over like an arched reed,
Frequenting every firm, steady footstep,

31. Alone with jumping or with the sheep,
As if they were clothed with loose robes,

32. And gained more hybrids from the sheep traders,
Fabric like Indian linen cloth in wrappings,

33. And headdresses in the gowns of young brides,
When we drive them with rebuke,

34. And resolute sand hills, stocked with supplies, stir up
A commotion with harshness and force,

35. Frightening the inhabitants with eviction.
As if it were the music of jinn causing confusion,

36. Accompanying it the twittering of the carpenter bird,
I surpassed it in a flaring, blazing star

37. That preserves the burning coals of last night
To the abode receiving various groups

38. Upon it are the feathers of wild ducks and the fur of rabbits
From the webs of spiders, the web makers

39. And if they adopt the method of one who sets forth early,
Emptying the sorrow that rends with no letup,

40. Carrying their containers with imposition,
Rather, I said, words certainly have pairs.

41. O Excellence, what will make you cry in distress?
Are you turning away from a brother in need,

42. Owing a pressing, burdensome debt that exhausts resources?
He has sought refuge with you from a perilous year

43. That casts down the leaves of trees.
He treated it while life has remedies,

44. Concerning a girl like chicks of chickens.
O Excellence, O son of the radiant, shining stars,

45. O Excellence, O son of the eminent nobles,
The Hashimites, pilgrims to the Sacred House,

46. You are the son of every Mustafa, a guiding lamp,
Easy to praise, of pure silk brocade,

47. Prayed for at the retreat of pilgrims,
Who plunges into every deep, tumultuous water,

48. For anguish on the day of raging conflict.
Your accounts are in ease and comfort.

49. No one who sought the shade of your shelter
Failed to escape by your saving rope,

50. In the joy of a consolation from misfortune.
Though people of high rank or without high rank

51. Shared virtue with an allotted portion,
You surpassed them with an overflowing bucket,

52. Large Iraqi vessel, collar adorned with pearls,
Of expansive branches, laden, bending under the weight,

53. Extending into the saturated, abundant meadows,
When the spate of floods converges,

54. Relieving the blossoms of the running stream
In a place abundant, filled with meadows,

55. Rearing upon successive commotion,
A sea extending the torrent in gushing forth,

56. Its tributaries repelling in its tributaries.