1. The gentle one has a sea of tears that flows
When the lovesick dive in, they drown

2. The miracle of passion I have embarked upon
Is the religion for all who have loved

3. The cloud of my sorrow has rained continuously
From the long thunder and lightning

4. The slanderers said I have parched them
The slanderers lied, if only they had told the truth

5. With the heart one becomes parched, if it becomes parched
While the heart is locked away with them

6. O people of Kananah, from your tribes
In sorrow wherever lightning has struck

7. Arrows one day, passion and love another
Their targets are the pupils of eyes

8. And to the warrior, a glance of their eyes
From their arrows, the finest gift if they shoot

9. They shot until they left no dawn thereafter
Above the plain someone they could shoot

10. Have you seen how he turns his eyes to us
That gallant man, though rent his garb

11. No wonder if they both shoot
While his heart is torn, patience in rags

12. If there was no choice in struggle
But two archers for a reckless horseman

13. People were amazed by the heart of a youth
Who camped where the arrows pierce

14. Delighting in the one who, if he does not shoot him
Causes him anxiety and turmoil

15. Encourage with my heart when you shoot him
If only your neck was above it, laid bare

16. O friend, gladden me, for how many
I have gladdened, my companions who loved

17. Ask the neighborhood about me and my company
How often they were kept awake by us and frequented

18. Afterward, either a troubled visitor
Passionate or angry, sullen

19. I meet them in the darkness of night
And at the dawn of morning I venture forth

20. Without the silks of cheeks, their tents
Have been covered, hollow their ceilings

21. So if you steal glances
You will find me stealing what they have stolen

22. At night, when they fill their eyes with sleepy intoxication
While my eyelid from me, its fullness keeps awake

23. I visit them in apparition, and imagine
If I visited them in person, they would not leave

24. By God, their waist is never still
With the glances of lovers conversing

25. A sun when it has set in the morning
Its vestiges remain ablaze at sunset

26. I said to my heart: have patience
Or borrow some, for the journey is departing

27. It replied: do not trouble yourself advising me
Before parting, we will part

28. You have tears, if their caravan flowed with them
The roads to them would be cut off

29. You extinguished the fire of your cheek
And left your breast filled with burning

30. Passion concealed my heart, so it burned
And sulfur, when it speaks, catches fire

31. I cried from yearning and wonder
Thirsty while drowning in its water

32. As for the slanderers, how much they asked us
For a fault, but truthfulness tore them apart

33. Before they created tales for us
Oh, if only among people they were never created

34. I gave my days leadership without willingness
How can the fluttering be harnessed?

35. I was content with a sea that has
No downpour or east wind

36. And rough, scribbled poems
If they realized are torn from my heart

37. I bring them to the market of recession
Crowded with property and the market

38. They devalue and devalue though
Torn by them are the routes to them

39. The loved ones said: Praise is for us
Wind, so why should paper be given?

40. Wind, if enabled, would also
Shake the branches, scattering the paper

41. I and innovations will never cease
To spend the night with an unblinking eyelid

42. And offspring of ideas that revolve with me
While I revolve and they shine

43. Like daughters of a bier, seeking
To cling for fame with them

44. But you see us in the sky of greatness
Around the pole of glory we penetrate

45. A pole it has returned establishing
The orbit of realms and it is consistent

46. What is its view, and the realm, if
Gloomy clouds, but the sun and horizon?

47. Its discourse, and speech, if it does not
People, but the night and daybreak?

48. It is a state that has prospered with its uniqueness
Its parallel in time they never attained

49. In everything people have disagreed
But upon preferring it they agreed

50. Our praising it has not ceased ever
With the coolness of its heights, fragrant

51. The pilgrims to its Kaaba will not cease
Travelling parties upon its traces travelling

52. From its presence, for them, and from its hand
A sun that illuminates and a full moon shining

53. My passion for the sovereign of mankind is sincere
For none other does my heart trust

54. Its innermost thoughts are pure, while the rest
Were hypocritical, so they were not pure

55. Say to the one who gives congratulations what befits him:
You have been congratulated that with greatness you have met

56. Imitating the like of you is the occupation of a kingdom
Like a necklace adorned by the neck

57. Grieving for your ascension, his heart hurts
The length of time, though his eye is sleepless

58. Sullen, the newcomer's rage fans it
Until with the hem of his garb he chokes

59. My soul ransoms you, from a brother of trust
For friendship sincere all they have tasted

60. A friendship whose truthfulness to his companion
With him no lies or guile

61. Diver of the sea of his right hand, a pen
Harvesting pearls of stringing

62. Illuminating parchment, and wondrously
Essence that illuminates with its color so pure

63. By God, the radiance of his honor
Dazes enemies however it shines

64. The clouds race but cannot reach it
Striving with its forehead to sweat

65. The sea, when you measure his generosity
With a drop of his sea, sinks

66. The staff of greatness, its head
Like grey hair, its youth renewed

67. Time is the racecourse of noblemen, while they
Are like steeds racing in it

68. You did not catch up to them as they pulled ahead
Until you surpassed them, no longer caught up

69. From the family of Salim, the beloved, their
Honor is safe, ethics magnified

70. Yemeni wealth growing for you
White like a necklace's pearls, strung

71. Their accounts tell of their swords
Polished in striking, loosed from sheaths

72. They traveled west, but when after them you came
And told of them, as if they traveled east

73. The purest in God's religion the call of one
Who sacrificed your train of greatness clasping

74. Is it virtuous that I live like this
Clinging to the palm of fate, emancipated?

75. Days you the arbiter, rarely
In a state, while for you are mercenaries

76. And we are embraced by Arabness that was generous
Its roots so its branches are towering

77. If you embrace a region under your protection
Still spacious with you it remains embraced

78. For long, as time has its ups and downs
For the flash of your lightning waiting I have hoped

79. Victory of the son of Nasr, I have been satisfied with it
Were the supporters brought near or did they crush?

80. And the ascension of Ali is above all ascensions
Were they silenced the morning after pride or did they speak?

81. It remains a pole in steadfastness for it
The dawn comes and goes and nightfall