1. Who saw before your dimples a cupbearer
Making her dwelling pearls, so it remained

2. She glances from a cheek whose flashing
Captures the heart when displaying a smile

3. A cheek where grace is illuminated at dawn
While the cheek's jealousy spurs on ostriches

4. Whenever the cupbearer quenched my thirst with tears
And quenched the musk drink and wine

5. May God destroy the one seen with fever
Reciting forever passion to the heart

6. Describing her moist lips with his dry ones
And matching its wetness to hers in proportion

7. O she of the dry lips, grant me their moisture
And for your edges seek the clouds

8. I want water while she refuses to share
This is wrong, O daughter of the tribe, dividing

9. Had a judge ruled between us with justice
Both of us complaining of love sickness

10. It would have quenched me with drops I was given
While her lips would quench me like showers do fields

11. By He who knows Qais’ secret love for Ghadah
That has deafened people’s hearing of blame

12. She wronged me when she clothed my thin body
In a garment that bared the bones from flesh

13. Then said, “To me you are like my eyes in love”
She spoke true but also disease

14. I was killed by nights of her estrangement
My insides filled with the words from them

15. I feared him until his night came
So her glance avenged, and I fell asleep

16. When she killed me with love, I said
“Wine was forbidden but is now permitted”

17. Do you see the travellers in the east of the enclosure
Yearning towards the valley of tangled trees

18. Whenever its ruins appeared to them
It drew the riders' reins insistently

19. Its milestones allow safe travel
Though the dwellings there are desolate

20. So we cast a glance towards the enclosure
Then from afar bid it peace

21. Neither the women of dwellings greeted us
Nor did we compare its tents to tents

22. A trace of confusion on my palms after them
Witnesses her form passed before my eyes in a dream

23. I had no nights with her but those
How much will the full moon cycle to perfection?

24. Tell those I love, that if destiny
Spoiled comfort, even if lasting

25. How I came to you, my tears flowing
Down my cheek incessantly

26. Whenever I remember a day with you
I weep for it, barely lasting a year

27. From a passionate cup of tears by night
Consumed, while the blamers slept

28. Whenever he longed for the presence
His breath stirred within anxiously

29. Remembering one more beautiful than a flock of ostriches
Her phantom appears only at times

30. She lodged an empty space in my heart
So it is detached, fearing no crowds within

31. Supporting its sides with pillars
Erecting pillars in it from its essence

32. While my heart encompassed it, though betraying me
Why, O heart, why the betrayal

33. This is how fate toys with me, its turns
With concerns that linger ceaselessly

34. The days have turned against what they once granted
An unlucky nature, and when were they generous?

35. The days' daughters in their betrayal
Are like their sons, unrestrained

36. How many people I thought madness
The day horror made them arrows in me

37. As if their mother was my fate, so they blamed me
Is a son not satisfied with his father as imam?

38. It trails a shadow, mimicking its branch
However the wind sways it straightens

39. O brother of help, and what is help but
To wrap resolutely in amiability

40. My love of you is tested, so do not fear breaking
If friendship is a wing, its feet are only steps forward

41. So fear, O companion of discourse, tomorrow's talks
If we become friends, and fear not the battle

42. We are two volumes, yet destiny bound us in one
So do not accept defeat, stay bold

43. Be to me water when I fear echo
And fire's companion when I enter darkness

44. A man whom movement awakens from sleep
While an infant when rocked, falls asleep

45. If you wish and glory is a foreign meadow
In scattered honor, solemn and unyielding

46. Then roam it narrating tales in the emptiness
When ostriches or ostriches are stirred

47. Not the backbones of land outlast its decay
Nor does the land outlast backbones

48. Earth forgot its expanse when
Its expanse forgot it, soaked in floods

49. You confide travel by day, betraying
Consuming shade, even when fasting

50. Or the darkness of night whose belly
Bears the dawn's embryo for the hopeful

51. Did the horizon miss the sunrise?
Or did the viewer there turn blind?

52. No mantle ascended the horizon, but fell
From it, so my head darkened in its darkness

53. I and fate are like a battle's two ostriches
So observe which of us takes revenge

54. When its hand bared my greying hair
A sword slicing my forehead

55. It asked victorious about its events
With the sword of faith refining me a sword

56. Its effects tell of its trace
Triumphant, seizing glory

57. The mortal's face is polished and beaming
Radiant to the free man’s eye

58. Unfurling a sea when stretching a hand
Revealing a moon when dropping the veil

59. Whenever it shook with him, the dew called out
The rising sun from it, and the sun

60. By He who was the Caliph's father I have a victor
Against fate’s afflictions if brought to judge

61. And a sword wiping their necks
Its reverse a description for it, my valued concern

62. A sword nurtured by a shoulder
Then seasoned by the noblest elite

63. You will not see a nick, determination fulfilled
Unless one called father of determination, nick

64. O son of one whose hand empowered the kingdom
Thus he protects it from the commoners

65. And sufficed them of him to unite them
A legacy flowing daily from generosity

66. A legacy, and the army like its rain
Raining blessings, and deadly disease

67. They were conditioned to rely on them
As the unwearying pillar is leaned upon

68. The tribes take his manners
Yet the biased still reap no benefits

69. If the lowest of his knowledge's face shone
The people's shortage would fold in completeness

70. All he utters is admired
For it is pearls, spreading and organizing

71. Its signs dazzled, so perfection
Split between word and meaning perfectly

72. Composed of it and his supremacy
To rule the envious, compelling submission

73. O leader making his claim
Those seeking virtue their eyes' leader

74. He owned virtue, so protected it
And thus whoever made the paths protector

75. Take it from a frequent drinker of thirst
After an era flowing and protective

76. Deafening listeners’ ears, they listened
Filling pearls, and precious gems

77. An envious one sees it out of envy
Deaf in ear to it, sealed off

78. So remain for glory and supremacy, and live
In the shade of might and bounty lasting

79. Wearing out nights in honor
Truthful in striking and fearing no fractures

80. With a sword nurtured by a shoulder
Then seasoned, towering, eminent