1. I and my companions passed the night awake in Najd
While the mounts were weak and still from fatigue

2. At the smile of lightning that lit up
My eyelids while the resolute heart softened

3. As if its brilliance in the darkness
When a bright mouth of Salma's smiled, was frost

4. Its light drew near so my sight turned
Towards it and we watered our camels far from it

5. So for some the flashes were a yearning
And for others at the high ground a stillness

6. And the lightning did no harm to my companions
As long as my eyes still shed their showers

7. And a longing I slaughtered my eyelids for
Weeping when they came back safe from it

8. And without the charming white ones are white
And without the still red tents are still

9. God have a people who in their absence
I am bound by longing and plots for them

10. Sleep avoided me when they went far
And swore not to return until they return

11. The desolate were changed by the sociable
When tomorrow this parting from them was very painful

12. So gazelle follows gazelle in fright
And young goat is hunted by young goat seeking prey

13. I looked when they loaded for the riders
Their excellent steeds neighing with might

14. And how often I said to the eye where are the face veils
And how often I said to the neck where are the necklaces

15. Oh rider who crosses the wilderness
With him in the morning salvation and beauty

16. If I reach the garrison safe
And for your descent the tent pegs are fixed

17. Give my greetings to the full moon of life
Eclipsed by his absence and the enmities

18. With a token of what he said on the day of departure
To pasture of the Friend to whom pacts were made

19. And when we stopped the morning of farewell
And she was tied to bid farewell with weeping

20. He wept and sighed in fear of separation
So an eyelid and temple resigned their bonds

21. As if the one who took it off was
A pearl necklace worn by the cheeks

22. He threw me from the gaze of the two eyebrows
With a glance of a new crescent resembling iron

23. From arrows that fill up hearts
With wounds while skins remain whole

24. The seductions of an eye how much you have shot
And captured while your arrow on the bow shot

25. Like the presence of the Master of Messengers when
He is shaded and through him the religion supreme

26. Remaining while never leaving him
For a day passions or fervor

27. Aiming for the goals of those who hope in Him
Drawing near those far through his signs

28. So he has not ceased to be in this station
Where his wonders begin or repeat

29. And none despaired except the ignorant of Him
A foe plotting or envious of Him

30. A noble adorned by his valor and generosity
And his soul ennobled him and judiciousness

31. His nights white with favors
While the days of a folk black with sins

32. He had already gained ascendancy before the homes became empty
And the least with whoever rules when alone

33. You wear the sovereignty among them
Because in every merit you are unique

34. And all the jewels of harmony are doubled
While you are the clasp's intermediary

35. And he who has risen above the stars' positions
Nothing diminishes or increases him

36. But you are too great for what makes them great
So why are you, on a day of pride, reproached?

37. And they do not detract from you in what
They detract when boundaries are assigned

38. The kingdom counts your days though few
While many are the small in number

39. And how many times without it did you stand firm in judgment
Resisting what the armies witnessed

40. When do you claim precedence in its victory?
For those nights testify for it

41. So may it and you remain and not cease
Two companions in glory so long as wood is green

42. And God has a generous one who
The deputations did not stop taking from what was in his hands

43. Protecting his religion and protecting his honor
From blame - its fine plucks and hurls

44. And from his opinion swords were forged
Containing what the scabbards store

45. By God so much bellowing roaring
Thunder its flashing strikes in abundance

46. You folded two lines of what was written
And the battalions strayed far from it

47. It watches you before you are ransomed
While for it in the dark meadows the lions watch

48. It went with us to the honor of religion
And remains lofty with the loyal servants

49. Its towering minarets to a spring
My epoch had strayed far from

50. No surging market made us incline to them
But rather no fervent longing pulled us

51. We met in our time tribulations
Almost making the vast earth toil

52. I split my shame for them and was patient
And my standing for them was long and seated

53. The screens of pretending became weak
Beside the mysteries of my state like barricades

54. So for their outward the enemy cries
And for their inward the devoted cry

55. And concealment of what cannot be borne grows wide
And revelation of what is not desired exposes

56. So I changed my complaining to thanking for them
In the most beautiful manner aiming for Him and this ode

57. And from what makes my time evil I turned
To gain instead from what benefits

58. Just as the moon seeks the sun constantly
Will you see my breast and blossoms

59. So with my meeting him I diminish
And when I turn from him grow

60. So take them as necklaces from a mind
For it a soul in meanings extended

61. Whims to be fulfilled through which rights
Are beautifully done and grudges forgotten

62. A gift for the pens of his writers
To him for the mention of you prostrating

63. And what the breeze gains in gardens
Or thunderbolts meet in the sky

64. Is like what a superior does for one superior
So this one gives and that one excels

65. May your life continue to ripen time
And may you continue to meet a new celebration

66. Its like comes to you over and over
So the beginning is fortunate and the return praiseworthy

67. And the least of your great deeds have come
To flow over the stars' orbit

68. So God granted you what you attained
And increased you if in it there is increase

69. You have surpassed the creation's extent
And for glory after you promises remain

70. Its like refer back to you
So the start is fortunate and the return praiseworthy