1. The boughs of affection from nurturing and play
Never devoid of passion and spilling tears

2. None consoled me except the standing of a desirer
None entertained me except the jewelry of clouds

3. And I lived a life sick with love
In its most faithful shade, disloyal companion

4. Days in which the judgment of separation is not unjust
In them, nor the arrow of time misaimed

5. And sometimes the bracelets of its lions
Stood between the lover and the flock of gazelles

6. And its felines pursued me with leaps
From its glances and its passionate leaps

7. When its neighborhood is the neighborhood of joy and its shade
Is the spacious honor with the dear side

8. The fluttering of flags and the neighing of horses
And the drums of regiments and the ringing of caravans

9. And wonders in beauty except that they
Shoot hearts with strangeness from burning passion

10. They plucked the roses of cheeks but indeed
They plucked that rose, the essence of the plucker

11. If you blame me, then there is no consent with me
Nor blame for the first blamer

12. I was told that the foolish attacked
Foolishly with time, the attacker

13. Their scorpions crawled toward me, and were not
Crawling in the night of hypocrisy, my scorpions

14. From the grace upon him I excel, and the pretender
My poetry, and I have not heard of a mute suitor

15. Far from it! The ignorance of the ignorant with a gown
Is not a veil on the star of piercing knowledge

16. And if an enemy aroused malice that does not cease
To conceal in the lowness of envy and suspicions

17. So let him prepare for a stab from a critic
Complaining of the weapon and a strike from the striker

18. My sin to the enemies is the surplus of my stands
And surplus is a sin I do not repent from

19. God preferred me with a gift beyond them
And singled me out from His affection with gifts

20. A King whose screams are to the first screamer
And the fighting of His blessings to the first seeker

21. The horses yearn for the heights, so their colts
Listen to the prayer of the desirer or the monk

22. Like rain pouring seekers with floods
Of ease, and pouring enviers with dryness

23. So I strung my poem with its beads
As if I had strung it with stars

24. And when the flourishing of His right hand swords awoke
It inspired the resolve of war without a warrior

25. Honor with Your sword one who is silent on foot
In adversities, and one who is eloquent riding

26. The limbs of the brave shake in fear
As the coward’s never shook between courageous and riding

27. I did not see its scabbard as wrath except
The innards of the attached scabbard as a drawer

28. It did not know dye from sheaths when it became
Silent, not possessing sheaths

29. As if the easts of its solutions rose
From the jewelry of Heavens above the wests

30. The shining dawn did not battle its darkness
Except it showed us the dawn as the peace of darkness

31. I said when I witnessed the merit of His expression
And His expression, the tools of the writer were complete

32. Bravo! O son of Aaron who
Brought the distant closer to the inaccessible generosity

33. You were strange in traits whose features appear
On the shoulder of glory or the stranger

34. And traits my praises walked with them
In the land, the walk of traits and caravans

35. They blossomed the face of honors and often
Traveled to us from the heat of a pale face

36. What is wrong with me I see the places of your body left
The heart of generosity in torment and pain

37. We came back with clouds of generosity from you, and did not go back
From before it towards the striking clouds

38. We do not regret the first sins which
Their endings came with praiseworthy consequences

39. So be happy with the wellness from God, for it is
A gift reciprocated with necessary gratitude

40. And it continued residing upon you, possessed
The love of distances and relatives

41. It shone with the water of nature until I deemed it
Shone to its benefactor with melting coolness

42. The generous longs for its rise when it is distant
With the longing of the lover to the meeting of loved ones

43. And the listener says when it is recited
Are they knots of praise or knots of stars?