1. You divided my heart between worry and sorrow,
And my eyelids between overflowing tears and wakefulness.

2. And you appeared in beauty forms divided,
Between the crescent, the branch, and the knot.

3. Show me rain pouring down in streams,
From the eyelids, and lightning flashing from the cold.

4. And a cheek not quenched of thirst by its water,
Stingy, though its fires have scorched my liver.

5. How can I remain with the water of preoccupations, and what
Passion left of my patience or composure?

6. Ibn Fahd flowed and no term was attained for him,
And everyone with flowing generosity flows to the term.

7. He inclined to generosity shaking and standing upright,
Like a spear not inclined to bending or deviation.

8. And he taught time from his manners a manner,
Livelier than the rose or sweeter than honey.

9. So glory from him is heights linked to heights,
And generosity from him a hand joined to hands.

10. The excellences of two never ceasing to be envied for their attainment,
And valor and generosity coupled with envy.

11. A flirt not stiff wearing his flowing garb,
Among the kings, or haughty towards anyone.

12. His speech shows you from the softness of expressions,
Pearls of necklaces dissolved of knots.

13. I made him a paradise safe from every misfortune,
And I, through his generosity, am in the paradise of eternity.

14. O father of the knights, you revived generosity for us,
And you stood for it with the standing of the spirit for the body.

15. I did not attempt enumerating the good you were granted,
Except it surpassed enumeration and counting.

16. You preferred, exerting yourself, fear of God in fasting,
Over your desires, and sold the unknown for guidance.

17. So have a happy holiday which God returned in ease,
And prosperity in calm, and life in comfort.

18. A shining eulogy advanced, glowing,
Like a garden laughing with the radiance of green plants.

19. And my sea surged but I did not content myself with one,
Until I came with it, strong of arm.

20. A necklace in which thought roamed and was strung together,
In the stringing of necklaces, neither lessened nor increased.