1. She laughed, and the pearls of her teeth appeared
Like the rising of a second dawn to us

2. The darkness of her veils moved away from her radiance
And the two moons became three

3. She spoke, and I heard words whose utterance
Was magic, and whose meaning was the flowing of fate

4. She rang, and wounded hearts with a glancing blow
Her black eye and it are equal in hitting their mark

5. She hummed, and her necklaces drew tight
As is the habit of necklaces on branches

6. No branch before her was of silver
That sways with leaves of `uqyan

7. An Arab lady, auspicious is the origin of her clan
And its branches are from the blacks of Sudan

8. Proud, who corrects the opinions of those
Bent over fires when seeing her cheek

9. Her smile appears and were it not for her speech
I would have reckoned her an idol of idols

10. She wore the Christian earring not for any purpose
Except to champion the state of the crucaders

11. And she did not weaken her eyelids
Except to strengthen the seduction of Satan

12. Her anklet conceals groans, and her earring
Is restless like the heart of a lover in throbbing

13. She wishes that bracelets would be forged
For her hands from it in place of the culprit

14. With her veil is nightfall, and beneath her wrappings
Is sunset, and in her sleeves are the two dawns

15. Glory to Him who with the cheek pictured her mole
And balanced the eye of the sun with mankind

16. Passion ordered my heart distracted by love for her
And it obeyed, though I forbade it, disobeying me

17. She in the pond of nectar stores pearls
While my tears' surges come out as coral

18. Numerous are they who blame me for her, and if
I counted them, they would equal my lifetime's sins

19. O heart, leave the words of the slanderers, for if
They were equitable towards you, you would be most excused

20. The companions of Moses after him in their haste
Were tempted, while you are with the most tempting of gazelles

21. Sweet torture in her love is upon me, so my illness
And my weakness in passion became my humiliation

22. To God belong the Meadows of Al-Arak, for my soul
Has long delighted in them at Nu'man

23. And the (divine) preservation has watered the protected
With honorable drink from a clan who guaranteed her protection in all safety

24. The people of zeal, their abodes will never cease
To protect the suns with the stars of Khorasan

25. A lion who plies the late nights with their spears
Like serpents ploughing the darkness of betrayal

26. With them a meadow is watered as if their arrows
Brought for it the arrivals of eagles

27. How many slender waisted ones sing with them
The moisture of the tender branches and the dryness of the boughs

28. Their outer garments shone and their scent wafted
As if they were rods of basil

29. From every radiant faced one it is as if her brow
Is a gleaming candle veiled in a smoky wrapping

30. Woe to me! How miserable with them and for how long
Will my soul in them be immortalized in hellfire?

31. And I examined time and its people
And appraised the people of beauty and beneficence

32. Yet I confined my passion to their gazelles
And restricted my praise to the sublime and lofty

33. The substance of what its branches rained upon me
And what its tongue brought out, I made clear

34. I whispered to it, and through its words
The ear of Moses was ennobled, and my tongue's knot was untied

35. Forgiving, whenever you wish to describe its attainment
Speak without embarrassment, even of the deluge

36. Use the sea for it, and the clouds for its name
And the moon, and the Pleiades, not so and so

37. Its hungry wolves became stuffed carcasses
Filled with the entrails of crows

38. A hero who shows you, when its coat of mail is removed
The lion of the lair in the garb of a serpent

39. Sipping the late night drink from the blades for it
Is sipping reddened wine from flashing teeth

40. It rests from the falling of swords upon the skulls
As if their ringing were songs

41. And it sees the reddened tips of lances as the red (lips)
Of wild cows, and the whiteness of Indian swords as gazelles

42. It could not enjoy any strings but
The strings of every melodious and flexible lutist

43. A horn that matches its fortune with its sword
So it returns successful, slaughtering its peers

44. A shouter whom the myrtle sways to the dew
In it is the creeping of intoxication with aromatics

45. Of ease that is wounds for the enemy
And what ease is there for the wretched?

46. Since houses of wealth were inhabited
Meadows of dew and love songs were in them

47. For fate there are spheres that rotate in its palm
And people reckon them as the lines of the hand

48. They turned, so in you are its night and its day
Dots and flashes of lightning and pointing with fingers

49. Rings of favor that in his hands have become
Like finger rings, the knocking of the young

50. With ill fortune it ordains, and good fortune, so the people
Between fear and safety, are from them

51. In its ladder, the full moons sink, and in panic
With falling stars it pelts the horsemen

52. It brought smiles to the world like what
It brought of tears to swords and eyes of gazelles

53. A free man born of the lineage of Mudlib
After the tribes of Adnan

54. Of Hashim, the people of glorious deeds, piety
Commanding right, forbidding wrong, and faith

55. The house of prophethood, messengership, guidance
Revelation, the sending down, and the Criterion

56. A people whom the tent poles of glory stood straight in
And the faith became firmly rooted in foundations

57. They stayed up the night watching, and opposed
Passion's order in obedience to the Merciful

58. All of them the full moon obliged their faces
To bear the mark of prostration, so it increased in brilliance

59. Spirits of light in time, their existence
Is spirit for this corporeal world

60. Peers of war, whenever they joined against
The timid, it reckoned them fierce lions

61. They wore their coats of mail for safety
Of honor, not for safety of bodies

62. And they bore the stab of spears because they
Do not carry the accusations of hatred

63. Blessings upon you for a child you flowed in their wake
And reached their limit in every place

64. You renewed their traces of glorious deeds
And inherited what they preserved of the Quran

65. My master, the most high continued to congratulate you
With the good fortune of auspicious and generous youths

66. A purified lineage whom you increased
With light upon light, with the purity of circumcision

67. Caliphs of glory from your sons, as if
They descended to earth from the Gardens

68. Moons of perfection whom no waning afflicts
Save by the night of the battleground's cloudiness

69. And chicks of conquest who before growing their feathers
Aspired with their talons for hunting the brave

70. Like gems they were always carried
Above diadems or upon crowns

71. They attained though they did not reach speaking, and grasped
The maturity of elders in the prime of youth

72. They did not exceed the measure of arrows in their tallness
Yet they grew tall and ascended above the lofty

73. Sparks hid in your flints when they sparked
They became joyful suns and moons

74. Lights plucked to return to encounter
As flames melting away hatreds

75. They will restore to you the High Lands and the fort
And in your hands every day will witness spears

76. And the white falcons will laugh at them with their claws
The laughter of lightning in a gathering of clouds

77. And their spears will incline from the wine of late night
Like the intoxicated in the flowing of casks

78. So join and stay with them in most ample prosperity
And most delicious life in most excellent assembly