1. God watered the days of my youth and folly,
And an era in which I was pelted with starry eyes.

2. And the company of young men whose faces
And morals were a dawn exhaling its scent after the rain.

3. So I fled to my despair, without asking about them,
Since despair does not console the lover, so what can console me?

4. And I bid farewells of farewell and a stance,
In which I found what no one had found before me.

5. I endured therein the harshness of separation with crying,
And healed therein the glory of love with humiliation.

6. One evening, ready yourself for the separation with happiness,
As its stars multiply, equal to the number of sands.

7. O separation, come between me and my eyelids,
If you do not come between the rider and his mount.

8. And O tear, do not divulge my secrets about me,
For if I wanted, on the day of separation, I would have denied what you make me recite.

9. Keep us away, O Lord, with patience and deterrence from sins,
And sustain a people with foolishness and ignorance.

10. So do not test us with life, for we
Were created as men of conviction in an era of frivolity.

11. We flee to the heat of passion from boredom,
And escape from the spirit of emptiness to business.

12. An evening I rode my she-camels while it was still dusk,
The buttocks of the stars fanning my feet.

13. In order to have attachments to life out of need,
Stubbornly or with kindness and flexibility.

14. Alas! One who lives a life that does not return once gone,
And an afflicted fate that does not last in reconciliation.

15. He is generous to make my looks turn toward his generosity,
The most generous giver who grants people because of me.

16. So O fate, I have coveted a hope from you,
And it is your right to give and be excessive in generosity.

17. I succeeded, and had there not been an ascent, you would not have seen me
Stretch out my hopes - a hand without fingers - to ambitions.

18. When the desert was long, as I headed there,
A passion for my journey or harm upon my camels.

19. I clothed the delusions of mirages, its illusion shone,
Seething like the waves of the sea, frothing or boiling.

20. The gusts of wind avoided us as if they
Feared the breaths stored in the fragile body.

21. Daughters of the bow for shooting arrows, behind it
The strings of the bow sing on the arrows.

22. You see it the length of the wasteland as if it
Creeps like the creeping of the small ants.

23. And the stars of the night shine in the darkness
And you would think they move slowly therein.

24. It surpassed the palms of the stingy, so it became engaged
To the most beautiful beloved of traits and deeds.

25. It differentiates between virtues and wealth,
And unites what is between courage and reason.

26. It is water for the thirsty and fire for the cold,
And the limit of zebras in war and rain in times of need.

27. It liked me without my liking it long,
Seeing its generosity after asking it insistently.

28. And how did the usefulness of your hands guide you to vinegar
Whose harm I hid from my enemy and close friend?

29. It moved like the falling of a star in the darkness of night,
Until it reached my bed, so I grasped it with its ropes.

30. I will thank what attention you gave me,
And the like of what you gave, the like of me thanks.

31. And the blessings repay you, O people you planted,
Who did not produce anything but hatred and malice.

32. Dependants on the enemies and militant during drought,
And horses that leave early with travel supplies on the carriages.

33. You carried upon them the crimes of virtues,
Upon a thin rod that cannot carry a load.

34. And when fate brought about an affliction,
You were not there to witness the incidents nor eat.

35. You exposed to it a pure gap and a helpful hand,
Protective and an eye that does not sleep due to grief.

36. As if the sorrow of life to you is easy,
And far is what is between sorrow and ease!

37. And the enemies did not find your covenant betraying,
Nor your pact except that it is fulfilled honestly.

38. You left them the field of betting and its stakes,
And won the purposes of the preceding and the feats.

39. As the fleeing zebra left its shadow
To its hunter, if only it had sufficed with the shadow!

40. And had you willed, guile would not have pierced their fire,
You would have closed the holes of the fire with ample firewood.

41. The tubes of the spears became filled, so horsemen
Flee from the humiliation of life to death.

42. Horses swift to the turmoil, silent from misdeeds,
And their swords in the scabbards speaking of the verdict.

43. But you bent ignorance with patience, so it bent,
And who is like you having led recklessness with the bridles?

44. You pursue the structures of resentments with harm
For your enemies have been corrupted when you take with kindness.

45. In some matters, patience is disgrace,
If it does not deter your enemy from ignorance.

46. And you were a sword whose color time changed,
So you conversed with it from the generosity of your palm with sharpening.

47. And a delegation, like the driving of clouds, visited me,
Without preparation from your rest or duration.

48. You gained through it virtues and highness,
While others gain blame and exclusion.