1. I have no water for her, nor grass
Unless you forgive every white-flagged sinner

2. The way of the skilled and our way forever
Is to have our ties severed behind her

3. Indeed, an enemy has trespassed against you and tempted
Your acceptance of disgrace, so flee

4. They fooled you, so take vengeance on them for me
The cheek of his oppression recognizes severity

5. A plan of injustice has been blocked at its beginning
When anything but impetuousness attains it

6. O you who were mixed with those who cannot restrain
Their tyranny when they pull

7. I am amazed that you disobeyed their command
How did you obey the bridle and the foam?

8. What young man do you carry who does not know the people
Nor do you know what he sought?

9. Harsh concerning the occurrence of misfortunes, so he has no mercy
Except for one who feared or was tempted

10. Of the most clear-sighted of people for gain, if only
He were to seek the means of sustenance

11. Is it not but great appearances
That perish and leave behind lineage and merit?

12. What is it to me if I left a place of dwelling
Where doves cooed or was delighted?

13. And for his burning passion and his agony
I have never blamed him and said he blamed

14. I ask God's forgiveness. I do not blame a young man
Who tortured his heart in love and poured

15. If its bitterness was sweet to him
Then only the most bitter is relished

16. I wish he who still denies me
Would ask after me - is it easy or difficult?

17. Without any weakness or shortcoming
I give and do not take what is obligatory

18. My praise is only for an absent one
Elevations rise between him and I

19. So time, without my provoking it
Claims that I filled it with anger

20. None undertakes the effort of superiority, my father
Saʿd, except the debased and outcast

21. O ease in the pledge, which
Is freely gained when hardship gains fatigue

22. In it, the envious gulp their sighs
As scabies enjoys scratching

23. The abundance of gifts - were it not for their novelties in
Generosity - we would not recognize wonder

24. We pick the love of beautiful women if
One says - and by my life if he wrote

25. A glance like the fall of arrows, using
Fright, and a saying encompassing speeches

26. Joy does not borrow its splendor
Nor is it seen bowed in grief

27. Mixed with companions, blended
When its seriousness competes, it plays

28. Pleasantness does not prevent awe of it
Like a sword hiding its blade’s edge

29. Exposing to us a joke in his smile
Since for us in his smile is profit

30. Like rain whose advent is not believed by the imagination
Or lightning steals its water by trickery

31. Inform, if you come to a horseman and the sons of
Yellow, from me and inform the Arabs

32. Whoever's abode was near his and saw him
And whoever was far in the towns and an expatriate

33. That I have chosen for the fathers a young man
Who chose the most honorable ranks

34. Like a lion who does not diminish threats to one who
Opposed him, even if resolved to harm and attacked

35. I asked my Master, hoping for His gift, so
He began swaying from the dew, delighted

36. Not leaving a share of his day for tomorrow
And not feeling safe from calamity

37. He knows that a man will have
What he attained of his money and what He granted

38. Do not envy a gatherer of wealth
Nor a miserable man who earned dishonor

39. He avoids the cup of misery and drinks it
If he were weak, he would not have drunk

40. He kept his word, by my life, and protected
His guarantee, a goer when his sword struck

41. With the slightest of his actions, he attained the thickness of
Glory, so his efforts were not for one who strove

42. Whenever I see him leading a white-blazed stallion like
A towering mountain of sturdy frame and covered face

43. As if his teeth were silver
One day and silver another day

44. The sparks of the flash put upon the highlands
From his clear water a drink

45. I endure the blame of a friend
Truest in his love, even if he lied

46. I do not scorn an unblemished look in
Affection, nor consider it pride

47. I was not created to accuse
Or ask little about a slip

48. I envy a people who surpassed you
And all who raced ahead won

49. They drew near while we did not draw near you, so they believed
A caring and loving father to them

50. While you were like a vine whose leaves wrap
Around what drew nearer to it