1. The doves cooed in the protected area, enchanting,
Then I found I could not summon patience.

2. It reminded me of a permitted, prize-winning slave girl
Who makes my reason veil tremble with her swaying.

3. She sways with her body, shaking a rod if she walks
And if she glanced with her eyes, she shook rods.

4. Her buttocks quiver, her sides sway
Like a branch that the morning breeze shook.

5. Between Asma, Rayya, Sullayma,
Maya, Rababa her sister, and Zaynab,

6. After the passing raven I was changed
To grey against my will, though white.

7. The whiteness of old age startled the white
And white is hostile to grey, aged.

8. So here I am, saying in loss of youth
Woe, sorrow, and battles!

9. I desire only she whose face
Is lovely as the sun of the faith.

10. Sun of morning, full moon of night, lion in zeal,
Help in hardship, sword in strife - his youth is gone!

11. Most beautiful of God's creations, in lineage and manners,
Loveliest and best mannered of them in manners and breeding.

12. No lion turns from his cubs to protect them
If the fateful fifth of the week pounces.

13. Furious at the lion of the meadow, roaring,
Baring his fangs, overwhelming in strength,

14. Snatching heroes from their saddles
With his palm until the dust stirs.

15. One day, truer than him in war loosing his horse,
Who meets him, meets war!

16. Not even a lowering raincloud, its ropes swaying,
Gushing, thundering, pouring down,

17. The plains and valleys rise up for him
Rejoicing, and the loved ones are delighted with him.

18. He approaches, dragging his train, embracing
The torrents' necks with his flood.

19. One day when his right hand is readiest
To give to whoever asks him.

20. His good-looking face says to the weak,
"Hello and welcome to you, greetings!"

21. In praise of him, chemistry's principles are corrected
And so in it I have passed my amazing time.

22. We give him this eulogy in its lines
And so take the paper and the gold for it.

23. Our Lord has given him a love
Through which in the world he is loved.

24. His ambition carried him so he became
Eloquent in speech, Arabizing and Islamizing.

25. Through him Islam became victorious while
Polytheism turned away, not glancing back in flight.

26. He closed the frontiers of peace, but smashed the
Encroachments of unbelief, leaving no loose end.

27. Still the sun of the faith lives happily
As long as the sky displays no night star.