1. The sky of darkness displayed the flowers of its armies,
And the folds of barrenness were covered by the fluttering of its tenderness.

2. Its arrows for its trains, its swords for its lightning,
Its brilliance and its firmness for its thunder.

3. The unique one adorned with life,
A sweet perfume emanated from her unique attire,

4. Camphor of pleasant air which amber of its diffusion emanated,
With water of roses from which musk of its plains emanated.

5. A singer slept on anxiety as if
She whispered to the breezes and murmured to its coolness.

6. I was commanded with her beauty so I completed it,
She sprinkled ornamentation on the world and scattered its necklaces.

7. The stars of flowers blossomed above its branches,
Like planets in the mansions of its happiness.

8. And she tightened the Davidic
Melodies when they overflow in their singing.

9. Its meadows spoke of the excellence of its spring,
Like the orator on the sandalwood pulpit.

10. She recites on the branches the verses of its breeze,
Thus the length of its bowing and prostration.

11. If it were not for her incapacity, she would have cast
On the Eternal a necklace around its neck.

12. Its braids grayed, and that is wondrous,
That it grays before parting from its beloved.

13. So the nobility of the two dynasties were watered
And the life of my eyelids was watered at the door of its post.

14. My homelands, my places which I blame
In other than it and am blamed in its absence.

15. Make me forget from my heart the place of its night,
And deprive my eyes of the bliss of its affection.

16. And I refused infatuation, if not for infatuation I would not
Implore people for the promises of its covenants.

17. Its gazelles dismissed me and its lions,
I have no power over its gazelles or its lions.

18. They shook the highlands below it as if
They prevented the slenderness of its wrists with its wrists.

19. Entrust me with the snatcher of the waist, the chirping
Of glances, the cuddling of attire, and its calmness.

20. Delicate in movement, youth pulls her
As youth pulls the gentle long robe.

21. Her buttocks weighed down and her waist thinned,
So she is tempted when standing by sitting.

22. I die by it and my solace lives,
And passion lies between its threats and promises.

23. You were stingy so my soul was deprived,
If only your generosity gave me life by its life.

24. For death lies between being near it and being far,
And death lies between its association and its separation.

25. If one day I deny what my eyelids claim,
Then the star is part of its testimonies.

26. For I folded the stars of many a shining one
One day by the delight of the eye that slumbers.

27. And a poem whose necklace houses adorned
With praise of the crown of religion the home I sought.

28. To my eloquent brother speaking of my father of greatness,
Aspiring through his glory the son of his glory.

29. The cliffs of glory used to prevent themselves
But by your determination the difficult cliffs subsided.

30. With its crescent as the pillar of its sky,
Its minarets protect the pillar of its building.

31. How often I emigrated to it as if
I had cloaked myself in patience the heart of the envious.

32. The aspirant despaired from what he climbed of heights,
The master of the lofty is not like its erected pillar.

33. The king of kings - and what a subject of merit
Ordinary or lowly like its commoners and servants.

34. He is the sky and the rays of his essence
Are like the stars manifest beyond enumeration.

35. Of a family the nobility of which became
Subjugated to its ancestors and forefathers.

36. The victorious by every unsheathed, sharpened white sword
Calling the zeal of Yathrib and its resolve.

37. And those who, when discord blazed,
Made the water of blades responsible for its flames.

38. From every reputable clan whose reputation
They sacrificed while it was still cloaked in its skin.

39. Their platforms became narrow and its air shone
With the witnesses of its martyrs and the spirit of its martyr.

40. They wore iron in their hearts so their bodies would not
Sense any harm in losing its iron.

41. A people, if hearts craved, their spears
They made into their tongues instead of their throats.

42. And if they smelled the lightning of their clouds,
They made the clouds their concern after its clouds.

43. Steadfast on steeds, if they intended for war,
The steadfastness of their skins did not waver.

44. And if a brigade approached, their reins were not shaken
From watering its prey from the flow of its stream.

45. So whiteness suns rose for their setting,
And darkness stars traveled for their stillness.

46. O you whose iron grays, and time
Ragged, the call of its newborn is lost.

47. Divert the hopes of the helpless with their generosity,
The white blades and the envious with its blackness.

48. By your banner it is the lamp of its horizon,
By the brilliance of your face it is the dawn of its feast.

49. You mounted the lofty summits of glory
That the people of the world despaired of ascending its ascent.

50. How often I arranged my palms in necklaces of praise
Beyond the necklaces of pearls in their stringing.

51. Like scattered pearls, and if a noble's matter
Denies what I said, our vomit will pulverize its gravel.

52. They are the stray rhymes for your praise,
The slaves have become while it is part of its slaves.

53. From every stray meaning in its inclusion,
A wisdom benefits the mind the mind of its straying.

54. I have gilded it with prose the day after
I gilded it in verse, so it wandered having differing currencies.

55. It adorns majesty, instructs its Lord, listening to it,
Clarifying, a tongue repeating its renewal.

56. Like wine, beautiful in the palms of its cupbearer,
In the face of its drinker, and in its clusters.

57. O spreader of precious knowledge, collected
In the folds of its panels and its patched cloak.

58. I have a desire for it and detachment from the people
Of the world who distracted me from seeking its ascetic.

59. That the new distracted my sight
From a pleasure attained by the beauty of its new.

60. You brought my distant hope near while you still
Remain a blessing to a hopeful and its distant.