1. If she caused me pain, so she made me desire her
I would have revealed the anguish of my heart, her lips would have revealed it

2. Khensa laughed the day she inclined away
From my misery and reproached her lover

3. O you who blame me, lend me your patience
Do not ask what she has done to me, her glances did it

4. The branch concealed the secret of her apparitions
But the dawn revealed her folds and undulations

5. So her apparitions watered my tears and my life
Her stature, the branch, lightning and clouds sustained her

6. She came knocking, asking me about passion
While the houses turned in the night, she roamed them

7. So my blood that she allowed, ransomed her
And the laments of grief, my words ransomed her

8. Her saliva mixed with the cool of purpose
And contained the fire of my passion, and its heat

9. So in opposites she is anger and pleasure
I hope for her pardon as I fear her tyranny

10. By my father Hind in the days of youth
And the scent of Najd and its breaths

11. My tears and grief are for the sake of love
And my blood if she would be pleased with it, would flood her

12. O my dear ones though the days
Have departed from you and withdrawn

13. Good is a Syrian woman who traveled
Bearing to my soul its wishes from you

14. Thunder did not drive her back, she only shortened
Her pace stretching the saddlecloth

15. The rain found arrows so shot them
And from lightning, swords so brandished them

16. So she hit a tearful eyelid
And a heart that longed for you and feared for you

17. She conveyed news of youth from you
So may God delight my eye from what it perceived

18. She conveyed on your behalf, good is she
As good as she conveyed your lips

19. Do not blame my eye for ever weeping
Why wouldn't it weep when we are separated

20. While my heart, the heart, still holds
Its purpose, awake until it falls asleep

21. My night grew long in length like my anguish for you
So my time is a night whose morning died

22. If an apparition would walk in it
Though it's intangible, or a lost star

23. Neither the length of my debt nor if it's paid
Not even my murderer if I befriended him

24. I desire nothing but you,
And nothing's beautiful from you unless you grant it

25. I found in your absence what I found
So to whom do I complain what I suffered?

26. I swore never to enjoy comfort
Without you, only bearing what torments me

27. The days command and forbid her
Greed commands what its prohibition forbids her

28. My call of longing to you is heard
So when I cry out, you are its echo

29. O father of Yeme, was any glory ever sought
That you didn't seek, and nothing glorified that you didn't glorify?

30. O unique on earth, with no second
Not even the full moon whose merits are matchless

31. Through you glory was mighty and fate too
As well as the family of Ali, intensifying their glory

32. You have a soul that no peak exhausts
In the heights, beyond what people can aspire to

33. When others were sullied, you purified yourself
And when they were wicked, you were most pure

34. When anyone enjoyed sinfulness
You disciplined him, teaching and reading to him

35. You were generous with knowledge and turned away from sin
Then passionately loved what has no vanity

36. You are good news or fresh water
Comforting souls or meeting lips

37. Not people who took ignorance as their refuge
Causing mayhem, and stars their guide

38. With them the egg of Islam, how much
Was lost from armies, and how many like them perished,

39. Abundant in knowledge and dew
Radiant, of face and forehead

40. I swear by the Sharqi wind from his fathers
My patience with him isn't willingly, but by compulsion

41. I find Egypt weaker when he's absent
And see ambiguity in people, nothing unambiguous

42. And when a man claims he has
A second in nobility, he speaks nonsense

43. Morning became pure musk, its soil
Beneath your feet, and pearls its pebbles

44. And pure mud from its source
At your abode, even if melting, remains wholesome water

45. It is paradise, flourishing with beauty
Near every garden and field is its proximity

46. Lightning smiled at it golden
When the rain's tears mixed with its love

47. And its palm trees swayed when
The singer of vines sang, greening its turf,

48. Statuesque like dolls in green garments
Wandering in its flowers and ornaments

49. I delighted seeing it with my eyes as
My passionate heart exalted its nobility

50. To its crown from the lightning and wind I have
Angels, if they reached it, would convey it

51. It is the sea, so when
I wanted to call for rain for it, I called for its drink

52. God looked upon its neighbors
As it is the valley, lengthening their growth

53. And unto its plains as night's gloom
So it became the sun's morning light, encompassing its radiance

54. Darkening the dawn, and if the celestial orb
In night's gloom after you, would not find its guidance

55. It was naught but death's lands, clouds bellowing
Over it, so He gave it life, reviving it

56. So at the door of the desired courier
Loneliness, if given speech, would lament it

57. And separation endowed it between us with robes
Of beauty, the most splendid of its robes

58. The land thrives and endures an era
As days alternate with their conditions

59. And if I live and time stretches long
I won't forget it, not even as an old man, but as a youth

60. As if Jesus gushed from his mouth to the chambers
Or a barrier blocked him from it, so he sighed