1. My eyes' tears irrigated, not the clouds' tears,
Stations of bliss between those landmarks,

2. Homes that inspired us with their murmurs of passion,
Supporters of youth's breaths and pleasures.

3. Gestures that broadcast sweeter than wishes
And from the furtive languor in a dreamer's eyelid.

4. I stopped for them, weeping, as the earth smiled,
At my tear and many a weeper for another, by name.

5. I granted my burning to the darkness and its stars
And the beauty of consolation after them to the compatible.

6. From the loss of the passionate about fervor
A youth's night-lodging, and ardor a guest of valiant men.

7. Indeed the memory of punishment shook me and Hajar
Like the bending of a pliant one, a roaming gazelle's affection.

8. Her features never danced and intertwined
Except to the singing of doves.

9. My pact with her and the distance wearing its mask away
So who of us complains and who else conceals?

10. She appeared so the sun of daybreak lacks splendor
And she vanished so her branches lack gentleness.

11. She protected her rose with unripe narcissus
To defend it, every onlooker and speaker.

12. I have not seen the like of beauty mad for its stinginess
And passionate in its judgments for every oppressor.

13. If it were not for him I would not bewail blood for a laugher
And I would not stay up nights completely for a sleeper.

14. If it were not for white lids how would sorrow fall asleep
In the black, smooth slopes of Sajam?

15. I have no doubt, no doubt of vows after giving them
To the son of the immaculate, of high station and generosity.

16. I praised the nights since they allowed his approach
Yet those became more miserable to me than partings.

17. She promised me separation. If that will be,
Then no face that comes after him will torment me.

18. Dignity of love, if you know his patience,
Draw near his kindness with offenses.

19. When we mention him, the lightning of mouths and smiles shine
For remembering him, the lightning bolts and smiling mouths.

20. It suffices me that he is like a shower
If he walks in an army of dew, pressing together.

21. Stern toward abject poverty, kind
When the misfortunes of time grow fierce.

22. Thanks to him the banner lasted long on the spear
And how many a hand extended for him has destroyed.

23. In eloquence, none but the lowest part with him
Is prose or less than a composer.

24. I learned from him to aim for the path of guidance
And none aimed for the path of guidance like a scholar.

25. He ascended toward the heights of glory and attained them
With an eye lifted above the lofty that does not sleep.

26. He was generous, his beautiful face did not frown at his generous,
And the tooth of regret did not wound him.

27. The Indian sword may require its sharpening
And the cheek of the lover may accumulate darkness.

28. He wants to hide his noble ways and he is clever
At divulging the secrets of dew and intimations.

29. So let me leave news, the least of which is true
And those are the stories of Hatem among stories.

30. He is the sublime heavenly bolt whose freshness restores
Even if its flashing glance does not watch for a moment.

31. To him belong the names in the horizons, he harms no one
To the act, he does not fear the letters of judgments.

32. The owner of the house of common build, even if
People's houses with weak pillars become desolate.

33. Adorned with the necklaces of nobles are his qualities
For spending villages, not stomachs gathering.

34. The cheer of his face authorizes you through his provision
And shackles, and cheer is one of foods.

35. He is to the son of generations' perfection and the most high stars
And clouds of heavy rain and the deep, snarling seas.

36. Of people, if calamities rose and war sheathed its prey
And they secretly attacked their enemies with atrocities.

37. But they raised the height of ascension and its elevation
So it grew long and how many hands destroying stretched to it.

38. There is no relationship between people and them
Besides that they are, from the race, Adam's sons.

39. If musk pretended their attributes
Cheeks of enjoyments would believe its claim.

40. If they had not completed virtues in cradles
Amulets would have died, charms placed around their shoulders.

41. I sang but did not meet his perfection with all of it
And excellence places titles according to generous deeds.

42. In the association of words I have a treasury with me
And where is Heshām to its picturesque tails, Hāshim?

43. Grace permitted me and doubled his praise
So I am embarrassed by his lasting generosity.

44. If I did not fear the noble one's rebuke I would not have answered him
But I saw speech as an inescapable strike.

45. With what hand could I be saved if his words
Defend against me in their surging wave?

46. Their rhymes came pouring down gulleys
Red jewelry, white heels, and wrists.

47. Sweeter than cool wine mixed with dried fruits
And better than the light of fever in excessive poetry.

48. I was ignorant and denied, if I took pride
In a drop of water or a passing cloud.

49. But I brought gratitude and grateful hypocrisy
Calling in a market of generosity that stood.

50. Oh Abu Hassan, pardon me, I am to blame
So do not narrow pardon for a blameworthy servant.

51. You sent lines like well-ordered ranks
Troubling me with harmonies that went straight.

52. The meanings' Thursday, intimate confidant
Circling with them the non-Arabic letters' hillside.

53. As if the whiteness of pages under its blackness
And the swifts' glitter in thick, heavy darkness.

54. So I set against it my thought's steeds, defeated,
And battle did not lack routed and routing.

55. What an excellent adversary and judge you are!