1. What is the purpose of my waiting for union when there is no union,
And you will certainly not come near me, nor will I be tranquil.

2. And in my ribs there is a sigh, if it took residence
In your heart, you would not be certain that passion is easy.

3. Beautifully the flute pours its drink at daybreak,
And gently upon a heart touched by your madness after you.

4. If eyes glance at you with a look,
Then the easiest thing for your lover is death.

5. It is a blessing with the roe doe, who
With her anklet has a dream and in her earring ignorance.

6. And whoever undressed her of her clothes
Dressed her in other clothes, the tall, strong young man.

7. Mazin gave some people to drink at Wase'a well,
Indeed, between me and them the roads have been cut off.

8. And I loved for a time, whenever I came visiting
Suleima answered me to her union with a camel.

9. You want, and I do not desire, you are faithful, and I do not fulfill,
You keep away, and I do not keep away, you ask for peace, and I do not ask for peace,

10. For the branch is green, and youth is in its water,
And striving for consent from every affliction is in vain.

11. And from fear of the fire which is above my cheeks
They shrink at its approach like ants.

12. With my soul since I bid it farewell and my tears
Like ripe fruits pulled down by the rope.

13. As if the shepherds of the Malikis spent the night
Weeping upon my eyes, so sweep away the scattered camels.

14. And I did not set up those tents with tent poles
Except for no other reason than so reason would not accompany me.

15. And a tear, as if the Pleiades were in it, when I drew
Racing a shadow, or it races the shadow.

16. The goat udders fatten us until we are as if
We are pregnant she-camels, or our land is locked up with us.

17. If the land of humiliation presents itself to me,
Then the easiest thing for me is departure and the saddlebags.

18. Avoiding the harm of the wilderness is not
Generosity, but rather remaining is humiliation.

19. Nor am I one whom if I am ignorant of his merits,
Encampments and eyes of gazelles would stay with him.

20. For every meadow I come to is a pasture for me
And every people who honored me are family.

21. And I have confidence in the bright faced, rightly guided
In avoiding preoccupation with the traces of this dusty world.

22. Ambitions rested in the side of his determination
Like mountains, mountains of glory beside him are easy.

23. And a provoked lion whose eyelids are not enriched
By kohl except that kohl adorns them.

24. He takes the place of an army if his army is absent
And exceeds the edge of a sword if the sword is sheathed.

25. His lineage and branches were purified,
And virtues and deeds were made good for us through him.

26. If the action of the noble is not like his origin,
Then lineage and origin do not benefit.

27. Of the vile people who have banded together
Throughout time, so that their homes will not reach stinginess.

28. Nobles, when they decide to wean their child
From the breast, they take the path of stinginess, so the child is weaned.

29. Lions when they roar, clouds when they intend
Seas when they are generous, swords when they are unsheathed,

30. And if they seek glory, then their swords
Are dowries, and the tips of their spears are messengers.

31. When they depart, glory keeps away wherever they go,
And dew descends wherever they camp.

32. Their natures follow gaining praise
So their possessions are forbidden and their wealth is permitted.

33. My patron, they passed away, so in you the elevation of glory remained
And the canal of religion was established and virtue spread.

34. And if you spend the time in peace
Then you are a meadow of basil when the basil is gone.

35. Because of you flocks gathered in us as if they are
Arrows shot by a skilled archer.

36. And the reprimanding of the she-goats was not my whip, but rather
To you without driving the camels came of their own accord.

37. Your right hand, I will not spend the time except alive by it,
And your cave, I will not spend the time in it as shade.

38. And every glance whose person I am not weary of
And every land whose downpour I am not a place of.