1. The gazelles prohibited him, and the reproachers,
So it was as if he filled his hands with union.

2. Do you think her pity for the pain of love
With the tinkle of bangles pleading for peace?

3. A thirsty man seeking water from his flowing tears
From the lips of cold iron fresh and pure.

4. Until when love's sting pierced his heart,
He drank anguish and was given confusion.

5. Grieving, his imagination clothed him with a returning phantom,
So it was as if the imagination visited a phantom.

6. He does not answer a questioner, as if he,
Were ruins - and do ruins respond to questions?

7. How many listeners with eyes from his pains
Say with the mouths of tears and speak.

8. I was captivated by eyes in whose glance
Is magic that melts reason.

9. And I examined the reason for which I disobeyed the prohibition
And found it to be baseness obeying coquetry.

10. And I am the one who made the wit of my youth
For the singing girls despicable.

11. So I was hunted by a human gazelle,
While I am the one who hunts predators.

12. She makes the white oryx run on barren land, and her injustice
Is a saliva whose sweetness you have tasted and become confused.

13. And she shows you at night in the darknesses illumination
Upon you - its darkness refined and polished.

14. And when the combs took turns at his hair,
The Pleiades appeared in the comb repeatedly.

15. And it breathed with scent upon it, so it hovered
A lasting fire it kept aflame.

16. O you who alone possess a picture
Of beauty - its creation a statue depicted.

17. As for the eyelids, they were created as my warriors,
Then how did they create warriors from you?

18. Will you look upon me with a full moon of pleasure
That I see you look with anger a crescent?

19. I was accustomed to the flashing of your lightning in imagination deceptive,
And the oath of your right hand in loyalty false.

20. What are these murders in our passions -
Was their killing made lawful to you?

21. Why is your heart not softened toward us,
Were you created only wild and apathetic?

22. And your oryx fells the roamer of love,
While Ali's oryx fells heroes.

23. A king for God's victory - may he be safe - waged holy war,
Kindling a blazing rage in the text.

24. And when he tightened the reins it was as if
He set the water-skin in order and brandished his sword to start.

25. It was as if he gathered from every coat of mail he donned
Locusts to stir up the valley's torrent.

26. A king, when he composes virtues, his hand
Adorns them with amulets and plunges ahead.

27. So leave donations when you mention his donations -
The oceans forget their depths remembering them.

28. Advancing into the horror of events
Like the sword - determined, and the lofty spear, raised.

29. He shoots with his three spears their points -
The earth complains to him of quaking.

30. With what thing can you be wary of his power
When if he shot a mountain it would be leveled?

31. He prays the noon prayer of death upon those
Whose right hand was extended by the iron leaf's shade.

32. He led misguidance astray but no pillars remained for it,
And made pillars that do not lean from the pillars of guidance.

33. From masters whose manners and disposition
Offer openly both plain and mountain,

34. Donkeys they bridle - time does not return them -
For the command they were ordered speechless.

35. And when horrors blaze with hot anger
And their fangs become bows and spears,

36. And the night brings out day with its darkness,
In it the flowers of stars blossomed, sparkling,

37. They cast off their armor, and their lifespans
Drew near attaining God's punishment and destiny.

38. Until it was as if by leaving their lives
They found in pigeons union.

39. For they are the lions of lions with sharp teeth
And the gentlest sons of kings with soft sandals

40. O you whose merit includes his endowment
And merit is that which includes endowment

41. You renewed Islam, entering it splendidly
In finery on which you bestowed beauty.

42. And you wore over your banner reverently
From your Lord grandeur and veneration.

43. You presented your tall sons in it - whoever sees
The lion of battle training the cubs.

44. In a huge army that filled the air with standards
And the hearing with pounding and the space with neighing,

45. And it was as if the ends of the banners above it
Kindled fires to extinguish souls.

46. With bare cavalry, swords at the ready,
Corpses, reins, and long spears,

47. And with the aspect of death which in its folds
Pours out upon your enemies a flood and affliction.

48. The serpents of the wilderness left their lairs
And their sturdy, brutal lions.

49. And they came relying upon the corpses of the slain
Deeming your peace with them battle enough.

50. Flags fluttered, their good fortune shaded,
By the misguidance, their swords, wandering.

51. From every body warmed by its fragrance
A spirit it erects, creating forms.

52. And it was as if you had lovingly clothed its steeds
In the finery of majesty, beauty atop beauty.

53. From every delicate blossom like its mark
Enchanted from the red sky in its strap,

54. Or blond like the dawn, restraining
The panic of the wilderness, making it manageable,

55. Or aflame like the leader displayed swimmingly
You would think it, in the deserts, a gazelle

56. Or resembling the sword of lips - so whenever
Eyes moistened it with a glance, they wavered

57. Or wearing a garment with silver embroidery upon it
Its legs' hems connected by trains

58. Or black like the night - as for its color
How much beauty wished for its imagination!

59. It walked on the plain with pride - from it an emerald
Stirring the air within it into agitation

60. And the corpses with domed howdahs as if they were
Ships repelling the winds, north and south

61. And as if they carried rubies which gleamed
And chrysolites watered from the downpour of spring,

62. And as if they were led to them brides
To dissolve your glorious pride in pleasure

63. The new moon rose for the crescent and did not bow
Until you saw it rise to the crescent.

64. You prayed and then slaughtered in the ways of guidance
Bodies like your slaughter in the clash of battle

65. And you followed the way of Ahmad and showed us
From his action through your action an example.

66. Then you returned to your palaces, achieving
Glory and destroying with virtues wealth.

67. You confirmed names in what you desired
Of resolve and directed deeds.