1. Meteors in the gloom of night pierced
Or a lamp whose fire is grape juice

2. Or a bride above my hands' throne
Illuminated by playfulness in a necklace of loved ones

3. O soul mate, the morning breeze
Has cooled and dawn no doubt has come near

4. Arise, let me entertain you with a life you've never tasted
With clarity from which the dregs of misfortune have been strained

5. For it is time for the dawn's glow
To have the partridges strike their tails in it

6. So turn her under a night whose roof
Is darkness in which there is a piercing of light

7. Or above the lightning of a laughing sky
Whose clouds spill tears from it

8. The garden is intoxicated and its birds sing
Should not then the bodies of its branches dance?

9. Bring a pearl in which there is ruby and take
A body of water carrying the spirit of flame

10. A coffee that if a boulder had drunk it
It would have blossomed with playfulness and enchantment

11. Its spirit pulls the soul to it
The softer of two things is what I'm drawn to

12. It was born old in its cluster
And today it is an old woman who did not grow up

13. Whenever the cup-bearer waved it, it showed
The loved ones of silver in the water of gold

14. Its wine-pourer who pressed it does not know
So the talk of truth in it is like lies

15. A libertine freed in a hollow
Of blood of grapes, filled choose

16. Putting his hands in his bosom
And standing while sitting is a must

17. They buried pleasure in it alive
And time came upon it and went

18. He thought it a treasure but when the smell
Was conveyed from it to the nose, that lineage was known

19. When he brought it out in his cloak I said
Is it the daughter of generosity or the mother of epochs?

20. It killed me and by me it is killed
The assault of the dead upon the living is strange

21. How can it not fell me with its assaults
While it is in my veins and nerves from me

22. And beautiful is the guide if with it
You say a star in the full moon has set

23. It illuminated coffee in the direction of life
And gave me a surplus of what it drank

24. So there met in my mouth from his cup
Water of generosity, clouds and mustache

25. And he plucked a string in praise of Yahya
Shaking from it the king his shoulders swayed

26. From the source of glory for him, Mu'izz al-Din
The best grandfather and Tamim the best father

27. One whose face is pure and eloquent
Forever for the warrior not to be masked

28. A king who feared for the breach of religion
And threw enemies with the mighty army

29. In the king's throne there is a moon from him
Illuminated on the day of gifts with meteors

30. Pure of manners, intimate of the lofty
Good of lineage, polished of lineage

31. A just one, praise bows constantly to
Mention him, mouths of non-Arabs and Arabs

32. Taking from his enemies what their heights have taken
Of loot

33. In a position never ceasing to choose
The zealous from every select group of people

34. If the army is mentioned, their resolve
Frightens with it and fear intensifies

35. And solid iron, were it not for their might
Would not be feared in stabbing, from the softness of reed

36. Their courage is affirmed in themselves
That the bitterness of striking is sweet like honey

37. Whoever's palm has warded off the flow of generosity
Has been stung by the biting of plundering time

38. And if the teeth of consent laugh from it
No frown is feared in anger from it

39. Every drop from it finds a place to water
From his stream, and it was a drinking place indeed

40. His forbearance reckons the mountain a pebble
And its bounty makes you think the sea a mere puddle

41. The people of merit have gotten their merit from it
And from the sun the glow of meteors

42. Enemies fear its domination from it
While it is in the shade of its heights, concealed

43. The hiss of roses is feared in its leap
While it resides in the thickets, not having leapt

44. How many mouths have delighted us in mentioning it
It is like musk and how many fresh mouths

45. It is as if the garden in its descriptions
Poetry and prose are dipped in it

46. Firm as a mountain amidst the arena
Of heroes, the banners flowing and taken

47. And heads in the meadows are crowned
And souls on the heights taken as spoils

48. How many brave ones have waded in its depths
With swords in throats embedded

49. A pen practicing stabbing, so say
Did it erase life or death record?

50. O you who have attained, from its favors
A cause from every growing cause

51. Lord of an opinion, you have equipped with it
An army tasting from it the toil of war

52. You were absent from it on the day of war
Yet your unseen aid in it did not wane

53. Like one playing his chess
His mind from it advanced in the game

54. I am one who on the day of purpose cried out
About its meanings, so strangers took flight

55. I roamed the horizons until my estrangement was complete
And the years of wisdom actualized

56. Then I came to the king who
Outstretched across the world, its branches

57. He gave the eminent the palm of a paying out
So he picked the pearls and left the fragments

58. Perhaps in the remainder of my life
From him I fulfill some deserved rights