1. I asked this steadfast heart but it would not beseech
I admonished it but it refused to heed admonition

2. I scolded this aching heart but it was not made wary
I restrained these sickly eyelids but they said no

3. Would that the warriors at dawn were at ease after their warring
And the riders when the guide hastened the slow camels

4. Since I was told that Rudainah had departed and betrayed me
My patience was lost and I was not pleased that she left

5. They set forth with heavily loaded litters then lightened
Their burdens - how pleasant is the lightened heavy load!

6. They traveled with her, hiding the track of their mounts
And when night fell, its darkness hid them completely

7. They perfumed the valley through which they passed
So its dust became musk diffusing perfumes

8. Oh would that they had tethered the mounts though
Before my sight and not disappeared into the horizon

9. Great is the difference between me and my beloveds
The healthy cannot be compared to the injured and weak

10. They said you have abandoned comfort, I said I have abandoned it
And refrained a month's fast when they arrived

11. Tomorrow when Shawwal comes I will still be found
Cloaked and robed between the threshing floors

12. An old man's repentance amounts to no more
Than a month even if he were the greatest ascetic

13. It is the wine of Paradise drank by its dwellers when they asked
About the one who read the Book sent down

14. What is Tihama to me when its passes were closed
And every door returned locked

15. Poetry is incumbent on me so when I compose
I must first praise the victorious king

16. My poetry falls short of even a few of his attributes
If I were Bu'ayth or Jarwal the most eloquent

17. What can my poetry and epics do
Against the clouds of his magnanimity that filled the horizon

18. Oh Jesus my mother is honored and like Joseph
You find perfect and chained pearls

19. You meet the happy face and see the sea
Of benignity with the sun of loftiness shining

20. King Abu Malik his father with your knowledge
Is a king crowned with loftiness and clothed in power

21. The borders called him so he reinforced them
With troops and sent to each border an army

22. With battalions in Dathina and battalions
That made the ground shake so it quaked

23. The people of Hail feared him
And would have fled terrified if they heard his shout

24. The preacher of Mecca cannot mention Joseph
Except that he exalts and praises from his minbar

25. The wilderness from Aden to Khabafi Minna
Was filled with the horses of his soldiers to overflowing

26. So his rule is above all others and his kingdom
Above the Tababi and the first Akasira