1. Between your phantom and my eyelids are trysts
So it fades when I'm told that I'm asleep

2. I yearn for slumber so I can share it
With the stray gazelle it hunts as bait

3. So I stay content with the mirage though
It's a yearning born of corrupt mirage

4. Alas, the loved one's sorrow won't be cured
By the phantom's closeness when the loved one's far

5. And many have faulted my delight in love
Lacking the pleasures that I do find

6. They say I've loved each coquette
I told them the motivator is one

7. So wherever beauty I found in a place
It led me with the rashness of youth

8. I knew not that the gazelle's glances
Are for the lions, snares and traps

9. Indeed, He who created the wilderness made it
With tools that prove His perfection

10. So seven stars wheel the skies
While one star steers the two earths

11. A star that has in kingship resolute stars
They are meteors when a demon stirs

12. The victorious king, his kindness near
His glory far, exalted his frontier

13. A king whose gifts and noble deeds
Are traps and schemes against the foe

14. Like rain holding tremors for tyrants
And cool flowing water for those who hope

15. His might is feared, his gifts hoped for
Like the sea holding havocs and benefits

16. His opinions for creatures are guides
His concerns for thesinging girls are proofs

17. Don't be disheartened by his might from his kindness
Behind clouds are lightning bolts and thunder roars

18. He bestows horses, camels and caravans
And carriers, ships and loaded convoys

19. For you, O son of Urtha, the generous deed is a trait
So your kindness exceeds your grandfather's name

20. You inherited the glory of Sura's line though it faded
And you built it so now it thrives anew

21. A people whose palms were accustomed to gifts
For the generous are accustomed to kindness

22. They lived and their excellence was spring for the land
So for them is living praise and lasting remembrance

23. Their palms on days of peace are streams
Their hearts on days of strife solid rocks

24. You've guaranteed whom the times tasked with protection
As if for all humanity you are creation's own father

25. So your hands are like necklaces on time's neck
Your help like jewels on the forehead of mankind

26. You honored me and raised my worth
So my critics' envy of your proximity consumed them

27. You knew my love for you led me to you
So your affection for me and care will return

28. Forgive a lover if his person is absent
Coming to you are his poems and his aims

29. When praise of you leads me away
Yearning for you pulls the reins toward you

30. I made all my words for you licit
Those that I consider & those I stipulate

31. If I compose poetry then for you I sing praise
If I write prose then for you I give thanks