1. Stop, o lady of pause and beauty
Perhaps I will heal my aching heart

2. Urge the camels like urging cups
As if drinking did not mix

3. I implore you by God, implore
A stopover for your camel litter

4. Your cheeks did blush, not kiss
And none but my heart took the path

5. That is your place, and who responds
Calms me where I am not disturbed

6. And the day we parted, if only
I bid you farewell, it would not sour

7. And the night we separated, if only
At dawn, you turned to the lovelorn

8. May God water our dwellings with passion
And pleasing love’s shade, luxurious

9. Your generosity flowed like streams
At the valley’s bend from springs

10. No eye decrees but the dream
Of a reckless, confused wanderer

11. Does fate grant without taking away,
Provision depleted and no gift regained?

12. A night whose blossoms don
A shirt of pearls, hand-stitched

13. Changing on the sand at dawn
Bay steed groomed, saddled up

14. Galloping from it, the morning
Dove and plunged into turquoise sea

15. It eclipsed and darkened your long branch
And glance, languid and heavy-lidded

16. Your sections correspond endless
As the parchment hums unstirred

17. On a ride joyfully frolicking
Gleaming like glowing embers

18. Until your morning shines a grin
On the visage of the bent youth

19. A prince whose troubles, if confined
Barely contained, hardly remedied

20. Noble whose doors open though
Fate never yielded to the hopeful

21. Wise, whose virtues humble glory
Never vain, nor indignant

22. If ignorant of his condition
Bewildered once, then learn

23. You’ll see a lion in his resolve
And rain of favours, blooming full moon

24. Dazzling minds with his brilliance
And noble lineage blazing

25. With generosity, none rivals their joy
Save the critique and sting of slander

26. He called the martyr of Karbala
Son of the noble and prosperous ancestor

27. To you we sought refuge, knowing
Your help for those who seek protection

28. We came to your door, not the river
And praise this refuge

29. Protect from the blaming tongues
Who speak not your praises

30. Born from him, the newborn
Meanings of poems, an outpour

31. Blood forever in a lasting
Kingdom, glorious, never collapsing

32. Unique in meaning, for time is barren
Without the like of you, nothing generated