1. She shed Farid's tears that flowed unharnessed,
And tears bear some weight of the enamored one.

2. Her tears reached the stream, so its cheek
Became like the embroidered robe's hem lined.

3. She became distracted so everything around her darkened,
Yet everything dark was illuminated through her.

4. It was as if her crying one evening was bidding farewell,
My face shedding its water or blood.

5. The limbs of one who tastes separation are weakened,
When the taste of parting made the taste of union bitter.

6. It is as though dead save for the well-being of its people,
Of two handfuls of dust and the coffin.

7. If you want your every suspicion to be pitch-black,
Defer it to this greatest darkness.

8. A friend is not one who lends you a smiling face,
While inside he harbors a frowning one.

9. So let the youths convey from me to Malik
That whenever they are wounded, I crumble.

10. And let the days know that I am their conqueror
By my father al-Husayn Muhammad Ibn al-Haytham.

11. With the most delicate, who is no twin, and his right hand
Rises and falls with the twin sword.

12. I said to the resentful because of his reconciliation,
"A person of dignity, even if he doesn't sleep, becomes wise."

13. His resentment will not mend you, it may
Lead you to a valley not yet flooding.

14. Delegations to the peninsula renewed its liveliness,
Whether supporters in their abodes or dissenters.

15. As if, were it not for the rituals,
Its yards would be filled with idols or pilgrimage seasons.

16. As if their praise of it in a garden,
And their criticism of it in a hostile gathering.

17. Burdened with the Lord of Glory, he claims
No custom was initiated if not completed.

18. Generosities strung together the pearls of praise,
Which they blow into the mute tongue's necklace.

19. Much forbearance in his heart, and if it pours forth
It is pouring, and his hands' pardoning the crop's bounty.

20. He served the eminent, so they served him, and they
Do not serve the tribes unless first served.

21. And if he is affiliated with some noble lineage
The other says to him, "You have advanced."

22. What harm if the most magnificent ascends in aspiration
Lofty, disdaining to ascend a ladder?

23. Your honor refuses to abandon a position
Surrounded by the owner of the sharpened sword.

24. Indeed, rising to the level of its merit
Does not coerce crises unless coerced.

25. One cannot be blamed for misfortunes, nor can
Injustice be seen as half if not completely darkened.

26. And a deed you gifted to an experienced man
Who sought refuge in you, despondent.

27. It took the place of a gift from a virgin, and indeed
It was presented by the giver like a bereaved woman.

28. So it may increase your passion with generosity what you see
Of the alchemy of glory, singing and gaining.

29. Indeed, praise travels about as a loan among people
And its place is high above the stars.

30. And when kindnesses are darkened you dress them
In good tidings like the sparkling sharp swords.

31. You gave what you did not give, and if
The beauty of the meeting expired, you spared what you did not forbid.

32. You were created with a nature as though its reins
Were braided from the easy, pouring clouds' nature.

33. If I said some or all of it
Was embodied in Hatim, I'd be accused of being enamored.

34. They were renowned so they do not cease falling
In its meaning's name before the negator.

35. Indeed, the poems made you their purpose
So they became unlawful to you before being unlawful to me.

36. It was not yet wedded when the steeds of its vitality came to you
With their raids and gains before the profits.

37. So I made its custodian my conscience and enabled it
Through him, so it became custodian to the custodian.

38. Take it, it still maintained its independence
Busy with the instructor and appraiser.

39. It leaves the young man behind it with hope
And returns to the wing of towering hope.

40. Zahra is sweeter in my heart than wishes
And more delightful than the beloved's saliva in the mouth.