1. You glanced upon my secret love, O you who abase
A resolute man whom your words cannot deter

2. And the most foolish one you complain your love to
Is one who finds rejection to be the best thing from him

3. The faces of pleasures have not been cheerful
Since the days of our youth passed with sorrows

4. If you want to see no patience in one showing patience
Then look at the state the remnants have reached

5. Our tears, when they left, changed its tune
As they were copiously flowing down

6. If only you could see us and them and our stance
At the mourning place for our inaugural elegy

7. With burning caused by parting that captured
A heart, and knots in its throat out of agony

8. Yearning has folded within our chests with separation
An eye has folded it within its lids due to sleeplessness

9. The night charmed us until every enchanted one
Became busy with another, distracted from each other

10. It puts to shame the kohl in the eyes of the coquettish
And exposes the kohl on her eyelids

11. The souls are almost transferred if left
From the bodies to them where they head towards

12. Blood was shed for them as if it was
The blood of camels for sacrifice in Mecca

13. Everything became cheap so he spills it
Even homes, enclosures, and camels

14. With the eighth successor, its foundations expanded
With the extending kingdom and no defects

15. With al-Mu'tasim's divine aid, no affection
For the kingdom since he unified its horizons without any cracks

16. It gratifies the subjects that Allah, All-Powerful,
Gave them through Abu Ishaq what they asked for

17. If an equivalent in the immediate could replace
The deferred promise, there would be a replacement

18. The poetry perplexed me as I stayed up for it
Until I thought its rhymes would fight each other

19. If I had not accepted the advice of determination to journey
Both journey and camel would race me to it

20. It has gardens of dew whose flowers
Were not spoiled and no diseases crept between them

21. An expanse where no foot settled on it
Except stumbling and slipping departed from it

22. He does not care who he favored with his generosity
Which quarter inadequacy embraced

23. It is as if his money and generosity destroy it
As if lavishness or voluntary charity erased it

24. You were valiant, or actually kind, or even self-sufficient in that
You are undoubtedly easy and gentle on mountain and plain

25. My hand is a pledge for whoever willed it, it has not tasted
From your comfort, it does not know honey or beeswax

26. May God send blessings upon al-'Abbas, and bodies
Rolled in the dust which floods of calamity drowned

27. That one who even if people were his offspring
Neither cowardice nor stinginess would satisfy him

28. The father of stars that did not spare its piercing one
That its constellation be Taurus or Aries

29. In every major conflict, the buyer is not known in it
Nor can planets or fortune influence it

30. Its brilliance or lion-likeness protect it
From being disgraced by a man or from men, the man

31. A dreadful situation where its heroes are silenced
In it, the swords and the straightened blades speak

32. One cannot hope to cross its abyss
With words unless action was a bridge for it

33. You attacked while death's obvious image emerged
And terminations have branched out in its joints

34. You exposed its vulnerabilities with striking while it was protected
Where alarm and panic are firm in it

35. O People of the Prophet, when darkness descends
You are for us torches while you are for it flames

36. They find their death pleasant as if they
Do not despair of life when they are killed

37. A people, when they promise or are promised
They overwhelm with truth the return of what they said and did

38. The lions of a den, when panic spends the night with them
Or spends the night with it but its lions are absent

39. The hands of death reach the sudden end
When a champion from them wields a sword

40. So the times are sick, or its affection is corrected
For today is the first day I hoped for healing

41. I brought my journey near to the cities whose generosity
Welcomes pleasure wherever I seek pleasure

42. Keen decisiveness that crushes stinginess protects it
Generosity and honor that degrades wealth adorn it

43. A mind that if it approves, it thereby approves all affairs
A view in which patience and haste have become refined

44. The interpretation has come making excuses
For inadequacy unless God and camel help me

45. You have certainly adorned the Commander of the Faithful with it
With a necklace whose strung verses flowed well or were exemplary

46. It is a stranger which company makes it familiar
Thus it does not alight upon a people and then depart

47. My hand is pledged, tasteless of your comfort
Nor knowing the honeycomb and honey