1. It is a band from a friend of yours, O Majid
Tomorrow, when every frozen tear melts

2. So take refuge in preparing for affairs and their setting
For tears diminish some of the effort of the diligent

3. And if you lose a brother and do not lose
Tears or patience for him, then you have lost nothing

4. O High One, O son of Jahm, you have poured for me
A drink and wine in the cool running water

5. Never stay too far nor be distant, your manners
Are evergreen, fragrant even from afar

6. If the rain of brotherly love is scarce, we
Go out and about in a longstanding brotherhood

7. Or if the water of connection differs, our water
Is sweet, flowing from one cloud

8. Or a lineage that unites us parts,
The discipline we established takes the place of a parent

9. If you were an onlooker, you would not defend
Al-Ashqar the curly-haired or the opponent

10. Or old age preceded you, I would say
Eloquence itself was derived from your speech

11. Or if I believed in the stars one day
I would claim you to be Mercury itself

12. Difficult, so if you forgive, you would forgive smoothly
Flowing freely is your satire in the leader’s right hand

13. You were dressed above your glory in a blessing
White that landed among the envy of the envious

14. And an affection that did not become ascetic with
A suitor one day, nor did it make an ascetic covet

15. The singer is not ashamed that the shepherd breaks in
Before the leader in her meadow

16. I do not claim any part of high status for you
Except that you are the most just of witnesses to it