1. Love and affection complained of us, yet love itself was unjust
Is there between two wrongs a judge and arbiter?

2. And in separation there was a letter I read
On her cheek, if only I were safe from it

3. It was evidence over what musk had influenced
A guide behind the mourning women's veils

4. Nights I take no refuge but in yearning
For your separation, everything becomes doves

5. When our glances and trysts met
And the secret of love revealed what secrets hide

6. A human wailed from numbness
While a beast rejoiced from lotus fragrance

7. And she said, like a passing wild cat I heard its rustle
So I said, the hearts of lovers are doves

8. Ask the girls of the valley, are the girls of the valley drunk
From its drafts or grieving and accumulating?

9. And only saliva is sweet for it
Kisses her without me though I resist

10. And I said describe to me the harvest of her down
So he silenced me with what he claimed

11. When we are alone, we amuse ourselves with her memory
And if a house is empty, its milestones suffice us

12. Sometimes longing awakens after its stubbornness
And exceeds the patient chains

13. My friend, oh come aid it against the darkness
Troops until the night is defeated

14. Until I see the Pleiades scatter its necklace
And rings fall from the hand of Aldebaran

15. Delegations will come to John in the morning
As seasons came early to Umm Al-Hateem

16. The prince whom his opinion suffices from the sword
And intentions of armies suffice him from leading troops

17. There is no generosity but in hopes of an aspirer
No pardon but to forgive crimes

18. The brother of war and son of war drew his sword
Against it though standards were not raised against him

19. I envision him in the eyes of others unlike my own
As if what I see of him is a dreamer's vision

20. And death is not as they said, it is in his hands today
Drawn, not as its name implies

21. He judges the east and west of the country equally
Though he is unjust to blacks and whites alike

22. They complained that they met prejudice from him
So where is one the lions meet as adversaries?

23. Had this mute creature been able to speak
The righteous would have prayed for you

24. Those are not flashes though they appeared as such
But it is your smiles that hid them

25. Walked freely in their skins, suns
Holding the banners of winds in their peaks

26. Exposing them to blame as if they have from their foe
Ribs and forearms to stab

27. And when they stab, no longer chest or ire
As if you string necklaces of pearls

28. And how many hordes you've hit their rows
With lightning through which you pray and it burns

29. The lions came to you bellowing
So they fled from your sides terrified

30. They came to you but did not bow down in prayer
Rather their skulls poured forth

31. And had the sun fought you without their meeting
An army of God would have defeated it swiftly

32. You preceded their deaths by striking their souls
As tribulations precede what is to come

33. You lead the dense, learned ones to fury
For them over the clash of steel are battle cries

34. Dressed in thick armor as if
Eyes dance over them and strike

35. They only have blood for drink
Only souls for food

36. They wish that from their sheaths
Those bare swords could be forged

37. If only their palms would stab before the spears
If only the wrists would slash before the shields

38. The lion of the forest saw how his confusion
Was from the red saliva and the bite dark

39. You made him a small cub bold against prey
Does he thank you today as he grows fierce?

40. You taught him until when his teeth sharpened
You said go, for you are learned

41. He will pride that fate is from those you train
That people's lives are what you oversee

42. That you defend the right of succession
That you smile at the border of the caliphate

43. That you unlocked what the predecessors sealed
As if your efforts in the market of men guided them

44. You saw a conflict of ascent and descent
As if you divide lifespans and provisions

45. You secured the ways of the destitute
So noses that resist submitted to you

46. And you lowered them by permission until
The sword strides toward you and the sword remains sheathed

47. They look up, where are their delegations from you?
As if on the day of riding, you race the lightning

48. So do not neglect the shining full moon by which
They journeyed, for it has a right to your permanence

49. Does dawn seize it while dawn shines?
Does night establish while night is oblique?

50. You rose so were it not for the crown above you
Tameem bin Murr would doubt you destroy

51. You excel so were it not for Tayy honoring you
Some might say you are the last seal

52. To you belongs the house of pride, you are its pillar
It has no pillars but spears

53. It prides that none above you reaches
It leans on that none behind you destroys

54. The world would not contain its people
But you in it are the deep seas

55. Enough! You have silenced us as if
Your making is Arabic while we are foreign

56. Still a source of glory pours unto you
Still a curtain of honor shields you

57. There is a time like impetuous youth
There are nights like gentle cradles

58. By God, separation is precious. Were it not for a caliph
Who parted me from you and a lasting covenant

59. Precious are the white palaces whose rule
The kings of the world inhabit, and they are generous

60. You are among them, so repel the greeting of some of us
When clouds kiss your hands on our behalf

61. And if I were in a grave and you called me
The cold bones would sacrifice themselves for you

62. You carried hopes when traveling
And brought favors when arriving

63. You extended a hand to caress the rain from above
Is there for you a sea above it, storming?

64. It is the basin, the basin of God, who comes to it?
The pouring rains have certainly flowed from it

65. If this is the work of your hands, by God
Blessings upon you have certainly become binding