1. My memories of Valencia took the place of my healer
The memory of its learned men and the memory of its literati

2. You told me of it and so healed my burning longing
I spent my night consumed by its flames

3. I still remember it but you increased
My memories - and the soul finds comfort in the memory of its beloved

4. I yearn for Valencia though the cause of this yearning
Is only Abu Abbas, its unique stranger

5. The breeze blows but the breeze is not fragrant
Until it is imbued with its scent, and with hers

6. My helpful brother against the enemy with a sword
Fully adorned with the sharpness of its orator

7. When chaos rose up, were it not for his victory
Its lion would not be distinguished from its wolf

8. Zeal overcame roar in an act of protectiveness
And the sun's glow darkened before its setting

9. So Ahmad persisted in debating the enemies
With proof to affirm me and deny them

10. Until the superior was distinguished from the inferior
And the mistaken critic submitted to the correct one