1. Your carefree dress fluttered,
unnoticed by the guard.

2. It remained, from joy, like revealing lines
that the south wind playfully strokes.

3. Is it good news that arrived and inspired
thoughts and hearts with its scent?

4. It shakes your shoulders as the slender branch
of the beekeeper shakes the intelligent palm tree.

5. Is it a fire, that crowd
of enviers burning or melting with jealousy?

6. Or is it the candle that with the good fortune
of the happy king was lit by Fate?

7. A prince who for a captive's concern
feels the imminent deliverance sting him.

8. His virtues wander in the valleys
as virtues once wandered among the old tribes.

9. The victorious city was adorned by him
and became like the interior of a camel litter:

10. darker than tar.
So my fortunes continue to gladden me with you,

11. a joy nothing can disrupt.
The sun of “Sa’ud the Fortunate” does not cease