1. No, by the eyes that kept us awake,
And left no tear or trace for worries,

2. And the one whose image, had it not been depicted
In the cup, wine would not have intoxicated,

3. I have never smelled anything like you in Damascus,
To which beauty has been attributed like a gazelle outshining the moon,

4. It makes the cup and the blonde radiant,
When he spills his luminous face over it,

5. Whenever its hair is blown by the wind and gives off the scent of basil,
It breathes the morning and the darkness splits and flows,

6. Give it to me over the cheek that was fermented
With it, so the ruby became fermented,

7. In a garden, whenever good news is brought,
And it is visited, people share in its good news,

8. A generous man who picks up favors from his palm
That no ambitious person sought except to succeed through it,

9. Sweet talk, gentle nature, if a drop
Fell from it on the soil of the dead, it would grow,

10. The most delicious generosity, the most generous generosity of hand
The most pious generosity in response, the highest generosity in offspring

11. We know no magic but in its customs,
No young man has magic but in his words,

12. And we see no beautiful night, as long as
Its splendor from its face is magical,

13. O critic of the best of kings and the
Best of governors whom destiny has chosen

14. Tell the slanderers, O sons of Uthman, more just than
Khosrow and more gentle with the poor than Uthman

15. They did not employ us as servants in their kingdoms
Rather they served us good fortune and success

16. One day, you would boast to the white and the moon
We frolic and smile, and the strings croon, and the

17. Moons inspire the cups with pearls
Among us are men of God, an elite

18. That multiplies news in praising it with more news
They do not deny the dhimmi his conduct

19. Nor defend a transgressor against him out of betrayal
So where are we and where is injustice, O camels of

20. The non-Arab West whose honors have been hamstrung
The justice of the Commander of the Faithful remains

21. For us a shady, shaded shelter encompassing nomad and settled
And Rashid remains a light that illuminates the

22. World and ministers flow in his footsteps