1. What hopes can the ogler have of the mature man?
And the unsheathed poisoned sword of the kohl?

2. And how the arrows of fate bewilder!
And I stab the faded one, veiled in beauty!

3. Which arrows do we fear?
Only the arrows of the eyes we fear.

4. And we only fear the glancing of the black-eyed gazelle,
And guard only against the temptation of the slim one.

5. With every swaying of hips and protruding buttocks
A branch strokes her sturdy calf.

6. She is tall, with prominent breasts and a slender waist,
Like two water skins passing between sober and drunk.

7. It's not boredom in her but an inclination,
In her glance is flirtation - needless to say!

8. As if her charm were night and her smile dawn,
Her stature like a branch upon a hill.

9. You'd think her and the blackness of the branch hides her
A sun hidden by wings of bats.

10. With her soul she sings, and her teeth
Envy the throat that her saliva passed through.

11. White, smiling at what's in her necklaces,
So that pearls envy the place of her kisses.

12. Vitality tailored her clothes
When her hips refused to move.

13. And my heart employed its love for her
And how my wings have turned to passion!

14. The day after Eid, her visage appeared to me
And renewed what separation had ruined for me.

15. And brought her mouth near me, so I wondered
Was it the gleam of pearls or the drink of rose and honey?

16. I spent the night in her embrace, the cradle uniting us,
Passion distancing us from all opinions.

17. The soul drunk on knowing her flavor
And the mind embarrassed to know her character.

18. Till when the sun of morning shone
She appeared, having cut short my hopes.

19. So I wept when my tears drowned me in my blood,
That vows are swords of the brave Abdul Qadir.

20. The prohibiter of injustice and bitterness,
The defender of opinion from humiliation and lapse.

21. Best of all generous ones, reconciler of dignities
Who reconciles skulls, savior of the anxious fearful one.

22. With the first blow the mill of war turned
Deadly to the shepherds of horses and camels.

23. The chief of the people flees from it in alarm,
Saying “neither my she-camel nor my camel remains.”

24. You see him there while the horses wander about,
More merciless to the army than an eagle to its prey.

25. With Indian swords whose edges he guaranteed
The water of throats, so he fears no misfortune.

26. And with lightning bolts that when they incline
Towards a filled valley, incline without moderation.

27. I ransom him, a moon the like of whom
Has not appeared in any sphere free of defects.

28. Blessed in perception, created for his intelligence
And leadership of the army from his original traits.

29. His swords bent necks and his just rulings straightened out
Like pegs after the injustice of judges.

30. Of politics he has a meadow whose chief
Knows nothing of deception and is not transferred elsewhere.

31. And of battle he has flames from the sharpness of his blades
That do not leave the army without burning.

32. A sea whose foam, when it casts forth pearls
Money flows and people are in rapture.

33. When he boasts of property he collects it,
While others boast of spending money and exchange.

34. He surpasses the ancients of non-Arabs and Arabs
As the living snake surpasses creeping creatures.

35. And he rules over every generous lord of his time
As the hand rules over the shoulder.

36. My Master, you have fulfilled the right of fasting, so delight in
This breakfast, as the Eid has arrived in beautiful dresses.

37. And surrender to every crescent, if it could
Kiss your shoes with its mind.

38. Eid for all is a fleeting apparition,
While our Eid in you is eternal.

39. May your shadow, O guardian of the protected, remain inviolable,
Deflecting the turns of fate and confusion from us.

40. And may you remain, protected from every accident
By God, the Chosen One, and the Pious Seven.