1. Do not grieve with your infatuated heart,
And yearn for the eyes of the shy gazelle.

2. Beware, for every moment
Tells you his abode is surely desolate.

3. Your gaze confined your heart, going astray,
For I had entrusted it to one unfaithful.

4. And love saw a slain victim killed by passion,
Thus I refrain from seeking my loans.

5. Do not deny me the outpouring of my tears,
For tears wash away the bitterness of the grieved.

6. The clouds were stingy and my abode
Was not graced except by the knots of my eyelids.

7. And with my love, my friend is spoiled,
In life, I do not resent him.

8. And were your father to drink wine and its froth,
He would not know which of us is the son of vineyard keepers.

9. Had the desert I traverse to seek union
Valued connection, my madness would have waned.

10. White ones, when the allurer shakes their branches,
Calm the boughs of the jujube tree in euphoria.

11. No sooner do I visit them as confidantes,
Like stars in darkened nights.

12. Until I heard their twittering say to me,
“Have you seen the like of my kith and boughs?”

13. Is it not enough for me to see myself standing,
Filling your doorstep, O Saladin?

14. Reciting your glorious traits, composing for you,
Like a concealed pearl necklace.

15. I am too weak to praise you in ways
That transcend all composition and creation.

16. To you this kingdom owes fealty after its return,
And willingly submitted to your hands unopposed.

17. For you were the first to establish its pillar,
And answered the call of its auspicious king.