1. Take for me from the night’s darkness some safety,
For I have no hand that tells of getting up as assailant,

2. And I am brave with the white of swords,
Even if I am cowardly from the blackness of eyes.

3. For they have a weapon whose wound does not heal,
So it can be hoped for but they are not obliged to pay blood money.

4. With myself, if I have sinned against my principles
Sins, and loved their hatred and sharp teeth.

5. And if I carried out against me other than what was required,
Stubbornly and unjustly without adding explanation.

6. And whoever showed my argument in love clearly
And their stubbornness appeared and was clear.

7. I tried love, she said you pretend asceticism
So that he who wants safety in bed dissolves.

8. And I let the tears of my eyes flow, she said: and what flowed?
You sprinkled our cheeks from it with pearls.

9. I cried blood, she said you dyed with schadenfreude
Your tears red, happiness for us.

10. And if crying made me blind her
She’d say, he’s blind so he doesn’t see and flees us.

11. Whenever I cry, she laughs, and I disdain the pearls of my tears,
In her eyes degraded and humiliated.

12. I endure against her every tear and laugh
And like what I suffered, none suffers,

13. For her lovers are in a state of Ahmed’s enemies
Suffering from him humiliation and disgrace.

14. So they are in battlefields submissive as if
Upon each neck he set up a sharp blade.

15. And the king, the victorious, the defender of truth is not to be compared
So we tell the story of so-and-so before him and so-and-so

16. A king obsessed with hunting prey in war
What he desired, God desired, and it was.

17. He threw at them disorderly forelocks a drink
Upon which dark lions do not tire of stabbing.

18. We plunge into his great flood certain
Of the beauty of praise protecting us.

19. You see the plains crowded from fear of him if he raids
And the fires of spears appear gardens.

20. Every day he has against his enemies a massacre
Extending forever, ever renewed.

21. And he opened up places, whenever I said nothing remains
Behind this place I found a new place.

22. So vast is the world and swift is his conquest
And firmer than one who leaned away from him in fear.

23. Indeed his swords have warned of the defeat of necks
And his calls reached the ears of kings.

24. Whoever of them his hands were victorious with his reconciliation
Tastes safety on their eyelids in slumber.

25. And whoever of them inclined from him, trusting his castles,
With a castle that the castle crumbled from it and betrayed.