1. Do you see their specter when they set out
Taking sleep and giving wakefulness?

2. Or did we become confused and our night prolonged
That we imagined the late supper as dawn?

3. We do not blame the night, but excuse it -
He who shortened it lengthened it

4. If we clothed it in dark gloom
While it was a bright morning

5. O eyes asleep with resentment
God has forbidden you from seeing me

6. If you were fair, we would share intimacy
As we once shared glances

7. Ask the boughs of the acacia about my heart, for
The lightning in what it mentioned was mistaken

8. It said in the open country and I did not think
That it parted from the clouds until it cracked

9. The rain clouds have no prohibitions
From watering the blazes when your Lord is angered

10. So God watered the expanse and the faded traces
Good words were suited to you

11. So tears flowed with them
The slanderer told and we had misgivings

12. Suspicion necessitates blame in what he told
A glance that hid tears that did not cease

13. Passion expressed through them until they flowed
O people of the tent, does your disgrace

14. Prevent the distressed from gaining vengeance?
No free soul attains its goal

15. With the mounts and tents being struck
I am not one who crouches in his den

16. Wishing for triumph over the enemies
Do I see the incapacity as a cradle

17. Seeking glory stirs up danger?
And he is overcome by his opponent

18. Following fate wherever it leads
O you who slumber from his vigor

19. The sword does not frighten until it is drawn
Your people, if you throw them

20. Are a troop that settles and stirs up turmoil
Provoke them and they are, due to their defects

21. Cloaking the atmosphere in darker clouds
Perhaps they will reveal an event

22. In which the white outpaces the black
Our cavalry in which riders mix

23. With the Bedouin in settlements and towns
A band whose herder roused them

24. And their departure cannot be prevented
We hoped in you, so roll up your sleeves

25. For only one who rolls up his sleeves will achieve it
Glory refused except for one

26. Who took its most difficult path
Were it not for his restraint

27. Qais would have outdone Himer in generosity
Impoverished in wealth but rich in munificence

28. He only drew near when he became destitute
A gathering in which doubt was planted

29. Then it did not flourish until it bore fruit
From generous men whose eggs hatched

30. Into openings of glory and gates
They grew accustomed to the shade of loftiness and built

31. With the spears of glory, the houses of encampments
An aid that clothed the land with water

32. And stirred the dust high in the sky
And rain held back, so they constantly gave

33. And adversity struck, so they shone brightly
A bestowal from palms that necessitated

34. Obedience to munificence, so it became oceans
Ask about it, it almost flows

35. Like channels of calligraphy, pure and gushing
Passion drove it, and when it arrived

36. Blame was prevented from touching it
An onslaught, if pride speaks of it

37. Qahtan gained precedence over Mudar
And on the battlefield, their eggs returned

38. Every light-colored intestine to a dark-colored abdomen
They unfurled in it mighty palms

39. That taught the lofty summits lessons
And steeds that it supposed were attacking

40. With hooves striking sparks
The clan of Sawwar son of Zayd grew accustomed

41. To abundant generosity and pouring water
And with Ali they had

42. A vast basin that the palaces did not equal
He saw them while he is the one who informs them

43. Bringing together the horizon, the star and the moon
O Abu Nasr, a prayer from one

44. Made victorious by it averts disasters
I am, when raiding to protect you

45. A fearless lion, a cunning horseman and a charging warrior
I have, due to the sincerity of the affection between us

46. A select few whose sincerity the bitterness did not spoil
Every cunning deceitful person envied

47. The later ones against the earlier ones
When I recite it to a caravan, they find

48. The scent of the wind, intimate with flowers
The speeding camels halt their pace

49. And hearing in it falls silent before seeing
So make excuses, for we have not swerved

50. From sending to your abundant sea, its pearls