1. The night's bonds loosened, and lightning sparked with a flame of yearning
The horse asked not about the neighbor as he raced to pasture

2. Intoxicated wandering for the camel in its folds
And warning thunder and rain to drive off the lingering cloud

3. My lids I bound in vigil, so tear-drenched were they
I asked the lightning about you, and on it a line was writ

4. Would that it had shown more than the valley concealed
Or would that I forgot to remember you, for it is torment and pain

5. A blamer feigned sympathy with me, and some reproach was his advice
He thought my love for you a passing folly, though it was proper

6. Why speak of the like unless your explanation is rebuke?
My two friends, turn back! For ahead are strange wonders

7. And tell me where the dawn sun lies, for the hue of morning is perplexing
Oh how I suffer estrangement, which sent the Arabs roaming to Rome

8. Fate led me to it, and who fights fate is vanquished
Will you two then fault a tribe whose fires blaze in the air?

9. None but the searchers know their traces in the wilderness
Perhaps it is the fires of the Malhama clan, that destroy all around

10. And if their kin have gone, their hospitality falls on the foreign guest
A people we recalled, though the wind with none but them conversed

11. Our fondness caused the winds and stars delight
Parties from 'Amir they gathered, and pitched a tent at Al-Jawza

12. When asked, their virtue was ready, and elegant their manner
Eloquence shone before the dew, and good cheer was as beloved as beauty

13. The fire of battle wondered at the flames of their hands, yet they are gentle
Forgetting the past, they inclined to Malik

14. And a secret in him was unveiled, once concealed
He is a spear aloft, far from the reach of spears

15. And after him the channels flowed straight
His thoughts reveal the unseen, while people's minds only grope

16. Crises of time are in his palm, and fate's torrents made calm
His perfection spares you listing his faults

17. And any advice to shun him is avoidance
He has a station beyond comprehension

18. For gray hairs, guidance and correction
It rose with him and so after him

19. In the horizon it still rises and sets
As honored as a house with a sanctuary

20. Oh son of Ali, how did dew become obligatory upon you, rather than voluntary?
Before you the people strayed from its path

21. And few pursued what was sought
After you, none were guided but by your minarets

22. The people of Sham were unharmed though rain abandoned them, for your goodness flowed
How many meadows you have in their valleys

23. That the scent of musk reaches its guards
You are no slender-waisted woman, Muzna, strutting among them

24. With trailing robes dragging behind
Rather, one related to the victorious King made it flourish

25. His hands gave generously when life was miserly and bounty withheld
O best of those whose light the mounts of misfortune climbed

26. I heeded your charity, though friends failed with distance
So my love of you remains though spears ignited it

27. And the ardor of a doe, all reproach above me
My age kept me from you, though it brought me close in quest

28. I found a land whose lightning glittered, guarded by a wolf
Without me, it is but ruins where an owl hoots

29. Can my hopes, if fulfilled in thought, order and arrange?
Will you believe me if gain is false, and lies cheat?

30. For after prolonged sorrow, Joseph healed Jacob's agony