1. A square house with a summer lodge for your eyes
With water flowing from the spring of life

2. A shower like two migrant doves
Each carrying twigs in their beaks to build a nest

3. If one turns west after west he makes it return
Against its will, a sandgrouse loyal to its chick

4. I remembered ignorance here until my tears welled up
And my friends gathered around me

5. They say does a Muslim cry from yearning
When his face is turned in devotion to God?

6. So away with the one whose blame erased my weakness
A kneeling camel turned away in the reins

7. Casting flesh and the slain of its enemy
On each other, entrails and carcass intertwined

8. To you happy one I came burdened
With concerns met by kin and fatigue

9. Were it not for He whose disobedient father
Would have been hung from the thorns of al-‘Ushsh

10. Were it not for the noble true-hearted youth
Generous through days of adversity well-known

11. When he turns with determination to the enemy
His resolve is not weakened, pearls and petals interlaced

12. A steed for them in the abode, excellent and joyous
And a gait like the walk of a smooth-stepping wild cat

13. Had he wished he could veil the sun from view
With a screen, the folded cloak a protection

14. But he preferred to reveal it with noble white horses
Purebred, piercing the non-Arabs

15. When one day he leads them to death row upon row
Will follow in their tracks rows upon rows

16. So they lined up and what can iron do against them
And whites like the chicks of ostriches abundant

17. Their souls turned to the gardens of Eden
With beyond them only good things for the righteous

18. Light in step, worry cannot fill his chest
When foul food is his lot, he's not discontent