1. You invited me, so I came, your house is like Kaaba
Where sincerity and love congregate and circumambulate

2. Our imagination yearns for it, our hearts circle around it
And which heart wouldn’t yearn for an imagination?

3. Your gracious sons bow to you with compassion
And you nurture them with kindness, treating them gently

4. If they shed some dignity, just let them be
One like you would forgive what they have done

5. And lighten the gravity weighing upon me that became lighter
So I leaned on Al-Fadl's generosity, hoping

6. And plunged into Al-Fadl's generosity, extravagant
O gathering of night talk, is there a scribe

7. To record the miracles of minds, impartial
To testify that poetry walked with us

8. Excelling most when the nature excelled to pretend
And it flows in our blood, continuous with the soul

9. Flowing and pouring out, perceptive
Is there then a transmitter of my words at dawn and a spreader

10. Of a saying of truth that refused to be distorted
A talk of Ghanim, Al-Rudainjut and what

11. Occurred between us, I was not shaking with the truth
I saw him and plate meets plate

12. Never did I see one finer and wittier than Ghanim
Meat appeared to him but he did not know

13. Whether to stab you after folding or to tear
And he winked at me asking with it

14. Do you recognize him? I winked back, helping
And I presented it to the rooster and he was as if

15. Flying to it, leaping eagerly
Ghanim, our brother rooster, I presented this to that

16. So this is for that, do you recognize?
And it was but a moment and they flirted

17. And after greeting, pretenses were lifted
Neither on the supple neck slashed

18. Nor on the clean chest dressed
May God reward the ancient teeth there

19. That hovered over Al-Fadl's plate, busy
Al-Naji taunts Al-Rudainjut, saying to him

20. Provoking, so he took risks and put on a cloak
And swore if he got Al-Rudainjut

21. And someone generous gave it as a gift or loan
He would turn it inside out confusing

22. You to think the face was the rear or vice versa
I saw you and the lentils were coming, Al-Fadl

23. As the feverish rose when told he was cured
And enough said about the spectacular sight

24. Of Al-Fadl's lentils, like a museum prepared for the eye
Yet no sooner had it come than I saw it

25. Vanish like a specter that appeared in a dream and was gone
By God, you let out from your gut a lingering

26. Murmur whose meaning floated to your head
Stop, shall we cry or laugh, however we are

27. Stop my friend, today is of wondrous stop
As if the girls of the house were in my friend's eye

28. Beauties in their finery, fluttering
He gestured to one as she emerged for him

29. And whispered to him from afar, showing care
Asking who am I while she knows

30. Could something be hidden from a lady so fair?
I will tell her, you're a poet

31. Content when good comes, pretending detachment
And who are you to reject a gift

32. Freely given, refusing the like, abstaining?
A lad whose state is toil and final place the grave

33. Whose path is bare and project is wreck