1. Ask how my heart is after you,
Its bags were loaded at dawn.

2. Do not think I asked about the spears,
For my heart's Solwan is in love with you.

3. What is the state of one whose home was swept to the west,
While his family and lawful things are in the east?

4. But I made myself used to it, though it is
The nature of one whose ways are good and traits are beautiful.

5. I made excuses to myself about the meeting, for I
Hope for God's kindness, His majesty is glorious.

6. For the free man suffers adversity,
Through which his patience and tolerance appear.

7. It is the nature of noble fathers I inherited
With right, and glory is built for man by his family.

8. You have inherited the glory of the kingdom from every glorious one,
Whose courage was high in great deeds and achievements.

9. The neighing of swift steeds is its anthem,
And under its fluttering banners are its shadows.

10. Ask time about the sons of victory, or if you wish,
Ask the religion of which they are its men.

11. Perhaps the mountain of conquest near which
I camped at the conquest will prove true in its omens.

12. We ask the breaths of the breeze when it blows,
Maybe news of you its left side will convey.

13. And we hope for the visit of the beloved one in the year of reunion,
Who will I have for a sleep in which his imagination comes to me?

14. For myself a gazelle who fascinated me with her glances,
And my heart was infatuated with her beauty and grace.

15. She is the full moon and the five bright stars,
And the wing of the nights, its branch and its dalliance.

16. Imagination brings her near me, though
Her dwellings are far from me and difficult to attain.

17. And I ask about news of him from every newcomer,
If only I knew how he asks about me!

18. In the way of God a tossed heart,
Empty of sorrow cannot remain.

19. And on the east side a herd of ostriches,
That will not be hunted if their gazelle is missed.

20. I hunted the gazelle of companionship, so she bowed,
Taken captive by a love whose ropes tightened around her.

21. The killer glance, which settled in my being
Suddenly in a fleeting moment its arrows pierced me.

22. The world obeys my rule submissively to my command,
And your command is written upon me, submissive to it.

23. If you are absent from my eye, your image is present,
Accompanying my thought, its shape and example.

24. And if the nights moved me away from you,
My heart is something, its movement cannot be hidden.

25. When the breeze of sighs makes my tears flow,
It wipes them, and my tears water its sands.

26. By God, the noble one did not weaken, but rather
Learned from my passion, so his weakness appeared.

27. I remembered at night the beloved I embraced,
And my gathering of all wishes in its embrace.

28. The dawn wandered in it, where was its path?
And above my arm was its full moon and crescent.

29. And I gave him of its wine and cushions,
A drink with which from it to him was the transition.

30. And I embraced from it the branch, the morning breeze tilted,
With its softness and balance it intoxicated me.

31. Will the days of reunion return as I knew them,
And my heart attain what it desires and reaches?

32. May God water Granada where I dwell
With clouds that water its plains with their showers.

33. And a quarter in red Madinah teeming
With clouds unveiled over the full moon of the sky.

34. And a forest in it for the kingdom cubs of Dhi Ghaim,
Whose might and long neighing frighten the enemies.

35. Yearning that shakes me has been aroused
When I smell the lightning of sunrise flash its tails.

36. So how many evenings with it in the valley I have
When the youth's mention of it and speech are few!

37. May God bring near the hour of relief in which
My heart will delightily relax from its sorrows.

38. I turned my hope to God in supplication,
For whoever relies on Him is never deprived.