1. When the caller of passion called me, I responded,
And I hurried my camel and came to him.

2. And I performed pilgrimage to his Kaaba, so there was no ritual
That I did not establish its waymarks and fulfill it.

3. If I were fair with my passion's pilgrimage,
My eyes would be its Zamzam and my heart its home.

4. Who is fair to me from neighbors who had no mercy,
And shed tears on their thresholds which I poured?

5. They guarded my heart with repulsions and did not guard
A pact with them which I kept and pastured.

6. I made my heart comply when its obstinacy plunged
In loving them, and if it went too far I would restrain it.

7. Who consoles me in a grief that I swore?
Or who helps me with an affection that I suffered?

8. However much I deterred my youthfulness, I provoked it,
And if I limited my longing, I enticed it.

9. O you whose silence in his love is contemplation
About his affair, and if I spoke I protected him.

10. O you whom I evade with traits and charms
For his sake, and I am jealous if I named him.

11. O a garden that my eyelids planted its roses
And I poured my tears constantly and watered it.

12. So when I reaped with my glances from its flowers
Passion wrote a sin upon me that I reaped.

13. The specter conveyed to me a message from you
So I read it and if I was able I would have recited it.

14. It would not have harmed you if you disclosed his abode
So you poured out my complaint or confided in him.

15. She said, may your heart be ransomed by my father, in my hand
Is helplessness, and if I wished I would ransom it.

16. The healing of the Messiah is ineffectual to me,
A malady, however much I medicated it.

17. I bestow recovery from passion upon whom I love
So he awakes from his affliction and his dead lives.

18. In my hand is the life of my despairing beloved and his pigeon,
So how many times have I brought back to life him whom I destroyed!

19. You asked Joseph one day, the master of people,
The traits of dew, power, and sought them.

20. A king, when he bestows love, says: "I fear disgrace
If I indulge him."

21. He commanded and forbade so she said obediently:
"I do what he desires and I refuse what he dislikes."

22. And it was affiliated in the clan of Khazraj
So its pillars were sanctified and its home purified.

23. A home whose pillars of elevation are Sa'd of worship
And its walls are the Helpers - what an excellent home his home!

24. My master, meet with acceptance and pleasure
A poem with your full moon that I have adorned.

25. Its meanings were gentle to me so if the morning breeze of the garden
Flowed as sorcery I would absorb it.

26. And about my compositions in poetry, I am one whose poetry
Time narrates from me if I narrated it.

27. For I have resolved to do my duty
Of praising you then did not complete it.