1. Why do you ask me when the likes of her inquire?
Her cheeks are like honeycombs, her words like honey.

2. Her breasts are like yellow ivory
And her chest glows like the radiant sun.

3. Regarding the Hujwah clan, people of faith, did they speak truth
Or did they fulfill God's covenants or violate them?

4. Her cheeks witnessed the days of their wars
Yet she sought good tidings of their deeds.

5. If their loyalty and love were to disappear
The kindness of whites and blacks would not disappear.

6. O cheeks! If praising them pleases you
Then they are the epitome of faith and its peaks.

7. Jesus son of Hujrah, they are his sons and in them
Lies the legacy of Moses, the state endured.

8. They intended and did not hesitate, they stood and did not linger,
They promised and did not break their word, they returned and did not waver.

9. Do not grieve that they spent their wealth
No! How could that be when they sacrificed their souls?

10. Among them no man except whom war seduced
Except a few whom the gazelle seduced before.

11. How many ambitious men's ambitions
They made sit still, his endeavor ended in failure.

12. How many headstrong men charging with their mischief
They made like a worn-out sandal, humiliated.

13. O Hujwah clan, patience is an honor
Through it people attain what they hope for.

14. O Hujwah clan, if your predecessors
Attained loftiness, then ask how they attained loftiness.

15. By the sword? Or by al-Ya'muri's speech for us
Abdul Aziz, and regarding what he said, he erred.

16. The Imam loves to ride low, such is his custom
And Muslims, when they fight, carry the burden.

17. Does the Shaykh claim such is his custom?
Atop the steed, the banners aflame upon it?

18. Rather he said he rides the camel's back, avoiding
Wearing armor until his appointed time comes.

19. Had it been so, the mighty ones with flushed cheeks
Would not have bent to God's command and complied.

20. Nor would those who in Abdul Aziz's court
Uttered poems and sang for him.

21. He did not know that the path to heavenly gardens
Is covering your belly when the hero shows restraint.

22. Let him not think the houris desire
To kiss smooth cheeks and night's wings outspread.

23. No! By Him who created the delicate houri
Perfect in beauty, skilled in amorous verse.

24. She is white, fluttering, a blossoming flower
Whose anklets chime as she steps lightly.

25. No alluring houri but her hair cascades
Covering her shoulders at their slope.

26. At her throat a dewy softness stirs her
When she rises, the nape of her neck graceful.

27. In her eyes a houri, in her glance temptation
In her mouth pearls, in her walk languor.

28. If I said the light adorning her beauty
Or her jewelry, she was adorned in her robes.

29. She who filled the noonday heat, were she to don
The heart of the devoted would stir upon embracing her.

30. She is healing, blessed is he whocompanions her
Healing anguish when he touches her.

31. In a garden made for the houris, her dwelling
Next to the All-Powerful, no rival for her.

32. In it fruits and pleasures nearby
And the Chosen One, and the angels and messengers.

33. My Lord abundantly blessed
All the generous, especially the Chosen Eternally.