1. Ahmad preoccupies me with his love
From everyone else

2. When we coo together
You wouldn't know which of us is the child

3. I repeat what he says
Even if I say little

4. In a small, murmured voice
And he's satisfied and moderate

5. And if he sees me approaching
He flutters his wrists and reaches

6. Never stopping his chirping
Like a singing bird

7. I held him and he held me
Until a mouth met a cheek

8. He kissed me once
And I kissed him endlessly

9. He wants what he saw and what
His hands reached for or found

10. Until when he gets it he
Turns away and keeps it to himself

11. My glasses or my watch
He takes them and does not give back

12. And if I refuse him something and block
Him, while you see him a fawn bolted

13. I protected him with the surahs
N and Say, He Allah is One

14. The child you love most is the one
For whom you are a doting father

15. His causes are more than relatives
And higher and stronger

16. The most deeply filial
The most caught in the heart's snare

17. There is no one more beloved than the son
Of a son to the father