1. Love has its wishes in those abodes,
If yearning had doubled for the lover his wish.

2. So your passion may become concealed,
The youths of Najd have given it protection.

3. How will endurance benefit you,
Unless the union is prolonged, O companion!

4. To A'qailah, the flock at large is permitted
Its flowers, the very essence of love when buds bloomed.

5. What trickery is in the hunting grounds,
Since the gazelles are taught and then hunted.

6. If a night companion warns you
Of their every observation, there is thunder.

7. With what glittered for the heartsick between them,
Chains that cured the heat of ardour with coolness.

8. I – when I become downcast,
Yearning never ceases to knock upon my door,

9. As yearning knocked upon the door of Salim.
Your aloofness prevents me from visiting the sites,

10. Lest your phantom, accustomed, should visit them.
Do not sever the tie of the phantom out of avoidance,

11. For in it lies compensation for the woes of separation.
It does no harm that you are sullen with greetings

12. While days your silhouette embraces me.
Why did you not assume my sickness,

13. You for whom a single glance pierced my heart?
Or return from the sickness of passion? Passion

14. Is what prolongs the heartache of the young man.
Alas! Were it not for the fact I startle you at night,

15. We would have a pillow, or darkness would be prolonged.
I would cover your frown with a scattering

16. Of surplus, if it were not for the fact that propriety refuses.
I would incline in intoxication and spend the night

17. With what that bracelet and pillow contain.
So fulfil the wish! The threat of your people was not

18. To prevent the fulfillment of the appointment.
I crave the roses of the cheeks, if bud

19. Brought to me by a young gazelle informs me of its perfume.
And I rest for the shining scent - its aroma stirs me -

20. If old age discolours the fragrant body.
Resolve, when it aims for protection, is not deterred

21. By the fact that the spearpoints are her religion.
Whoever is ignorant of what is stupid,

22. He is one who finds the land in which you dwell a wilderness.
The young man of valour, when ambition appears,

23. Is taken by its heat, whether agreed or imposed.
Who can convey from me to the loved ones,

24. When the mention of them refuses to calm my resting place?
There is no despair of a house of gathering

25. Nearby to which estrangement has led.
If I become estranged, then the places of generosity

26. Which in the West I saw its lightening in the clouds, I visit.
Or I incline away from the hunting of kings;

27. Beside me they are slaves, and I am their king.
Glory excuses separation for one who turns away

28. To see its achievements - how they are built.
O would that one who thought ill of me come -

29. His various assumptions fluctuate between opposites -
That I saw the two warners,

30. In a kingdom untouched by corruption.
And I looked upon the two garments, legacy of a burner,

31. Not created as galaxies are created.
And I learned from He of the Collar, the vengeance

32. Of Jadhimah the loud-voiced when he was almost killed.
And Numaan came to me, on his day of bliss,

33. A star that its good fortune was welcomed at its rising.
Their disparate parts were joined in a single one,

34. Save that their concealment almost seems a nation.
So it was as if I visited them in close company

35. That the camel-leader Urwah could not manage.
In the palace of a king like Sadir or like that

36. Whose battlements the stars made its pegs.
You would imagine the celestial bodies in it an army

37. In whose courtyard the destriers are not restrained.
Parading in its midst the white of unsheathed swords

38. Amidst the galaxies when the forenoon appears.
In the Abadis I alighted, so their noble spirits

39. Guarded my resolve however the mountains crashed.
The people of Manadhirah, who are the she-camels

40. Above the kings when the kings are but mountain-climbers.
A people, if the Pleiades ofAqailah are counted,

41. They are their children from the water of the sky.
A house whose stars in its orbit

42. Wish that they are its building blocks.
Its tents spread with the pleasure of dew,

43. Its pillars raised with whiteness.
Its hospitality ongoing, unless the morning sun

44. Were a bride whose stars are its dowry.
The pearls of their glory were threaded on Abad,

45. So they glittered in its cord the separate gems.
A king, when the attributes of his majesty dazzle,

46. Calculations fall short of some of them.
Zabid forgot her lifetime, but turned away

47. From describing Ka'b's generosity as too enormous.
He exposed the deceivers, so had his era preceded,

48. Al-Mughirah would have confessed or Ziyad recanted.
The enemies do not feel safe from his speculative attacks,

49. For behind them are reinforcements.
A king - when the fancy of a brave knight struts,

50. His advancing ranks have been equipped with spears.
A lion whose cubs are horsemen in battle,

51. But its fangs over there are summits.
I left the banner a cloud in whose shade,

52. A moon in its prime, the kindler of firebrands.
Shaihan plunging his spearheads

53. Into the pool where hatred penetrates.
The sun complains to him of the stain of an army

54. From which the inflammation in her eye has not ceased.
An army, when the horizon travels its birds,

55. Provisions are with it in the scabbards of the swords.
Aspiring to glory, his ambition was not

56. Glory that circulates with time, born and reborn.
He did not incline to the comfort of repose

57. Until the like of him is immortalized forever.
I enjoy the companion when the visit draws him near,

58. Conversation is fragrant and recitation melodious.
Were his mind shared amongst all creation,

59. Even inanimate things would almost be felt to have life.
My soul is your ransom, O king whom

60. The flowers of stars envy his face!
An air of grace appears on you

61. To which souls passionately aspire.
The eye was not sated with its first glance of you,

62. Had it not been for reverence, it would have repeated.
There was no shortcoming but you are its rectification

63. In life or discord but you are its resolution.
Religion is a face in which you are its radiance,

64. Kingdom an eyelid in which you are its darkness.
By you God's hand is raised, by which

65. Fetters are tightened, or gratefully removed.
Had the mouths of kings concurred in it,

66. Its good fortune would have concurred with happiness.
Despair of you benefited the enemies, for by it

67. Their livers cooled from them.
Whoever contends with you kneels, his wrap held tight,

68. As if chained by shackles binding him.
I have recited to the successor your praise in a chapter

69. In whose text the world finds no disbelief.
Repeat the discourse on sovereignty! It is

70. Not a discourse that wearies when repeated.
Generosity like the water of Muzain, its flow pure,

71. Courtesy like the meadows of Hazin passing the night generated.
And beauties the blossoms of which adorned the times,

72. So that its days are like holidays.
O king in whose shadow

73. The times are content, so its free reigns have slackened!
O best of those supported, for whom in every impasse

74. Pillars to lean on are erected!
When I arrived at the beloved place of your noble presence,

75. Before me its vast numbers wavered.
So the sun greeted me stretching its hand

76. For the sea to be replenished from its exhaling.
So if I boast of what I attained, it would be little for me

77. That I should have no portion of the stars.
However much I praised others before you,

78. My praise of you is but elaboration.
The steeds cover the plains for a time

79. In order for it to teach them onslaught and retreat.
So I will pull the train of wishes in an arena,

80. Unless fulfilled, and repeat.
And gain advantage and wealth while being of service,

81. A servant benefits caution when he is beneficial.
You are the most excellent traits not to be seen

82. As if my connection to you is severed.
Far from it! The dawn has guaranteed for the traveller

83. That his effort will conclude in rewards.
You will not lack from good fortune a provision