1. Is there any harm in revelry and youth
Between the Gulf and the garden of measurement?

2. A land clothed by the Nile with its creativity
And its dark uniform, what a uniform!

3. So it is as if the galaxy poured itself between them
And was shaped into a collection of saplings

4. The light flickers at its edges
Mistaking it for a spark of sparks

5. Were it not for the touching of the morning dew, its glare
Would have burned the train of the thick-lipped, unbroken horses

6. The eyes pour towards its brilliance and then wander
The moth's plunge towards the shining lantern

7. If he had sensed its splendor and the goodness of its meadows
I think the mind of Iyas would have been confused

8. A playground for my pleasure-loving brother and a court for childhood
And the land of Bulhaniya and the house of society

9. I would not have traveled towards it in my life
Until I spent the night drunk by it

10. Oh my two cupbearers, be alert for the crack of dawn has appeared
And drowsiness has disappeared at the time of morning

11. Circle around me with it for the morning breeze has slept
During its stroll with the secret of the mill

12. With a wine whose youth time wasted
In a cellar in the darkness of Dimas

13. Secluded from sights until indeed
It did not know anything but the monastery and the deacon

14. The pearls of its bubbles drip
With the dripping of the pipes, the buzzing from the bows

15. So when the temperature troubled it, it recoiled
Fearing any disgrace or confusion

16. She peeks out from under the bubbles as if
She were a ruby adorned with diamonds

17. The people do not conclude a drinking party with it
Unless it sneezes to give permission

18. Let no ignorant man deceive you about drinking
Drinking trips up the purses

19. Drinking is the foundation of all amusement
So build the structure of amusement on a foundation

20. The days do not gather how they passed
In the heart between wine and temptations

21. So verify, my two brothers, your affairs
And leave the horse wandering with anklets

22. The desert has men other than us
Who seek affluence through bankruptcy

23. Wealth and poverty in this world
Are predestined, and Allah has the scales of justice

24. Why does man wear out the vigor of his life
Fluctuating between hope and despair?

25. Is not living the wearing of a cloak
And the repairing of a water-skin and the outcome of a soothsayer?

26. By Allah, if men knew her plot
They would sell her without bargaining

27. She is an hour that passes and another hour comes
And time keeps changing for these people

28. So take from the days what they have allowed
For the self before hardship and thirst

29. And if time treats you with loneliness
Wring ease out of it with coaxing

30. Camels in heat are not milked
Except with soft touch and gentleness

31. So how much rugged terrain became easy after
The veins of the soul were cut off

32. Not everything the youth desires is attainable
Affairs are by wisdom and measuring