1. I was of love in the bloom of youth
Seeking my desire, hopeful

2. My eyes roamed a blooming garden
And I drank without affectation

3. Until dishonesty estranged us
Which she covered in sweet talk

4. I came back, no longer sleeping
Excuses failed after the break

5. O you who deny my excuses
May God show you the face of truth

6. He slept with what I wouldn't confess
With a tearful tongue that spoke

7. Yearning for the beauty of an image
That my wrists obtained with charm

8. The summer goblet of a conversationalist
The ignorance of a singer, the manners of an atheist

9. Humbled with glory, she has
The humiliation of a lover, the glory of the beloved

10. Her buttocks like a sand dune
Above a delicate, smooth waist

11. I walk beside her, nudging her
Intentionally, though the road isn't narrow

12. Like Kisra's words about what he imagined
Of the thief's opportunity in the clamour of the market

13. So praise God, O fellow
Not every lover is also provided for

14. With a bracelet I surmounted its clasp
With a tall she-camel made for travelling

15. As if her foot were her hand
And the foot of a playing baby

16. As if her legs were surrendered
When the catapults passed them

17. To a man whose money's mother
Always runs in people's torn pockets

18. His hands like the earth and sky, so
No creature can reduce his rainfall

19. If there is anything apart from Him
It is from Him, and in that He has no equal

20. So how many pretenders have shown
What al-Abbas showed of natural disposition?

21. And you, since fate has no limit
Apart from the palms and markets

22. And their beating with clubs
Was like the Banu Hayy with catapults

23. The strongest, truest to his insignia
Bares his teeth from the gray hair of youth

24. As if, when his eyes blaze
His protruding eyelids are those of a choked man

25. When they saw you, one of them said
The claw of the bullies has come to you

26. So they cracked apart, as if they
Were evil-doers, driven away by the horn

27. When the incapable one in Mecca went around
Confused, without direction or composure

28. A bracelet of yours that you took from Abul-Fadl
Which you didn't refine with polish

29. The sword of spring reprimanded
The foolish one, the rider of the she-camel

30. What a loss, the intimacy gone from Abul Fadl
The path of salvation blocked

31. From the elite house of the Prophet in order
To which God said, "Above you in piety"

32. So excellence came, feet wrapped up
Before its extent, without swaggering

33. It was said, "An arrow whose target is the farthest"
Its arrowhead outpacing the tip

34. And Abbas is just like his father
He is never surpassed on the path

35. God made you graceful in creation
You both lead the people in grace

36. He pictured al-Fadl with dew and shelter
You with wisdom and success