1. The flowers smile, radiating light from their buds,
When the dawn clouds cry over their weeping ones.

2. The light of the buds which is not shy
Of health and purity, glorifying their creator.

3. Those meadows for Layla - where is their courtyard
Safe from those who seek it and the swords of the Arabs protect it?

4. Blood is harvested on the livers as prayers
Blessed is God - how sweet is their harvest!

5. Layla has the passion of Qays in her love
So his poetry is madness that has possessed him through her.

6. A cheek mole for her - her uncle is a rose that appears a sanctuary
In a cheek that is protected from those who would court her.

7. For God - her black eyelashes hunt
The hearts of those who love her and her earrings are their shepherd.

8. My people said, slow down for you have fallen ill from love
So I said, wait - my healing is from her sobbing.

9. Perhaps a gentle breeze from her tresses would come
To blow life into my soul and heal it.

10. And I have soft nights in purity that
Dawn of meeting has weakened - not her nights.

11. In a paradise - its maidens blossom for us and in it
If eternity was perfected in its terraces.

12. The memory of her shakes me with passion so I make it
A wound - and my soul sees it from my sides.

13. I was wrong to conceal my love and passion - how can it
Have a cover when my tears have collapsed and betrayed it?

14. Love is not hidden from its repeller
So how can its publisher conceal and disguise it?

15. I entrust God with patience - I do not practice it
And an infatuation I do not protect.

16. Passion, suffering, and blame to me are good - my blood
I feel secretive in spending it in the alley of my family.

17. That poured misery into passion - if not for you provoking it.
If you pardon voluntarily then pardon is more beloved to me

18. Or else - the basil of my soul is in your service.
I wish youth would return to me after old age

19. On the condition of loyalty - it is from its manifestations.
An unmarried lady does not appear alive

20. Until even the stars - she does not face.
Grace worked for her and humiliation for me always

21. And the cup of my roses did not please through her courting.
My tear and her smile - the precious pearl - an echo

22. To my infatuation - so with patience of the heart I water it.
When she saw my serious and overwhelming passion for her

23. She stood with the marking of jest - her eyes wandering.
The ignorant assumed love is easy without effort -

24. Wait! For he has gone astray out of ignorance or blinded.
It is provoked by the flirtation of an eye - its weaver comes

25. To knit the yarn of sorrow - an abyss for those who love it.
Indeed - the eyes which their charm appeared

26. Have a concealment of meanings - we do not know them.
Spells - its arcane symbolism arises

27. Its forms in lines - perplexing its reader.
A composer composing a melody in the appearance of mourning - in order

28. To bring out grief over those killed from her terraces.
The robbers, the weeping mourners, the crying ones - for they

29. Have restrained the minds of the lands from their meanings.
If not for a blackness she has - my hair would not whiten from

30. My age - nor would my tears redden from her accord.
The beloved of beauty - from the rules of her state -

31. Is that humiliation is harvested for ages by those who befriend her.
All wounds - medicine heals them except

32. For her wounds - where they have healed them.
To the eyes which in their gaze is fascination -

33. The legacy of caring tenderly for those who love her.
Woe to whoever turns crookedly from her - a disease which

34. We did not heal from the ransom of her protectors.
My soul and my eyes are ransom for a pure eye

35. And an infatuation which I would sacrifice myself for.
She is the beautiful - but between her lover

36. And patience there is ugly injustice from her estrangement.
Time is lost and passion grew long and I sorrow

37. Nor did my race shorten in her harmony.
Her reproach drew me nearer so I turned away

38. And she blamed me for something that came from her.
For old age the most beneficial remedy in a youth is news

39. Warning and alerting him.
A head which sleeping youth shackles in vain

40. With the bond of a curling hair sleeping it.
A life - long in fear - most just for it

41. Is what shortens the self nearer to its Creator.
The lightning of wishes is amiss - unless rarely

42. A satisfied eye watches it wishfully entertaining it.
And the people - some desire what is destined

43. While phrases preoccupy others - calling them.
I seek refuge in God from knowledge without action

44. And the reform of a soul which exhausted its shepherd.
Obstinacies that stopped me - I do not obey them

45. Nor does my weakness liking to oppose them.
The fire is permitted for her sake instead of dishonor in lands

46. From her enviers - in an earth that flowed with its rivers.
Leave me and what is in me - is there blame upon me in it?

47. And has she not filled and wearied from my enemies?
Do not stand still, O honorable people of the neighborhood

48. Nor be frightened by decay that eroded its cure.
When all the tribulations descended

49. From the world - the fire of Abraham destroys them.
A fire and a light - when war said to it

50. And altruism - bring forth a hand - none matched it.
He built from glory a house without pillars

51. Except channels - their buildings glorified it.
Al-Lu`ayy the dear, the courageous, the king who does not

52. Retreat, the conqueror checked the ascent of misguidance.
For the sword, the spear, and the pens were born

53. His palms and for questioning - surpassing them.
A threatening, estimable, glorious, and eminent conqueror

54. Pure traits - precious soul - his self flourishing.
His words are sermons - his deeds are meteors

55. His opinions - rods protected by God.
He revived praise deserving belonging surrendering

56. Are not his properties spent while immortalizing them?
And he repealed whatever passed of the justice of the companions without

57. Indulging in vanities or wines or partaking in them.
Puller of the reins of horses - violence permits their flank

58. And victory and death equitably between their hands.
Ask the people of Acre when its east glowed red

59. And Greater Syria and the Turks when its sanctuary blackened.
The servant of al-Khalil to the servant of God became through it

60. A name - and resembled his name - rested their names.
He tread the countries by God's permission - breaking them

61. And the swords were broken forcibly from their scabbards.
His companies charged with warriors in their domination

62. Remaining loyal and wearing out those who opposed them.
I loved the game of one whose ambition tells of history

63. But when harm retreated from one who resembled them.
Far from the examples - without equal for him

64. So praise that came does not resemble him.
It is he who the pilgrimage of the People of the House came through

65. After going - clear ways - their returns.
The Sa`udi wandered misguided and Wahhab of darkness so

66. None guided him except by the lightning of the white banner.
Messenger of truth - descended fighting - his way

67. And his duty seriousness in advising it.
He wanted the Hijaz and the black slaves then threw

68. In it fighting and supplied the Romans throwing them.
God is the greatest - this is the state of one who sat

69. Days atop the saddles of horses - bloodying them.
And praise to God - his early mornings do not

70. Fall short in what he stands up or limits his efforts.
Victorious in calling and soldiers - victory near him supports him

71. Based on kindness harmonizing them.
He counted wishes, activity, resolve, and generosity without

72. Drowsiness - and signs of justice I do not enumerate them.
Ruin does not befall Egypt while he abandons it

73. A worry - so the altruism of his hands came enriching it.
A sea, a moon, and a lion - his command cannot be

74. Repelled - and strife glorifying its Creator.
Father of victories - mother of war - burning it

75. Sultan of the land of Arab righteousness protecting it.
To him countries with the selves of servants due to what

76. Immortalized the hills through what surrounded their peripheries.
Muhammadian `Ali - his status broke

77. The awe of misfortune - from a name of his coming to it.
O day of `Uthman - only then did its early morning lock up

78. Except preparations while fleeing their courtyards.
A foot slipped with him - came walking with him

79. So he repelled it from a hand and victory followed it.
The sword of the sultan of Egypt has awe - lives

80. The countries - O sword of conqueror raiding them!
You surpassed favor - that you are the world and its conqueror

81. Happy days - and its ruler truly - and its judge!
O opener of the high continuous dew and verdure office

82. Upon reverberation and enmity - emptying its burdens!
I came to you - enlivening the night eagerly

83. And killing the horses - answering - rousing them.
By God witnessing - many a night I stayed awake with yearning

84. Polishing durable pearls - their caravans returned.
None came to it before except thankfully wondrous

85. And I came after so it gifted me its rhymes.
It left a headache in a head which went to steal it

86. And good riddance to the thefts of cures healing them.
I did not find a match for it from those whom I

87. Raised my hands to previously - so I did not care to revere it.
Rhetoric remained enslaved to it submitting to it

88. And all words correct in the presence of its composer.
So delight in it and it is delighted with its honorer

89. Altruism - and revering it - glory - and extolling it.
It pleased like the lowest of your meanings of benevolence - for not

90. Signs of truth like half of its structures.