1. He who wrote the nun of this eyebrow,
Alas, it is not the work of a writer,

2. And who dyed the cheeks with redness,
Is it water, O Mayya, or is it not the dye of a dyer?

3. By my father, she who is from the family of Badr, her face,
And her glance from the tribe of the warring ally,

4. She raids as the brave warriors raid, except
She leaves the enemies and intends to raid the lover.

5. Say to her who plundered the heart of her lover,
"Evil is the booty, the plunder of a melting heart!"

6. She plundered the essence of her property from her home,
My soul is her ransom, so where is the profit of the plunderer?

7. What a difference between one who rejects the mixture, and one
Who pours towards the love of the absent, far-off lover!

8. Let him who loves be like Muhammad,
He loves and is loved by the obligated creation.

9. That one from whom love towards us
Broke its fetters, supplemented by other fetters,

10. All the companions we want to test them,
While he is needless of the test of tests.

11. He guided to me a message I believed in
Out of confidence in it when it came with wonders,

12. It carried due to the weakness of youth in it
What the backs of camels cannot carry,

13. An Arabic that came with the gentleness of civilizations
From the softness of meaning and pronunciation of nomads.

14. It engraved blackness on the whiteness as if it were
The engraving of moles on the faces of lovely maidens.

15. O you who called and my heart obediently answered,
"At your service," from a caller, mighty and stern!

16. That is a beginning that has no eraser,
And an ascent that has no demolisher.

17. You are the faithful, the truthful, the love that
Remains throughout the lying, long time.

18. And love was indeed balanced between us
Like the balance of counterpart components.

19. You burdened me with the favor of Your generosity, a favor
That has grown great but does not overburden my riding camel.

20. The favors of generous people on men are light,
Since no defects in them are for the criticizer.