1. The nights kiss the heels of blessings,
And all delight leads to regret.

2. He who is tested by afflictions,
Death claims him; he who is heedless does not aspire.

3. All health leads to illness,
All vigor leads to frailty.

4. Death has an eye assigned
To the living that does not sleep or nod.

5. What excuse remains for an archer
If, after the peacock, she fails to shoot an arrow?

6. I imagined it a garden of luxury never hearing
Of a garden that ambled on one foot.

7. The mane of the zebras appears as if
The banners of glory were draped over it.

8. Crowned with a creation endowed to him
By the Originator of miracles and wisdom.

9. As if it prances erect
Building and elevating the glories of the non-Arabs.

10. Its eyelids close and reveal
Two china cups in the darkness.

11. It flirts with beauty so that
Its tail might follow without modesty.

12. Then it walked with the gait of a bride, captivating
The onlooker, pleasing and smiling.

13. The adornment of the dwellings was compensated for
Their spaciousness by the narrowness of the enclosure.

14. Ruin has an ambition that plunders
All things precious and all things aspiring.

15. As if what was illuminated by the jacinth
Was speckled with drops of dew.

16. How excellent is patience in affliction and how
Beautiful is its preservation for one steadfast.