1. The flash of lightning in the outpouring of that downpour
Was adorned as if it were the lightning of that cloud

2. O desolation of the wilderness, O expanse of the regions
O sweetness of the folds, O torment of longing

3. Can justice be assured that whoever will judge
You has appointed me to compose poetry about you?

4. How can the exuberance of the intoxication of thirty
And the wine of passion sober up from ecstasy?

5. And since the antelopes of the sand
Are hunters with a glance, lions of the forests

6. In the gardens of beauty they take whatever they wish
Of the rose and the nabk tree

7. And the love of my brother refused the right of my love
Indeed, it quickly responded to the answer

8. More effective than a sword in courage
And more glowing in darkness than a flame

9. Be angry if I sin, and be pleased for with me
Are resolves like honed swords

10. I am not one who says that wealth,
Its causes are obtained without causes

11. For proximity is from remoteness, and comfort
Is only in toil and fatigue

12. So receive good news, and let your good news reach
The mount, for this is the time of saddling the mounts

13. With an open space as if the pearls
Were strung upon it and the necklace of clouds untied

14. As if sorrows fearfully consulted
Between them, avoiding that peril

15. In it is the offspring of the daughters of the family of Abraham
Of difficult aspirations, easily veiled

16. He did not attribute his share of the virtues of his ancestor
The generous, judicious person

17. People wonder that he is the best of people
In lineage, yet he is not vain

18. Abundant is his modesty, and gifts
Flow freely from him to the suitor

19. If you fathom his abundant generosity, you reckon
The sea is in his capacious, vast breast

20. His qualities were strange in dew, so we called him
The seeker of virtues

21. A nobility, however you examine it, your hand
Touches upon its brocade of repute

22. Like the House of God, whichever way you face
There you are, facing a prayer niche

23. And the wise man of the time was not given, at
Marriage proposals, any wisdom or eloquence of speech

24. In his hands, thought is a mirror
Showing analogies without a veil

25. Whatever difficulties he saw, he only
Turned away retreating on his heels

26. And the gardens of beauty are in his face, nourished
With the water of virtue and the water of youth

27. As if darkness and light were an apparition
Of terror and awe the morning after

28. I drew from him a sea of intimacy, and presented
To him a pearl of wondrous speech

29. Every line more fragrant and more redolent
Than the breath of loved ones

30. O brother of glory, O father of the beautiful, the good
In the hazardous, difficult courtships

31. And the generous one whose manner is the pillar
Of etiquette, the guide of culture

32. If you do not see our affection in wisdom
And the first of companions incline to listen

33. And the noble one who sees between us manners
Closer in kinship than ancestry

34. My praise of you lasts as long as I live
Even if my belief is visiting the tomb

35. So listen to me, you have adorned Damascene poetry
With excellent words, Najdi poetry with eloquence

36. The daughter of a thought whose garment is
The dress of truth, she almost became the mother of books