1. You are the beloved, the chosen one, and for you is praise
While I am the loving one, afflicted, and for me is grief

2. You are rich, and never will you see one more humble
While I am poor, and I have no wealth except through you

3. For you, apart from all of God's creation, is abundant fortune
While for me from you is sorrow and affliction

4. O dwellers of the valley of tents, I see you
Not fearing any punishment from our Lord

5. You left the heartache of my innermost being, heading
To Tihama, settling in the valley of Mina

6. When we met after a full year
You did not permit me to ask how you have been after us

7. What wrong did I commit to deserve your coldness?
Who of the slanderers has changed our bond?

8. If your servant committed a slip,
He now repents if he has gathered sins

9. Have mercy on one who has spent his days and nights
Loving you, with a changing complexion

10. If you do not really permit
A visit, then say "perhaps" we might

11. So perhaps with an excuse from you he may live
And that which I suffered from you becomes easy

12. Were it not for your image and the memory of trysts
In the twisting road and the two signs, he would not have become lovesick

13. Verily, love is sweet when first tasted
But when it takes control, it becomes bitter fate

14. Intellects almost lose their minds, and selves
Were it not for the winds of your lands that passed by us

15. So look one day how I have clung in love of you
See my state of longing, how it has become

16. Love has passed all people
But lingered when it saw me and deeply settled

17. It then made the hearts its dwelling
I have no argument for its claims of my heart as its dwelling

18. If it denies, I will reject its claims as untrue
The witnesses of my tears prove your secret within me

19. The cause of the bond was a glance at their beauty
So it took hold when I turned my eyes

20. What is the path to salvation? For I
Have exposed myself to shame, assuredly

21. Thus I became infatuated with that one, confused
When I had been, before, myself

22. So until when will I waste my time in infatuation
Remaining between the two abodes, clinging?

23. Why has every new occurrence ceased from me
And humiliated me with trials and difficulties?

24. And estranged me from it and closed my deficiencies
And settled me in the abode of honor and distinction?

25. I do not aspire to the means of any but it
Since I was with it in good fortune and wealth

26. That excellent, chosen, royal one who
Whenever I visited him, gave generously and did good

27. I refined my poetry from praising any but it
Never intending a day or one who does good

28. Since I grew up in its land and vicinity
I reap the most pleasurable fruits

29. It is my shelter on the day of calamity
And my provision if times become difficult

30. By its generous soul whose benevolence
My region is accustomed to, whether near or far

31. The open, vast, the giver of abundance
The prudent, perfect, brother of the lofty, open-handed

32. Embracing all gifts, its bestowals encompassing
All people, hastening or holding back

33. O best walker on earth and mounter
Of steeds, each ridden beast lofty of stature

34. O glorious, glorified with glory none like it
Of master or glorified one in this earthly abode

35. The one who rejected the Prophet Muhammad
Became by your hand’s bestowal a believing servant

36. So favor bears me witness that you are one
Among us, and that you are the most coveted treasure

37. My talent, vast as the sea, falls short
To appraise your merits, even if I take all time

38. O singular in your generosity, I am singular
In my poetry - forgive, and take what we are able

39. There has come to you from the Lord of eloquence a praise poem
That we strew like gems among the eulogies and delight

40. Like pure jewels we scatter pearls
So pick it up, you who rejoiced in what we have publicized

41. It is a spectacle for onlookers and a delight
But it contains annihilation and demise

42. For it is demise for one who wore your mantle
And death for the hostile people of malice

43. Take it, for you are its match, from a poet
Whose talent through praising you became a source

44. If Ahmad had heard it, he would have added it
To his poetry, inclined toward it, and deemed it excellent

45. Or, if recited with him, he would have preferred it
Above all else - what has prevented the tongues?