1. For whose camels does the convoy set forth at dawn?
They know whom the camels have carried but I do not know

2. In the family, a ship sailing and anchored
The voyage of ships in the swell of the sea

3. So greetings, my heart, for they have appeared
As you imagined, away from my breast

4. How many veils of litters have concealed
From your eyes the sun and the moon

5. White and brown, their eyes are magic
Making you forget the work of white and brown

6. And I, devoid of any cheer, for when
Love is mentioned, I am the one made happy

7. And at dawn, she leaned toward an embrace
With a neck like the shoots of soft green

8. And I wept, and she smiled, so for us
There were two pearls in verse and prose

9. She persisted in shunning me, but contrary to that
An apparition in the darkness came to reconcile

10. Alas for the prime of youth, for how sweet
Were the features of that time

11. Days when I cast off all cover
My excuse was clear for all to see

12. And I roamed a barren wilderness, having hurled
My fate into every barren wilderness

13. When its gusts blow, the mirage stirs
With fright, its heart trembling

14. As if the necks of the steeds, when they had
Swum waters flowing above them

15. Had I not been a hawk of high ambition I would not
Have become, with its chicks, a resident of its nest

16. And for a noble goal, with inscriptions I gained
Far horizons, of plain and rugged land

17. So I came to the prime of praise, to the
Repelling of shameful, monstrous events

18. I wet my expressions, and so brought them
As ink, to a learned man of ink

19. Embodying all virtues - so whoever
Boasts of him boasts of one worthy of boasting

20. So when he narrates accounts, he expresses them
From an excess of knowledge and experience

21. And when issues become obscure, to the point
Where the keen minded cannot discern them

22. He clarifies their darknesses with the dawn of
His intelligence, sharp and penetrating

23. And when a pen flows in his handwriting
For benefit or harm

24. I saw the garden of virtue, greened by
The water of wisdom, appearing as if by magic

25. O guardian of the faith, whom
Its gifts have witnessed in desert and town

26. You have conferred an immense favor - so tell it
O best guardian - thankfulness from me

27. You have averted misfortunes from me as
The morning light averts the gloom of dawn

28. And clothed me in the robe of contentment, so it came
Detached from what fate had gathered against me

29. And submit to the totality of praise, and take
Uniquely, for you disperse abundance