1. Without our friendship being enough
Preserve it, O Abu Al-Su'ud the content

2. What have you seen, O strong of mind
Of my weakness and submission to you

3. I'm not one you knew
To gossip about and conceal

4. Rather, it is the way of honorable men
And your status among them, to be counted by the thousand

5. They disdain to reject the hand of one who seeks them
Even if he comes to them aggressively

6. And they welcome him with the blossom of affection
With pure wine of love

7. Not as you acted with me, may God support you
Famous for your weapons, the first line of battle

8. And you scared off the enemy with your brilliant words
With that clear speech, so eloquent

9. And you were creative in your messages between us
In what you sent and suggested

10. Looking into your friend's request, differing
Though the gaze of an eye doesn't differ

11. And believing it frightened me that I would attribute
To you the belief of a fool's mind

12. So why did you violate the sanctity of my honor
And why did you take the forbidden liberty of slandering me

13. And why did you hide me with insults though
My soul loves no one but you

14. And you threw my heart into a fire
Which undoubtedly scorches and extinguishes it

15. Your traps on difficult terrain will certainly
Make easy plunder between my hands

16. We asked only in proportion to this lowly one
So do not lord yourself above us in your pride

17. I had a tryst sworn on oath that would not be broken
Yet when it came, you broke it

18. It was as heavy as an eye's measure
And a mustard seed of it would suffice

19. You sent a messenger who returned to me
Mocking me, I ransom him from the mocker

20. Saying "If you accept, I will conceal it"
Seeking to expose me, so I said "I will conceal it"

21. And my hand reached out to you
With a covenant - did you not speak a word?

22. When you sent me your sublime script
And introduced it to me, though I knew it not

23. And I folded the parchment from it
On the scent that lingered until I covered my nose

24. That had I paused in doubt
Having seen in passion a return backwards

25. And abandoned reproach, not guiding
My pen in any of this with a letter

26. And been distracted from promises in which
Betrayal remains the companion of betrayal