1. She was not content that I was deprived of her company,
Until she came to me in a dream with her apparition.

2. She said, while my soul within me trembled in fear:
"What is mine is not for you, though she knows what is hers."

3. Then after the paleness, she turned yellow,
Bashfully, drawing her skirts away from my life.

4. And she left, while her waist wrap had grown tight
In sorrow, and her anklets had been filled by her legs.

5. Like a shy, tawny gazelle, she curved her neck,
Yearning for a height she saw and it awed her.

6. I did not intend such coyness before,
Until she showed me what her deeds have done to me.

7. With stumbling steps, she crossed many miles,
The slipping of feet, going beyond yards.

8. With her hands, she loosened the reins of her pacing,
And recklessly, behind the hiddenness, her terrors.

9. Until she came like the bow, bending down,
The sun of the land, her full moon and crescent.

10. And her trinkets, her generosity, her glory,
Her loftiness, her springtime, and her fruits.

11. She sought the virtues of gentle Yasser, so she turned
Her back, and faced with welcome his advance.

12. Affluence comes from the comfort of his wings, for he
Has made the heads of kings into his slippers.

13. If it weren't for him in bliss, her Lord would lower
Her hopes, and her pillars would shake with quaking.

14. But since he took charge of her command,
God made successes run through her days.

15. So she saw him, after God's revival, apportioning
Her livelihood, and preordaining her terms.

16. And she saw what none before him had been allowed
To see of him, and she brought out her treasures,

17. As if God—may His glory be sublime—
Had inspired him, as if He'd inspired her.

18. The chaste woman is not sought by one in whom
Is doubt, nor does he fear his noble neighbor's lowliness.

19. If creation were for noble deeds and heights,
His right and left hands would have sold her.

20. Vanquishing her cities and fortresses,
Her protected places, her plains, and her mountains.

21. So let her remain in power and conquering rule
For as long as the wind of the south blows north.