1. Did you send it as affection or madness?
Did you convey it as a tongue or teeth?

2. And you adorned the birds with speech through it
Is it distinctly articulated or mumbling?

3. A visitor who brought a garden, nay a flower bed
So he brought us beauties when he came to us

4. We suffer or examine in it an expression
With eloquence not meanings

5. It startles and it may please, so which eggs
Remind us of cradles or coffins?

6. We have read in its beauties diverse arts
And we almost called it Quran

7. Laws warranting our judgment
Marvels preventing our judgement

8. If Hasan attained it he would have adorned
His necklaces with its jewels

9. If Ibn Hani had sought to reach
Its difficult purpose he would have despaired

10. Had I been able I would have prolonged my words
And left no so-and-so or so-and-so

11. O Abu Hasan you possessed beauty as wealth
So depose a lowly one or act magnanimously

12. You have raised over Sicily a banner
Guiding us in the darkness of perilous affairs

13. It appeared as a flag and you were its fire
And were it not for forbearance I would have called it smoke

14. And how many were given status from people
If chosen they would have not found a place

15. I ransom you from a friend who is my friend
I was content with him in days and times

16. I have seen brothers but
They are brothers if they look to brotherhood

17. How many a lid is weighed down by him
When you weigh down their lids from you