1. A mission in the expanse of suspicions
In the gloomy, dreary wilderness

2. Bare and rugged highlands
With no vegetation but disasters

3. As solid as a bald silent rock
If the clefts of heaven branded it

4. With every downpour from the clouds
Like the pouring of heavy rain

5. It would not be able to grow any greenery
As if deaf and blind

6. It’s like an arrowless quiver
Dusk confused with dawn

7. Concealing the splendor of morning
No breeze raises any dust

8. As if wrapped in a hair cloak
Desolate, mournful, empty wilderness

9. Save stray ghosts and ordeals
Where jinn play music at night

10. Singing like drunkards
I traversed it one pitch-black night

11. Dark as an African black woman
Walking on uneven, cracked, yellowish ground

12. Boisterous, naughty and very playful
Crazy, doing in the wilderness

13. What heavy rain does to gushing streams
I took it from the death-escort

14. With resolute intent
Splitting the darkness for those in darkness

15. Until when I said the far became near
And what’s behind became before

16. The blazing sun of June melted
The icy determination of war

17. And ignited fire from flints
That near the heat mirages

18. You see corpses on the hills
And gazelles unseen for blood

19. Fearing extinction and death
I frowned severely

20. Like the thirsty with parched lips
Walking in barren, treeless land

21. Neither smooth nor with vegetation
Until I reached dawn at nightfall

22. Guided by nothing but my wits
While my companion passed

23. Into the darkness of intestines
Wroth like unsheathed swords

24. Like lightning in the gloom of dust
I bestrode a green-pastured tribe

25. With limbs fully joined
Cloaked like the meadows in spring

26. So I did not stop in battle
Racing with the army in the army

27. Clutching the blond sword
Until I knocked on the door of comrades

28. Of Sa’d’s family and Freemen
They’re whom I love and hate

29. And dawn melted into air
Like snow or shiny silver

30. O lady of the red and yellow
And the scar-nosed dark-red she-camel

31. What’s on your soft eyelid
And reddish smooth lip

32. Your tilted, perfectly straight waist
Your hips filling dresses

33. And heart inverted to estrangement
If sickness were turned to remedy

34. A garden blossoming with dew
Seductive, white and blackish

35. Revealing red, yellow and green
As if it were Yemeni musk

36. Wearing gowns and veils
More beautiful than jewels on women

37. I visited her one glorious morning
With overflowing goblets

38. Brought by the happy chested lad
Sweet, gentle and shapely

39. Who understands hints and gestures
So he’s the beloved of all company

40. We drink it proud fathers’ daughter
A blonde that can’t be diluted

41. As if in might and clarity
It’s the will of the mighty truthful king

42. The splitter, achiever of matters
The resolute, solemn at war

43. Utterer and doer of sublime words
And heir of wisdom and news

44. O son of guidance, and shining kin
Through you the kingdom grew beyond enemies

45. And lasted long with pride and glory
Until it surpassed even heaven

46. A rightly-guided, everlasting rule
Cherished with glory and brilliance

47. You distributed justice among Eve’s sons
And herded them firmly

48. A father’s rule over his sons
Safe from whims

49. You constantly strove on leadership
Standing for justice and reform

50. Giving and taking for the state
Until the oppressor was no more

51. And religion regained balance
You shouldered heavy burdens

52. With the strength of lions
As if destiny itself

53. And those who opposed you suffered harm
While your loyalists gained in ease and joy

54. You are my pillar and pride
My paradise in safety and reunion

55. In all darkness you're my light
You are my guard and protection

56. How much malice was tied against me
Accusing me of equality with you

57. You rebuffed it forcefully
And denied hearing

58. Shielding my obedience and brotherhood
Until rebels burned with fury

59. For justice is the defeat of transgressors By the blood spilled in Karbala
And the eternal martyrs

60. The House of ‘Ali and Fatimah
Of endless renown

61. I will never abandon sincere loyalty
Nor devout true devotion

62. In public and private
How can I forget such blessings?

63. O He who adorned me with grace
Beyond retention and counting

64. You have overwhelmed me beyond reward
So I only repay with praise

65. And gratitude in accolades
And raging clamor

66. Where time is too narrow
Crammed with events and calamities

67. You stripped religion of all dirt
And the kingdom of every rebel

68. A kingdom gains no eminence
Unless washed in blood

69. Disheveled like a chick in the mud
From constant dedication

70. He prospered generously through your grace
So much largesse and charity

71. You bestowed without precedent
Or reminders of kindness

72. For glory lies in generosity
My master who rewards the bent

73. The weeping blind
The ever-pregnant camel

74. Whose camel-bags overflow with bounty
None have ever failed to gain your love

75. Or live in despair
Money makes misers weep

76. With rain-like generosity
From soft as silk hands

77. They wrong not the good
As blessings returned doubly

78. And power, kingdom and prosperity grew
No wish remains unfulfilled

79. No weeping of ardents
How the dawn sweetened Najd

80. And smoothed the tracts of Hijaz
After the ruination of Jurhum

81. And Madeenah regained its bloom