1. Begin your joy, now is not the time for sorrow
And make your mornings at the door of Sa'dun

2. And bring to companionship a gentle heart if
Your zeal leads the difficult with gentleness

3. Why stop living in pleasure
And suppose you are in speculation and guessing

4. So take off the adornment of waiting for consequences
Prudence never left you decidedly for the assumed

5. Do you not see the garden has cast clouds in it
On the path of valleys, oh beauty

6. The arts of light have clothed it and expanded
On its bendings the shade of vines

7. As if the rainbow when it arched in
Its corners sprayed it with every color

8. Stop here with my father Fahr al-Muhill he passed
With him the reign of the brilliant Arabs

9. You see the palm trees like a line of palm trees stretched
Some to some with curved palm branches

10. Or a dancer who stood up to dance and embraced
Lest she comes with a dance not rhythmic

11. And I am not a man of wit if I passed by
The harbor of the witty and did not dock for a while

12. And the odes tell in their affectation
Secrets that came in melody and adornment

13. And I am not staying with the esteemed with sugar
On the hills singing with the deceived

14. And if you stood at the fortress which gathered
Its banks between the pasture of gazelles and fish

15. And inclined towards Manouba at night when
The camp there mingled between the gardens

16. And look at the palace and the other overlooking it
Like tents hovering with the horsemen

17. And the birds chirp in its outskirts, groups
Of Persian melodies that came in some rhymes

18. And go to the upper Raad and its dome
Among mansions appears like a falcon

19. Until you fulfill some of intimacies
And compose the rhythm of an obligation after accustomed

20. Then race to Duhwah racetrack and be intimate with it
Whatever devilish inspiration you had

21. And attend the evening at the Sea Gate happily
Perhaps it would vent a grieving soul

22. As for Tinja, it is safe if its
Spacious plains were safe from snakes' bites

23. And head to the house from the Minaret door or
The new door to the scent market

24. And roam from the populated pond, its mosque
To the square, to the Byzantine corner

25. And fear the coal at the Well of Rocks when
You strive from it to the Zirkoon bathhouse

26. And if you go out to Rowdh Al Saud, then stop
As you knew and spent the night in the lane of olive

27. Those residences, neither Az-Zahra nor Cordoba
By my life, nor Ghitan Jirun

28. So engage their charms if you can, and if
It is difficult then seek the example of Farqun

29. And do not block the tender glance of a houri
For you are in this unauthorized

30. And seek fortune from the Generous through it
And suffice if you get it, instead of Qarun's treasure

31. And do not say how can what I hope for come close
For your purpose is between Kaaf and Noon