1. Has the beloved passed beyond the veiled tents
Where love's companions are veiled by mountain hyenas?

2. You stopped at a campsite on the winding path of passion
And sent back the greeting of Zainab in return

3. If she insisted you wish her not farewell, the longing
To purify affection for her would be more incumbent

4. Or if she secluded herself behind the tents, we still have
Eyes that will forever picture that seclusion

5. A love that prevented the guide from the right path
And fettered with the gazes of the beauties, so they accompanied

6. It persisted so my vigor was extinguished and failed him
The cutting edge of youth or it almost faded but did not

7. When I said old age had desisted from him, the dissuaders
Returned to take control, not youth

8. Can a fire be quenched when its flames rage
By a handful of water in the gales of youth

9. Or have you mastered the affection of men with her blame
I think you taught greediness to become more rapacious

10. Goodness to you, if you know not the nature of people
Come, ask about what you do not know, o experienced one

11. Let me tell you, I have not complained to a friend
Then complained nor reproached a comrade and then reproached

12. May each individual among them be rewarded for his brotherhood
With the worst that a transgressor was rewarded and penalized

13. God watered and shepherded the intimate ones, how intense was their
Loyalty, affection, closeness and kinship

14. They shared life with us but monopolized it
Giving the bad and keeping the best

15. Blame upon blaming temperaments, o people
Who see the brother of maternal lineage as a stranger

16. You see every newborn not know
A mother other than her or father but him

17. Greetings to the Hashimite young man, if you tasked him
With prophethood though the role would not suit him

18. He tracked the plentiful vein, uprooting it
So praise flowed as it willed and irrigated

19. And he preferred the prime of meanings, he would not
Incline to what among them was previously enjoyed

20. I am amazed by him, he did not attain maturity yet that
Which you witness of his deeds is the deed of one grown old

21. O clan of Hashim, what do you have with Hatim
Leave him be, for you have left his generosity neglected

22. Whenever the love of your son Waleed extends to him
It hangs over him but does not approach or yearn

23. Delay a little from your father out of reverence
For one like you who revered his father showed reverence

24. You have not been preceded in merit, it belongs
To you alone, not others in east and west

25. When they seek it aggressively, they will only
Find one hastening to you and seeking

26. Goodness to you, leave the people some high status
So souls feel honored by you and rage subsides

27. You possessed its horizons from them but did not leave
A seeker therein any place to turn

28. You do not please them, for supremacy was not
To be granted, nor was pottery to be gifted

29. A soul devoted to virtues has refused for you
To consider the brother of altruism blameworthy

30. I swear by the flags of Mina and I
Will avoid breaching this sworn oath

31. I fear a father will fail to beget his equal
Though sons may multiply one day and be begotten

32. So O finest one his mother wrapped in the loincloth
As the tested sword is sheathed in its scabbard

33. You will clothe me in what the days have no power
To strip me of, or the horizon robe a planet

34. And you burdened me with thanking one whose rest I have
I sacrifice you from a master who brings ease and burden

35. So here I am, I have no craft but your praise
And it is only to say and to write