1. O Ahmad son of Sa'id, do not despair
For love has two flavors, bitter and sweet

2. It has tribulations, some of which I have tasted
And in tribulations, there is burden for the scale

3. I was told that a lover spent the night restless
Like Zaid who grammatically is the object

4. She spent the night a bride with husbands
A wedding, by your life, unseen by Gabriel

5. She sang by day and spent the night singing
Until morning, for conditions change

6. The lover said, having bitten his nails in anguish
Among the repentant, while the sword of virtue is sheathed

7. The donkey slipped, and it was as if it stumbled
Verily the donkey, a donkey of ill omen, slipped

8. O Ahmad son of Sa'id, had you seen her
With anklets on her legs like bells

9. O Ahmad son of Sa'id, had you seen her
Her train the handkerchief of the people

10. The pleasure seekers came to her in the morning insulting
That which her dress concealed

11. One of the tribulations, so be patient O son of a forbearing mother
Can the turns of fate be relied upon?

12. console yourself, for the matter pleased her
And there was an embrace with a kiss

13. That whitened with a tinge of her virility
Fading though the beauty called it unknown

14. She drank that it be said she is free
The freeman is not robbed unless he's killed

15. Have patience, beautiful patience, for the patient
Prevails through the ages though they wear him

16. The beauty promised you a reward
But its obtainer is surrendered to death

17. Know you were rewarded, O Father of Al-Abbas, overflowing
For the lover has a crown and wreath

18. A crown which when it shines, disparagement follows it
Naturally when crowns are followed by veneration

19. So be patient with the crown, though bearing a crown
Whose length is a mile, tires

20. Crowns of the purified generations are
Ancient, and the choice dishonor, wreaths

21. So delight in your bonds, and know they are necklaces
Made for the virtuous, with great deeds

22. Thank your God, ask Him for her safety
Accept, for little love is accepted

23. Do not forbid the lads her pleasures
For in gallantry there is no taboo or permit

24. Do not be stingy with wealth you do not own
Lest you miss generosity and guidance

25. Do not task a lad, destroying his innocence
Verily the blood of the meek is ransomed

26. What the wicked want from a man
To facilitate the path of virtue

27. Did you not pave a path from which she does not deviate
From what they love, though virtues pave the way?

28. Do not be angry at degrading poetry about her
All she faced yesterday was degradation

29. The virtuous continues to plough her depths
While the virtuous ploughs what the spade cannot

30. Be not disgusted that her midwives have met
The licentious Tigris met the Nile

31. Prepare seven or nine camels for her
With a fat foolish leader

32. I wish I knew - but knowledge of the unseen is veiled
In whose house lies the newborn, sponsored

33. In her house, by the One the pilgrims perform Hajj for
Can the rain be diverted from the clouds that sent it?

34. It is as if I see you being asked then
Speaking truth, though lies surround it

35. The boy she sang to crawled
To us a boy, and reading has its interpretation

36. My intimate hugged a rod, so she hugged
A child who came while children spread

37. They come though none called but a grapevine
With truths, the first of which are falsehoods

38. But how excellent she called the carrier
A child borne on the belly of the child's mother

39. A child who wanted a wise wetnurse, so he cried
Until the pretty-faced one with braided hair came

40. When he grows, his ambition will be the ages
And verses will be carried in his hands

41. It is as if I see you, and the tattooers then
Congratulate you, generations after generations

42. I owe you congratulations
To skills belong advance and delay

43. So one says to you words I will not prolong
In speech lies abbreviation and prolonging

44. May God proliferate in her, while she is safe
And the family united, the womb fertilized

45. Thank for the blessing of proliferation, its Giver
When proliferation is not replaced by scarcity

46. Honor me that her night pleased her
While you are patient, staunch of heart

47. Truly, O tusked elephant, truthful
You have endured what no elephant can endure

48. Her deeds were of what you hate
And you bade them farewell with hated words

49. To God belong frivolous lads
Whose inclinations are frivolities and living is frivolities

50. The Orthodox priest studies the Bible
As if its binding were the Bible

51. He imagines in the sedition of the wanton his misguidance
Though the seditions of ignorance are the misguidances