1. You grew up, so your youth changed,
And your curly hair changed to straight hair.

2. The water of your face became turbid,
So the outpouring of your traits became muddy.

3. The gazelles kept their distance from you,
They no longer have desire for you.

4. And I may become accustomed to you and my arrows,
Yet this aloofness and lack of arrows remain.

5. Did I make them feel lonely when my arrows' quivers were full?
Did I make them feel at ease when my arrows were gentle?

6. My nights that never cease to fell warriors,
Due to my shooting during their battles.

7. Indeed noble gazelles have distanced themselves,
They are adorned by tents, not by tents.

8. They are soft from afar, and elegant from near,
Their scent is diffused, without any seal.

9. I complain to God about those
Whose dwellings are in Rusafa, not in Rijam.

10. They make Al-Mahdi stumble,
While the noble Hashemites do not make Hisham stumble.

11. Those ill in eyelids, not due to illness,
For those who are not afflicted by chronic illness.

12. Their eyes' illness is my heart's illness,
And illness may present illness as a gift.

13. My beloved and my kinship have collapsed,
Yet kinship has connection and intertwining.

14. It is as if my qualities were a dream that passed,
And my secrets are like confused dreams.

15. I wore white clothes, with immoral traits,
Yet the whiteness of clothes reflects immoral traits.

16. So opinions about me should not be divided,
For whiteness and the white have no reconciliation.

17. I have suffered except for graying, which has become new for me,
Both wondrous and matching have afflicted me.

18. I was like a garden delighting the eye,
Now it has no light but melodies.

19. Beautiful faces frowned at my graying,
For their smiles no longer radiate lightning.

20. A smile is no longer expected from the white
For one whose forehead's smile has faded.

21. It is as if my charms never shone one day,
And their glances always took turns being distributed.

22. It is as if I never saw their gazes towards me,
Yet in their glances is a kiss and a bond.

23. If I have bid farewell to my ignorance without changing my words,
The covenants between us have lasted long.

24. It is as if I have never endured being watered with pleasure,
Where one dies from it, and the desperate lives.

25. She makes excuses for me, her contours apparent,
As if her meeting were the new crescent moon.

26. She breathes like the dawn breeze from the north,
When the seal is removed from her mouth.

27. She gives you a drink that heals and cures,
So a coolness flows in the intestines, and turmoil ceases.

28. They said: If the departing soul would return,
It would find in it a replacement, and craving would leave.

29. I said: The wine of singers' mouths,
Is wine that no other wine can equal.

30. Your solace for youth that time has afflicted,
With its softness and determination,

31. Before you, generations stood up
For the doubt of fate or bowed down (in resignation).

32. Relentless time brings abhorrence,
Preceding eras brought abhorrence.

33. It passed cups of bitterness to the sons of Ham and Shem,
One day bitter like poison, another day hot like fever.

34. And time has phases you see,
In which honey is harvested, and poison sucked.

35. So years where a year is like a day,
And days where a day is like a year.

36. Like bees having sometimes stings, sometimes wax,
And palm trees having sometimes thorns and sometimes fruit.

37. Do not grieve, for the changing of fate is words,
And healing, even if words have bled.

38. A friendly morning breeze will console you of your youth,
With the generosity of his hands the peace blossomed.

39. He represents the noble traits and virtues,
Where the head and the crown are from.

40. He has a reputation reaching them,
And a direction to stretch and sleep.

41. A station where praises are sung mysteriously,
And truth is observed, along with the protector.

42. And how much pleasure anchored next to it,
Welcomed by drinking friends and chatting companions.

43. They came to it, traveling the width of the earth extensively,
To it they have an ardent desire and hope.

44. If they traversed a distance from Al-Muwamah,
Distances not marked with landmarks.

45. Al-Ya'four plunges into rugged terrain,
And Al-Harbaa wrestles in the noon sun.

46. Their saddles shed their cargo,
And their swords unsheathed their blades.

47. Trusting that they will find and be served
A spring for the thirsty, with drinkable water.

48. And that the lofty howdah litters will return,
As if their lances are the well-rooted Bamboo.

49. So they arrived, not at spring or the year,
But the spring of fate that has no end.

50. The purpose of livelihood and essence of knowledge
Which signify his merit as the crowds witness.

51. Essences in his resources are healing,
For one who has reached the climax of his illness.

52. My crude poetry deserves your forgiveness,
Compared to the refined forgiveness you possess.

53. You are a brother who spent nights as my guest in towns,
Pleasing, undisturbed by grief.

54. I gathered you for a period, how astonishing!
But the sea and clouds never part.

55. And it is my duty to present an apology,
Though you did not accuse me.

56. To you, Abu Al-Husain, I direct words,
With a bridle strongly tied to your cord.

57. I testify I have given you the essence of my love,
No blame or sin on me.

58. I have not fallen short in hoping,
Nor did you neglect my right and sleep.

59. I made you the destination of my hopes,
For they are prayers, not fasting.

60. How can craving hopes fast,
When your happy fulfillment provides their food?

61. Food where no fault is feared,
And good deeds provide delicious food.

62. When I anchored towards you, O Isa (Jesus),
While my hopes are frail or broken.

63. I anchored such that hands turned white,
And kitchens darkened, and cooking pots simmered.

64. Except that I stand in awe of you, not for evil,
As the swimming champion stands in awe of the sea.

65. And my shyness controls me when you nurture
My gratitude with your great favors.

66. Have you not seen that when we met,
And were sung to by your mighty feats,

67. I saw that gratitude had weakened,
So it prepared for escape and cannot be blamed.

68. While you were the victorious conqueror if
Your gathering was blamed by the blamer.

69. You do not cease to defeat all gratitude,
With a custom where its knot cannot be untied.

70. That is because I am permitted, and nothing is protected,
Not because I am prohibited, seeking the forbidden.

71. When a benefactor intended to betray,
Your purpose remained firmly fixed.

72. So if the meeting was void, do not blame me,
For my absence from you means defeat.

73. Your insistence expelled falsehood forcefully,
That is how the generous expel falsity.

74. How much the patronized have followed you to gain spoils,
Unable to remain firmly tied to you.

75. A cloud that poured in the footsteps of one departing,
Reached and overtook him.

76. Can one of the travelers escape
When the cloud or darkness seeks him?

77. I complained of your generosity, not because it lessened, but
Because your great hands increased.

78. And that I have been tested by it, so it has become
As if my acquisitions from it are debts.

79. Like a man complaining of the tyranny of a torrent,
Where valley and hill are equalized.

80. Yet I do not complain of you to the Merciful,
While I forcibly silence my gratitude.

81. If my gratitude has not been long suppressed,
Then I cannot be subjected to suppression by you.

82. You are not one I would reproach from the start of a custom,
Without repetition, as the pigeons were not reproached.

83. So repeat as you wish, I will not complain,
Does the dew complain but only to the despicable?

84. Your extended favor is not severed from me
If words are severed.

85. I deceived you, and your deception of me is deserved,
To God belongs the increase and completion.

86. And I said as if I were in a torrential day,
With complete destruction and ruin from its onset to its end.

87. But I have not broken your custom at all,
Except that I complained of carrying your gratitude and peace.

88. And how much pleasant nonsense you made me articulate continuously,
While I am silent, and speech maintains composure.

89. And how much you silenced me with burdensome nonsense,
While I do not speak, and the sea roars.

90. It does not cease intertwining us and flowing
Clear water for you, not muddied by a cup.

91. We bend when it is pure, and without refusal,
When the unsheathed sword terrifies the scabbard falls silent.

92. You never give except a hot passion stirs,
It bows down while shyness holds its reins.

93. You close up our openings and make us withdraw,
Then we request to be spared and suppressed.

94. And we receive from you, disdaining the self,
And the least of it acquires worth and is protected.

95. Structures which no Hatim had built
Nor Aus and Harithah and Lam.

96. But a Persian of influential deeds,
With a beginning but no ending.

97. What astonishment that I feel embarrassed of my inability,
While seizing your forgiveness is to gain benefit!

98. You love gratitude, not when heat exhausted the passionate,
Rather, the moderate flow punishes the impediment.

99. When I hold to account one with gratitude,
Then weakness overcomes me with reverence.

100. Are you not the man who honors in shyness,
As if your good favor was stolen?

101. He conceals his favor so it diffuses from him,
The diffuser of musk has no concealment.

102. We diminish his gratitude so he deserves forgiveness,
We wrong his money so he deserves gathering.

103. Indeed you were quenched by your Lord wherever you are quenched,
The mounts of manliness, not of tyranny.

104. So the vulgar may be watered while they are forms,
And the vulgar may be served while they are riffraff.

105. Tomorrow, the seeking will be behind you in virtues,
Like a row with the imam leading.

106. Time has assigned me men of glory,
Yet you were my essential choice from them.

107. Family of the most fortunate and stars of blessings,
But the full moon outshone them.

108. Who would disparage if he were left out of praise
When his guess has guided the sublime?

109. Though he was denied praise, he is not of those
Whose opinion is said to be misguided.

110. Many are selective of praiseworthy matters,
Wearing praise and blame.

111. But I did not become like she who chose, and so
The best of names for her was smallpox.

112. Rather, I chose one where opinions of him are divine revelations
Sent down, not carnal desire flaring up and zealous.

113. The envious of your glory dispute with us saying:
What are his virtues? We said: They are good merits without blemish.

114. They said: What are his surpassing deeds? We said:
A nurture that reproof after weaning does not punish.

115. Deeds among deeds that are supreme ladies,
Deeds whose superiority over others is absolute.

116. And actions which the insomniac haters
Pass the night with, when the sleeper rests.

117. A favor whose registry verifies the origin,
With no bridle of guilt restraining it.

118. Die, O envious ones, die of an illness
That does not die or sleep!

119. Do not construct the words of falsehood about him,
For what Allah has constructed will not collapse.

120. I have presented you a necklace of poetry
Whose pearls are yours while the string arrangement is mine.

121. I have fallen short, not deliberately, but
Dazzled, while a mighty king has honored me.

122. I did not fall short in reward before you,
But summit ambitions are inaccessible to me.

123. Every challenger of you is fearful,
Hiding the letter by merging it.

124. Furthermore, I have no swaying,
How can this be while I have no herbs?

125. I do not fear the saddle slipping from my camel,
Nor a collision feared for my mare.

126. They are but two sandals, utterly torn,
To shoes both split open back to front.

127. Winter has attacked while many villains
Wear its cotton and plucked wool.

128. No man met you and then said:
What lies behind you, O crowder?

129. Your eloquent explanation of bounties suffices,
Speaking whenever words are lacking.

130. How much have you tempted, by the deceased from us,
The envious brother whose saddle shook!

131. So live for the virtues, it is not feared
That they will lack your reverence while you exist.

132. You have given me, of the jewelry of poetry, a necklace
Whose pearls are now yours while the stringing is mine.

133. I have fallen short, not deliberately, but
Dazzled, while the authority of an important king has honored me.

134. I did not fall short rewarding you before,
But the summits are inaccessible to me.

135. Every challenger to you is fearful,
Wearing the silent letter by merging.

136. Afterward, I have no swaying,
How can this be while I have no herbs?

137. No slip is feared on my camel,
Nor is collision feared on my mare.

138. They are but two sandals, utterly torn open,
Both having split backs to the slippers.

139. Winter has attacked while many despicable ones
Wear its rough cotton and plucked wool.

140. And no man met you then said:
What lies behind you, O mighty prominent one?

141. It suffices that your eloquent explanation of bounties
Speaks whenever words are lacking.

142. How much have you tempted, by the deceased from us,
An envious brother whose saddle shook!

143. So live for virtues, there is no fear
Of lacking reverence for them while you exist.

144. You have given me, of poetry's jewelry, a necklace
Whose pearls are now yours, while the stringing is mine.

145. I have fallen short, not deliberately, but
Dazzled, while a mighty king's authority honored me.

146. I did not fall short rewarding you before,
But summits are unattainable to me.

147. Every challenger to you is fearful,
Wearing the silent letter's merging.

148. Afterward, I have no swaying,
How can it be when I have no herbs?

149. No slip is feared on my camel,
Nor collision feared on my mare.

150. They are but two sandals, utterly torn,
Both having split open backs to the slippers.

151. Winter has attacked while many despicable
Wear its cotton and plucked wool.

152. No man met and then said to you:
What lies behind you, O prominent mighty one?

153. Your eloquent explanation of bounties suffices,
Speaking whenever words are lacking.

154. How much have you tempted, by the deceased from us,
An envious brother whose saddle shook!

155. So live for virtues, it is not feared
Of losing reverence for them while you exist.