1. With affection, if only the unfeeling would yearn and love
Then he would know the causes of passion and how it clings

2. I see a nature given to haughtiness for a long time
If he does not persist with lovers, how bad is his character

3. And falsehood came to me by night so I thought it
An apparition came from the end of night to knock

4. I waver in suspicion, at times belying it
And at times believing it is truth, back and forth

5. I fear and hope the proof of my suspicion and its validity
So my doubt perplexes me when I hope and separate

6. We have embraced and the doubt of meeting and wrapped
An embrace around our necks, then it narrowed

7. So you have not seen but an informant of youth
With complaint or with tears flowing down the cheek

8. So treat us well as tears mingle with tears
Their intermingling and cheek pressed against cheek

9. With kisses before commiseration and after
We almost split open from intensity of passion

10. If people understood the beauty of meeting
For the sake of reunion, separation would be loved

11. When the roaring sea joins the bliss of
The Caliph, the sea in it almost drowned

12. Gifts enumerating wishes and behind them
Promises where blossoms of the willow nearly bloom

13. With it, the world is set right when his aim leans
And the work of fate improves and fate is torn

14. God has decreed for the proud in God that he
Is the just ruler, the rightly-guided, successful

15. His love is a duty from God incumbent
And disobeying him is God's wrath, ruinous

16. You have remained, Commander of the Faithful, hopeful
So the kingdom has light for as long as you remain and thrive

17. Indeed, your horses arrived ahead yesterday
While you are foremost in glory and honor ahead

18. New Year found you at an auspicious, beloved time
Where the blossoms remain bursting with joy in it

19. So you remain in abundant shade from God
Your shade is a meadow beautifying the wilderness

20. The course of Sham turned its reins freely to me
To the abodes of Manbij, loosened

21. I conceal a friend or treat an adversary poorly
And spread your favours that speak

22. And I am disposed, rather bound, after what
Makes my person a stranger, that my longing flares up

23. And from where does hope not rein in my reliance
Upon you and longing for you spur me on

24. You who have exalted me with kindness
Which, arriving soon, pours forth

25. And a knowing woman whose traits surpassed me so neither praise
Can approach its summit nor gratitude catch up

26. You carried on ten steeds my conveyance
Racing, the saddlecloth fluttering

27. And increased my provisions with howdahs following
With your generosity in them, the well-arranged pearls

28. And women related to the eminent and successors
A gathered beauty pleasing to behold and finest

29. And of robes they won by your wearing so they exude
A fragrance from the scent of your aura

30. Over it a coat of brocade of excellent smooth
Gleaming silk that eyes slip on it and glide

31. So are you, O son of the Rightly Guided, adorning me
With a ruby that dazzles me and shines?

32. The red blush of roses envies the beauty of its dye
And the flowing scented oil tells of it

33. When it appeared and the sun - I said they vied
To some extent or the sun almost outstripped

34. When it blazed in a glance, its brilliance rivaled
Your forehead when you are generous and gleam

35. I am robed in a garment of pride, hastened
And with it remains a mention eternal

36. A sign of your generosity evident to me
And a witness to your favors that proves true

37. And one like you gave the likes of it and multiples over
And it is no wonder for the sea to surge overflowing

38. If I screened my poetry from great men
Its rhymes with your description are more fitting

39. And if the workers are absolved of blame by me
Then the employer of workers is more deserving and proper