1. Does every house of yours have a tearful eye
And a heart that throbs with constant memory?

2. Yes, we have cried for the people for a while
And without them a scattered people for Layla

3. On a carpet wherein the drinkers of wine
Have the beauty of days they love and desire

4. I paused and paused my passion at the passion of love
The nights whose return brings blossoming youth

5. It stirred my remoteness while it was still
And renewed my passion while it was latent

6. May God give descendants of time fresh rain
Our passion rained on us when grief flashed and flashed

7. Nights we stole from fate after it had
Lit up with a gray morning halo

8. I took a cure from Layla through Layla but he who stays with water does not quench his thirst at the water of dew
The Christian maiden knew that I

9. Conceal when the chattels sleep and I become infatuated
And I do not accompany the memory when I remember it

10. Even if Waraqa cries out and the night grows green
We went out among the white dunes but did not see

11. Calm places except that they were from them the most foolish
They dashed the faces of the son of Hashim

12. Frowning faces for the desert that does not cease
Endurers of night without Qays who could not

13. Catch up to its latter part from afar
Intending a stay between Qum and Abat

14. On the shore of Talha that glitters
Where gifts sparkle abundantly

15. To each peer and promises are shared
So I remained like Hassan and Muhammad remained

16. Like Harith of Ghassan and Abat creaked
Dwellings where my voice is subdued

17. A stranger and no arrow of mine toward them flies
They saddled us with night while it was painstaking

18. And woke us at dawn while it was breaking
Near Ash'ari who knows poetry will pull

19. Him into belief then drown him
I met his call in Iraq and glimpses for him

20. Dazzled in the mountains flashing
A gift like the light of the sun it encompasses an occident

21. That becomes equal in his hatred and love
So if his character contended with heavy rain

22. A seller of rain would constrain it and narrow it
He appeared leaning when the star of generosity shone

23. And its seeker is vile in his request and blinking
So he spent in the lofty until you thought

24. That he was given by fate or that fate spent
Laughing to heroes while he frightens them

25. And the sword has an edge when they draw and shine
Modesty and death are one in their end

26. So is the flood of water, it waters and drowns
And in every state there is glory that lights him

27. He has a trait in which no affectation crept
So he spends but his spending and laughs

28. And resolves but his resolve and ponders
Ali son of Isa son of Musa son Talha

29. Son of Saib son of Malik when he aims
A watering place and opinion when allegiances break

30. And semblances of calamities thunder and light
People are but a flock of horses, so among them

31. Are those on the color of ancestors long gone and piebald
If he travels among the two sons of Malik, the spy flees

32. On a mountain that covers mountains and they shake
The demons of Heyja as if their Thursday among them

33. When the battalions meet them is blinking
They supported that banner which had become

34. Fluttering above banners fluttering
So no informant remained among the vagabonds

35. About the people, how they gathered then scattered
And the day the Kurds saw the flash of his blade

36. Blood pouring from them chaotic and flowing
They fled confusedly with fleeing bare

37. And confusedly with swords splitting
Abu Ja'far these are your great efforts

38. And this is my tongue, cutting off and loosing
I spoke and pressured the enemies but

39. Their crowds could not subdue me when I spoke
With every adornment of rhymes as if

40. When recited among the horde of people they glittered
No custom except with he whose thankfulness for

41. The distance of separation stayed vigilant and awake
Men wished that my requests be restrained

42. Then troubled in your seas they become angry
Your loyalty is a veil over that, lowering

43. And your generosity a door over that, closed
You take initiative in spending until it is as though

44. You compete with a messenger in which he almost won
The high-minded do not have a seeker so wait

45. And if you were sought there would be none to equal you