1. I am deprived of your approval due to my shortcoming and loss
And I used to consider it for the turns of fate

2. I repeat, would that I know what has brought me
Near you, if only I had benefited from "would that I know"

3. When will I ask about the misfortune brought by your displeasure
A questioner would say that I do not know

4. Yes, they attended while I was absent, and it was a deficiency upon me
That they attended while my mention was absent

5. So if I am too weak to rectify my affairs
Then it is old age that bears witness to my excuse

6. And I used to consider the length of life a gain
But the length of my life turned out the opposite

7. If men rally around you apart from me
They have not rallied around you with the like of my poetry

8. And if they served you with their bodies, I
Can serve better than them with my thoughts

9. When I direct them as voyages
As the stars of the night shine clearly as they move

10. Answering the night from east and west
And the breadth of the earth from land and sea

11. You knew that what you presented to me
Deserves gratitude for it from me

12. So unless I am graced by you, it is no sin of mine
The shortfall of my share apart from my worth

13. And I have almost expired of hope
And my pursuit languished and my matter waned

14. With a promise after a promise you initiate
In them my years and months are crimes

15. And my loyalty did not fall short of its extent
To hand me over to deficiency as my excuse

16. Neither did ingratitude cover up your blessings
Nor did my disbelief veil your favors

17. When your dwellings were distant from my dwellings
My sun set and the light of my full moon was lost

18. And for the day hidden from your person
There is an indication of a continuous ill-omened day

19. I swear by Wael and by what an ally ascends in virtues
Shurayk, the son of Amr, is his peer

20. And Shayban the son of Tha'labah of great deeds
And Sa'b the lofty, son of Bakr, find them difficult

21. You have competed in benevolence until you
Surpassed with every glorious deed and honor

22. I see my cause will grow stronger after weakness
When I brace myself with the minister as my reinforcement

23. When will he unleash with understanding a tongue of mine
Which is not of his choice understandings

24. And how often his hands came to my hands suddenly
With a downpour from the palms of his generous hands