1. Our lover almost seduces us with love,
So what is your obstinacy in blaming lovers?

2. We suffer from intense passion or moderate desire that pains us,
When the bonds of fate draw near, inevitably it defends us against harm.

3. We remained sleepless upon the sand dunes of ardour but the specter of the dark-eyed one revived us.
Zarwad has no respite for us,

4. A seller who does not give us time and a creditor who does not acquit us.
Stages where the covenant of our passion was not corrupted,

5. Nor in it a day where its covenant with us was tainted.
Our days before him were counted crimes,

6. Numbered, and our nights through them passed.
The amorous on the morrow of sadness from suppression

7. Take possession of a heart aggrieved, melancholy in its core.
When their livers harden, they render

8. Their sympathies softer through grace and subtlety.
One blames us in love who cannot defend us in it

9. And angers us who cannot satisfy us.
I did not expect the love of the dark-eyed ones to lead

10. To intimacy with a peer who does not companion us.
I sent forth the emancipated steeds galloping

11. Like the wild cats pursuing the wild cats.
They ask frequently about the monastery of Mouran

12. And head towards the buildings in the monastery of Maroun.
They chant in Iram, and luck in Iram,

13. Wealth guaranteed from the chief of chiefs protected.
Dew is grasped from it tangibly and perceptibly

14. While it used to be imagined and presumed.
A substitute with his agreeable gifts draws them near

15. To the elite among us and the relatives.
A Nile whose experts arbitrate when

16. We desire, we take its arbitration trampling it.
And flatterers whom the nobles surprise

17. Forgetful of the generosity of deeds, trifling.
If there was not in their natures a little cognizance

18. Sufficient for us, abundant from it would suffice us.
One who buys praise through inclination sees it

19. As the miser of the people, deprived.
Always we found his auspicious ascendant

20. Like the stars of fortune and birds of good omen.
He ends the day close to the enemy as if they fell

21. In China in its remoteness, not distant is China!
He girded up the vigilant whose resolve did not cease

22. To increase his enemies in humiliation and abasement.
I saw the armies of victory camped

23. Against the armies of Abul Jaysh ibn Tulun
The day of Thaniya when he folds in its expanse

24. Fifty thousand or more with his prowess.
And war blazed, its cauldrons boiling

25. At times, and the burning embers of it flare up at times.
The land becomes dark and they appear in his tents

26. Two types, concealing fear and hoping.
And the people between preceding victory evident through it

27. And slackening from objectives, bending.
As I saw the Tuesdays humbled

28. In the rear, the heels of the weak.
May God grant you long life for the exalted which you populate

29. And may God increase you in honor and enablement.
The Romans did not cease to be confused

30. Since the mighty and subtle settled near you.
They approach when they are far in their rage

31. And cunning, and distance themselves if they are near us.
Until you left them a day in which you erased

32. What the people relate from the history of Siffin.
Annals written on the interior of a pearl

33. From the back of the distant domes and pulses.
So prepare to exhaust them with raids and raid them with armies

34. And make the awaited Talha ibn Musa al-Khadim follow them.
As for al-Husayn, he did not decline striving for you

35. And you do not seek to exalt and adorn him.
You are pleased with him when his governor does not please you

36. Auspicious, truthful in resolve, secure.
He fulfilled the trust in the wealth of Syria, and none

37. Encountered him except the Trustee of the Hidden, Trusted.
His virtues ascend to the highest rank

38. And you do not see in them a middle or lower part.