1. I say to a coquettish idol like the towering palm tree
Embroidered in luxury and comfort

2. Beware of the sword if you go beyond the boundary of a chief
Who will protect you, and virtue is the belly of the noble stead

3. Do not delve deep into the citadels lest you stumble
On worn out stones, then buried

4. It is not strange if you see it, that you see
The flames of adversity in clear thorns

5. My yearning for that heart, and my agony over it
My agony intensified and my yearning

6. My eyes reproach not from excessive flowing tears
Nor from the emergence of seclusion, so leave me

7. Do not ask what made me cry, for verily
What poured from my eyes, made my eyelids flow

8. Except my hope in Yusuf ibn Muhammad
Which desolated my thoughts after him and suspicions

9. So evil is my misfortune that relapsed, and I live and was not
Expecting any excuse before it with assurance

10. My hand was paralyzed, my soul wrecked
And my world was destroyed the day my faith was destroyed

11. Oh my regret that I did not witness him
So my left hand failed with him and my right

12. And that I did not meet death ruddier than him
As fate used to meet me more cowardly than him

13. And that remaining after him is a betrayal
And I was never before him a traitor

14. There will be no rest until the horses rise up
I was wronged with a lion in the courtyard of Joun

15. Until the swift she-camels strike Saatih
Healing the souls from wounds and sorrows

16. Until the fire fills what is between Arzan
And the land of Juwakh of towns and fortresses

17. Until the sword takes Musa to split
The meat of Ilj by the borders, plump

18. Will you seek survival after our blood has flowed
Among you, fulfilling the decree for a time?

19. So where is the Commander of the Faithful? Verily he
Is my guarantor for what displeased you and my ally

20. The small emaciated horses will come to you
Grazing the flanks of plains in desolation and grief

21. Frowning, covering the expanse in every scattered region
Moving among them with the lions of the lair

22. Seeking revenge of a steadfast hero
Not submissive in disasters, not disgraced

23. Arenas of war ceaselessly commissioned
With the pole of the millstone for the combatants to grind

24. And the leader of an army who restores reason and dignity
To the firmness of its flanks and softness

25. He saw death as clearly as the eye sees, with no veil before it
And the death of certainty is not like the death of doubt

26. And it was said "escape from its sorrows" but for him
The nature of a steadfast lion in battle refused

27. And when they took lightly surviving, the sides
Of firmness recoiled for the swords, pillar-like

28. He protected his shoulders as the spears poured
Into the gaping wound of his clear neck

29. Did I forget you after what
I held fast to a rope from your call, tenacious?

30. If you had knowledge of my overflowing passion
And the knowledge of soil in burial, hidden

31. You would be certain that the eye is genuinely
Flowing over you and the heart genuinely grieving

32. When I do not thank you for your blessings with tears
Then I am not over my blessings a trustee