1. Sleeplessness afflicted you after long drowsiness
For the chastity of an alluring slender beauty

2. Like an aroused penis over a mound
Be it from coyness or branches of myrtle

3. Like the full moon gleaming with the light of his face
What is the matter with his cheek being black brass

4. He shoots but doesn't roast or kill whom he shoots
With arrows without a target or skill

5. How many nights I spent talking with him
And the delicious sipping at the taste of wine

6. No eye has closed from missing his imagination
While the heart in it fluctuates with doubts

7. All the coquetry of the beloved is passionate
Except the coynety and despair of his cheek

8. If he was serious my brain melted
Or if it was joking there was no harm in it

9. He will recall me keeping him company and our
Loneliness from me and from intimacy

10. His qualities will return him to me gently
So much has clung in a heart of stone

11. I drank with my friends and compatriots
And chatted with them, virgins without wine

12. I have regretted the best drinking companions
Languishing in the good morals of squires

13. Their money offered to their guests
The generous is forgiving and kind

14. I have known successors and outstanding men
Who were intimate in keeping my secrets to gain intimacy

15. I have been patient with a corrupt friend
Not to mention disappointment and misery

16. If his leader refuses to be restrained
Or if you coax the bridle of a horse

17. A loving man does not praise his friend
Like the exquisite to a taster or a guard

18. Until he sees him suffering his fury
Loves him in ease and in poverty

19. I say to the one who aims his spear
Take it as a struggle from the hands of a butcher

20. I have tightened my mount if worries visited me
In the early morning with a roving camel

21. An old man, if a mother has denied him once
Another has recognized him in the land of people

22. Its heavy sorrows poured on him copiously
Watering the love with a water-skin and bucket

23. I have ridden the sea in its waves
And rode the horror of night in the dark

24. And crossed the lengths and widths of countries
From Sind to the land of mica

25. I have seen and heard those who have passed
So here is Zureiq, master of masters

26. So boast in him and in his ally Mu'ab
Indeed al-Husayn is greater than Nushnas

27. If not for al-Husayn and Mu'ab and his tribe
No kingdom would have stood for the Abbasids

28. And by him of the two right hands whom no one equals
An advisor to the five-sixths of the one-sixths

29. Seeking Ali when he came in great numbers
The people of violence and throwing

30. So he confronted them with his grandfather and crushed their youth
They trod Abu Yahya with the worst treading

31. And al-Amin descended seeking Babylon and its king
So he surrounded the wicked betraying king

32. Sometimes alluring him that he may become a shepherd
But he refused and inclined to the roaring rebel

33. His brother's patience was vast
It covered kings and all races

34. But he listened to Harthama who
Left him between the ropes of servant boys

35. So Tahir's ships came and held on
To the caliph of the castrated and the half-men

36. Neither Kuthayr made him rich nor his supporters
Of the people of Baydoun or Firnas

37. So al-Amin threw himself in the Tigris
Hoping to survive but he became in blood

38. Who would know that his final affair
Would remain captive in the hands of guards

39. But how can he survive while Tahir
Demands with ambushes and guards

40. So he brought him the good news of Muhammad
Quickly so he said to him cure me with beheading

41. What glory rises with which the affairs of a man proceed
The glories fled from the expanse of guards

42. Since Zureiq girded his loins
Until the running of the horses settled

43. He possessed the east and west by force
Praised on pulpits and thrones

44. Until its west submitted to him
And the ranks were empty of the corrupt and riffraff

45. He visited Iraq and did not make it a dwelling
And came to the outskirts so it grabbed spears

46. He established a pit for the evildoer and a meadow
For the good-doers like the meadow of spaciousness

47. If only one man stood among the people
None like your father would have stood holding the scales

48. If the openings of Al-Maziar were counted and the like
The numbers would expire like creeping ants

49. And your brother passed away while by him gathered
The noble of nobles and the valiant of valiants

50. Neither Tahir except his father and grandfather
The three of them excelled over the people

51. You have joined and not fallen short of them
Rather, you have clung to the gap of molars

52. You have dressed armies in armies
In it the masters of whispering

53. So they threw and charged with spears and clashed
With their swords after long useless contention

54. They competed when the weapon of whom fell
And the soul expires at every breath

55. The horses are inflamed with the horsemen and the spears
Throb the throb of the well with poles

56. Death gestures with the swords as if they are
Lightning flashing on the backs of shields

57. You see death giving birth, its fangs
Bare, delivering a bothersome infant with breath

58. You have killed their army and came with their captives
And left them in the pit like piles

59. Whenever a group is roused whom their shepherd has fed
On the discord and whispers of the sneaky

60. You have scorned their leaders openly
So as not to appease the evils of the vile

61. The messenger of the man of arguments says to his envoy
Prod the riding beast in the early dawn

62. So when you meet Muhammad, prostrate to him
No wonder whoever prays to the father of al-ʿAbbās

63. A king whom you see the kings around his stirrups
Walking as if they have withheld breath

64. He ordains matters and no whimper is heard
In the shadows of spears in the impregnable place

65. The dispensing of his reward and punishment is like fate
In the two worlds for a sinner or miserable

66. His house has risen above the dead
And the foundations of the pillars

67. He has ascended and attained glory until it inclined to me
Alive unlike the fading of statelets

68. He has flowed and achieved every sublime goal
And thrown so achieved the first of parchments

69. If he attained the celestial sphere they would remove his house
In honor, the gift of towering minarets

70. The Abdaliyoun, sick of life
Like lions growling in thickets

71. The dreams of Aad in dew when they sleep
And jinn neighing the sleep of zeal

72. In war their attire is doubled iron
And in peace their attire is a fine garment

73. The best of the stars, their faces
Dazzled with the finest ancestry and brass

74. I have served you in Rusafah for a while
And served your elder in the villages of Bityas

75. I have a sanctity since forty years I count them
Pilgrimages, and I am not distanced from the ancient

76. I have returned to you after adversity
So I have accepted the return of a resigned blameworthy

77. So lower your wing for me and protect me, I am
Like the Samaritan, forbidden to touch

78. Or I would be left prey to every vile one
Like Qabeesah al-Tai or Iyas

79. It pleases you, its enormity, so take it on your shoulder
Above the platform, the sunshade of weddings

80. I have said when I composed its adornments
And poetry evokes the wit of the wise

81. If it concerned the stalwarts they would boast with it
And for brats they would love the sons of Shammas