1. Whether you're abandoning me or just tormenting me
And blaming me for a passion, though it brings me disgrace

2. The life of a lover has certainly made clear
My humiliation in loving one who does not love me

3. If he stretches out a hand to spurn me
And protects the youths from my white hair

4. Am I escaping, thanks to you, the asceticism of the confused lovesick ones
Fleeing from one exhausted in the wilds of old age?

5. They incline towards him from his heights amiably
Like rain flowing above gutters

6. Or does love have a forbearance not made foolish
By madness or a consolation that cannot be overcome?

7. I have accomplished my quest for singers though
Jacob's soul desired me

8. I did not see, like the heedless gazelles wandering
Unguarded against the wolf

9. I encountered misfortunes, either my destiny will come
In what I'm steering through or my discipline will be decisive

10. If you seek the fruit of future events and if
You remain with fate you will hear of wonders

11. The cold rains encounter you with mirages in them
After getting cold, white garbed

12. When its atmosphere is vacant for the wind, transient
It said, with the dust storm, or bent with the weeds

13. A sea of family whose ships were not made
Save raging small boats, terrified

14. Like muddy cats except a stain of night, black
Returns them like dark mantles

15. When Suhayl appears, it breathes flames
Ignited on the horizon’s rim, extinguished

16. And I have raised and not lowered the rod of lampooning
Against the people of affection and love

17. If I praise them, they are with the falsest
Oh my, the morals of people in my lampooning

18. Until I'm known by others with no apology
My isolation from any but my people and my turning away

19. Towards Abu Ja'far our mounts penetrated
The risks of a terrifying night, frightened

20. Our hopes anchor through him to a king
Repeated in the palace of glory, attributed

21. At the chamber door, either the rapping announces
Or missing the eyes of the delegation, veiled

22. We set out to a pinnacle of glory, surpassing
Any place or likeness in generosity, exemplary

23. When troops and horses are displayed to him
The people of generous Hatim match him

24. Until the highest ranks put on him their necklaces
Among names inscribed and titles

25. He is their brightest lightning flash
They believe me and his generosity is most renowned

26. If he neighbors the Nile, he overcomes the Nile's neighbor
Or wrestles with the sword, owner of the sword

27. Is he not the magnificent owner of the far horizons? So
Postponing a day of reckoning, granted

28. I'm content that I have long enjoyed his benevolence
And my satisfaction grew after trying him

29. Characters like the scales' weights, fulfilling
Promises to the country at dawn and dusk

30. They take up the burden, necks unbowed by heavy loads are not
Given to carrying howdahs, terrified Arabian horses

31. From his clouds in every land and people
Downpours of a knowledgeable one after downpour

32. How much surplus he scattered in Mesopotamia
Poured upon Mesopotamia, streaming

33. It fills the mouths of his panegyrists with lineage
Known among falcons and eagles

34. The glories are cast towards him, aiming for his faces
Like the house aimed at, indeed with minarets

35. Granted glory increasingly by his desire
Flowing by his ways and manners

36. Like an eye swooning in beauty following it
And a nose seeking the height of fragrance

37. My sword did not cease to wade through blood and war
On shoulders bleeding and chests

38. The good health of a foal pleased me after its enmity
When firewood was gathered from its anger

39. They walked with the people wherever the people, outcasts
In his generosity, between ruled and poured upon

40. If the Banu Shayban turned away from him, then
They would not sense the impact of one with cleaving sword

41. The people did not increase against him except in egging on
And their distance from his approval except in incitement