1. Little does she know that I'm madly in love
And that none but her has captivated my heart

2. I've been so patient just to appease her anger
Yet after pleasing her, she still reproaches me

3. I've not seen anything like love that tricks
The minds of men after love gets tested

4. And I yearn for her image and frequently visit
An apparition though its visits are rare

5. From where can I find vigor after my old age?
After the messenger said gray hair lacks vigor

6. Either my nights comfort my sadness
Or my mornings scare me with those calamities

7. I've accepted my love sickness and never wished
To stop my journey where the caravan halted

8. If I had company the evening before I parted
Tears would flow down my eyes reproached by my friends

9. The slanderer cut relations with his fabrications
That not even a sharp sword can sever

10. So I became in Baghdad without shade or
Lush life in its fertile thickets

11. Should I praise the rulers longing for them
While my desires are in Syria being fulfilled?

12. Alas! What a caravan that can deliver a message
To Syria unless it's carried in books!

13. If Abu Al-'Abbas were close to the horizons
Of the easy wilderness and vast meadows

14. My intention to avoid him was a tribulation and wealth
Is the least of fortunes' gifts or generosity

15. One who handles events with their like
Removes distress from us and wards off anguish

16. Swords that in the lives of every oppressor have havoc
And horses that in the abodes of oppressors have plunder

17. They ascended above the crops so the chests
Of men were straitened by what the road narrowed

18. Their opinion returned so they realized
When it was too late that their ship was unseaworthy

19. They deserved the torment like the people of Thamud
And the punishment was decisive for them

20. He was gentle with them though resources were available
And relieved them after affairs got serious

21. If his female mates were present they would have clung
To his kidneys when fear made him tremble

22. It's either pardon covering his horizon
Or a bare sword that gives no respite

23. No group who sparked the fire of strife doubted
That their fire would die down

24. As if they never saw the Tall's features and army
And what war did to him and his troops!

25. A sly lion outside the sea gate
Who clenched his jaws on the cattle

26. Perplexed between two matters, then life appealed to him
Its water turbid and poured out

27. Before escape, necks of men thicker than
What defeat made impenetrable

28. He hated the taste of death while the sword took
The strangled lion - its outcome a dog

29. If he was free and life was fleeting
He would have died but death was sweet in his mouth

30. If a pearl did not stop its fleeing
A spear's chest would have had a hole in the pearl

31. He crawled on the earth's expanse with his face
So distance would prevent what nearness grants

32. He loves the country which is east of him
And dreads it though it is west of him

33. If he traveled by night, by day his foe
Would be that night's traveling companion

34. The deceitful did not veil their incapacities
And the loyal did not revolt against their betrayal

35. I fear it's as if I carry some of their burdens
Of sins or that I'm in some way affiliated with them

36. I had no sin so I dread its punishment
But I hope for your pardon even if I sinned