1. Welcome to that approaching imagination
Whether he did what they forbade or did not

2. Lightning flashed in the belly of a cloud, so it was guided
By its brightness, the necks of mounts gone astray

3. Of a beauty forbidden and made inaccessible
If she was given to us freely, we would not give at all

4. Like the full moon, not imagined, and the branch, not inclined
And the thick necked one, not adorned

5. What is beauty to you, O Saada, with one who beautifies
In what he came with, nor perfection with one who perfects

6. The passionate was excused, and it is of the nature of passion
To be ignorant of him in the obstinacy of the excuser

7. What is upon you from waiting for the desperate one
Rather, what hurts you is standing for a bit at the abode

8. If the torrent of passion did not bear responding
Then how can it be if not asked at all

9. Do not obligate tears upon me, for I have
A tear that completes if not shed

10. I have settled after rejection to yearning
And the neighing camel seems good when eating bitter colocynth

11. And so Talfah when he feared a strike
To the head, cutting the forelock was easy upon him

12. And the time was vulgar with one veiled
You have gone from it in the veil of the most vulgar

13. Like a statue built except that it
Came in beauty like an image in a statue

14. Broad of ribs, the knot of his belt tightened
On a known day over a twisted enclosure

15. His uncles from the Rustumis by way of Faris
And his ancestors from the Tubba's by way of Mawkal

16. He dives as the eagle dives when it has seen
Prey, and rises like the rising of a camel

17. Suspicious with two gentle ones as if
They are seen as leaves attached

18. If he passes by a slander not even brought to him
A day the qualities of Hamdawiyyah the crosseyed

19. A tail like a garment pulled off covering
A shame and a shame like a mask lowered

20. With smooth skin that pours in a cloak
Thin of body whose ribs show in a wrap

21. Like the blowing wind, most of his walk
Wide over far extended roads

22. The highs have gone where a blinking eye goes
With its watcher the iron of the low

23. The Pleiades seem in its Charioteer
And the full moon the prime of its smiling face

24. Pure leather as if intended for it
In the purity of its tan, the smoothness of polishing

25. And as if the dye for the white garment poured upon it
Saffron for the flag or drips of bullion

26. He wore the tanned and yellowed leather
It became red so he walked as if in Kha'ylan

27. You imagine it sheathed the cheeks delicately
No matter how you gaze at it, you are ashamed

28. And you see its flame in the dust, its color and intensity
Like burning embers lit

29. And you reckon the youths of puberty it awes
From a garden, or joy, or distraction

30. The neighing of vigor as if in its melodies
The rhythms of a loved one in first heavy steps

31. He has ruled the eyes, so if he appears friendly, he gives
The glance of the lover to the approaching beloved

32. To Muhammad son of 'Ali is the nobility that
None look to the Pleiades except from him

33. And a generosity, if not for its succession among us
Then generosity would have left without any stinginess

34.
And generosity scolds him for it, Hatim

35. Extravagant, and no generosity to one who does not scold
Distinction and preference, and the long path did not take

36. After the long path like the distinguished preferring one

37. Traveling when the plump ones snuck to the dew
Does not do favors except hastened

38. High above the sight of enviers as if
The individual stars pulled him with ropes

39. Or did you not see glory place its bags
In the family of Talhah then did not change?

40. A guest of theirs who hosts guests, and a settler
Who undertakes for them the duty of hosting

41. My soul is your ransom O Muhammad from a noble one
Be gentle with me from the darkness of afflictions and unwind

42. I want Abi Sa'eed and enmity between me
And his lofty clouds is winding

43. Mudar of the peninsula all of it and Rabi'ah of
Khabur threaten me as do Azd of Mosul

44. You have been generous with the noble forelock, so restrain it
For your brother from Udad, your father, by reconciliation

45. It takes the distant soul easily attained
Pardoning and opens in fate the locked

46. With illumination in every darkened enclosure
And guidance in every ignorant soul

47. Set and sharpened even if a horseman did not wield it
Tested and polished even if not polished

48. It covers the chaos but the shield is no shield
Against its sharpness and the coat of mail is no refuge

49. Listening to the ruling of fate, so when it passes
He does not look back and when it rules he does not change

50. Blazing giving proof with the first strike
What it attained even if it was in withering

51. And if he struck then everything is death
And if struck then he has no death

52. And as if the blacks of the half moons and their reds
Crawled with hands in its villages and feet

53. And as if its blade, when it disobeyed with it
In awe, disobeyed with the unarmed