1. A sign though she was ignorant of my remedy
Without ignorance, she knew my malady

2. The lovelorn dies for her every day
For missing the trysts and the meeting

3. She has a mouth, a smile, and saliva
Substituting for smoothed plaster

4. An enchanting languorous eye lined with kohl
And a face whose glow cannot be denied

5. So woe to the gloomy when she appears
Strutting in the finery of grace

6. As if she has a sentinel over my heart
Of refusal to console and aloofness

7. The agonies of passion, they are the ones
Who summoned you to confused babble and song

8. The apparition that enchanted me revived
The heat of my anguish and the coals of my concerns

9. And in the phantom of imagination was the cure of meaning
And the quenching of the thirsty from drought

10. But I am the most passionate of them
And the most prolific in varieties of affliction

11. The censurer says to me, not knowing
That blame is a tenet of treachery

12. How often are you deluded by wishes
And dreams cast you into the bare wilderness

13. While you shine without resolve
And you alienate without pretext

14. I said fate seeks vengeance on me
And the days of tribulations with blood

15. The freeman has no place to stay
When the fool rises with the disgraceful

16. Can a wound heal without bandages?
Can a plant grow without water?

17. I was angry with the palms of four: white, stunted,
Pitch-dark night, and departing companion

18. And were it not for Ahmed and his helping hands
The afflicted would spend the night roofless

19. Abu Bakr, how many wounded he consoled
And how widely he treated the eminent with healing

20. A young man whose palm is always Euphrates
Flooding men and women equally

21. A young man whose name is honor and pride
For the lords of pride and nobles

22. He saw the field of praise as the greatest gain
And the worth of a man is the gain of praise

23. He never promised a mendacious vow
Nor said words without loyalty

24. He is the affectionate friend to every friend
Lasting in friendship and brotherhood

25. He is the sea you have been told about
He is the beneficial rain from the sky

26. He has the morals of glorious deeds
And the signs of manliness and generosity

27. Abu Bakr you built a lofty structure
Of kindness, not of buildings

28. So your stars continue to rise
Despite the envious and hostile

29. Reaching in it the utmost of every state
You estimate attaining in the end

30. How many fine ones I suffered before you
Ugly in action when compelled

31. Company whose manners are good but
Whose bounty indicates prosperity

32. Their faces turn black when
I come down on them with praise or prose

33. May you ransom those who do not know
And know how my praise is of my satire

34. So live safely and enjoy tranquilly
With long life in power and survival

35. And may your years continue to flow over you
With grace that is complete without end

36. My access and greatest scope
To you is by the right of the defamed

37. While you are knowing of my ancestry and grandfather
Jurist of the land in a throng of scholars

38. And my uncles were counted long ago
Among the elite, the high and mighty

39.
Your generosity is wholly good, but