1. By my life, if I don the garb of love poetry
And become indifferent to the jealous one's eyes

2. And turn away from the dawns of youth playfully
And my ignorance becomes shorter than roaming in vain

3. Then many chaste maidens who went out for an innocent stroll
Would meet me in sorrow at the most splendid abode

4. When they converse with curled mustaches
They mix their love talk with the charm of coquetry

5. I sang being honored among them, entertained
With whatever I wished of joy and kissing embraced

6. When the foot of ignorance dances during my rapture
Directed towards the adorned tent

7. To the shade of a cool, relaxing meadow
Secluded by domes and palm trees

8. It has palm trees in its courtyard that make me
Yearn greatly for ample shade that moves

9. When our siesta passes, we set up camp
Shaded from the south wind and the evening star

10. With it I triumphed over fate, though fate has tricks
Against every blinded one, relaxed with wine

11. When gray hair runs through his head
He sadly waves between humbleness and camp

12. The one with arched eyebrows makes us rise
Rolling up her sleeves to serve us from the diseased

13. She undoes the seal of comfort in the light of lightning
That flashes while my robes flutter

14. Greetings repeatedly even if greetings are few
Upon that one from joy and elaborate beauty

15. I will mourn what I wasted of my youth
And complain in my old age to all who listen

16. We have, by the grace of God, a blessing from Him
That comes and goes from the hand of the trusting

17. If we renew thanking Him, He renews
For us other blessings with quick bestowal

18. And if we return, His sky returns to us
With better than its constant flow, again and again

19. So I swear it does not cease to return with bounty
Upon us, and we do not cease to have a generous Benefactor

20. The generous one of the Abbasids, you know him
And the adornment of the Abbasids in every gathering

21. When asking is renewed, he has an eloquence
Made certain by the unseen, the hope of the hopeful

22. As if the gleam of the crown above his forehead
Was upon a moon crowned with the two brightest stars

23. He removed the sanctity of Islam from every doubt
And established obvious, unambiguous justice