1. When Asma reached the limit of our rope, thanks
And if the inevitable separation which we did not want was destined

2. When a sigh escapes due to their separation
Its excuse cannot be but that the chest is straitened

3. My share of your love is a young woman
Who makes the bones joyful but does not make them flourish

4. And beneath my ribs due to passion for you are birds
Burnt, in every wing embers

5. And your eyes have glanced at my eyes, no speck
Reached them from your eyes, but magic

6. Connection has made me drink confusion straight, so it could not
Reach what estrangement made my anklets suffer

7. And leftover youth in advanced old age
Overpowered, the setting of the day makes its months many

8. And not free is the one who went or tomorrow
Bargains the pleasures and old age has power over him

9. The two times gore me with their hopes
One sets me free and the other ties me up

10. Goods from time that took away my seriousness
And the greatest sin of time is that it lets one enjoy time

11. I have covered over the world, and if I wished it would not have been
For its faults from one with insight a cover

12. And I have fooled my opinion, life is but a deception
For your opinion soliciting ignorance or intoxication

13. And I have not ceased since I despaired of ease toward she
For whom it is wanted until ease is substituted

14. When the young man becomes self-sufficient and does not give himself
A self rises through self-sufficiency so self-sufficiency is poverty

15. And some of the people's wealth is grieved for
When the full hand rivals the empty hand

16. The crimes of the misguided have worried my wealth
So there is no more collecting and no abundance

17. And they claimed Egypt treasures from wealth
So how has it lamented me to non-existence O Egypt!

18. The gilded ones will mend my brokenness, indeed they
With them beauty is warded off and brokenness is repaired

19. So do not take what they attain by hand
Nor inquire into what they obtain without thanks

20. Noble in bestowal, freshness is gained for
Their youth wherever freshness of life is gained

21. When they pull in pursuits and outbid
The poetry boasts what it contains regarding them

22. It rewards rhymes with hands releasing
Its duplicates in each one ten

23. They went while their sides were fragrant, their land
Is aromatic with the scent of praise that perfume cannot equal

24. And none have shaded the people like Omar
When people forget, his mention spreads

25. Avoiding their nobles for elevation and seeking it
With effort, and marry wherever dawn has reached you

26. So you have no part in graying Eagle Heights
Nor skulls whose greatness is senility

27. And Rabee'a has claimed pride that Sa'a
Sought her from other than Bakr bin Wael

28. And the nobler of the two Bakrs is not one who does not have
A beloved father the day they vie, or Amr

29. And Ismail carries for us the son of Bulbul
From the abode a burden Mount Qatr cannot carry

30. With abundant rain you would say she has learned
The rain's hand from it or the sea has made it overflow

31. And how much the Green spread Ahmad to a point
Of glory no green can keep pace with

32. The achievements, time is more barren than them
More sterile, and the earth's back from its like a wasteland

33. Staying on a path of clear generosity
While we are heading to all its reaches travel

34. He brings us the objects of needs intending
Far away places and its horizon upon remoteness

35. Luminous, ease takes the place of his smiles
And there is no doubt that frowning is hardship

36. And if goodwill were guaranteed extended in a page
It would nearly be its title: good news

37. A young man who wants abundance only as a provision
For an exploit it undertakes or a lover it cures

38. And most of them love affiliation so it may be seen
For him in what occurs from a nature an excuse

39. Spring you wish for it O Rabee'a for wealth
And Bakr vies early answering its gates

40. O Abu Amer indeed supremacies and its people
Love, love that age be long for you

41. When you come ones who dazzle all creation
It is no innovation from your supremacy nor unfamiliarity

42. And it has not ceased to have from his forefathers
For him stars in the ceiling of their loftiness shining

43. And ones who Abu Saqr aspired high
To them just as the Falcon cleared its hunt

44. The lowly exceeds it, not bending to it
With care, and the brilliant star inclines toward it

45. When you come them or are called to its like
It is not from your Bakr bin Wael, O Bakr

46. When we requite you for a good deed
We disdain shortcoming from us and disbelief

47. With an engraved engraving, the dinars' engraving selected
For it speech, chosen just as choice musk is selected

48. It stays facing the wind, for it a vanguard
And its departure a month and its blowing a month

49. It fulfills the benefactors' debts and gains
For them from remaining ruins what pride missed them