1. Tears whose pouring is fateful
Renewing from days of passion gone by

2. We stopped and bid farewell to your folks
Lands with clear landmarks

3. We recalled platonic love therein forgetting
The grief that binds errant hearts

4. We shed our excuse for tears and they came
Blaming and craving every companion and friend

5. Are you the abode of life, O meadow
Graceful or home of leisure and bliss

6. Or is this herd of deer I see
Before you a herd of elegant does

7. Our tears which shower you did they
Or gushing rain overwhelm you

8. Were our days with you that have aged
With union or fantasies of a sleepy conscience

9. Verily ruin scattered dictated
You by fate and decrees of judges are final

10. May nights gain some cheer
And reunite passionate love now asunder

11. Leaves called each other weeping conjuring
An affliction for me amid thorns and resolute men

12. I reached their elegy yet my tears
I cried for my grief not the mourning of doves

13. With hooting owl, eagle and midst them
The groan of thirsty camels wailing in solitude

14. I imposed on her while night donned the meadow
In a black smoking dark garment

15. Like a ball the cudgels are thrown if they
Stray toward a king by a ferocious lion

16. More beautiful than a sandgrouse his shirt
Bestowed upon old Zaid and Hatim

17. Clemency and courage when combined
In accumulating clouds like violent thunder

18. A reckless gambler tossed in frays
By him a mountain of dense clashing troops

19. If turmoil intensifies he braces himself
With patience amid charging predators and vultures

20. The son of Hamid shall gain praise tomorrow wealth
And know that praise is the best spoils

21. Upholder of opinion none imports resolution
Then strikes his chest with regretting blades

22. His intimates in complex affairs are evident
Insights of purpose like guidable stars

23. Serious events are met by him and recoil
To his blazing insights and unwavering resolves

24. Ally of glory resides in abode sublime
Lofty in lineage and pillars sublime

25. No ordeal intensifies but that Hamid
Of the generous Hamids brings ease

26. This house stands on Taghlib’s glory
Though the house belongs to Hashim rule

27. Lions death itself flees their awe
When all valiant swordsmen retreat

28. Their death place is heights and burial grounds The gathering place of soaring eagles
Abu Muslim if your honor is safe

29. Then your wealth from your stakes is not
If war turns to night you return it

30. To day with the flashing decided blades
When lives become costly you lower their price

31. Right there in a death market bustling
With a strike building glory at every battle station

32. And quick to destroy mud bricks and skulls
Diverting white faced turn them bright glowing

33. With faces of turmoil dust smeared and gloomy
By the One who prides Himself with you choosing you

34. Your feats are but for the sublime and benevolent