1. The tavern keeper said to the happy one, “Let us meet and drink what the cupbearer pours.”
The dawn is pleasant so let us start the morning, and give me a drink. She is the sister of the beloved, whose lips are thieves.

2. A red one who heals the heart of every love-struck one. Not with his flowing tears is there healing.
Rise and bring her, and leave the treacherous times. A sun revolving with her at the water-wheels’ cycle.

3. And string on the goblets a necklace of her lips. At dawn take my mind as her dowry.
She came and brought about joys in abundance. With her flavor and breath.

4. One who revealed a leg established my resurrection. The resurrection is the day legs are revealed.
She seduced hearts when she girded her waist. From lovers’ eyes what gazing!

5. Iraq sang, so the morning breeze shook its branches. And I yearned toward every Iraq.
Sprinklings that forbid the sleep of a love-struck youth. How can the blood of lovers be lawful for him?

6. I ransom her if she shook her hips and rang her anklets. From the slander of a malicious backbiter.
She toyed with me last night with the roses of her cheek. When she saw it overflowing from my cup.

7. She reveals a pearl so I weep like it. By God the glances’ flowing from a thief!
I yearned for her while she resided in my entrails. And I refused, from her, the agony of longing.

8. O you who plunders the innards is there any mercy? Or ceaseless love or pity for me?
Is it a mole on your cheek or blackened hearts fearing fires?

9. I once had a liver that stood from passion. So I gifted it to her the day we met.
And I kept a heart I had prepared. For misfortunes but it was lost the day we parted.

10. O you, by love intercede regarding ardors. Is there a sprinkling from your dewy lips?
A pearl on your cheek or necklaces braided. From his wavy lifetime hair, Abdel Baaqi?

11. The unique poet who gifted us. Pearls of seas composed in papers.
An ink that when it shakes the pen arrogantly. Stains every polished smooth pen.

12. If clouds came challenging him to a contest. They would retreat in shame headless.
His excellent innovations arranged virtues. The peak of eloquence in cycles.

13. From every shining forehead its virtues. Tightened its rhymes most strongly.
He combined eloquence and rhetoric. As integrity is combined with good morals.

14. It is as if the delicate meaning and its composition. Came paired by covenant.
When meanings secretly stole blossoms. Words submitted to them in theft.

15. A master for him is sublime literature and its superiority. Reached the heights continually ascending.
A favor by which the curved and flat leveled. A justice the dishonest came with equivalency.

16. Glory at its extent became old for him. And the path of glory belongs to him in entitlement.
O noble one who obtained praise. By his widely known superiority.

17. You are congratulated for what you attained an elevation. And for it congratulations to an outstanding noble!
Fate was generous matching wisdom most high. Though they had been of different congruity.

18. So submit to it in the shade of a most generous glory. For life all the highly esteemed vie.
The son of loftiness, pride, he is its ally. And master of its generous deeds absolutely.

19. The most faithful, even minister judicious. He did not fear injustice or confrontation.
His generous hands gave like. The slim and quivering thighs gave.

20. A rain you own palms, and in turmoil. A lion owning the towering necks.
Wisdom, right opinion, and good qualities. Explicitly without interrogation.

21. O excellent abode of peace, its justice. And beauty have spent the night in embrace.
Its shelters prospered with the most truthful justice. For luck and good its trusted equivalent.

22. A moon in its crescent appointed Mercury. So they conformed in glory what conformation!
May it last for him, most gentle. For his most high right hand without grasping.

23. However much I exaggerate in praising him. I do not reach the lowest bound of exaggeration.
And to you, O full moon of praise, I came. With the elegance of a poem from a love-struck youth.

24. A hearing love appeared and ears fell in love. Before eyes fell in love.
It is a fruit that came to a lap though. It mimics the pearl in brilliance.

25. It bestows praise and felicitations. Excellent bestowal and you are excellent company.