1. A beauty from the Turks has come to the Arabs
With a radiant smile, by Allah what a wonder!

2. And if you wonder at this, they ravage them
With a glancing eye, while she is in seclusion

3. She came in a green dress, radiant
Named Khair, truly named Sadiq

4. Covering her with a cloak, alluring with it
Dressed in white stained with the blood of lovers

5. Her veil did not save her from a glittering smile
From a beautiful face like a full moon

6. Nor did the veil of magic block her eyelashes
Nor the braids the work of an expert wet-nurse

7. Were she to be shaded with a morning canopy
The bright star Venus would not disappear

8. The bough kisses the train of her embraced waist
A belt on Mars overflowing with delight

9. She set up the eclipsed moon as a red bonnet
Lethal to the white and twisted

10. Sending you the winds of roses and their breaths
And a cheek red as hair intertwined with gray

11. And a doe of the does of Rome protruding
From the veil with unmatched beauty

12. Her smile has never been veiled by a scarf
Nor the necklaces connected to the amulets

13. Nor did the veil pick the roses from her cheeks, nor
Did the bracelets clasp her wrists, nor move

14. Her tresses dangled at her waist playing
So she stopped them at distinguished separation

15. The half moon in the straightness of her stature
Branches of basil carrying firewood have intertwined

16. Oh longing of my eyes for a breast under her cloak
Like a planet under clouds hidden

17. Who can cure my eyelids' passion Abu
Jamil and in her cheek the heat Abu Lahab

18. Her blond beauty said clearly
Allah did not create this beauty for concealment

19. I ransom beautiful women with a soul that will not see
Instead of chastity and did not desire impropriety

20. A soul that gives patience the love instead
Of what it was given of nightingales and meadows

21. It is as if fate loves what I love so it does not
Stop befriending amidst seriousness and playing

22. Excellence from us has saddened it so it set out angrily
And there was no reason between us but him

23. But I forgave him when I saw in him
Excellence, gladdening the chests of the virtuous elite

24. Judge of judges, an imam no blame
Takes him in God, no blamer and no reproacher

25. Abu Hanifa is the Shafi`i of this time
And Malik of the superior, glory and ancestry

26. He has not composed a poem but it was said
Sister of the best brother, daughter of the best father

27. Or when he shook his pens, his battalions said
The sword is not more truthful than books

28. He revived literature so virtues crowded
In his shadow like the crowding of a fresh spring

29. Science boasts in him every hoarded pride
Pride of the banner over Indian teak

30. He has stolen greatness which now is a slave girl
Amongst his words like the seven planets

31. If he wanted the star of the horizon to rhyme
The stars would follow the rhymes of his poetry

32. So excellent is his noble chest in which combined
The presidency of Rome between merit and positions

33. Courageous in truth, serious in struggle, of noble character
His resources are sweeter than porridge

34. His words have become actions, surpassing
Their texts, clear of doubt and suspicion

35. I once heard his verse and it intoxicated me
With lawful intoxication, so leave the wine of grapes

36. A scholar no one rivals in his eloquence
Challenger of every serious contestant

37. His fingers were generous like banners in their generosity
So they sent twining pearls and gold

38. He quenched greatness with praise so it is knowing
It knew the meadows watered by rainclouds pouring

39. So wear praise as praise was not created before
And earn praise without measure

40. There has come to your door O my Lord short
Of reach, a girl of noble origin and lineage

41. She presents your traits in tender poetry envied
By the smiles of young and Arab girls

42. But she hopes for forgiveness and bounty
From you, acceptance and this is the best gain

43. I remain my Lord to your heights though I am diminished
Of noble parentage, so decide with justice unending!