1. Happiness has appeared, though its rope has become worn,
And separation has created in me longing and sleeplessness.

2. My good fortune and my abandonment have gathered,
When it saw that today my head has become white-haired.

3. Days used to be bright for us instead of cold and monotonous,
Their taste by night seemed to be perfumed.

4. And the cheek of a weaver girl reciting her spindles
With the soft, pliant ogamy and whatever is pleasant.

5. And the eye of a wild animal that fell asleep but was kept awake
By the sound of wolves, so she came hurrying towards them.

6. A gazelle like a ram of shifting sands, its lower part
Covered with the beauty of decoration and long robes.

7. She inclines languidly on the litter with braided tresses
That give off perfume when she moves them.

8. A doe, restless, brisk, plump, fleshy,
That was saturated as if with liquid pearls.

9. And a roving, fleeing, barren hyena whose
Watering places I have burdened an old she-ass with.

10. It neighs to awaken the nomads with a sound like thunder, connected,
Supported above it with a door.

11. As if its saddle and its pillow and its cloak
Were black adornments upon the cheeks.

12. I diverted it with a shower and a downpour towards a rider
Upon it whose mouth was concealed with the headcloth.

13. And it spent the night in a howdah it sought refuge in
While the litter pole flowed over its back pouring down.

14. The lightning flashed from a heavy laden cloud,
Its zigzag seemed like a star in the horizon.

15. Until when the horn of the sun shone or it grew large,
It felt some great heat at dawn snarling.

16. So it began snorting, trotting briskly, kicking,
With necklaces on its chest it shook off and scattered.

17. Some boys whose livelihood was raiding those wild cows
For they were bound to poverty and misery for lifetimes.

18. So it surrendered, not ceasing its pace out of panic,
You could see the certainty of fear in its retreat.

19. And they are connected, all of them branded,
They seemed to be worn out with branding.

20. For a moment it resists not ceasing its pursuit
Until when its intellect, after passion, returns.

21. So the one with a spear that protects its owner
When it turns to confront them, wards it off and drives it away.

22. When I saw a vulgar, impudent time
In which the heads of the people had become tails.

23. I set my mind on the best youth of all the people,
Those present and absent I intended him as witness.

24. When Iyas saw me in poverty,
With little money and a worn-out saddle blanket.

25. He lodged me with the hospitality of a generous man, then he equipped me
On the day I bid farewell to my companions.

26. With a horse like high ground horses whose plains,
No virgins are called to but blood.

27. And the man is like a meadow adorned
With autumn plants though it had been barren before.

28. May God reward Iyas with the best of His blessings
As He rewarded Noah after he grew old.

29. In his ship when He commanded him to build it
And he kept gathering boards and doors.