1. Neither because you persist in abandoning me,
Nor because you increasingly mention me,

2. Come, tell me, what is your issue with me, if
I have become totally devoted to it?

3. Lord of a tongue whose mouth is twisted,
Specializing in complaining rather than gratitude,

4. Tears he poured down on my cheeks
Copied what I had inscribed in my heart,

5. He blamed me for it and I let it flow
While the blame lies with the flowing stream, not the diverter,

6. Like the habit of eyelids that
Banded together, bearing my burden,

7. Mostly between me and passion
Is what lies between sparks and glances,

8. I knew you from where I made a pact with you
You knew nothing but betrayal,

9. So why when I vowed my blood
Did you become the least bound by vows?

10. O tavern keeper, get up
And unlock the door for the spinster,

11. The company between us has lasted long
And it is shameful in private,

12. So it moved from him to a white one
That healed and healed our thirst,

13. The red in the white even though we
Doubt the white is in the red,

14. Then we called to each other and circled it
Although we had agreed on patience,

15. So she nodded, either to expiate
Our oath, or to break it,

16. How much it gathered us where we rarely meet
And how much it separated us where we do not know,

17. Until fasting came upon youths
Who did not distinguish fasting from breakfast,

18. So remember me, urgently
More pressing than the sanctity of the month,

19. And an event that occurred in himself
The talk of one with fangs and claws,

20. Until when he became upset and intense
In his tyranny and firm in my affair,

21. And I said, when my steps fell short,
He reached me, and youth reached him,

22. So he started appealing to me through him
Oh destiny and how it flows!

23. Yesterday I sought vengeance on fate
Today I incline it toward fate,

24. As if this bowing intercessor
Was not that angry rebel,

25. Indeed I changed against the one
Who demanded breaking and mending from him,

26. And all this while he deems it good
And relishes this continuation from me,

27. Characters who give hope to one who did not find
In mortals what mortals possess,

28. And the red resolves the color of depravity
Hidden in the green traits,

29. He is not cunning but
He repels cunning with cunning,

30. I found Abdullah in his generosity
Veiling what is not worth veiling,

31. He glows and hides us while the glow
Is a good caller of nomad and sedentary,

32. Generosity is no stinginess to be covered
Nor a disclaimer placed on it,

33. If the night could, with its length
And terror, turn back dawn,

34. Give us composure, so who is it
That would return journeys along with travel?

35. Your gifts came folded
While I had nothing but unfolding,

36. Paired with apology, I indeed fall short
So you deserve apology more than me,

37. I find every inquirer about you
Abu Al Qasim, well-informed,

38. He knows what I know but
He likes your mention in my poetry,

39. As if I am one firm upon
A burning ember, heating up the coals,

40. Does the eminent Khattab know that I
Am her agent in requesting the dowry?

41. While the wealthy and the poor are equal to me
If poverty does not enrich the poor.