1. The tear that once disobeyed now obeys you,
So weep blood, if eyes can weep it.

2. And punish the eye with copious tears,
More deserving of punishment than one who committed a crime.

3. Long has it winked in an eyelid,
Were it not for languor, I would say the eyelids of gazelles.

4. Oh you who lived days of union in the past
Followed by the days of separation made by fate.

5. Nothing separates lovers after their union
Except like white hair falling on a youth.

6. If you tried to find solace in love
And could not bear it, then it is the sweetest love.

7. No lover is one whose heart
Seeks comfort away from his beloved.

8. A wrist with a silver bangle tomorrow
Filled inside with inserted pearls.

9. As if it is a rod of light revolving
Around it the rod of fire has revolved.

10. It has a twist from its buttocks carrying it,
Of such slimness, too weak to carry the twist.

11. And a smile whose light flashed upon us,
Lightning, but lightning does not last.

12. A garden, its cover is its modesty,
A rose flower concealing itself with glances.

13. And killing eyelashes in her glances,
Not fearing being led on a leash or harm.

14. If she looked at her likeness in others,
Her appearance would clothe them in poverty.

15. Delicate, you would think when it appears,
A shining crescent carrying the full moon.

16. It brings together for the onlooker in its sight,
If it appears, the color of dawn and evening.

17. Two opposites met only in what
Mankind has reached of prosperity and bliss.

18. Her eyelids make betrayal of us seem good,
As if betrayal itself were loyalty among people.

19. Her attributes have stamped on our minds,
As if she were of the people of the heavens, not the earth.

20. I changed my heart for another, and so
She disturbed me between does and grazing wildlife.

21. Bearing the burdens of love exerting effort,
Yet weak in patience, exhausted in strength.

22. If I do not remain except with misfortune,
Remaining has no merit over perishing.

23. Every day I am between a betrayer
And one who hurries the cups of calamity.

24. O fate, between us is a vengeance you seek
To accomplish through me or shed blood.

25. In you there is no place for rebuke,
Hoping for success, except through praise and raving.

26. I complain to you of some of what I faced from you,
But does complaining benefit one who complained?

27. Whenever you deserted a clear time
Of my life, you made turbid what was clear.

28. You take from my most beloved friends,
The most devoted and faithful when loyalty was rare.

29. The darkest in my eyes was what was most shining,
None shined after al-Husayn bin Dhi Yazan.

30. Civility and glory died in his death,
Eloquence perished and restrained itself.

31. His pigeons swooped down on his intestines,
If only they knew his worth they would not have swooped.

32. I winked my eye, O fate, because of him
So I do not wink except from annoyance.

33. What consolation after him, but rather
Our consolation was for whom we lost.

34. How many excellent men under the soil, their merit
Upon mankind cannot be counted like the soil.

35. He passed away but his deeds left his remembrance,
Better than what he left was leaving a good reputation.

36. And for one who points the way of generosity,
It was a guide to those of his tribe.

37. Go on in the auspices of virtuous Saʿd,
One who was guided to him from guidance.