1. He saw the flash of ruby dawn emerge
A young man, so he wept copiously.

2. And he attained from Najd's youth a sun
Whose gentle breath was very clear.

3. A lover, if the beloved is not mentioned,
Cannot help but moan plaintively.

4. He tossed in passion back and forth
On the hot coals, so he forgave and rested.

5. His fervor was helped by eyes
That carried swords as armament.

6. And his tricks were torn apart as plunder
By archers who shook their spears at lovers.

7. With his heart he went to Yemen and Syria
While cheeks drew the morning with twilight.

8. Your love makes wishes his excuse
So the wound of his passion brings wounds.

9. And strangely with it he flies to you
Spreading wings on his sides.

10. Oh dwellers in the depths of my heart
Who made it permitted for them.

11. Stop tormenting me with abandonment, for I
Choke on drinking bitter water.

12. And insistence's artful drunkenness
Muddles one's mind when it toys.

13. So strange are its breaths of wine
Granting generosity to each miser.

14. It gives speech to the silent
And the eloquent's knot silences Arabs.

15. With the diction of rhetoric from meanings
We see its essence is the genuine.

16. And in passion we take step by step
Crying in its regions the crying.

17. Arts that dispel gloom from us
And fix tranquility in our hearts.

18. They teach us to crave a people
Whose spearpoint lightens the heavy lions.

19. They have delighted our eyes so they shone
Meanings we spread in the universe diffusely.

20. When their wit was recited to us
We drank it and words became rest.

21. God's peace on them in the evening
Etching the cool of their place in the morning.