1. An idol imagined in the best imagination
In beauty he has become peerless

2. Allah shaped him with wonderful beauty
That he may be a model for the houris

3. Therefore He adorned his face with subtleties
That seduced, and lined his eyes with languor

4. As if his cheek were a plate of jewels
With pearls glittering on it

5. In it form has drawn a line of elegance
Engraved from darkness into light

6. So now he who is infatuated with his love is excused
Since the cleverness of his apology has fortified him

7. The water of cheerfulness ever laughs in his face
Like the face of a harbinger of glad tidings

8. The sway of his coquetry shakes him as if
He were a rose kissing the scattered pearls

9. Whenever the coquettes see him they sigh
With envy like the sigh of a forsaken lover

10. Indeed I reckon his beauty peerless
As it is unmatched and has no peer

11. How many a lover in the courtyard of his abode
Like the bowing of Moses in the courtyard of Mount Tur

12. When he appears with his banners it is as if they
Were captives who have sighted the face of the prince