1. For one whose abode became desolate without your wellbeing
Whose tears flowed down like heavy rain

2. Lamenting the melody of your necklace
I stood at the brink of passion and revived my fervor

3. I stayed to dry my overflowing eyelids and scatter them
After our last meeting, I saw nothing of you but your trail

4. A dwelling of a beloved whose songs have abandoned me
Whose paths are miles away from our rendezvous

5. A beloved who lingered in estrangement and exceeded in separation
An Arabian beauty with languid eyes

6.
Sweeter than wine is an affectionate glance from him

7. A gazelle, if he grazes, our hearts are forever his pasture
I sought his affection, but he turned away from me in disdain

8. So blessed is he who faces injustice from his beloved
He estranges me, so I seek him, he distances me, so I draw near

9. I tell those who blame me, he has pained me with his tribulation
He renews my passion and thinks it weakens me

10. He sings to me of longings that do not delight him

11. Calm yourself in blame, for my hearing is not attentive
Leave a young man whose passion cannot be deterred

12. How strange is one who blames an amorous heart that remains devoted
He has no advice for one who guides him

13. There he differs from his valley
Another valley than his

14. A place where tears flowed and lamented his sorrows
Sweet and bitter, laughing yet crying

15. When the morning breeze blows on his cheeks, his isolation disperses
Rivaling the generosity of reddish camels in their vigor

16. A sovereign in the sky of glory, none can compete
Not like Ka’b ibn Mamah in his generosity

17. None in the arena of virtues rivals Ibn Dhi Yazan
He surpasses in rank Harithah and Hani

18. Huzayr’s thickets were but his summits
Badr is guidance, and his miracles but his streams

19. He throws his enemies into a tumultuous sea, wrecking them on land
And a sea crashes by divine decree into its valleys

20. Throwing the lions with their claws into it
O you whom his enemies attested to his pride

21. And whom his grace made attest to his present and absent
You gained praise for your merit above the rank of his disciples

22. And you are the youth who aspired in the valley of his meanings
A firm ode like a precious pearl, harmonious in meter and rhyme