1. Dwelling in Wadi Al-Arak, I see you
Beautifying Wadi Al-Arak for me

2. Beautifying for me its tree trunks and its brilliance
And there was nothing like it and you in it

3. Reminding me of the days when we met in it
Doves above the branches cooing

4. And were it not for your sweet love, its memory wouldn't have pleased
My heart, but that is because of your love

5. If only you were like me, lovesick
So that our union would be my cure and your cure

6. May God protect a time that gathered us for reunion
May He always protect it and protect you

7. Do you know, O Doe of the pillows, which is sweeter for us
The bees' harvest or the delicious taste of your kiss?

8. Congratulations to your enchanting kiss when it flowed
To your lips and seized the consent of your cheeks

9. Never does one who sells himself sell at a loss
Except you when he sells himself and buys you

10. I try in my life to meet you and the best
Thing I wished for in my life is to attain you

11. You have created in my heart with love such unrest, and there is
No unrest in the worlds except you

12. By the One who clothed you in creation with beauty, be gentle
With one whom you have filled with passion and desire for you

13. When, O she of determination, after this determination
Will I see you, and O giver of glad tidings, the day I see you?

14. Oh, how is my state when determination has persisted with you
And how is my union after the length of your distance?

15. The morning after separation, I say to sorrow, be gentle
With one whom separation has climbed above his grave

16. Do not spurn him except slowly in which
When intimacy becomes difficult, your easiness is found

17. She is the sun except she is the sun of a howdah
Showing you the morning wherever its darkness covers

18. And I did not forget her the day of departure when she rang out
With a glance at the time of our parting with weeping

19. And she drew the sword of her glance as if it were
A farmer's sword drawn on the day of strife

20. A young man whom the elite vied over
And the brave of traits and nobles envied

21. And if all the people of earth were measured in worth with him
They would not equal a strap of his shoes

22. So the delegation did not leave him except bearing for them
Prizes of generosity with slackness and throwing

23. They did not go beyond while their spirits
Rose beyond all doubt

24. He blazed in the meadow of loftiness, towering without
Any pillar to its pinnacle and summit

25. When he mingles with kings you see him
The fiercest of them in logic and judgment

26. So it is inconceivable that a peer comes near him
And matches him in noble action and judgment

27. Not every fire is Moses' fire even if it soared high
Nor every star that shone is the star Sirius

28. To you Abu Sultan, it came as if it were
A gentle musk bursting with its perfume

29. Arabic rhymes whose composition has been eloquent
For they are articulate speech without any clumsiness

30. It came from a young man whose thoughts
Became eloquent to you against the unjust times

31. A prisoner of poverty who came invoking you openly
To revive him from his shackles with release

32. Long have you saved him from destruction
And were it not for you he would not leave the snare of ruin

33. He has for you from the sorcery of words wonders
That wound the hearts of lovers with yearning