1. O you who showed us perdition through separation
When the saddles set out with it as luggage

2. O Reem, a charming gazelle, there has never been
Amongst us on the day your fire bid farewell, any minds

3. This, your separation, we have come to know its state
So when will we have the existence of meeting you

4. So turn to bid us farewell before
The souls lose consciousness behind your riding beasts

5. And remove the veil, perhaps the secret of its glance
Would pasture meadows from the meadows of your beauty

6. And if the distance becomes long between
My house at the cemetery and your house

7. And remember my addressing you and what transpired
Between me and you the morning of your farewell

8. And ask, when the traveling bands pass by
About my state, for I ask about your state

9. With the arrows of your hurting eyes
And your rosy cheeked apple

10. Life is only sweet for me when
You grace me with your company

11. And I see your coldness to me like a blaze
Just as I see Paradise in your pleasure

12. What would harm you if you joined a lover
Who wakes and sleeps absorbed in passion for you?

13. My devotion is to the religions of youth madness
I have prospered through your face in passion, blessed

14. And in ignorance I prostrate, bowing down
I shade them if the journey becomes difficult, your riding animals

15. They carried secrets the elite kept confidential when
From Al Ajaj they loaded the bundles and pushed them

16. They did not aim with what they carried of glory
Except for the outstanding boy, the crowned king

17. A king unique in pride and there has not been
Anyone sharing his generous traits

18. And he climbed ranks in pride and trailing
Were the ranks’ falling stars, scattered or interwoven

19. He loves the daughters of glorious deeds, but others
Love Buthaina, Rabab and your sister

20. He walked the path of righteousness to praise
Quenching his thirst along the way to praise

21. And whenever there was freshness to praise, it was only
In his courtyard, settled, blessing it

22. He protected the kingdoms and indeed transcended
The people of kingdoms, in might and kingdoms

23. Pride of a people amongst mankind and a descendant
The sultan came to possess, possessing kingdoms

24. He sent the steeds to battle and remained in
The enemies’ land, with battles and contests

25. And at dawn he destroyed them with brigades
At dawn in the meadows, destroyed, vanquished

26. Until the land of the rebels was filled with coats of mail
And swords and piercing blades and lances

27. With brigades in which were lions dressed
On the day of struggle, in armor and neck guards

28. And to you from poetry, rhyming verse
Harmonized, with no like substitutes

29. They are the brides who have picked beloveds
For you, plucking them without any others to choose