1. Stop and greet the melodies of the one with the ladder
And kiss the verses from it and receive

2. And ask the caravan about it, inquiring
About the house of India, Rabab and Hathm

3. How much blood we have drawn for a long time
The wonders of which are unravelled over and over again

4. And how much did I flirt in its plains
A flirtation between those tents

5. Where Sa'da is happy with pleasure
And Umm Ayman is the result of my union

6. Thus time about us is sleeping
Settled while we did not sleep

7. And you see our days sunny
Its light not darkened by the clouds' cloudiness

8. And the nights of our fortune are moonlit
Praised in it with the beauties of darkness

9. Oh that life, how sweet it is
Seasoned, it was for those who tasted it

10. And singing in the gatherings
And the breeze in it has blown

11. And the dew in the garden like pearls and buds
A garden in blossoms smiling

12. Chant rhymed prose and inspire in lovesickness
Embers and affection kindled and blazed

13. Oh blame me, if you knew love through
The eye of reason you would not blame me

14. You blamed me in my love of Sa’da but it is in
My doctrine a duty and obligation which adhered

15. Leave me alone and the sickness from it, I
Can see the pleasures in that sickness

16. A visitor who has never united with me
A connection except it sprouted, was cut off, and disintegrated

17. Large-buttocked, her coat contains
A bough of acacia above a propped up pole

18. A bough of acacia hanging over it
A moon over which the night darkened

19. An idol, if it appeared to me I would say
Too glorious this beauty over the idol's beauty

20. Her anklet complains of her leg
When it was narrowed on it and rubbed

21. She uncovered her veil from her face
So the beauty appeared apart from the idol’s beauty

22. Slender limbs whose dress flows over
A narrow waist it hugs from her and is grouped together

23. And if she shook my hand, she shook
With fingers like the ends of spears

24. And if she smiles, I would say a
Pearl appeared in her mouth aligned

25. In her glance, a mole, in her amorous glance
A houri that sniffs shows through

26. Pitiful for her saliva the soul kisses it through her veil
I have not seen the likes beneath the veil

27. Thirsty in thirst I have wished to
A sip of her sweet, dewy saliva

28. Oh destitute one, do not covet
Fat you assume while it is a cyst

29. And seek the face of a virtuous man you wrap
In an sea of generosity turbulent

30. A king who ruled the world as a child and
No blemishes sprouted above his cheeks

31. And he surrounded the kingdom and realm with
Sword, spear, the two-edged, and the pen

32. So he is the source of guidance in his rule
And he is a gag for whoever in it was audacious

33. He did not cease to have for the supplicant in his palm
And for he who angers him, honey and poison

34. How many intentions for the delegation have come from his layers
Blood shed that would shame the shedding blood

35. And the supplicant has benefited from his wealth
Bounties, perfect after bounties

36. No destitute person has come to him supplicating
Except he became devoid of destitution

37. His ambition was certain that praise
Is the best crop and most blessed profitable thing

38. The people are safe from enemies in his rule
Like the safety of birds in the sanctuaries inviolable

39. Oh eminent one who has ascended
In his grandeur, through it ambitions bowed down low

40. I am in my family lovelorn
For you apart from my family and shyness

41. So enliven me from my woes through which
I have become between fears and ambitions

42. And know that if you let me down
You would become in letting down flesh in a bone bag