1. A bewitching eye that captivated my heart
It enchanted me, and the eyes of the doe are enchantment

2. A child of life whose concern is play, yet
Her condition for play is kohl and perfume

3. She taught me beauty letter by letter
Written in the pages of her embroidered chest

4. She came to me, nothing but her smile a cup
She gave me to drink, nothing but her saliva wine

5. She seduced me with her face, a full moon
Veiled by the night's darkness that covered me like hair

6. She spread before me a heart of passion and wrapped
Me in an embrace, so her wrap was binding and spread

7. O you who revived with her from the folds of life
My tears for her are a sparkle and drops

8. She wounded me with her glance then asked
Does the wound of passion in your heart probe?

9. No, and my cup is ever-flowing with pride
In my heart the wound of passion persists

10. Live as a new crescent rising at dawn
Hidden from the expectant eyes that cannot be detected

11. Borne by the sublime, fathered by one who
Carried him to glory in womb and back

12. Auspiciously guided by the hand of fortune in him
Bless happiness, so pure and shining white

13. And grew in the sublime a branch of his youth
Green from the sap of beauty

14. Not worn by the cloak of youth and from it
The fullness of glory and pride's attire

15. After you, o wise elders, incapacity followed
And the old of experience were outrun

16. When the arena of oratory among them
They embraced him, outdoing opponents present

17. He spoke judiciously, so they threw
And claimed excellence, preceding, so they acknowledged

18. And he told his unique prose, and they said:
Are these words from a mouth or within it a pearl?

19. His hand is not accustomed hoarding the harmful coin
To linger, though over it, it passes

20. He hated stinginess since he was a child until
His reputation from hearing is nothing in it, and settlement

21. And to this day he knows nothing but the saying
"Yes" since he uttered it, and he was a toddler

22. Ask through him the land in dignity and
In cliffs which of its towns is more settling

23. And on its face when barrenness covers it
The rain's mother waters it more generously

24. With a smile that nearly drips water of
Good tidings, if there was for people a dripping

25. And traits like a garden its blossoms plucked
By the morning breeze passing through it

26. And virtues multiplying the stars in number
Which no prose or poetry can encompass

27. So he and benevolence are spirit and body
And a cloak adorning it at the waist

28. By confiding in him secrets is kindness
And by entrusting him command is obligation

29. O brother of benevolence, and this is a call
I find benevolence in him delighted

30. That is a month, its soul blowing and it is an era
Built from thought-filled purpose for you my nation

31. No mind has birthed its equal for your equal mind
Whenever the burdens of life weighed down its steps

32. An ardent passion for you in it became lighter
Of knowledgeable essence, however long the night of anxiety lasts

33. Every night that comes has after it a dawn
And the toil of the journey passes when it

34. Comes to rest with you afterwards its refuge
Revive it! The best you have chosen as a bride

35. A daughter of the day for whom you paid consent as dowry
A sister of justification who came to the reproach seeking

36. Excuse her, for she was late coming to you