1. Stop the greetings in Al-Karkh, about the youth being reproached
With a sweet morning breeze and sweetness

2. Shaded by those palaces, their shade perfumed
By the morning breeze and their doors

3. A gazelle, but raised in refinement
Can gazelles be raised except in the dunes?

4. By God, I don’t know if his clothes
Were dyed by the sun or the sun was dyed by his clothes

5. The vigor of youth fell in love with him
The edges of his teeth shining white

6. If the Christians saw the fire of his cheek
They would light their church bells and crosses

7. His saliva intoxicates me
Like the morals of Abul Hadi, its goodness recited about him

8. A young man whose every pride, if we look at his goblets
We find its elevation and guardian for him

9. People see him as the lantern of his requests
A beloved when the time of speech arrives, its speaker

10. We chose the good fortune to fall in love
Feathers that will weigh down the burdens of his nobility

11. I swore by her hands I will visit her
At Al-Karkh, clear are its evenings and clouds

12. If we pitched a tent away from it by a quarter
I would forgive the days of time for their sins