1. Alive beneath the dew I lit up the night
And made the beastly darkness bright as day

2. And hugged, like two inflamed lovers, a slender waist
That would not reveal her dress except as fresh and blooming

3. And I sipped, like a sip of wine, the saliva of a leg
That had left rings from which I could ascertain

4. Magic visited us by night and spread out logs
With crisscrossed lines that scented the daybreak

5. And it uncovered for me flesh the color of rose so
I thought a goldsmith had melted gold for me

6. No sooner did the cup’s side shine
Than my ardent heart said: “I can see a fire!”

7. My boon companion, give it to me pure
Sister of your cheek in softness and blush

8. Present it; it frees souls from captivity
Just as it leaves minds captive

9. Through it, O son of the goblet’s intoxication, pay
My burning longing for I have fallen ill from waiting

10. Andgrace my hearing with tones from me
That stir up the strings of the lute

11. Sing to me a delicate name I held
In the shadows of bliss, chaste and virginal

12. And the birds’ warbling that stole into my eyes
And from which an eyelid, burning, tasted heat

13. He visited in secret, though blocking the way in public
So he showed me the stars in my daylight

14. How I indulged from his sweet kissing
On a garden and his two sides, perfume

15. In gardens where brides of flowers
Were uncovered, with dew descending on them like rain

16. The drops of rain had clothed them in brocade
And I had tailored and lit up their weaving

17. Whenever its light tickled a bud
The hands of the morning uncovered it of buttons

18. A robe of the splendor of a wealthy wedding
Its beauty being pure, nothing borrowed

19. Majid, the sublime eyed favorably upon him
And through his good fortune rejoiced jubilantly

20. And the wealthy one whose pride it brought out in him
Like a planet wandering its skies

21. His wedding had left the enviers drunk with worries
And they were not drunk or worrying

22. And at the orb of the circlet of glory swaggering
The orbit of good fortune shone brightly

23. That Chosen One who if the heights ran a race
It would be said: “He outruns and has no contender”

24. Of refined nature, graceful in form and ethics
And immaculate in quality,good in pedigree

25. He protected the coast of the sublime in an age
With none other protecting its multitudes

26. Through him aspirations upon the days stretched out
Ambitions that scorn peril as trivial

27. His house being pilgrims’ Sacred House, protecting
For all time coming the people seeking sanctuary

28. They are people whose mention assists me when traveling
The deserts from early days and caves

29. They prolonged the life of generosity and made
Appointments seem so short

30. All of them belonging to the pride of glory
An honor that produced nobility and pride

31. Those moons of auspiciousness,rather suns
Born in the lofty sky’s orbit, as moons

32. So when they adorned the sky with my father
The guide, it shone hoping for pride

33. The earth saw itself illuminated by a face
That seemed beautiful, with nothing like it giving light before

34. It called out: “O elevating guide of the thickets’ bending branches,
lower your worth before the beautiful visage

35. You are nothing but ransom for a generous face
Who is not content with the houses of the sun as residence

36. Possessor of a right hand open in generosity
From which the loyal have shares that suffice”

37. Many noble spirits throughout time
Were thus delivered from the shackles of mankind

38. An advisor—and does a council or session find
Someone like him to advise?

39. He frustrated the hopes of those who weave fine phrases
And provoked the guest’s fire to flame

40. I do not know, if an orator were to speak
Words of conclusive eloquence, prohibiting debate

41. Does the assembly’s chest expand from his approval
Or did he occupy it, establishing dignity?

42. A group of people tested the heat of poetry so he came to be
A reality that sees no horizon to soar to

43. And he sprinkled it, so it fluttered with its wings
Yearning and soaring to its heights

44. O kin of the Chosen One, desist from gazing
At glory among you degrading the auspicious

45. Sublimity, it demeans it if you spend
Pure enjoyment upon its seasons

46. The quarter of bounties was emboldened by glory
That you populate its lands from it

47. You were sufficed from the raid of stinginess when
You resolutely stood up wearing the attire of champions

48. Without you, it would have shed the blood of generosity
And said: “It grew weak, so away with you tyrant”

49. The meadow of bliss for you bloomed, so we picked
For you congratulations from it and fruit

50. We forgave the sin of time and said
“We have found you sound, O limping time”

51. We visited the intellect’s bride, so she danced
Joyously to the melody, undoing her cloak

52. Your fragrant musk permeates me, reminding me
However much it secretly perfumes you

53. If it unveiled charming eyes from the words’ brides
Sublimity sends them to you as virgins

54. It angers the envious, it did not unveil except
The people of perfection rejoiced through it even more

55. It came to often stand up in appreciation
Of it while the envious showed their buried decay

56. Whenever it was declaimed, glory called out:
“Arise!” except the envious gesture

57. So remain cheerful in an age that through you
Boasts over all other ages