1. My beloved's abode was watered without harm by pouring rain,
The clouds of life from four sides and long lengths.

2. It watered her even if it did not ignite a fire in my inner self,
And she did not love me with the coolness of my passion.

3. The hands of time wove for it clothes,
The weaving of youth, stayed by the palm of acceptance.

4. And if the state of the abode changed from what I knew it to be,
Then the passion for the abode does not change.

5. For the abode was a companion during my nights,
And the branch of bonheur, flowing, not withering.

6. And the valley of intimacy was, by God, populated,
And the open country of intimacy had not been startled by departure.

7. My friend, passion and longing have revolted in me
With a gleaming sword of bright white.

8. The lightning of its brightness appeared from it as if it were
Rays of beauty on a beautiful forehead.

9. So urge on the steeds of earnestness with passion and cut through
Ten miles with those steeds in the span of a mile.

10. And that mile, perhaps with those steeds,
It will rest in the shade in Damascus the shady.

11. For in it are resplendent doves, gentle birds,
That have seized our souls and minds.

12. And in the green meadow is a white innocence,
And a redness of cheek, graceful and delicate.

13. With languid eyelids from the magic of her glance
And the waning of eyelashes with kohl.

14. A free face, veiled in beauty,
A captive of beauty, little in grace.

15. Her wrists are fettered with bracelets
And her feet are shackled with anklets.

16. From the Babylonians are the eyelids, and their magic
Is the arrows given to the heart of the noble one.

17. So if she promises to shoot arrows from her eyelids,
Then her promise to shoot is not long.

18. And if she promises to kill with the sword of her glance,
Then how many are the slain you see and the killed!

19. In her mouth is the wine of saliva and sweetness,
And in her intoxicating glance, the most aromatic inclusion.

20. Protected by the night patrols or white spear shafts,
They prevent the unwanted, but do not prevent welcome guests.

21. She has the ferocity of lions in her inner self,
And the glance of a gazelle in the meadows, timid.

22. So I said to her, for you I have wasted away in love,
Do your eyes not see my emaciation and leanness?

23. Why do I treat a heart torn by youth?
What remedy is there for one sick from the sickness?

24. And how can I seek healing in her delicate waist?
What lean one can be healed by one who is lean?

25. And the night I divorced worries and estranged them
Due to the heedlessness of the critic and the error of the censurers,

26. I came to the protected precincts of my nights, the eagle a dress,
The cross of the votive place in the coolness of evening,

27. I enter the threshing floors of death without her life,
So if I come back stained, I become stained.

28. And from a charging lion, and another visitor,
And from a crouching wolf, and a howling jackal.

29. And I did not forget her words to me during my long life,
When in the sanctuary she saw me enter.

30. Slow down! You have given yourself up to perdition,
And now you have done the deed of the ignorant.

31. And a horseman of dignity does not do the likes of this,
And for him in this there is no reaching the goal.

32. So how will it be if before killing you they overcome you
With the strongest argument and proof?

33. And they rode the racecourse of debate in discussion
And cast you into ample, prolonged research?

34. So I said to her, gently, my dear,
Slow down, my dear, and listen to what you say.

35. For I do not fear death, for I was a lover
By the stab of a lance or descent of a spearhead.

36. And should I dread in research rejection and opponent
When I have a support like the eminent Imam?

37. My brother of virtue, the sea of knowledge, the lofty place of sciences,
With few peers, rather without equal.

38. Brother to Nu'man - and he is Muhammad -
The Imam of the branches of jurisprudence and then legal theory.

39. He is the worshipper ascetic, and he is the son of a worshipper
Of pure ancestry, generous origin.

40. The inquiry attained its happiness through him
And attained through him the verification, pulling the trains.

41. So he clarified obscure problems, explaining,
And directed them rightly with a beautiful manner.

42. He prepared for inquiry from the time of youth,
And how he surpasses many a shaykh, though he is young!

43. And to him bowed the hearts of prominent experts,
Nobles, elite, distinguished men.

44. He is the scholar who reasons, the formidable one who
Has the excellence of mastery and excellence of speech.

45. So the meaning of God's Book is the theme of his imagination
As is the Sunna of the best of creation, the best Messenger.

46. Thus there is nothing except that he establishes its proof,
Whether by evidence of the intellect or transmission.

47. God has given him few equals, rare ones like him,
While the likes of others besides him in the world are not few.

48. Outstanding in virtuous character and conduct that calls
To a beautiful welcoming and receptivity.

49. Eloquent, the finest rhetoric being his habit,
And this has proven him to have eloquence that was said.

50. With the magic of articulation, adorned with rhetorical embellishment,
So how he captivates minds and understandings!

51. And he rendered the clouds of eloquence lightning
That flashes amidst the garb of confusion.

52. And he journeyed beyond reach, so that if he went too far,
He would say the words are the essence of what is said.

53. And the wild mares of rhyme submitted to him obediently,
So for him the difficult is not formidable.

54. But he chose none but their love poems,
For meanings without possessors of tents.

55. And he mounted them, of them, lively colts
Chaste fillies without any fight.

56. Lovely gazelles with beauty rare,
With a coquettish eyelash, even delicate and thin.

57. And he dressed them in a necklace of pearls and gems
And adorned the excellent of them after prolonged effort.

58. Brother of the lofty rank and most glorious one who
Is served by the elite without wearying.

59. And he alighted on the steed of nobility when he straightened up
And since he straightened there is none like him.

60. Father of honor, sun of glory, full moon of the eminent,
He attained the most fragrant alighting places among the eminent.

61. And he who dwells in his shadow appears honored
Living for ages without humiliation.

62. Brother of gentleness, in softness and excellence of conduct,
And he who is not hasty or impetuous.

63. Of fresh bounty, seal of generosity, his meaning,
And he who in extravagance is the best miser.

64. So O Master whom righteous conduct has perfumed
With a praiseworthy reputation among all people.

65. To you, brother of etiquette, chastely an orphan comes
And you for her in life are the best friend.

66. A bride, my thoughts lead her to you my Master,
And a shade that pleases you is the best in-law.

67. So overlook, brother of benefaction, what disgraces her
And grant her, with welcoming, excellence of acceptance.

68. And continue, by God's safekeeping, in a good life
And blessings, favors, and long life.

69. And health of body, as long as you live and the
Dove of the hill croons at dawn and late morning.

70. And Ibn Fathallah said, the home of my loved ones
Was watered without harm by pouring rain.