1. I was content with the flashes of lovers as captivity
The next morning, passion besieged me

2. And since the love took the reins of my heart
I resisted and was pleased with myself

3. So I stood up to the army of love until
I got tired of its struggle morning and evening

4. So whoever thought love was easy, leave him
His hands withered and his perception failed

5. It restored my strength when
I inclined to innocent love in retreat

6. And I saw the slender, beautiful one swaying
Her lips I kissed and her dress I smelled

7. And I heard the jingling of her jewelry
So it weakened my determination and patience in it

8. And my body was clad in sickness
They claimed that separation makes one forget

9. But who has known union, how can he forget?
Will the days bring me close again

10. To a shrine I found intimacy in?
And will the house approach Asma

11. Until its soil returns to holiness?
I will look at it and at their traces in it

12. With sorrow and celebration for their blooms
If through determination I could bring

13. The fires of heroes in attack
Black camels whose sides are dyed red

14. Shading them to heated sands
On excellent, short-tailed steeds

15. Carrying them when they were once suns
They build with the polished swords

16. When I hurl valor at it
I humiliate the heads of every tribe

17. Though they generously fight in hordes
My friend, leave me to the skilled ones

18. When the night falls in slumber
When lightning sees lightning flash

19. It yearns and will neither tire nor sleep
If not for passion, I would not have faced the desert nights

20. Or made in the deserts a shelter
When they incline to the places of Najd

21. You would think it found some food there
It visits the desolate sands

22. As if it took cover in the darkness
I visit my loved ones wherever they are

23. Her cheek competing with the ostrich's feet
Her braids in the meadows fly

24. As if they were burrs on the expanse of the desert
If my she-camel were not noble in battle

25. Firm lines while they have imprints
When they raise their tails, we see

26. Lines we see no blemish in
I knew your affection for me was perfect

27. Free of worries, with pleasant company and roots
You knew what was certain within me

28. Of passions, not guessing and delusions
If you saw me, you'd think I was

29. A dead man buried in the cemetery
Lying down, not answering when called

30. Silent, barely breathing
Hoping in the darkness of night for a full moon

31. To visit, and in the day's light, a sun