1. The most intense love is that which prevents the eyes from seeing
And fills the ears of man from hearing his reproach and censure

2. And sacrifices while the fire of longing is between his ribs
Kindled by complaining and ignited by memories

3. And expands for him the passion that is in his heart
As advice for the ardent about separation or command

4. And becomes a confidant of longing with a body for it
Powerless by the authority of love and with tearful eyes

5. Strange longing that watered the homes with tears
That flowed in the sands of the wilderness sparkling and seen

6. He wept bitterly when he saw the desert after them
From the departed caravan, desolate and empty

7. When his tearful cloud poured down on it
And remembrance drew it out, followed by another

8. Our loved ones, will that covenant of passion
Return as I was used to it for an age?

9. And will those days come back after
The remembrance of their times burned my liver like embers?

10. If this life is kind to me with nearness after
You became distant from me, I will thank it abundantly

11. And accept from it the excuse in every event
That comes until I make it understand the excuse

12. The days burden me with patience over you
Yet alas! I cannot have patience after you

13. And I ask every lightning flash over the ardent sands
That appears and shows its pleasant red glow

14. I contracted my eyelids with it and released
My eyes from their delirium for your sake

15. O ardent sands, I have been vexed to the limit by your distance
Is there any drawing near from you to relieve my chest?

16. So turn not the face of affection after what we saw
One day in its cradles a human

17. And do not follow its good talk after you
With talk I sense concealment of glance in

18. The best traits of a man are an easy face
And pleasing manners that empower the free man

19. I swear since the tribe departed from the ardent sands
The sweetness of life after them turned bitter to me

20. So why did the specter of al-Aamiriyya emigrate
When just yesterday it knew no estrangement?

21. Did it just now learn betrayal from it
When an age has passed and it knew no betrayal?

22. If he visited me while Damascus is his abode and mine
With Najd and its meadows he has lengthened the joy

23. How could my heart show patience after
The tent friends journeyed in a group of ten?

24. A soft fair one whose face puts to shame
The shining sun and the full moon with its beauty

25. I used to gain from it in every moment
And from its good news the glad tidings in the face of my hopes

26. And I savor the injustice of its darkness, sweet is its struggle
I would ransom that darkness and crevice with my soul

27. So who can quench for the lovesick youth if he fails to attain
A thirst from it and for the burning liver?

28. What garden has the rain cultivated its plants
So the tongue of state overflowed with its light like drops

29. And a breeze blew in the gardens as if
Bearing languor from its sweet scents

30. And the flowers varied the corners of its valley
When a blossom opens we smell its fragrance

31. Like my poetry when I refine the essence of its words
And string from it in the necklaces of the sublime, pearls

32. The carriers of words, if their pearls were refined
Upon the neck of Virgo it would give it pride

33. And how far is the star if distance and pursuit retreated from it
When the ignorant man one day desires it and does not travel

34. It has in God's lands a vaster orbit
When the bird of poetry settled it as its den