1. He forgave and parted from whom I trusted to be pliant,
His cheek was caressed by drink from a flowing cup.

2. He forgave and parted after his family's vigor waned,
And the winds and clouds rained over him heavily.

3. The ruins glitter though time has erased his dwellings,
As a beautiful tattoo shines above the wrist.

4. The resting places of righteous people whose resolve
Was to restore camels and mount them when summoned.

5. With your eyes they left, and howdahs as if
Ships or date palms bent over.

6. And in the tribe - pleasures, joys of the eyes and loves,
And the best walker on easy legs.

7.
This heart once had luxuries,

8. Sickness and ills unmatched in malady.
Bounties unleashed, not relayed in successive messages,

9. Nor did all people talk of any of them.
Your eyes captivated me, large and beautiful,

10. A neck like an ostrich's, adorned with jewelry.
Cheeks that bend in the temples as if

11. Over them, when they approached, were vines.
A straight nose that drinks before her

12. While the sides of the folds have darkness.
For her a sturdy, upright calf and a full leg,

13. And a plump ankle not constrained in flesh.
She hunts the minds of men with her intimacy

14. And her coquetry and melody kill them.
A spoiled weakling, her bones fully developed

15. Having been raised in luxury and her body pampered.

16. She was born to free women like statues -
Graceful, not short, squashed or oval.

17. And ancestors of sincerity whose deeds
Cannot be blamed - the choice nobility, eminent lineage.

18. Refuges for those visiting them in hardship
When the year of drought is complained of.

19. My defenders are heroes when war attires itself -
The choice nobility, eminent lineage.

20.
When it claims descent, it extends its hands to the sublime

21. And Islam and noble lineage acknowledge it.
As if, when I do not meet with bounties, I border

22. Tribes of Gog and Magog without a barrier between us.
And a relative whose malice I blunted

23. With my patience though he lacks patience.
He keeps trying to vex me, and tries no other,

24. And death, when I am vexed, seizes him.
So if I pardon him, I close an eye to a speck

25. Though he knows no forgiveness for his crime.
And if I seek revenge, I become like one who kindles

26. The enemy's arrows with which bones are pierced.
I took preemptive action and one can still

27. Control his arrow as long as it's in his grasp.
I was patient with what was between us

28. Though the war of relatives is not like peace.
He insults me in absentia, struggling,

29. While he has no disgrace or insult from me.
If I poison him and sever the ties of kinship

30. That crime and sin would have estranged us.
If I leave him to halves he is disloyal and disobeys me

31. And calls for an unjust ruler whose time rules him.
I used to iron smooth the contumacious and was quick

32. To execute without benefit of appeal.
And I used to repay affront with affront in kind,

33. But sometimes I am forbearing, however grave the crime.

34. If not for fear of God and for ties of kinship
Whose proper care is right and neglect is injustice,

35. I would have lit him up with my lightning
And gashed him with the mark of a cutting blade.

36. He strives when I build to demolish my edifice
For destruction is his wont, not construction.

37. He wishes I were a razing ruler of cruelty
And hates that my effort be spared ruin.

38.
He counts my misfortunes spoils of war

39. Though he has no glory or spoils in them.
I defend him, driving off the opponent if he is bitten

40. And protect him from any fierce and rapacious aspirant.
And include him in his money after intimacy

41. On enjoyment and privation an equal share.
For a useful palm that earns praise and bounty

42. And knows that stinginess is followed by blame.
A noble one who hosts the guest when called

43. And aspires to gain the heights when they aspire.
A stalwart whom anxiety does not spend the night cleaving

44. His anxiety at terror and fear, anxiety splitting him
When anxious, he achieves his aim undaunted

45. And adversity is relieved from him by resolve.
A trusted brother, firm, with stratagems,

46. Joined with prudence when prudence is sought.
He has with misfortunes a refuge

47. And fortress of glory where glories are impregnable.
I never ceased in my gentleness and sympathy

48. Toward him as a mother inclines to her son.
And my lowering to him a wing as a flare

49. So kinship and womb-ties approach him through me.
And my saying, when I fear misfortune befalling him:

50. Submit, for that is the maternal uncle and bond and pillar!
And my patience with some of his acts that make me doubt

51. And my suppressing my rage though suppression avails.
I drew out his malice until I drained it

52. And he was very hateful, straitened in his frame.
I purified the bosom's poison from him through openness

53. As words cure just as medicines cure ailments.
So I treated him until his estrangement diminished