1. A drawing of a quarter next to a spring
Stirred what drawings of springtime had not stirred,

2. And songs of the perfect beloved filled my heart
And tears moistened my eyelids from furtive weeping.

3. In the valley of the road is the song of the breeze
And a song that impeded the breeze.

4. With the one of blame and reproach are songs
They are among what makes tears flow.

5. And in the environs of Dhi As-Safi are homes
Like the rhyming prose of the compiled and repeated.

6. And around them are abodes, one next to the other,
In the open space of scattering.

7. O springtime zephyrs! You have stirred my passion
And my brooding and my burning and my blazing.

8. Ah! I am in your zephyr, with a melting heart -
My sighing boils within my ribs.

9. I wish for the return of your time but
The past time has no returning.

10. Do you make me reminisce? I forgot my time
With you in the days of complete union.

11. Our time when union was sweet
Was not made bitter by fear of parting.

12. And passion in the flourishing garden was obedient
While sad separation was not obedient.

13. Diversion saved me from a prideful gazelle
Swollen, squint-eyed, nimble, startled.

14. It bends down at dusk upon the hills,
Lowing the white of a pouring raincloud.

15. And when it appeared, it shone like the full moon
Rising from its rising.

16. Its mouth contained perfume after distaste
And the fragrance of the garden, the time of spring.

17. So it was like the night, the morning, and the midafternoon,
And the spear, the hot wind, and the piercing.

18. And the devilish, timid she-camel, the trials of the Ghadhfadh,
And the thorns of the Siyak and the swift.

19. It glanced at me, so it glanced me into
The agony of passion, and burning misery.

20. While I drew nearer to it, and union with it
Is the most difficult union in an inaccessible inviolable place.

21. When it came to me that the damned one claimed
Superiority in poetry, and considered it, in totality.

22. How amazing! After having done a despicable deed
He claimed superiority, when he was not capable!

23. He followed deviance and desire, and turned away
From the path of the legitimate, divinely revealed way.

24. He left the Islamic nation forsaken, humiliated
It is in isolation, in loss, neglected.

25. He disowned it, though he had no building upon it
Except a fragmented, torn-up structure.

26. It asks people for meager, stingy charity,
Evil, disappointing charity, vanishing.

27. A transgressor who abandoned the prayer, persisting
Upon indecency and magic in the lands, greedy.

28. Violating the honor of every person covered
In the sphere of misguidance, never content.

29. It remained naked an epoch, or more than that
It acquired no covering other than its skin, like an infant.

30. It sought clothing from him, so he came to it
And clothed it in a garment of fear and hunger.

31. So it became in disgrace and humiliation
And despondency, wishing to extend estrangement.

32. Whenever it desired sinfully to reach union
Fear of scandal prevented it.

33. It carried to him by cunning, and loved him for that
That forbidden thing.

34. How, O you who lost your manliness, do you seek
To contend with me when you are not capable!

35. You claim knowledge, eloquence and poetry
And the science of prosody and verse.

36. Despite your ignorance of rhetoric, sentence structure and grammar
And ignorance of language and the details.

37. Verily, an idea is not complete for a person
Without the knowledge of subject and predicate.

38. And the idioms of each art and its intentions
In narrowing and expanding.

39. Do not blame me for glory and honor
For slowness is not like speed.

40. And the purebred steed is not the same as the weak
Who competes with him on a miserable hack.

41. Do not assume every spoken thing is a poem
The babbling of a continuous weaving.

42. The occurrence of meanings and words
Was not with imposition or apportioning.

43. Accustomed to lampooning with repugnant
Speech, not delightful with every despicable word.

44. If a hearing person desired the pleasure of listening
He would not be guided by you to pleasure in listening.

45. You have lost balance in the poem with meter
And weakness, and you are not preserving.

46. The one who lampooned you did not lampoon a person
Rather, you are an image of filth.

47. Defiled! If you touched the garment of one praying
It would be invalidated in the frequented temple.

48. Your origin is wickedness and it is your branch, derived
From wicked roots and branches!

49. It is no dishonor upon you if you came dishonored
It would be attributed to you before undertaking.

50. You are not free in that, you are neither harmful
To whom you hated, nor beneficial.

51. Lampoon me if you lampoon me with rhymes
Like the delicious, well-organized rhymes.

52. Do not take my style tediously
For the excellent one is not tedious.

53. And appreciate, if you are able, a subtle meaning
And refined, well-listened-to composure.

54. The poem is not valid without clarity
And meanings that are innovative and innovating.

55. Like a fully interlocked paronomasia or hint
Of paronomasia, or a touch of intimation.

56. Or a antithesis, or reversal of publication, or pun
Innovative in glitter and tailoring,

57. Or other than that, of an innovating innovation
Good in composition and signing.

58. You tried fault, so you increased my status loftily
And the betrayal of your submission shot arrows.

59. And God and destiny refused, proceeding
By the choice of the Hearing, Knowledgeable.

60. That the disgraced one be other than disgraced
Or the noble one be other than noble.

61. And greetings like the breeze of the meadow from Him
And prayers upon the interceding Prophet.