1. My beloved provoked my passion and made my reason ache
A pleasing companion for the darling with intimacy

2. I saw his breeze, so my tears flowed
And streamed down my cheeks like torrents

3. So my companion remained confused, wandering
Spreading his fragrance through that intimacy

4. So my weeping grew long and my soul boiled
And my patience flew away and my heart darkened

5. I stood with him, so he blamed my humiliation in
My standing in his beautiful embrace

6. And of what pained me in it was that I
Remembered the days of union with him

7. A time whose events cracked my bones
And gathered what was separated of me

8. I loved a gazelle who made my pain more intense
Who softens rock without effort

9. Who schemes to quench longing
Who brings near the distant with little trouble

10. The taste of his saliva is a taste more delicious
Than wine or honey

11. His saliva falls on the insides of the generous
From the generous souls

12. The wave of misfortune if it turns
Full of evil and ignorance

13. A beloved whose market is terrible
An erupting fountain of love

14. He sought the rope of love, even if
He reached the ends of the ropes of love

15. The knower of his change tells a story
About a meadow the rains have watered

16. A moon in a soft night in a prairie
Its surroundings a wasteland of sand

17. A jealous person distracted me from visiting him
Slandering chiefs along with nobles

18. One who degrades glory among people
One who carries disgrace like a parasite

19. Famous for humiliation and equality
Criticizing intellect and reason

20. Spreading villainy constantly
Shedding decency and virtue

21. Bearing shame like thunder
Lacking in dignity like straw

22. Initiating evil
Denouncing speaking in ignorance

23. Lessening iron, like a Khurasani
Melting rock like pitch

24. Disregarding the affairs of the exalted
Quick to villainy and ignorance

25. Attracting hearts to evil
Rushing to sin

26. Existing, as if dead, from a body from a tail
Described with every bad description

27. Known for questioning and stinginess
Always drunk and gluttonous

28. Selling his love, his mouth filthy
Like a carcass from an elephant

29. Standing for the teacher, with an old man
Sick in his tribe, disabled

30. Opposing propriety, for him a boy
Standing for the corrupt and petty

31. A head in ignorance, in a tribe
Wealthy without a need for plans

32. He came with his family one day and turned away
And they are the worst of relatives and family

33. Cutting off kin — there is not among them
One who values uncles or maternal uncles

34. A flaw in their nature, the most lowly
They conspired for villainy and procrastination

35. Reviving abomination and deceit
Showing evil in ignorance

36. So each in his tent is a dog
And by his perversion is a parasite

37. There came to me from his side a poem
Caressing lineage and gazelles

38. From the excess of his ignorance, he did not know
What he should say, far from proper speak

39. The novelty of his sayings, even if he goes beyond
His limit, falls short of my worn garment

40. So he became an example and threw a poem
Trying to be my equal

41. And he threatened in his talk, as if
He fears the evil of the suns of Suhail

42. He is not — even if he pretends to be fair
And leans toward reason over justice —

43. Equal to the foam of an empty wilderness
And the voice was not like a torrent in a valley

44. And the colt in a valley was not
Roaring like the floods in a valley

45. Answer me in the way of my saying, you whose saying
Does not weaken against mine

46. And leave me what I came with, and leave me
My tool with which I dragged my train

47. And beware mockery, for in it is
Evil in the mountains and in Suhail