1. He recognized the abode imagining it, so he accustomed himself to it
After time had encompassed its countries with destruction

2. Except for its firm mountains, all of which the red flames
Kindled by its people had scorched

3. Its cooking pots were places for lunch meat, but they were stripped
Of it, and time had seized their ashes

4. With the chamber of the houri whose Western one
Lost the features of its courtyard and its pillows

5. Everything was disguised after we left
And the land recognizes its barrenness and its inanimateness

6. By the evident-browed, white-complexioned gazelle
Who had pegged its tents with it

7. Which with its captivating coquetry entraps
An onlooker, and then intentionally does not trap him

8. Like an unbroken filly grazing
On the wastelands and bushes of its land

9. The knots of lightning adorned its forehead
From its rubbing against its salty bushes and thickets

10. Like the beauty in the face of a bride who displayed herself
Without shyness, so she did not conceal her intention

11. It warbles the most melodious song, as if the eye of its chanting
Is a pen that drew from the inkwell its ink

12. It mounted a bewildered, elevated place,
A wasteland which its wild beasts scare its cubs

13. With the getting ready to strike of lightning that ripped
Through the thickness of clouds, dragging its bags

14. Thus you see its torrents that water the land
And the showers that ripen its vegetation and make it flourish

15. Good times departed and missed their appointment
And distanced themselves from us to deny us their provision

16. When isolation does not unite me with my bosom friend
And distance comes between me and her settlement

17. Either I see white hair spreading through my black hair
Until brightness peers through its darkness

18. The hand of the maiden was once my pillow
Making my right hand a pillow under her head

19. And the companions of the heavily armed army saw me
As the bravest horseman among its cavalry and infantry

20. And a poem whose verses I collected completely
Until I corrected its leaning and its support

21. The thoughts of the cultivated man in his meditations
Until his education straightens its minarets

22. And indeed I attained the joy of livelihood
And encountered the harshness of hardships and their severity

23. So I concealed the flaw of my life with nobility
And attained success at the peak of luxury and its firmness

24. And I remained such that I do not ask a scholar
About one science in order to increase it

25. May God pray upon a man whom I bid farewell
And complete His blessings upon him and augment them

26. When the springs continued one after another
Watering the cheeks of the barren lands, so it poured forth generously

27. Al-Walid came down upon it, so for its people he was
A rain that brought relief to its companion and its countries

28. Does it not please you that the entire wilderness
Cast its reins to him, so he led it?

29. And indeed God wanted, when He made him its guardian,
The reform of a nation and its guidance

30. And you populated the land of the Muslims, so it came to life
And you eliminated from it those who want its corruption

31. And you attained in the land of the enemy a blow
That reached the furthest parts of its expanse and its palms

32. A victory and triumph the like of which
None of the allies had ever intended or wanted

33. And if you unfold praise for him you will find him
Gathering virtues, its edges, and its extensions

34. Al-Walid surpassed the honorable in generosity
And it sufficed Quraysh what afflicts its pillow

35. The trophies of power come to him forcibly
And by compulsion, and he gathers for wars its equipment

36. And when he saw the fire of destruction raging
He rallied those people at its height and peak

37. With heavily armed soldiers subduing the highlands, men of distinction
Bearing the noonday heat like the hot wind carrying its bundles

38. They extinguished the fires of the enemy and ignited
A fire sparked by your palms striking its flints

39. So its insight became clear to those who follow guidance
While the intense heat of its evil smoldered its enviers

40. And when a fated day comes with a blast
The next day presents the like of it, so it repeats it

41. And when horses raced to overtake a goal
The one approaching and coming leads its steeds