1. Spirits or a morning of restitution
With debts not discharged by recovery

2. Had it stayed unvisited for a thousand years
Its long isolation would not have wearied it

3. Does the passion subside or is the gaze lent
Above what has been lent to women

4. Her face is bright, her figure delicate
A free woman who rends hearts

5. When she smiles a coolness appears
Quenching thirst like water for the thirsty

6. Its taste is the taste of water from a raincloud
Sweetened by a passing sprinkle

7. In my love, her bracelets run too loose
An ungrateful swimmer afloat in blindness

8. Luck pushed her away, the scream of ostriches
Nothing cures her but solitude

9. It leaves people behind in the wilderness when
Their pace slackens and they falter

10. A camel who never leaves the herd until
The herd and the ostrich come first

11. Every landmark in which the springs
And summers of torrents flowed

12. He covered it, glistening, which the winters
And gales had stripped bare

13. Aged, rugged, when the sun rose
Meadows nestled in its shade

14. Sing of it to a faded melody where
The warblers of its gardens trill

15. As the sweet singer became happy
Made joyful by intoxicating joy

16. Will you not cheer the sorrows with a tame, docile
Gazelle when the white desert appears

17. Like a diving ostrich, with ears
Clearly visible in its zeal

18. Molded of firmness and legs like
What the nimble flasks molded

19. Guaranteed is the essence of worries
That seeped through, a cheap hiding place

20. So he is smeared with bitterness, a shirt
Worn thin by aggression

21. A year's torrents have flown off him
As they flowed off the shabby cloak

22. And cleaned out rot until it left
Spaces that betrayal had emptied

23. Withers exposed to him, hardened
Withered by the affliction he brings

24. Taking turns striking him loyally
No protection shields his eyebrows

25. With the plains of his cheeks and arms
Are clefts untouched by folly

26. Quick to gather shreds that keep falling
Off their hides in strips

27. He fought the ground with his hooves until
The brought down prey captured him

28. Complaining of exhaustion when he put forth effort
Their singing was torture to him

29. He warded her off when she craved roses until
She overcame her desire, for the eaters

30. With a crow, to a distracted state until
Her mothers became barren

31. The stars came close to setting and each
Day at noon was marked by falling stars

32. Whenever we left the shore of her passion
A persistent one with strong ropes pulled us back

33. They were tossed by indifference until
Betrayal itself denied them

34. It squeezed the one with deadly claws when
The split one turned away

35. It then begged water for him and pelted him
With dust, making it his shroud

36. Soaring aloft like a swift ostrich
Or a flown arrow and supplies

37. Drawn to earnestness until the springs
And healers arrived

38. They quenched their thirst then turned away
Sated as the night came

39. Al-Walid gifted me on a founding day
With a tithe in which are riches and beauty

40. Onlookers reckon them to be a company
While they are leaders

41. Growth filled their breasts, lambs and calves
Matured, as the noble ones calmed

42. We begot ewes that grazed the Huwah
Or yielded milk, they are fat sheep

43. When the winnower touches them they shed
Milk from breasts like the Dalia

44. They presented themselves when mature
As the Gemini rise

45. For a moment, then cried for fresh sweet water
Free of thorns and canes

46. So mouths in them swelled until when
The sprouts and healers came

47. They healed their thirst, then turned away
Quenched as the night came

48. Al-Walid did not choose it, but God
Made him a shepherd for the Muslims

49. No commander deserves it, but for the Viceroy
Are all people's sacrifice

50. I do not see a troubled soul approach you
Without calumny and enemies dispersing

51. If one of them strays from you
He drops and the corners take him

52. You are above what I say, but for you
Is my advice and praise

53. And for the people of his house from Quraysh
Their number and honor is vast

54. God be pleased with them and chose them
Among His servants they are the purest

55. I see them as worthy for that and they are best
Whoever the sky shades

56. They kept what God entrusted them with
Every nation has its custodians

57. If He wills mercy for a people
Their Lord does what He wills

58. He places authority with the wise ones among them
Surely the pious are the best of creation

59. Oppression despairs of being in a land
Where they are or coming from where they came

60. The way of God and the Messenger, so there is no
Doubt or censure in their command

61. They set the Muslims straight until the way
Of truth and loyalty became established among them

62. And the scales, after cheating, so people's
Merchandise passed justly between them

63. Thus the servant in shabby clothes is given
His due, as is the foolish slave girl