1. Husaina came to you from those who are remote,
And her intent brought her to where you live.

2. Youth turned away, distracted by its pleasures,
Not light of movement, nor easy to bend.

3. If you were like me, aged over eighty,
While I am withered and wasted away,

4. And she is a cheek that nearly makes
The ornaments, from her beauty, burn with passion

5. As though her kisser with hot breath
Is a thirsty man who gulps his drink down.

6. A pool of water clear in its expanse
Stirred by North winds,turbulent and rough

7. In the open land it feared to stagnate
Beyond the winding roads amidst the giant rocks

8. It avoided sweet spots so the rough torrents
Did not make it murky as they scraped the gravel

9. It casts itself on high above the two slopes
Rising equal to the lofty mountains' peak

10. Not an egg but more rightly it has hatched
Into a garden bloomed in spring or summer

11. Pampered among the daughters of vegetation
Clear white and filtering itself pristine

12. When it rains, rain pools form on its surface
Scraping it, though its drippings filter through

13. With better than it when its bracelets rise up
Fluttering from its jewelry, agitated

14. When life is sweet and talk flows easily
Neither excluding me nor making me weep

15. Worry has accustomed me and worn me out
As the feral creatures wear out the subdued,

16. Troubles my heart has harbored cause it
To preserve them, while I remain guarded,

17. Are generations of men nothing but ages replacing ages
One perishes, the next replacing the last,

18. Inhabiting the earth awhile but decay
Will come to it, so it stands evicted,

19. Like land stripped bare of all it bore
Though once for it decoration was enough,

20. I've seen no mortal with perpetual bliss
Nor one with endless anguish to lament,

21. What strange wonder is this age
Unrecognized or can you identify?

22. How many nations has time worn out
Like the land might cave in underneath them

23. And a generation we've heard has perished
The living now dead to memory

24. He whose life wears away with him
Becomes refuse, the most refused of all

25. He who misses his promised time
Death will not fail to meet its date

26. No person has means to flee living
No escape or turning for him elsewhere

27. I felt a longing for Umar ibn al-Walid
And chose him as he is dear to me

28. The gallant warrior, none his equal
Fully accomplished and without excess

29. He's the Caliph's son, his lineage
Well known and cannot be mistaken

30. The lords of Kindah, his maternal uncles
Those Kings so thus no less his son

31. You've become, so you remain the hero of all
When the genealogists review the record

32. They see you high above, your gaze
From this lofty view spread out far and wide

33. You were born under a star most eminent
Above all other stars conspicuous

34. Brother of Achievement and Glory stand in for them
Though he does not count the cost of what he ruins

35. He sees glory as fair game to occupy him
And all its burdens he takes on

36. So you will gain from what I say
Some minor glory and pleasure

37. Spreading it through countries far and wide
Wastelands and rocky plains abound

38. It startles their wild beasts as the pebbles
Like coins a money changer clips

39. When it flows freely with its steps
Smoothly streaming or bubbling on the ground