1. Su'ad sneaked in an innocent messenger,
And summer came behaving bashfully.

2. The messenger came with a scroll sealed,
In it was magic penned with a pen.

3. In it were passions of love that made him absent
From the ignorant and what the wise cannot grasp.

4. And I understood what she was hiding so I said to her
Revealing with clarity and pleasure of clear words.

5. She said: come if you wish hidden,
And rule is your rule, O wise one, so arbitrate.

6. I presented myself in vastness and ease
Not in Qamraa or darkness so take advantage.

7. I visited her my gaze upon my feet
Having worn two cloaks of darkness.

8. What happened happened none knows of it
Nor have I been hurt or become illicit.

9. Su'ad visited you but left you sleepless
She did not visit you from other nations.

10. Hello to your specter O Su'ad that came in the dark
A specter that moves without star or flag.

11. You are my slumber when I sleep in my dreams
And you are the star if eyes do not sleep.

12. My eyes and dreams never lie altogether
My dreams speak truth once in their connection.

13. Say yes, it will surely profit if you say
Not perhaps or perhaps, patience to profit.

14. You granted me favors I do not deny
Until he disappears in an accursed stoning.

15. My heart is sick and the illness of love sickened it
If you wished you could heal the heart of sickness.

16. She said: your heart is divided among the whites
I have no need in a heart divided from you.

17. You are the one who switched me for another
You fell short of me and bought evil with good.

18. I swore I would never love you but
My oath was strong, I exaggerated in swearing.

19. I ask God for forgiveness, my heart has softened
Between me and you O wise one there is mercy.

20. I wish who blames us for love tries it
If he tastes what I tasted he will not blame.

21. Love is a hidden illness with no cure
Except the breeze of a beloved with sweet scent.

22. Or a kiss from a mouth taken stealthily
What is forbidden is a mouth I attached to a mouth.

23. This is forbidden to one who counts it as sin
The Merciful will not punish us for suspicions.

24. My heart strayed, O Su'ad, and did not stray
I wish my heart O Su'ad did not stray.

25. You who made my heart love you
An imported illness and endless longing.

26. You were created from musk and people are
Created from kneaded clay of crumbled puss.

27. God created no human after Joseph among Arabs or non-Arabs
Like you from a perfected brown idol.

28. Above you is a litter on a pile
Her buttocks accumulated as a statue.

29. Shaking her behind rounded hips
She walks swaying like a drunk made to stumble.

30. Her dimples say and her behind seats her
From behind her, I have reached the corner so take your chance.

31. So I took my chance then stood up to supplicate
If not for that I would not have stood up.

32. Until when she left I bid farewell she looked back
And I said you are of my worries and my night talks.

33. Her companions said this is Rabi’ah
He is the sedition of nations.

34. This is the meaning that suits you
So cover up in heavy clothing and darkness.

35. The devil of his nation met you in ihram
So seek refuge in God from the devil.

36. She said: I seek refuge in my Lord from you and covered up
In the manner clothing edges like an ostrich.

37. I said: vows and God’s covenant you betrayed
No covenant to the betrayer who takes covenants lightly.

38. Did you not say yes, she said: that was an illusion
Can a person be taken to account for illusions?

39. We repented, fasted, and prayed to our Creator
While you did not repent of any sin or fast.

40. I blamed myself for spending my hatred on her
And her stinginess, and I cracked my teeth in regret.

41. So may God distance a human who persists
In loving a human but does not persist.