1. My guise was cast off for love of you,
Hearing became like seeing.

2. Our secret, which we never thought
Would spread, was broadcast.

3. We have both discarded inhibition;
No watchman is feared, no critic obeyed.

4. Our conversation has become an embrace;
Messages and letters are over.

5. My night visitor hurried away bidding farewell -
How excellent was that farewell!

6. O you whom I sold my heart to,
Had it not been for passion, it would not have been sold.

7. Since you joined me, your company has been a treasure;
Only your absence is common.

8. The more knotty problems have built up between us,
the more extensive has my experience become.

9. Not at all! I follow your approval until,
of what I see, there is no possibility of further following.

10. When we look on you as a roe deer that dies under the looks of wild beasts,
A roe deer whose heart is captured by its glance.

11. A black doe whose belly is filled with a fetus
and whose uterus contains guile.

12. The delight of beauty for one athirst,
no delight can match it after it.

13. Look, my brother, at his face - you look
at a light for him in the darkness' disclosure.

14. If you don't believe me, then propose to buy him
and see who it is that can acquire him in the sale.

15. For us to neglect a day of joy would be disastrous -
that day which is neglected is lost.

16. So stand up that we may pluck it like a bride
whose dower follows her in abandon.

17. A fire appeared blazing in a niche of light
without even a spark leaping out.

18. It plunges the lamps' flame underwater
until it drowns in its own light.

19. It is the wine that does not cause headache,
but rather cures headache when it occurs.

20. The meadows have composed their anklets' jewelry
and spread out their bracelets over the plains.

21. So for me the flowers in the garden are a carpet
and the clouds in the sky are my sail.

22. Look how the skilled workmanship has disclosed
a scene whose constructor was Grace.

23. The vegetation extends under the dew
and the dew extends over it.

24. Our land has been purified and purified
have its marshes and hillocks.

25. Those songs were gladdened
and those open spaces burst out laughing.

26. As for her orchard - my eyes can never
refrain from feasting on its spectacle.

27. Thirsting souls are watered by it,
and hungry eyes are fed.

28. The discourse of its birds is shouting
and the playing of its trees is skirmishing.

29. The sound of its wheel is
music to us when music escapes us.

30. O garden! Once it was expanded, well,
no garden can equal its spaciousness.

31. Neither does rain neglect it for an instant
nor does rain know what dryness is.

32. Rather, the clouds pour out abundant generosity over it,
quenching arid and desolate terrain.

33. The generosity of Ali Abu al-Husayn - that gallant man
whose nature is generosity.

34. The Sayyid, the patriarch whose candor
causes even the cheekbones of their skulls to shine.

35. Valiant, expending his utmost vigor
so that his utmost vigor suffices even when efforts redouble.

36. Defending it with a defense
that crashes against the defenders with an onslaught.

37. The prevailing lion - indeed there are no timid cattle
in the eyes of lions.

38. For insight, his glance ignites;
for knowledge, his words gather momentum.

39. Master of judiciousness, master of resolve,
his undertaking shows complete penetration.

40. O Hashimi, O ever-ready hero, may
the Hero, your father, be glorified.

41. O you whose decisions brook no reversal
when resolved and whose orders meet compliance.

42. With unwavering determination, whose thrusts admit no recoil,
no falling short of their mark, no fallback.

43. Thus what he defends cannot be infringed
and what he protects is unviolable.

44. He who is slow to act frees himself quickly with words
while his words flow rapidly.

45. His gold seems counterfeit in earthenware
just as his ugliness seems handsome in generosity.

46. O noble lord of probity,
not of probity that began with innovation!

47. You were congratulated throughout your life by a hero
and a hero lived congratulated by you.

48. The more your two stars rose,
the more impossible it was for stars to rise higher.

49. You two are inseparable, no distance comes between you -
your joining admits no disjunction.

50. The eye and the brow accord
in conjugation, as do the arm and the shoulder.

51. If there remains a nascent heart for a heart,
between your two hearts there was suckling.

52. Ali is the height of every rise of glory,
which has condescension, next to your glory.

53. For that you shone brilliant, outstripping every hero
in what no hero could ever attain.

54. No outstanding horseman has attacked your flank
for him to be the outstanding attacking hero.

55. You won from him a baby roe deer
whose den and lair the fortresses comprise.

56. You won from him a baby wild ass
whose natural pasture and stables you blocked off.

57. If he acquires it by your good graces,
then his acquisition is no loss.

58. Or if he profits in your shade,
then that profit is most worthy.

59. Behold him, listening to you attentively!
He lends his hearing obediently to your command.

60. Girded by you with an armor of superiority,
may that armor invigorate him!

61. So inspire with him the heart of every wagging tongue
to silence, breaking it against their combined image.

62. For you are the towering mountain of glory that has already
settled; assuredly, it knows no convulsion.

63. How many quarrelsome people have you directed
to amicable positions, their quarrel evaporating!

64. None equal you in this
unless the head equaled the shoulder.

65. Our opinion is not nonsense
whether we state it openly or it remains implicit.

66. Live safely excelling in the invention of glory,
for how excellent is that invention!

67. Your deeds know no end
and our words know no end.