1. What is my concern with roaming the homelands
When your alluring beauty preoccupies me

2. Your saliva, lips, charming smile, and lightning teeth
Your cheeks adorned on Nu'man's bounty

3. A radiant mouth of houris in nature as though
It filled the heavens then fled from bliss

4. Her night of hair flowed over her shoulders
She sighed like a swooning lover

5. Above roses her braids were greener
I was amazed by gardens amidst fires

6. Your eyes were delighted by his beautiful sight
Then overflowed with tears from the eyelids

7. My love poem and Moses' praise are a garden
That combined beauty and benevolence

8. A king with whom the times turned green as though
The days of his rule were a second spring

9. He enriched it after its decline with might
With the persistence of his pouring clouds

10. So every rose has a dangling necklace
And every branch has the shook of delightedness

11. The river's cheek is reddened by the rays
As the charm of shade crept through it

12. And the water in the lanes of branches is anklets
Of silver and flowers like crowns

13. So it's as if their songbird is a melodious orator
Who stands atop the minbars of branches

14. Singing while I recite so praise between us
Is gifted to Moses in every tongue

15. Drink three times, my boon companion, and serve me
And delight in the marvel of his speech and my verse

16. A cup, when I clasp it, my hand glistens
With silver filled with pearls

17. Ruby which gems adorned with jewels
Like flowers in a meadow of coral

18. By God, if the Magi were reasonable with his cup
They would make it their temple of fire

19. The wine's inebriation and thanking Moses are my ways
For I have erased my sins with my obedience

20. My occupation is praising him while others ceaselessly
Are like owls lamenting the ruins

21. Labid, Kumait, and renowned peers
Time has turned from their glory to mine

22. Especially when the departure burns and mirages whirl
Above the horizon with the cravings of thirst

23. And the sun sends the excess of its drool
To quench the thirst of barren lands

24. Its poisons blacken faces, as if
They cured themselves of flush with ash

25. So why should I vent my passions to disasters
When the noblest of sultans has enriched me

26. He dispelled with his clawed hands every harm and humiliation
With ears alert for repayment

27. And with every heavily armed cavalry that in every limb
Contains the wrath of vengeance

28. A Byzantine taken captive whose cheek
Poured what was on the eyelids of kohl

29. We said, the rending of her shirt in her chest
Is the embrace of a swooning lover

30. Had Moses asked for refuge from them
He would have survived and awakened in greatest safety

31. Moses who eclipsed Kisra and ascended
In the chambers of my palace above the palace

32. He answered his brother from the island after
Every road before him was blocked

33. With angelic legions above whom
Eagles hovered with fluttering wings

34. They cannot find their way when their throngs are confused
Except by the flames and blades of a sharp sword

35. So he dispelled the darkness of their disbelief
And restored glory after humiliation

36. You purified Armenia which then exchanged
The toll of church bells for the call to prayer

37. Their spears penetrated as though they
Carried part of crossed timbers

38. O You who makes those praising seem as if
They recite verses from the Quran

39. O You who sees the hands of the destitute upon His wealth
As the most sufficient caretakers and trusted treasurers

40. O You who sees that praise is a treasure
That remains with Him though all things perish

41. You made the depths of praises expensive after
They were sold for the cheapest of prices

42. The likes of You provide food so for that
Shawwal has favor over Ramadan

43. So congratulate, O King of Kings, on his feast
In the shade of an eternal Sultanate