1. Be my watcher, waiting for you to be seen
For your tears have already flowed enough

2. O you who told the tale of Joseph's beauty
Alas, if only you could be bought like Joseph

3. The eyes feast on his cheek, so he turns them away
And says, "This is not the fire of the villages."

4. O killer of beauty, for it
Has remained accompanying a miserly tyrant

5. O branch of a lofty date palm in polished sands
You have excelled by bearing a shining full moon

6. Your phantom wouldn't harm me if I were in its place
For we are equal in sickness, neither seen

7. Will there be a return of my days with your union
Even if only in some fanciful dreams

8. Once I drank the pure draft of your company
And reaped the verdant fruits of your pleasure

9. My hands grasped it, but when I opened them
I found nothing but sorrow and contemplation

10. I have an eye that, since its full moon set from it
Grazes his dwellings, hoping it will see him

11. Were it not for the outpouring of its tears and blood
I would not be famed among lovers

12. It is as if it were Moses' palm, whenever
It casts pearls or red sandalwood

13. I beg forgiveness of God Almighty because
I compared the little with the much

14. A king whose sword blazed and blood flowed
Yet I marveled that fires erupt oceans

15. A dark-skinned warrior with the spear's blow
And a ruddy white with the sword's blade

16. Of a people whose early ones were felled by it
Like the creation of Adam by the latter prophet

17. Ears turn away from praising others
When most of it is fabricated tales

18. White hands, red fingertips, black kohl
Adorn a cheek with verdant color

19. People are guided to villages by its smoke
And beasts are fed wherever it knots a braid

20. When it loved, it filled homes with bounty
And when it raged, it filled the plain with armies

21. It forbade the valiant, by the clashing of spears
From its soil, and watered it with red rain

22. Thus it produced hands and skulls
And spears that smashed the ribs of men

23. Alert, keeping safe the heart, though
It forgets its virtues when it is repeated

24. Smooth in conversation, as if
Plying ears with wine or sugar

25. Truly, I swear, if its words took form
The gazelles' throats would ache from its jewels

26. If in ancient times it addressed people
No messenger would be sent to mankind

27. Its proof is the infidels by their Lord
Whom your grace will never cover

28. They performed pilgrimage to your palace like their sacred dome
And saw you in it like the Messiah depicted

29. There the supreme king, his face dust-covered
Resembling dirt more than fragrant musk

30. The lights of awe veiled you from them
Thus their eyes see you but do not see

31. How many gazers you guided on our fast night
Confused in the sky's expanse

32. O gazers upon a crescent moon, preventing
Sustenance, the full moon is free with its villages

33. Ramadan, a guest who went about completely
Until he saw you submitting, and rejoiced

34. He came to you cheerful with your righteousness and piety
And left thanking you for what you granted him

35. Celebrate a feast, you who truly fasted, prayed, and broke fast
O best of those who prayed, fasted, and broke fast