1. Take the tale of his affairs and sorrows
That the sleepless eyes narrate

2. Had his heart not given him away with tears
Doubt would still grip his watcher’s certainty

3. And his heart’s harshness makes me despair of him
While its kindness gives me hope

4. The water of life still wets his cheek
Until I plucked roses from his Nesreen

5. When I reached his hair's end, night's slumber came
And dawn assailed with its mouth and brow

6. Keeper of allure, I hug him and fear him
For his dignity, shyness and tranquility

7. His accompanier said - and his figure is delicate:
Beware the zeal of the sanctuary and its branches

8. His eyelids trap hearts as if
Harut placed in them the arts of temptation

9. His ruby smile hints from a pearl
At whose hidden treasure pearl necklaces paled

10. Alif of his cheek’s parchment was never blackened
In vain without the lam of his excuse or the nun of its text

11. Still on his right cheek while the left flows on his right
Spring was so pure as if the morning breeze

12. Kneaded its dough with camphor and clay’s amber
Its flowers burst and scattered

13. As if they were the peacock in its colors
And the river’s brow creased under the shade’s wrinkles

14. Since the wind crumpled them over its branches
The birds sing in different languages

15. Moses - may God keep him empowered
Moses whose pride disdained

16. To seek victory through Haroun
A king privy to the mysteries, a confidant

17. Whose conjectures spare him Gabriel
A king whose keen sword is the best armor

18. And deadly arrows the best fortification
A king seen amidst swords and spears

19. Like a lion among its cubs and lair
A king whose surging troops

20. Filled the highlands and valleys
Had an army stood before Ali

21. It would have achieved victory in Siffin
O you whose envoys bring glad tidings

22. Custom is known by the loyalty of its interior
You have the pilgrimage road whose drink

23. Is mixed with the hot for the thirsty from its cold spring
Camels so numerous, space seems

24. A forest that came with its fruits and produce
Bearing the pedestrian as if he were

25. In the belly of a mother who nested her fetus
When its caller summoned with his name

26. Both burdens participated in securing him
Arafat trembled for him and Safa shook

27. With the House, its pillars and chambers
If the noble stone had a mouth, it would have complained

28. Of its longing and yearning for him
The pilgrims gleamed at Mina, swords

29. Feeding the idols the bitter colocynth
Not everyone who acts virtuously succeeds

30. No, by the Lord of the Heavens and his support
O you whose noble nature blames him

31. You have no fault but God in his making
God made him worthy of His creatures’ mercy

32. And the welfare of this world and his faith