1. My beauty's gaze is gentle and face radiant
Moonlike beneath the braids and curls

2. The mole took lodging while his cheeks dimpled, shutting
Wavering mid the loosened and the tied

3. O you made drunk by his soft mouth and saliva
Is this wine from those grapes?

4. You brought me to life with what gave me life and so
I live the most blissful life of roses and buds

5. The stick of the yawner when his heaviness Lightens
Is like a sandy dune, slow to rise, thundering

6. A waist and buttocks, between them the waistband
Separates the nonexistent from the real

7. His beauty that of Joseph except he holds
Regal standing, not to be traded cheap

8. O you whose cheeks match white Hindi swords, for they
Were guarded by an Indian dark sword

9. For him the water, if an eternal body
The heart of deaf rock worn down

10. So I'm saddened not by my night chat nor vigils
The star grew weary marking my count

11. They said, "Fall for forbidden intimacy," I said
"No lowlife takes root in my heart"

12. I flirt with the best of men, not with other
And if I praise, Moses is the best purpose

13. A floodtide king when his tranquility swells
Anchored the ship of his seeker in kindness

14. O you seeking the noblest, refrain from asking a lord
Whose heart overflowed with virtues

15. I'm amazed meeting you with apologies and excuses
Excuse the wrongdoer his prolonged waiting

16. The advisor to the famous of his troops
If we're defeated, no aid or support

17. The leader to his army as the raging sea
Its waves naught but prey or lions

18. Valiant lions when they control the reins
Resolute as lords of lions

19. Their rashness in dark skirmishes appears
Places of stabbing mid the brow and neck

20. Their towering heights borrow his determination
Leaving no bosom friend but outcast

21. O late one, Kekavus thought when he came
To raid the forts of Islam and Divine Oneness

22. In his army the flags of blasphemy waved
Fluttering without success foretold

23. Some nomads came out to meet him
Shattering his band in the melee

24. He escaped and surrendered his captives
To peasants - the leaders' lot is prey and masters'

25. If the Shah of Armenians wished, his blood unpaid
But exonerating the captive heart outcast

26. Returning the captives after plunder in grace
Had he means he'd revive all the lost

27. That is true kindness, not bowls of milk
And kindness of soul the height of kindness

28. One asked of Abu El Fatuh so I summed up
His traits in terms beyond imagining

29. Blessed of face and smooth of palm, embracing
Loyalty and true to his vows

30. Citadels incline to serve his rule
As souls incline to tempt the well-built

31. No longer discontent or feeling deprived
Under the shade of swaying rule stretched from him

32. They saw the traits of Gazi son of Joseph, they
Witnessed they were created from glory's staff

33. May God sustain this guardian, and the clouds Forgave from it the best downpour
The abundant sea, its sails folded up

34. The towering kingdom collapsed after its prime
A vanished lion whose might turned the army back

35. Ruled by fate with no return
Though life was pure a while it was not long before

36. It spurned him with bitterness and sorrow
If the land concealed his splendid person

37. The Almighty replaces every loss
Crescent of a kingdom whose rise was with fortune

38. Good luck resides only in infants
I see the towering giants desire to shade him

39. On a war day with God's help witnessed
The hall of justice has become awaiting

40. His rule mid force or guidance
Moses - losing David never did him wrong

41. O guardian of religion, when its keeper slept
And its affairs found order after chaos

42. People fancy you declining, carefree
In ignorance though many a frail form lies prone

43. Ready your troops the expanse of war now rages
Undone by the Franks, defenses fallen

44. Do they hope to pluck its holy strings
As your realm will never be returned?

45. O you men I call on you for an incident
That brings down water from the silent rocks

46. Where is your zeal? Awake from your slumber
Either for the world now or later beloved

47. My lord take it a bride the pearl of her charm
Is through invention, support, and birth

48. And begin the feast day in might and bounty
For people are, thanks to you, daily in feast