1. If it were not for the affections of loved ones
The souls would have had no worries or torments

2. They were stingy so their love increased
Indeed, everything forbidden becomes dear to the self

3. And how much sought thing brought sickness of passion
So is every sought thing accompanied by sickness?

4. My two friends, no era with twilights returning
So be dutiful, and no connection with gifts granted

5. Why do you not excuse me for my love sickness
And my rope of love for the loved ones is twisted

6. I exercised patience from Saad so if only it was
As it is said, patience in evil is inverted

7. The Yemeni woman veiled in person like her
A leader with whom what's between my sides is veiled

8. When I rise on Resurrection Day I will hide her love
So it won't be seen in the tablet which is written

9. Either the hardships watered her house or my tears spill
Both are equal, initiated and poured

10. Until the garden therein at night is as though
When it's lamps are illuminated, a gathered assembly

11. And we stood in it complaining of passion so it answers us
Its reverberation, the leaves of the bushes, and the lotus trees

12. Crying, moaning, and joyful chanting
With us, the neighing of the steeds and provocation

13. My intimates, why does no bird sing melodies
Except that my heart is thereby distracted

14. Beware and apprehension of separation that it may be seen
Informing of it the sneaking talebearers

15. So blame me not if my heart took flight hastily
For I am among those infatuated struck down

16. When they depart, my heart departs as though
My heart to those breasts were fettered

17. My friend, do you see a lightning flash appearing as though
A sword with a scabbard of refined Indian steel

18. It appeared like a Yemeni in the darkness as though
The darkness of night were a slave from Africa clad

19. And had it flashed like a Syrian, we'd have thought it was
A kindled torch above the hill kindled

20. To the most handsome it guides the visitors with its face
Even if no light from fire pierced forth

21. When the visitors come its anklets run away
To escape so the passion and the talebearers betrayed it

22. You see them disliking the visitors but it's incumbent
The dislike of the living for ruin when plundered

23. They were created as dwellings for visitors with a blade
That is accustomed to prey upon eagles and wolves

24. Indeed, the death which earned praise brought honor to its people
So all praise earned with hardship is gained

25. When praise increases with provision, blessings are poured
Upon its moistened sides, the blood spilled

26. The crown of Ma'add yielded to you the crown reluctantly
Deeming the crown obtained through the crown

27. Your mantle, do not drag it on the ground, it is
A mantle upon the surface of the heavens outstretched

28. And say to the grey clouds of the sky, "Shower down rain
Or cease, as I and you are showerers of rain

29. God has ordained for me self-sufficiency through you and the good fortune
Of my grandfather and prosperity were the causes

30. Am I not but one of the community of a nation
That has a drinking place from your abundant spring?

31. May goodness be yours if your subjects sin, then pardon
Their crimes, for the Manager is Observant

32. They were distraught when they saw you, so discipline them
With your pardon, for pardoning is refinement for the noble

33. And if you wished, far from your good origin, you'd have been seen
Doing wrong, the cubs would have wallowed in blood

34. And the Indian swords, what's for their scabbards
And the lances, what's for their spearheads

35. You were created noble, no bounty made you transgress
Nor rectitude and discipline caused you to err

36. You came out to them angry so they pleaded
To you, and after pleading there is no rebuke

37. Indeed when they dreaded as soon as they saw you they saw
In you terror, for the sight of horror brings dread

38. So pardon, as God has pardoned you, and mercy
For your pardon from the pardon of the Guardian is counted

39. They were not accustomed to harshness from you
Nor was any of them in your presence slaughtered

40. The child among them was raised on your benefaction
And the adolescent and grey hair grew under your good deed

41. And I will not forget an advisor and a servant
Elderly, having a right upon the king owed

42. So be pleased with them, for you are Joseph
And your servant the Sheikh of the State, Sheikh Yaqub

43. I swear, if you turned your face away angrily
From the earth, the clouds would not rain upon it

44. And if you told the highlands that you are coming
The highlands would shake while they are rugged

45. And if you stayed up at night for the shining stars
Wanting evil, nothing you desired would be unattainable for you

46. Likewise, if you harbored malice toward dawn
It would be obscured and become gloomily dark

47. You are none other than time itself since you were victorious
And every enemy among your adversaries is defeated

48. You are the springtime of people, your righteousness connects
And your honor abounds and your wealth is granted

49. The archers took aim at you from every direction
As though you are a sun radiating rays from all its sides

50. So neither gifts are prohibited nor covenants prevent
Nor deeds blamed nor praise deemed fabricated

51. And an honored lineage reached to the stars of the sky
Having its ancestry among the righteous attributed

52. A knight Qays took pride in, like how the nobility of ʿĀmir
And the Abyssinians are proud of the wandering Bedouins

53. So you don't see in him or his clan any
Disgrace, when other clans are faulted

54. May God reward the pride of the kingdom from one who returned him
To glory, and he from glory was stripped

55. So he was none other than Jonah in the belly of the whale when
He called unto his Lord while distressed

56. And Job, when he called and his affliction was prolonged
So what he complained of affliction was relieved for Job

57. Ancestral fortune follows it, and perhaps
For a man, his ancestral fortune has consequence

58. So do not wonder at what you have seen, for they are
Hearts which good and evil overturn

59. And for the people in the world there is abasement and honor
And for the kingdom, banishment and proximity

60. And how many estranged were loyalty toward him tested
And for the people in the world there is trial and test

61. And whoever lived in the world must see
Diverse wonders, for time is full of wonders

62. Abu Salih, no name and title will be absent
For a name has become noble and surnames have become teknonyms

63. You have remained as you are, conspicuously eminent
And builder of towering high sublimities

64. If you do not complain of bleakness, then indeed
Swords, horsemen, arrows and spears have complained

65. Wandering in the desert as though they are
Scrolls, some of which are bound and some poured out

66. And were it not for avoiding sin, I'd have said scrolls
Scattered with the traces of steeds and tents

67. So the Kilabi house boasts through you, it is indeed
A house above the galaxy placed high

68. Lofty in lineage, the servant has not pitched his affection
But it is affection from God that is pitched

69. Buried beneath the earth while its rope reaches
To the highest of the celestial spheres is looped

70. And I found in your sublime qualities enabling me
To speak, while praise and poetry visited me

71. So I clothed you in a robe of praise, seldom
Does it wear out and fade when garments fade

72. It angers your detractor until it is as though
Your enemy by the praise in you is attributed