1. The glance of a beautiful maiden has made me lovesick
With an illness time cannot cure

2. She sways like a branch, smiles like a pearl
Turns her back like a palm tree and faces like the full moon

3. She is like a withered palm tree, weak and frail
Her chest panting and lacking strength

4. Her hair flowing over cheeks
That were like night, now bright like dawn

5. When I tasted her saliva I imagined
I was sipping fine wine

6. A tempting girl with soft fingers
Full of everything that entices and excuses

7. Her murderous glances made me drunk
As did the sweetness of her saliva

8. She plays with hearts seeking a reward
And sets your heart aflame with embers

9. How can you take my blood and race with the sword
Seeking a prize from the Almighty?

10. She unleashed upon me from her dwelling in the caves
A passionate illusion that came by night and left by day

11. He secretly visited under the cover of darkness
Until I thought he visited openly in daylight

12. He twisted and coiled about so much
Had he persisted for a month, he would have danced

13. Blessed is her abode in Al-Jiz'
And her ruins at Bussra

14. I tried curing my sickness through her
But she only added sickness to sickness and thoughts of her

15. My money is gone and with desire whenever
I tried to abstain from it I endured with patience

16. Neither my flowing tears would stop
Nor the burning of my heart be extinguished, nor my eyes tire

17. I wasted away with love that if I died
I would need only a niche for a mosquito as a grave

18. Each day I am wronged and treated unjustly
And suffer remoteness, separation, and abandonment

19. Gray hairs have come upon me but brought no dignity
Rather they were as bells ringing in my ears

20. The white flowers deserted me, I don't blame
The fickleness of the one whose tresses flow

21. Perhaps one day I may be granted
Reunion, for ease comes after hardship

22. O heart, her glances left you no excuse among the chaste maidens
Take from fate what is pure and from people what I know of them

23. If you have wealth guard your honor above it all
And do good whenever you can for rewards are like treasures stored for you

24. My friends and I became arrogant
With youthful cheeks hoping for youthful cheeks

25. The skilled ones compete with us
Erasing lines and writing lines

26. I said, "Mount your steeds to the best of people"
Whether from pure lineage or branch or offspring

27. So they set out across the easy plains
Towards my father creased and rugged

28. The horses almost stepped into puddles
Weakened by their thinness and frailty

29. Coming from a sea where you see whales
Swimming about safely in its depth

30. His palm covered the land with kindness
Nomads and settled folk alike

31. Like heavy clouds led by ostrich
Spreading rain over the land

32. The most forbearing of people against punishing
The more you add to your sins the more he forgives

33. His two hands are divided - one for destinies
And the other for provision

34. Generous with honor, he does not hoard it
How can one who has squandered honor hoard?

35. Whenever you smell the perfume from his fingers
You find it purer than pure musk

36. His hands were generous to me beyond what I deserve
So I was generous in praise and gratitude

37. A aromatic scent the riders carry
Sweet, fragrant, and perfumed

38. In howdahs that spread more fragrance
When people fill them with perfume and scent

39. Like the flowers of sweet basil bloomed by rain
And breeze blew gently over them

40. A king who overpowers other kings and builds Glory upon glory and pride upon pride
He is free of blame, no secrets remain hidden from him

41. Of pure and lofty character and generous traits
God prevented any meanness being seen in him

42. He proceeded to serve and receive bounty and favors from the virtuous in floods
On an inauspicious Thursday I observed in him

43. A mighty Thursday in awe and glory
Whenever the sword wavered in the lands of enemies

44. They wavered from it in fright
It strikes sparks against the sparks, and the sharp sword

45. Repels the polished white blades
A journey that brought elevation, and steps

46. That blessed the journey and the traveling
God renewed through him honor, fortune

47. Capability over the enemy, and conquest
How can you not be helped when you are the right hand of God's religion

48. In times of distress and the left hand in ease?
Favors from you cannot be repaid, I see ingratitude

49. In repaying good deeds with ingratitude
You live bestowing benefits whether good or bad befalls you

50. If you take a course by your grace you steer it with grace
The world was not devoid of the beauty of your rule

51. Nor were you devoid of forbidding wrong and enjoining right