1. For what purpose have they judged you and become enraged?
That was only when misfortune enveloped you completely.

2. Why not - the days of youth are lasting
With your cheeks in their prime overwhelmed by the exuberant youth.

3. And when you were in abundant livelihood, neither remoteness
Nor poverty upset your heart.

4. And Salma flirts with you with a glance of her eye
As she flirts and acts coquettishly as she acts coquettishly.

5. Few are her outings with caravans and lands
When the stalwart youth roams in the field of his vigor.

6. Of the gentlewomen wearing clothes
Of chastity not stained for them with shameful deeds.

7. I stipulated loyalty from them so when the whiteness of my chastity
To the chaste women passed, the stipulation passed.

8. And how - when you have lived thirty pilgrimages -
Can you expect to have a share in their love or equity?

9. It is as if the youth ascends an age ladder
Until he passes forty then declines.

10. May God not delay gray hair for it
Is a bridled wisdom in sin that does not transgress.

11. So leave this - but you have often spent a night
With a caravan as if there were roaring lions under them.

12. And you crossed with them the terrain of every hill
For the coarse pebbles around the meadows murmuring among them.

13. It is as if the sound of jinn in the deserts
Is groups singing lamentations for the repentants.

14. The guide of the people gets lost in them when
The family roams and their abodes become obscured.

15. And the mirage of the confused wandered aimlessly so it is as if
When the south wind blows, it is bearded chins blowing.

16. Darkness mingles in them with daylight so for the bright ones
There are flickering lights in their atmosphere.

17. When we cut across a stretch of sand, another stretch of sand appeared to us
In its wake or a plain from the sands.

18. And my companions are listless from drowsiness as if
A gentle breeze from the winds causes them to lean.

19. On every undulating dune it is as if it
Is a bitter colocynth that its middle cannot be discerned.

20. The lands saw it until its slopes were confused
And its ravines altogether flowed from its erosion.

21. I say to them and the night is clothed in thick darkness
And the humps of the camels beneath them are humps bending.

22. And dawn has appeared to the caravan as if
Dawn's garments unveiled a shining thread.

23. And the star Aldebaran in the sky is as if it
Is a conifer of brilliant jewels or a pendant.

24. Set up the chests of the camels towards Ibn Salih
For beyond it there is no elevation or descent for the camels.

25. And before you is the sea which has no
Near shore visible when it becomes turbulent.

26. An armpit is torn by kissing and biting
So it wears out and does not wear out from the elevated armpit.

27. Forbearing of major sins yet
Harsh towards his enemies in war and authoritative.

28. He destroyed the Indian swords with striking in youth
And exhausted with long stabbing what the pen produced.

29. We were amazed that his palm closes the sword
While the thing his palm was most accustomed to was extending.

30. When you praised him, I did not fear a sayer
Saying so-and-so exaggerates in what he said.

31. A young man of nobility from the best people and tribe
Maradisha - excellent is that tribe!

32. When asked, they give ample and abundant gifts
And how many tribes are asked for gifts but do not give!

33. They are lions and the neighbor of lions is not safe
And these are lions whose neighbor was never calm.

34. When an alarming event shocked, we were audacious with their might
Against that shocking alarming event which shocked.

35. He built for them a lofty citadel of honor
Supporting so the structure did not decline nor did they.

36. O youth, your qualities in his prime bound me
I bound praise to them so the bond held firm.

37. And I made every chaste girl whose adornment
Is Abu Al-Alwan’s praise - not figure and makeup - fall for him.

38. And I enumerated lethal weapons for the enemies through it
When its roots exhale poison, its twigs drip.

39. So may it live its life not the life of my lines for it
Will remain while the writer of lines and lines perishes.