1. The crescent of Saud* journeyed happiness to us,
And love grew in my faithful heart.

2. Beauty's garden descended upon lovers,
So modesty watered buds of accord.

3. She glanced with her eyelids and smiled,
So the radiance of strung pearls appeared.

4. O lady of kohl-lined eyes, be kind
And be generous to your lover.

5. Be generous even with an apparition during the time of separation,
Despite the defamer and envier's prayers.

6. I swear by what pleases you in truthful loyalty,
I have not parted from you out of tranquility and repulsion.

7. I stand forever dutiful to the obligations of passion,
Substituting sleep with wakefulness.

8. For how long, distracted and excessive in my youth,
And my happiness in disappointing and breaking promises.

9. For how long, this aloofness from the agony of love,
Return to me so companionship may flourish again.

10. Resume our connected past,
For nearness is my feast, and distance is my feast.

11. Leave, O reproacher, blaming me during absence,
She surpasses all gazelles in beauty.

12. An Arab woman, if she faced the full moon one night,
The moon would say my happiness is complete.

13. By God, were it not for God, the Nullifier of her beauty,
For her radiant beauty I would have prostrated.

14. I swear by the light of her forehead, her moles,
The blackness of her hair and redness of her cheeks,

15. By the bow of her eyebrows and the arrow of her glances,
The slenderness of her waist and stature and neck.

16. Praising her would be sweet for me in my love-sickness
As praising Ismael* is delightful poetry to me.

17. Awakened by the excellence of his opinion Egypt prospered,
Prospering in adornments on the chests of the virtuous.

18. He endowed it with knowledge and morals,
Sublime subtleties beyond counting.

19. Were it not for him, it would not have succeeded despite enemies,
In its extended shadow with intent.

20. Her beauty was adorned by his existence,
And for him she erected the flag of support.

21. Ancestry interceded with exploits of glory,
And honor endowed with ancestors' achievements.

22. Lenient, if you reside in his neighborhood,
You will always find him inclined to the traits of generosity.

23. By nature he leans towards the clement and its people,
As branches lean towards propping.

24. Speak of his charity, for in his charity,
Is abundant, copious endowment.

25. If the deaf rock became speaking,
It would sing to you a song of praise.

26. He is the axis of the cycle of glories, the one who
Adorned the necklace of opinion with propriety.

27. Lofty achievements, towering pillar of might,
Burgeoning glories, fresh game.

28. Reviver of schools after erasing its lessons,
Knowledge he dressed in the gown of renewal.

29. O House of Egypt, how lofty you are,
Becoming in the mortal world the brightest of moons.

30. Hasten to reap the fruits of glory from its meadows,
And seek shade beneath its outstretched shadow.