1. This is the quest, not what the cups claim
And reality, not days of delusion

2. You drew near when you made peace with Tameem
And you restrained the tyrannical ruby

3. And your might lowered itself from its height
And your army conquered the pride of Turkhan

4. You still grant him kindness and harbor him
For him while he harbors deceit beneath cosmetics

5. He aspires to the sky hoping to reach it
In ignorance that before him Haman had perished

6. I have not seen that hopes deceive a knight
With the extended hand of a seller toward Keywan

7. Nor walked seeing mirage that would drown him
Toward clouds, glory not intoxicated

8. And distance from the lion of war made him arrogant
Until he saw them above the hills

9. They traveled with the night, made merry by their trilling
From the light of the moon and lighting fires

10. With every blizzard when they approached
For peace, the day of panic, most ravenous wolves

11. They marched to death smiling, you'd think them
Marching to meet an absent beloved

12. They find death pleasant, so for them belong
The beasts of the meadows and return of the thirsty

13. Not one of them fears getting close to death, they are scattered
In every fray, some in pairs and some alone

14. He harbored love for the exalted, but saw ascent
Beyond it so he let it go, which ladder?

15. If extended in its extension without hardship
Then every human would achieve the heights

16. Does one become infatuated with the mention of Mariah
And the people of Jafnah except a confused mind?

17. He used to roar the lions' roar when alone
And passed when she approached him, like a frolicking colt

18. Regiments that blocked the sun in their great numbers
So Arabs shone beneath the crowns

19. The sky of Naqaa you see wherever you turn with it
A moon that wanders with the traces of a devil

20. So he found humiliation's taste sweet, fearing death defeated
Seeking distance or excluding the nearer

21. Two bitter ends, the lands' extremities are
The advisor of precedents or bitter ends

22. And it was not understood, but they missed the glory of
Ranks from injustice and loss

23. Woe to the fool whom ignorance seeks
And who spent the night intoxicated without joy

24. And meeting death would have been better if allowed
Than a life that gloats over him, the critic

25. You have contained your revenge with might before taking it
So when you ruled, hope returned with kindness

26. How excellent is pardon, pardon after ability
For the ugliest sin, blasphemy after faith

27. One with affection, so you meet them with fury
O you who remembers and whose stirrups

28. Depart from him when the despicable approaches intimacy
My tears of separation have clouded me with their clouds

29. Raining upon me from the owner of the braids, who is close
As redemption even if he has seldom graced me with what

30. He did not give another graceless patron
He wishes if only the morning donned its hue

31. Or the fleeting night gained of its vanishing life
When he saw the wonder his people had for his generosity

32. He gave them yesterday, today for the second time
Generosity, valor and patience, those are his traits

33. Known forever in the clan of Ghassan
He builds upon your glorious renown, diligent

34. Since no glory in truth belongs to any but the building heir
I have wasted my merit that I made known among the ignorant

35. The virtuous among them is seeing among the blind
And I do not care if fate ordains that I meet you

36. After what is wished for me by the patron
Exalting glory and making generosity immortal

37. Not raising a palace or immortalizing a hall
A quest with seriousness and a quest sometimes the two

38. Matters differ but in purpose they are equal