1. Travel with your gaze and look around, do you know
When lightning flashed in a puddle and snatched away

2. It crept stealthily then closed its eyes pretending
While gazers over the saddlebags do not blink

3. My friends yearn for it to shine though around them
Is the darkness' cover, a patched cloak

4. So its flicker smiled at them with its flashes
Like a lively dark-lipped girl who winks at every moment

5. They carried their cheeks on palms made soft
By sleep, so they are weaker than wrists

6. Passion awakened the slumbering ones, the bird of separation flew to them
With fingers, so they tossed and turned

7. When their camel driver got up, the fates stumbled with their guide and swerved
They crowd over the saddlebags as if

8. The plaits beneath the head-shawls were swayed by the trotting
O driver of the camels, you have news with the morning breeze

9. If only you would stop for the morning breeze
It blew knowingly, driving from the morning breeze

10. Wild sweet-smelling land, whose people it recognizes
So it was as if the merchants detained a musk-scent

11. In the caravan, or spilled perfume from a sprinkler
You cooled between two stopovers and a halting place

12. Like a liver yearning for the days of fever
Among the virgins is a Sa'diyyah through whom qualities vanish and her beauty cannot be described

13. Like a gazelle, if she were to be hunted with trickery
And the full moon, except that it cannot be eclipsed

14. A white dune on which she sits then a smooth stalk lifts her
In her chest is a stone and beneath her chest

15. Water that heals, and a softness that caresses
She visited the holy land, and between us is

16. A necklace from Zarud, and from Tihama, wafting aroma
She leans against the loins of the enemy of her people

17. I was amazed by the saddlebags and their leaning
How did her heart incline to you after it

18. Used to be wary of its shadow and apprehensive?
I have concealed her flirtations from the slanderers

19. And her place is targeted by their arrows
I folded it until the scout recited poetry about it in the morning

20. And the bard sang of it
If they malign, we have indeed risen above between us

21. That night stay, and that halt was chaste
I am one who knows you, and loves you, aloof

22. From what is faulted and reproached
Neither wealth makes me insist on my withholding

23. Nor does my religion enjoy the sin of squandering
I have resisted greed while turning away

24. Though its faces are adorned for the seekers
It closes the valleys of intimacy, and beyond them

25. Is destitution, while I thirst, and do not sip
A nature I was created with, which was my disposition

26. Honor fattens while livelihood scrapes by
And wealth is most insignificant that reputations are lost protecting it

27. If you are free, and a face bleeds
So mount the wing of honor, you are no deserter

28. Of honor that has passed, and for all wealth, there is one who abandons it
And if you meet glory, accompany its people

29. And frequent it, for you are known by those you frequent
And adopt from the honor of great deeds the habit

30. Of noble character, for your own soul is ennobled
A hero whom the world courts with its union

31. Loving, drawing near, while he spurns it
The towering states obey him jealously

32. So he is honored with what is in his hands and shadows it
He restrains himself from its trappings out of ability

33. And it is wondrous that one able practices restraint
If not for the Most High, his soul would not

34. Take upon itself the misery of exhaustion and pretend
He is preoccupied with caring for the protected land

35. Or spends the night planning and snatches
Trustworthy, fulfilling promises recognized

36. By rights, though injustice knows them and practices them
Wakeful, while kings sleep, whether appointed

37. In consultation or deputized
Exhausted, his nights compete with his days

38. In that which demolishes their backs and lightens theirs
How many crises have they resolved through him after

39. Disease took hold, procrastinating and delaying
The ignorant Turks who put their heads on their shoulders

40. Arrogantly, their devil capricious
Like a torrent whose course has no moderator

41. The land is torn by what it attempts to regulate

42. Ruses have no power to control the gaps
Until when the capable draws near they cease

43. A resolve firmer than stone, and behind it
A nature gentler than wine and kinder

44. Bitter when angry, his tongue unsheathes
Words from polished blades, more cutting

45. But when you probe his serene conscience
You find the best heart that opens up

46. And perhaps the tongue goes too far while beneath it
Is a blaming heart and fair belief

47. May God grant you length of days, pulsating
In excellence, though the hybrid disparager stops

48. And you bear the forbearance and dignity of elders
In youth, never riding untamed horses

49. You trained your mind for greatness, so no man’s heel rose
Except your heel was nobler

50. You brought them to fresh water, so your name on the day you judge is just
And your name on the day you give is lavish

51. You see the rich of the people improving their wealth
Out of compassion, while you squander your meager wealth

52. You have two comforts, both wished for: a hand
When you punish does not hasten, and a hand when you bestow does not hesitate

53. The seekers of your company exhausted men, so it was equal
In frustration below you, preceding or halted

54. And you rode every well-groomed camel after you
On the back of adequacy, its mount not shared

55. And if you cut the ropes of a pact, it was never
A day for your rope, the honorable, to be severed

56. And if you mixed a lad with your love, your friend’s
Generosity was no different from your brother’s

57. I am one whose tongue insulted you while his heart and self
Were dutiful to you, despite the length of separation

58. And qualities of dignity prevented him
From you, and the cups of fortune disposed of the lad

59. His loyalty is in the mind and the senses,
Yours, his exertion derelict

60. How often have I, beneath my ribs, wished to visit you
From an affliction of that, and from a storm of yearning

61. And a love whose ropes the religion ties
Between me and you, its fiber entwined

62. And if you suspect, my mouth can swear to you about that
And testify, for there is insight in the face

63. And if your withdrawal extends to me with your face
Or view in a way that softens

64. My aloofness would become intimate, and my wayward ambitions
Would be inclusive communities in concord

65. And I would refrain from confidence, for my status
Diminishes, and my visit coveted

66. And you knew, as does every master of bounty
That when the greedy weighs heavily, I lighten him

67. Not beneath the pressure of need am I placing
Myself low, nor when asking am I importunate

68. To lead me in shackles of baseness, made easy
By good news, and to possess my leash, imposing

69. May it distract you, or may her beauty that you received
Erase my inadequate praise, borrowed

70. Of wonders is that my father was Chosroes and I
Among my daughters in eloquence am rough-tongued

71. So enjoy her as the ceremony marries her to you
A virgin whose necklace of pearls is strung for you

72. Pass the nights eternal, triumphant
Until her inclination is corrected and imbued

73. The exile did not yearn for the homeland or strive
Wrongfully for the sacred Mecca, cheating and conferring

74. My friend, here is the English translation of the Arabic poem you provided, preserving the meaning and spirit of the original to the best of my ability. Let me know if you need anything else!