1. My brother and lovers are brothers,
Who console each other in joy and youth.

2. They are not attributed to any shortcoming,
Even if time brings them distress.

3. I appealed to you both, so one of you gave away the secret,
A secret that is carefully guarded.

4. After a day when I met
Unaizah on a day of joy,

5. Or did you both know why
Our bonds in Ukaz were severed?

6. One who struggles to maintain eye contact cannot
Regain the forgiveness he lost.

7. I fear for the hearts
That flutter toward him.

8. And I began excusing him out of mercy
After his pain and cruelty.

9. I take delight in the phantom's arrival,
And in the phantom's presence is aridity.

10. My eyes yearn for him,
And the meeting of our bodies is sweetness.

11. When I stop, it is in deafness -
Events have announced their bitterness.

12. Like a line written by life
And the wind repeats erasing it.

13. If I had any power
Or the ages had any strength,

14. I would have taken the winds' ascension
For what they took from the high abode.

15. As for the covenant of the fickle ones -
Its bliss with separation is misery.

16. The fullness of the nights of connection in the evening and morning,
If not for the betrayal's assault upon my loyal love.

17. And how few suitors are worthy
Of those who are unequalled!

18. The religion of chaste women is to be gentle,
And their religion is impudence and frailty.

19. When a pedigree is pure for her,
She is not fooled by wealth.

20. I married her off, the curtains were fluttering,
And the boughs of blossoms swaying.

21. The journey was long, the elder performed hajj,
He combined purity with youth.

22. He sought wealth as provision for a day
Of bounty, not a day of growth.

23. And he performed rights with his money -
His children perform their desires.

24. He watches over the protected woman,
Whose manners are sweet.

25. Such is the secret of what the ministry selected
Regarding fatherhood and sonship.

26. And where the adornment of pride stands -
A plump shoulder and its summit.

27. Among the Masarjis family, there is a star
Whose prominence no mansion reached.

28. Isa has a towering mountain and people,
An eminence joined to its hilltops.

29. They tied their bond, and it cannot be undone
To the chaste woman among them.

30. They went with it as envious
Of the high ones in the abode of assembly.

31. Whoever attacks the lips of my steps
With every sharp sword,

32. The princes of battle - their speech
Opens ambiguities forcefully.

33. In every meeting of a writer among them
To the enemies is an invasion.

34. And you raced to follow a step
Ahead of your people - you, their sister step!

35. You admired the first ones, pursuing
Until a neck met decapitation.

36. You accompanied those who derive amusement, while you
Were to kindness an example.

37. Brothers of suffering - when I gain victory
Or neighbors of discord.

38. So you are to me a faithful friend
When a soul becomes an enemy.

39. And the opinion of all wavered
And did not attain its fortune through effort.

40. How many a brother I named before your affection
I made in affection like you!

41. Then you became more solidly allied
In my hands and more faithful than him.

42. Affection we shared - I was
Foolish in it at times, and at times wise.

43. If not for tender moments, I may
Have corrected you, and in me ardor.

44. So may you be rewarded by trailing gowns
As the trailing gowns reward their maids.

45. The anklets were crooked
So they straightened them and set them right.

46. Every day a gift
For their gift upon you is sweetness.

47. They sprinkle - they do not cease - upon you
And upon your father the days of life.

48. A fire upon the enemies is kindled
In your traits by the Divine.