1. If my cheek is raised from the pillow of cares,
Though you say you're patient, you'll know my patience when spears are long unsheathed,

2. And the prisoner is humiliated.
If you're victorious, then take your vengeance and let the stalwart horse charge!

3. Otherwise, stand aside from parting,
For you weren't the first hide to decay.

4. Don't you make me happy with your two eyes,
When before love I never needed to borrow them?

5. My glance wavers between two,
A serious passion and a transient one.

6. The eye sees what the heart cannot,
So my heart heads to my glances and they roam.

7. I stopped when the red nights passed me by,
Furious, he strides on and does not turn back

8. To a leg that stumbles and a mind that flows.
His vigor with the horse is enough,

9. My yearning behind him and my sighs.
When I discerned, I was appalled,

10. My good omens had flown off well.
I did not know - doubt dispels certainty -

11. Which misfortune my road would lead me to.
The gales of wind woke me,

12. So a sweet-scented breeze pointed the way to you.
A lightning bolt my eye did snatch,

13. With gleam and softness in its edges.
In the darkness, the shadows of beauty

14. Torment their chaste breasts.
They carried to my eyes the swords

15. To kill me, their hair the sheaths.
They wore pearls, challenging

16. As though their necklaces were their breasts.
I cried blood the day of battle at Ghawir,

17. And that's easy for them, and my small effort.
Of the wonders of love, a drop of tear

18. Falls from my eyelid, and my rocky heart.
A night whose dawn lingered,

19. Not covering up or lighting the way.
It would return to me in its first half

20. When I'd say it's over, and the last came.

21. As if the dawn's sword in it was lost,
A blind man turned away from it, though seeing.

22. We walk in its confusion, and alight,
While its darkness, about to disappear, does not go.

23.
As if Al-Thurayya in its wing

24. Has made my hands a refuge from the passion's abode.
I walked at night consulting the stars

25. While I have no good news of dawn in them.
My hopes set on a high place,

26. To which they aim, though my fortune is short.
Does a spear benefit when it hasn't been thrown

27. By a hand that strikes with the sharp blades?
My excuse for the insolence of my time,

28. Where is the excuse of the one who apologizes?
And for the betrayal of its usual days

29. However much it changes against him.
Isn't it enough that the branch of youth

30. Has withered and hasty youth returned?
If it had looked with beauty, it wouldn't have tired

31. Of me - I have no equal in it!

32. And a master, when I said, "Let him judge!"
His transgression imprisoned me or wronged me.

33. He said, "Beware of anyone but me!"
So hypocrisy split open my heart.

34. Didn't it come to him that he doesn't
Probe my depths or dress my wounds?

35. That the protection of God's gift to me
From wrong - if my wronger sought help -

36. And whoever takes refuge in the heights of my father
Spends the night as an undying star.

37. For femininity, compared to him,
A short arm remains and a lame foot.

38. He protected the one his love made happy
Lest, without his protection, he become disgraced.

39. He stood for his kindness
A man who does not fail - and he is the victorious one.

40. Eloquent, if they turn to him,
And fierce, if they fight him, stubborn.

41. His manners are two types of water:
One salty, one Euphrates, clear.

42.
And two flavors: if the sweet hopes

43. The bitter stands to defend it.
If the honor of the heights is violated,

44. An angry lion, jealous, rebels.
And if you come seeking milk, his palm

45. Feeds from your buckets a breast overflowing.
He fulfilled glory since childhood -

46. The ages have not taken turns over him.
His shoulder was nominated for munificence

47. And the swords and bridles haven't touched him.
A strong carrier of the spine's channel

48. When the worries bow down their backs.

49. His chest is wide when
It breathes relief from the narrowness within.

50. Wealthy in his first opinions
If he takes charge, he does not consult.

51. The features of a twenty-year-old are on his face
And his wisdom is that of many years.

52. Noble, springing from the noblest lineage,
Their clay does not go bad.

53. Their markings in the brows of eternity
Remain with honor while the ages pass away.

54. When one of them dies, his son
Is life for his legacy or resurrection.

55. He built the house - transgression does not rise
To it, even if the eagles carried it.

56. Lofty in structure, you see his house
As the place his shoulder built high.

57. The glances of eyes slide off it
And return, away from its horizon and false.

58. If heaven did not exist in the heights
These full moons would not have risen from it.

59.
For their fires, in the innards of wilderness,

60. A gaze to the night visitor's image.
Hearths lit with flint

61. And around them the nomads are slayed.
Exalted, its pillars raised by the glory of Abdel Rahim

62. Upon a plan outlined by Ardashir.
Branches for them, their sovereignty’s pen

63. From roots for them, its crown and throne.
I ransom you - miserable is he with your blessings

64. Who lags behind while you race ahead.
When he is violent, he is more feeble than you

65. A broken wing and lame foot.
Weak is the wing of the vile, foul is

66. His tongue from what his conscience hid.
His slackness boils with your arms

67. And how can the tall reach the short?
The millstone of his anger turns

68. Against you - and matters revolve around you.
In his chest is envy that

69. Your faces brighten hearts.
For you, each day in what upset him

70. Is a giver of good news, and from you, a warner.
For the sword and the saddle cloth, from you a prince,

71. And for the turban, from you a minister.
He has nothing but gnashing teeth

72. And blaming the times, with you his aid.
By you, the ways of bounty became clear

73. And the lamp of wishes lit up.
The heads of praise leaned toward me

74. As mares that accompany yet are aloof.
The tongue of asking had been cowardly

75. And now it is bold and reckless.

76. You have ruled the reins of this speech
For none but you make it deviate.

77. That is why you warriors are loved by verse
While verse, for you, neighs.

78. I pledged my tongue and heart to you
One day affectionate, one day grateful.

79.
And I became, because of you - if one other than you wants me,

80. That aim is hard.
Good belongs to you - I am a lad who smelled

81. Your help, so plentiful rain poured down.
A jewel that the seas diving deep

82. Have not borne the like of in all their expanse.
By God, many clear dew drops are dear to you

83. While your little one to me is great.
May good be yours - I saw in it my

84. Contentment while others are patient with it.

85. If you stand by the pact of loyalty
In passionate haste, no fatigue hindering you,

86. Then it wasn't the first thing they were unable
To do while you to it are All Powerful.

87. How many hopes have I, mean and sure,
That your wing in them will fly!

88. I have many perfect rewards -
If only sincere rhymes visit you each day