1. A day like the day of Ghazw
That I shall never forget were I to move on

2. And pardon it though my steps once
Stumbled, being of those who give thanks for clemency

3. The haunts of youth and passion
And the abode of peace and inviolability

4. We gained from it the prey of the eye
While the huntress was prohibited

5. Does brought down, though not prohibited
Nor did we scruple to violate the sacred

6. In them is the object of desire, blond
Whose cheeks bloom, though her complexion is sickly

7. You turn from the lightning flash
Smiling, though stricken with burning fever

8. A seducer worshipping idols was smitten by it
His sight though he is misguided

9. She pelted me on the day of live coals
From the corner of her eye so she shot me

10. And her arrow had its way with my heart
Whether I protested or surrendered

11. I gained happiness through her though after
Bliss one is wretched who knew bliss

12. The pilgrimage cleansed me of rancor
Her hands spread forth but knew not

13. We thanked her though her cure brought only sickness
The drawers of water take their ease at Zamzam

14. Drinking its tepid water
From the water they draw which will

15. Bring health or cause throats to burst
None but the outcasts behind the barriers

16. Drank it, and the tribe of Mudar
Allah watered the sands with what

17. The earth's stars poured down as rain
So wherever the blood of the slain flowed

18. You turned tears into blood
In your eyes they are only tents

19. Why should it trouble you to behold tents?
Oh Time, in that life which passed

20. Will you never return, will you never revert?
I swore, though she was confined

21. Her nostrils plugged with cotton wadding
That I would redeem her with all my blood

22. Were she offered for sale however high the price
You see their fires in the distance

23. Flames that blaze through the thickets
The others seemed like red camels

24. Bearing a litter, not warriors with lances
I came to feel affection in the family of

25. Abd al-Rahim though they were not kin
I feared for them but they

26. Were the inviolable sanctuaries
They sheltered me and I nestled against them

27. Dividing gifts as we picked at our sides
I bought them off against harm to my people

28. Scrupulously weighing out the blood-price
So I was not cheated or made to pay

29. The wounds of the glancing arrows of regret
I parried the swords of their hands and the Age

30. Was smashed to pieces by them
I rose up by them in days

31. Triumphant and taking vengeance
Kings who suppose sovereignty

32. To be destined and assigned to them
Content with the existence of their glory

33. Not discontented with oblivion
As though were they brought low

34. Their house would be destroyed piecemeal
It was they who established the Pilgrimage so praise

35. Would not have come were it not for them
They gave generously so the rain cloud

36. Drew from their hands the gift of bounty
Thanks to them it completed virtues in a youth

37. Who grew up and then reached puberty
They were matched in it and resembled

38. In purpose and were as one in determination
The perfection of the lance matched with

39. The lance-shaft joined together
And morning came to Abi Hasan

40. A path smoothed for their high endeavors
They are the emblems even if the fire brand in their midst

41. Rose to power because of the banner
The seeing of the able fulfilled for them

42. That which was ample and of great significance
It carried out in their path a mission

43. By which their religion was made secure
A youth the discrimination witnessed in

44. His charm all that it knew
Reputation placed him ahead of

45. The elders though he was weaned only recently
He attained so was deposed

46. And overreached, so was unassuming
The judge of the clouds decreed against the clouds

47. When he ruled, with justice, not wrongly
He said to it in phrases of generosity

48. And the names between you
A resounding case of truth not yielding

49. To prejudice and not unfair
His opinion made smooth what ridges

50. Of hill-slopes and rugged ground wrinkled
The beauties of custom whose charms

51. Even the envious must acknowledge, though reluctantly
And flashes of lightning that gleam

52. Through the clouds to make the kindling catch fire
They shone like sparks and will go on

53. Stirring until the live coals are filled
Should Time settle down with them

54. And slacken after raging furiously
And his effort diminish a little

55. Though he was resolute and determined
Tomorrow he will push his endeavor with them

56. And broaden his step
And turn back regretting, rebuilding

57. Of the lofty places what had collapsed
A compact with me for the days regarding you

58. I sealed it, firmly
And the promise of Fate to me is in

59. Your ascent, seldom fraying
So let not one who reproaches though joined in fortune

60. Make you despair of attaining happiness
Take the plunging of one who bounds upward

61. After crouching, as the mantle of honor
Don again the raiment of the narcissus

62. A garment reaching to the middle of the shin
Either the youth of Time or you find it

63. Grown decrepit, its head shorn
Give thanks in full measure for one who apportions

64. To you the best of what he apportions
Visiting you from his lurking places

65. With what he hid and concealed
Calling voices that gather the expressions

66. Scattered among the sages' sayings
To mention them works a magic

67. Though they are only words
They give mastery to poetry

68. Or else its masters will serve them
They come to you without neglecting you

69. Whether accustomed or untried
That they watch over bonds from you

70. And what is inviolable
That the slanderer insinuating

71. His treachery against them is sinful
He intrigued and then tested you

72. To transmit other than what he comprehended
But when he saw you as a tribe

73. Impregnable to his casting of stones
No, by the father of al-‘Ulā, if what he alleged were true

74. He would not have blocked paths and precluded routes