1. I am awed by the lofty winds when they blow,
And I think the homes of people are desolate when abandoned.

2. And I yearn for the garden's meadow as a respite,
Describing the caravans and lightning when they pass.

3. Excusing those who came late after staying up all night,
Whether they were healed of lovesickness or became lovesick.

4. O heart consumed by long, sleepless nights,
Which toyed with it, then finished it off.

5. And beds that one counts as sheep when going to sleep,
Yet wakes finding his love for them would be better had he not slept.

6. And a gorgeous one, had the eyes of beholders done her beauty justice,
Her charm would not have bent nor rung.

7. White like a new moon, sometimes
Her shyness is mentioned, so she frowns.

8. She took and gave from the sun’s radiance what adorned,
She perfected, collecting beauty and excelling.

9. It is as if her hands had traced the lines of her face,
So it came out perfectly as she wished.

10. She ruled the gazes focused on her,
So she is the commander if she stands straight or leans.

11. When she wants to punish with her wand,
And is angry at an offense, she pretends affection.

12. She leaned toward us, shorter than the pool, yet
The pool’s fresh cool water does not quench like she who thirsts.

13. And she threw - had she not been a proud beauty,
We would have said she saw and learned from a gazelle's throwing.

14. She betrayed - had she not taken a vow to shed my blood,
She would not have known the vow in which she erred.

15. Even on the soft sands, her steps dig in,
Her strides heavy with what she was made to carry.

16. She swore to kill me, but when she saw
My blood still flowing, she interpreted it well.

17. Good news! You have eternal life,
O you who saw the treachery and did not die.

18. She tried in vain to kindle the embers in his chest,
The daughter of Arak - does she even know how to kindle a fire?

19. Delicate Wurqa was reminded of her passion,
So her thoughts flew to it and she remembered.

20. She cried out to the green meadow, how it hummed
When she leaned upon it and it moaned.

21. If love's entanglements allowed escape
For weakness or mercy, it would have been saved.

22. I was enthralled when I heard her voice,
I doubted - did she sing sadly or weep?

23. Stop, O brother of passion, stop like a released prisoner,
Carrying your secret chastely or it will be spread.

24. Raise your voice to her - had she spoken
To you quietly, even jars would have heard.

25. Say greetings, peace, and a request -
Though failed, even if successful once sent.

26. O sister of Saad, why does my heart
Lie tormented for you, as if my eyes betrayed me?

27. Return my heart to me, it is a trust
Guaranteed, owed - if lost it will be held against you.

28. If you think I may betray or abandon you,
So enemies gloat over you, they have gloated.

29. Blind to warnings, deaf to echoes,
It lived upon the dawn but darkened.

30. It disobeyed the eye of proof and its judgment,
So its confusion in them led it more astray.

31. The stars differ under its sky
Their voices unfamiliar there, even when turning to look.

32. A boat - the skilled sailor confused within it,
The gambler's deceit - did it lose or gain there?

33. When passengers despaired of its ignorance,
How to survive - they entrusted themselves and surrendered.

34. I prodded it toward lofty goals with determination -
Had it consulted the Mother of Calamities it would not have hastened.

35. It turned from the generous ones, shaking off
Their pleas - either made forgetful or saddened.

36. And behind it, were it not for hopes from them,
Relatives - if content therewith it would not have abandoned us.

37. Wake the clan of Abdel Raheem, and do not mind
The times' eyes however they wake.

38. And ask them about glory - question souls
That have realized the world's ignorance and understood.

39. The soil's wickedness and waters
Became honorable, purified and cleansed through it alone.

40. It is as if the water of time did not water
The clan whose nobility sprouted from its ground.

41. A people - when estrangement's veil falls upon them
And the outstretched hand is folded, it regrets.

42. Their faces denied the full moons, and believed
Their folded arms shaded by clouds, so they were cleansed.

43. They interceded for the lofty, its ancient nobility preceding its new,
So their elite preceded and their lowlydeferred.

44. The land that gathered in throngs bore them,
Wise, highborn - as if strangers come in hard times or few.

45. Flocking to the lofty, as if they
Had an appointed time that would not be missed.

46. They settled affairs - its youth like its elders -
Matching strides, succeeding each other.

47. They embarked on the battlefields selflessly -
Were it not for their character they would not have been preferred.

48. Empty inside, seeing the grim tribulations behind,
In war, they match what they embody, not pretending or acting.

49. They wrote upon the feathers of arrows for us as
They stabbed the racing horses, whether lean or fat.

50. And the eloquent seated speaker among them takes
From it the breaths of the courageous warrior.

51. Take from their talk the discourse of their ancestors,
And wonder at the summits of glory, how they met.

52. And ask the leader of faith what glory remains
From them - it is testimony and steadfastness.

53. A moon - it is the mirror of their qualities
However much it sees to reflect.

54. It performed their duties and instituted supererogations
In glory - completing the duties and perfecting.

55. Malik outshone the precedents, his strides
Racing the winds, so it flagged and was fettered.

56. And his days clustered around him orphaned,
Arranging themselves for onlookers prominently.

57. The effort of divers and their cunning does not know
From which pearl shells of the sea it was brought out.

58. They speculated with assumptions and frequently
Plunged into what was deemed strange and monumental.

59. They said it rose from the endless sea,
No - rather it descended from the endless sphere.

60. White, filling the hand of purpose, fateful,
It possessed fate and contained favor for those granted it.

61. O gatherer of beautiful things after their dispersion
Torn apart - their time of loss has come.

62. O extractor of the exemplary from the vertices of
What was composed by authentic opinion and concealed.

63. How many confident in their opinion and calculation
Safe from error or deviation you have constrained.

64. You pressured him until he acknowledged his weakness
When you placed your hands upon subtleties.

65. And one whose speech seemed an eloquent miracle
Erected as a banner and portrayed.

66. He spoke excessively expanding his desires -
When you said just one, he fell silent.

67. He thought rhetoric was only bombast
Not everything described as deepest black is darkest.

68. And I see since you carried its banner
The ministry was helped against failing leaders and scrubbed clean.

69. You supported its correction and corruption within
Whether reforming or corrupting.

70. Your brother folded his brother within,
And you were sent as its third, empowered through you.

71. You are its horsemen, defending it,
Whether warred upon or reconciled.

72. And your backs are created for its chests
Wrongfully confined if narrowed or crowded.

73. It belongs to you - so when is it borrowed from you
For beauty and you want it back, it is reclaimed?

74. Children of its lineage and intimate with its excuse
When relying upon you it is chaste and widowed.

75. It would ransom the ground you stepped on
With peaks fallen beneath your feet as you rose.

76. And one who whispers suspicions to himself about you -
By your life not an errant soul tempted him.

77. If they burdened you with him, and withered
He would be apportioned what could not be adjusted.

78. You have enriched me beyond all others, so I do not care
If fingers are opened or closed to me.

79. I have drunk the sweetest of your drink, so I see
No harm in a fleeting cloud or vanishing mirage.

80. You have described to me intimacy and friendliness - the minds
Were not drunk with its taste until you described it.

81. I rejected the loyalty of a brother and loved ones -
Your precious loyalty is of unmatched make.

82. So whenever I sought other than you or your like
Then witness I was of the perverse faithless.

83. And to please you - when have thankful souls praised
The benevolent, fearing stinginess or blaming?

84. Fulfilling what was owed by their hands generously -
Obligating creditors, excelling and enriching.

85. The poor are wealthy with it, and if it saw
A wealthy nature, it increased and graced it.

86. An affection that has not been sniffed to revive spirits,
And naturalness that awakens if intoxicated.

87. It cuts through minds - where is its conclusion
From its defects, whether fortunate or erased?

88. Its pulpits roared with its call to you
If calling prophethood through you, it would be believed.

89. If it accompanied you one vacant day
It would settle or the horizons would be scented through it.

90. And celebration - each of your days it adorns,
Beautifying with however it covered or embellished.

91. Until you see the youth shedding their nests
And the sun rolled up in their greens.