1. She passed by Nu'man, her echo lingering long,
Let her be, not every water is meant for drinking,

2. Out of some urgent need,
She stepped over his blessings intentionally.

3. You see her setting out worried
With burning coals on her chest made cool.

4. The habit of glory pulled her by the nose,
And every glorious one is accustomed to this.

5. She never carried on her back, if she carried,
A foot over injustice or a hand over wrongdoing.

6. If an equal side does not meet her,
Then aim for the farthest, widest side.

7. Be careful even if dangers threaten,
Who fears humiliation will not be safe from degradation.

8. None attains the goal except the seller
Of soft, plentiful living through hardy life.

9. He folds up wealth, hosts no companion,
Does not ask the night for a guiding star.

10. When he sees a shielded prey,
He seeks God's refuge and inclines away.

11. He gives the pulls of passions his neck
A smooth one who knows only hunting.

12. The days try him every time
A lad is confused or a boy is moody.

13. He abstains from the joys of love
When he sees in it a fortunate lover.

14. He swore by chastity, no gazelle called him
Or a bending branch solicited him.

15. His youthful heart never saw a young beauty
Except sober, self-controlled, and firm.

16. Your way, O son of pleasures, so seek
Another brother - I am not your son.

17. Your master is one whose love creates
No fervor, whose long absence induces no longing.

18. It is as if his chastity witnessed for him
Despite gray hair, as a youth and a flower.

19. His youth revered, learned a lesson
As if it had been black-haired old age.

20. You would think him innocence and generosity
And the glory of a soul that emulated Son of Ayyub.

21. The protector of chiefs' foreheads is ransomed -
If sound he is fit only for ransom.

22. He accepts what the wrong of fate brings him
And does not strive for it deliberately.

23. He wonders at the ignorance of days in
His essence that he never meant to sing of.

24. You would think he came wanting something else
So turned from his path, not guided.

25. And an envier whose pride despite his flaws
Among people is to hate heights and envy.

26. The fire of rage kindles embers in his chest
Saying its heat feels no cold.

27. With the victory of his glory he vanished any rancor
He engaged except victoriously supported.

28. He stretched out to seize heights and attained them
With a hand that captures and an arm that upholds.

29. Pens fulfill for him from their needs
What revived the withered and propped up the bent.

30. He kept ascending in the firmaments of heights
Its happiest then happiest mansions.

31. Climbing their stars until when
He surpassed them and ascended.

32. He saw heights attained through efforts
And honor kept safe from gaining favors.

33. He challenged lions in their thickets
With firmness and struggled with rain insistently.

34. And whenever he was told, stop and rest
You have traveled the distance, he would say, "But have I attained the distance?"

35. Bearing the burden of two states was enough,
The gracious kingdom sufficed not the slow.

36. The Prince had in him a breastplate,
Extended and a sharp sword bared.

37. The Capable took root the day of his victory
And the Excellent in Command produced fruit the next day.

38. He took up a comprehensive, correcting affair
So he shouldered it alone, singled out.

39. I know not was it an angel's inspiration
Or his choice that titled him the Unique?

40. An administration he prepared for his grasp
For before, his father in it took support.

41. He managed it with insight so he was not
In it deputized or conforming.

42. He relates its events, true ones,
When you accuse the relatee.

43. And people through it he frees from one
Still repeated in its abode and echoed.

44. O you who birthed people and then extracted him,
After my striving, sublime, flawless.

45. The spurious, the fraudulent, I rejected,
Weeping or in coins or ingots.

46. You made my days submissive and brought near for me
A submission, true to its covenant.

47. You eased through your pact the difficulties of its turns
So I found its actions gentle, smooth.

48. You restored it by keeping the covenant so it is now
A friend after it had been an enemy.

49. And you did not neglect a sanctumsecured
By my longstanding right to you and confirmed.

50. You are as you were, a breaching brother
Where you have increased, becoming supreme.

51. So listen, I exchange with you dwellings
Necklaces, fortified settlements abandoned.

52. Haughty tribes, every deafly unyielding
That spurns to accept save the finest.

53. Of what I conquered and made its ruggedness
Submissive, and its heat enslaved.

54. Encampments, when their narrator declaimed them
You doubted - were they truly sung of or made up?

55. You'd think them too short to enumerate
Though a poet prolonged and intended.

56. The youth marked with his pride passes by them
A lifetime while his honor remains immortalized.

57. The days of celebration carry to you gifts
From them, commencing, made habitual.

58. As long as the dust-colored one lasts, or one carries
Praise, from mountains propped.

59. Years you make pass, living safely
Glowing in glory or repeating anew.

60. No, poetry's inscription never wear out
In you, nor you lack support.