1. The slanderers strayed from your sanctuary
What pained me was that they were

2. The supporters of those with base desires
That you would abandon the side of the devout

3. After them came nations that do not see right
No shrine asks after them on the shore

4. I glanced with my eyes, and like what
The hearts and eyes suffer from

5. Behind the sand dunes until they killed
My eyes are certain of the agony of parting

6. And her companion died confused
So I left him in my tears buried

7. Among the caravan is knowing lineage
When the pretentious claim the branches

8. When the light of her face radiates
The eyelids mean for them the grit of sand

9. She gestures to me hastily
She almost speaks but cannot explain

10. When thirsty, she has
A supply from the blood of lovers

11. Her fingers extend the messengers of loyalty
To me and withdraw for the ungrateful

12. A girl saw a palm tree in the canal
So she leaned towards it gently

13. The roses in her cheek ache
When she cannot find me among the gatherers

14. When she moves a foot or a hand
She wishes my heart or sight was near

15. Under the luggage are the difficulties of love
Creeping into the plains of al-Fayy sadly

16. It is the same for them the day of farewell
Covered in blood or clad in white

17. When the camel litters are opened
They gather them and roll up the sedan chairs

18. The onions withered from their heated breath
As if I deprived them of yearning

19. May God protect the blood and the one who holds it
After a pact at the sanctuary to be loyal

20. He brought life to Tameemi faces
Whose honesty was not base

21. They blended beauty with the water of life
If only the blend was gentle with the drinkers

22. And they sharpened the tips of glances
So it almost did not delay in disclosing

23. Oh, the disturbance, O singer of Qilas
To them as she walks proudly until soft

24. Know that remembering them is a refuge
And do not think love is anything but madness

25. Old age has bent me so why should I blame
The speed of forty years

26. And I'm amazed how youth grew
While grey hair does not consult years

27. If the stumbling of old age has increased
Its wounds and weakness on me

28. So the relentless passage of time has fled
From me, stubbornly running for ten years

29. Ask the events if they have nudged
My side - did the nudge find me soft?

30. And have you heard me moan to my people
When she sent me to complain of groaning

31. I wish she had been satisfied in marriage
With myself and ignored others

32. And I wish when she did not benefit
From my war, she would incline to peace

33. She tested me for a while but was not
Faithful to me - why did she not choose me as a pair?

34. I was faithful to my time and its days
But I failed against the envious

35. How can the whiteness of loyalty remain
One day when there are many who dye it?

36. When experience exposes the faults of men
Withdraw and leave every assumed fault

37. May God dissolve the minds of every
Morally corrupt preserver, far from righteousness and faith

38. Who considers dignity to be the face of hypocrisy
And is content for his actions to be degraded

39. They speak nicely but under the shadows
Is the malice of evil for the chewers

40. When you feel secure from his treachery
He schemes against you, lying in wait

41. Like folding a turban - he folds the mind
With difficulty but gives you softness to the touch

42. He stays up at night watching for
Any mistake from you so he can betray

43. I learned from his betrayal of Asma
That loyalty to all is a myth

44. The claws of his greed are barefoot
So they crept towards the sandaled

45. Their fortune is high while their glory is weak
For they have received greetings from my mouth

46. I was not, if angry, one to violate
Anything but a protected inviolable sanctuary

47. I would have chewed them out with sarcasm
If poetry gained weight from them

48. I guard my tongue from the treacherous
Like guarding my students from the misers

49. It is forbidden for me to impose on men
With no refusal or giving

50. If one day I asked the generous man
The next day I would ask the miser

51. Indeed, the family of ‘Abd al-Rahim possesses
Virtues that give way to the seekers

52. And between their homes for guests
Are expansive plains and soft sand

53. And gatherings that accommodate the listeners
Towns and faces that welcome the eyes

54. And Siba whose water the distributors
Only gave in portions, not freely

55. Their names startled my time
So they were around me like fortresses

56. Their might scattered the catastrophes
From me though they spent the night around me

57. I carried my burden to the pillar of power
Among them, so the strong one was faithful

58. From the people, their fires shine
On the stars if the kindlers slumber

59. And the spirits of their verses tremble
Messages from them to those spending the night awake

60. When you see rights crowded upon them
You would wonder at their steadfastness

61. Whoever’s fire was ignited by loyalty
In dearness pushed away the hoping

62. Swords that did not sweat with fighting
Their hands in bounty regretfully

63. They do not ward off rights with
Any excuse though it be clear

64. They spend the night riding the horses
While they drive away the years

65. Tall, with proud noses
Fearing delusions but desiring praise

66. When they rode they wiped the clouds
And when they descended, the riders left

67. From the honor of their origin spring
Lamps of glory that illuminate the darkness

68. And every young man judges
The people, whether satisfied or angry

69. When you are silent they anticipate what you will say
And if you speak, the speakers submit to him

70. The excellence of his father sparkles, described
By the flashing of the swords

71. A pillar of life like the pillar of power
He does not walk the earth except calmly

72. May God grant you success, beginner and completer
Those who despair turned back from his affair

73. And the young overtook the elders
So they came after him emulating

74. So may every person with meager merit perish
Who flees from the tongues of the critics

75. His lineage in highness is enough for him
His argument led astray the guided

76. When stinginess orphaned its request
It is enough that among us is the father of the beggars

77. And every son of deficiency wished his father
That he had daughters instead of sons

78. When he saw your eyes filled
He saw from it the fullness of the gloaters’ wishes

79. If a time crept toward your glory
With deficiency, feared for the virtuous

80. And in the morning of reconciliation, stretched
To you its left hand though it stretched out the right

81. And disputed your position of highness
Wrongfully though you are its masters

82. When it saw your morals
It exposed you by your excellent morals

83. It is afflicted, so your oaths
Heal its injury, doing good

84. It takes from us and you give us
It brings need from us so you are sought for help

85. Glory must have an amulet
When complete, eyes avert from it

86. The sword may be sheathed until drawn
And the moon concealed until it appears

87. The enemy thinks you have yielded
Though God has denied the assumptions about you

88. May God not remove anything but submission
When honor has become inaccessible and protected

89. If your envier was delighted to see
Your delegations humbled occasionally

90. Then how many nights beneath you were dug
The hidden platforms until our blood flowed?

91. And a day of poison that drives
The caravan back to the water turbid

92. We carried to you against our will
A resistant camel and tranquil she-camel

93. But your gifts returned the camels
Their rolling carriages tiring them

94. Favors from your generosity that almost
Do not lighten their necks and saddlebags

95. As if when the roses are in bloom for us
We descend to the water in them like boats

96. So I have untied the rope of the people from you
And said to myself “They are the world”

97. And I sold my innermost being to you willingly
By glory it was not an unprofitable sale

98. I would not - God forbid - be among the treacherous
By you, if time and the devious rebelled

99. My tongue is yours, and my soul too
Whether you narrow or widen my livelihood

100. And I know I am safe with you
And I know you know

101. And how many examples come to me
While the enemies listen enviously?

102. You have among the lands an advocate
Who gives you leadership of the faithful

103. I stand by its principles
And speak as long as you listen

104. So may your call not miss a delegation
Or the paths of guides be lonely

105. And you had from the stumbling of fate
A stumbling block the day it stumbled the heedless

106. We were not heedless of destiny among you
For through you is God’s blessing upon us