1. Look at me, for it is a wishful glance
I know the hilltop, that is the flag

2. You are innocent of what the eyes liken it to
While my eyelids are blamed for tears

3. Today, the homes enchant me for what
Their ancient days conceal

4. And their unintelligible eloquence makes me love
Their meadows and foreigners

5. It is upon me, O home, the effort of my eye, and I have
No shame that the ruins are stingy

6. Be content with the tears of my eyelids
And blame them if they watered your soil with blood

7. By the covenant of those who left you and the
Passion of one loyal to me in you after them

8. By a life whose pleasures were stolen by time
As if its theft were a dream

9. By the secret of a love that walked in
The confidence of your soil, while it hides

10. What the slanderers said about Layla and about me
Was only as they claimed

11. Is it not that they said I was possessed with love for her
Yes, by all that I was possessed

12. It is enough that the blamers blamed me
And spoke the opposite of what they knew

13. And that giving her the choice was theirs and hers
My heart’s obedience judges and rules

14. If only the one who blamed me for love of her
Was in the place where her slipper tread

15. Alas for lightning next to the silent dormant volcano
It sparked and they said Layla smiles

16. And Tariq visited riding the long ship of night
While my night blazed with embers

17. He hides the night and the trailing stars
From what even darkness cannot hide

18. So I was where the villain lay in wait in the gloom
Modest and covering himself

19. We kissed and our necks were hand in hand
And messengers of our passions mouth to mouth

20. The branch makes me dizzy or the doll makes me sleep
I pick for a while and cling

21. Until dawn was two threads or
The Pleiades' knots were about to untie

22. The gazelle was jealous of her sister
So I woke up, neither effigy nor idol

23. Time comes back again and again, if it betrays
And if it favors, it takes revenge

24. How alike people are to time, and how
Little difference in betrayal between them

25. I used to blame the brethren for something when they
Were in error and complain of them when they turned away

26. And I thought stinginess and generosity were to me
The ultimate in their disloyalty

27. But today I kiss the back of every hand
That is not stained with my blood

28. O religion of my heart, of those who possessed it
With affection, the ordeal of misery enslaved it

29. Saving them while traitors to my covenant
And professing love while lacking it

30. And when harsh they are stony hearts
Bigotry if they divide

31. Neither the turns of time when it turns on them
Makes me equal with them, nor blessings

32. With them betrayal of me is little and much
And with me loyalty and generosity

33. Some of them are insincere to me and those
I counted as sincere, all of them

34. Between my heart toward them and my mouth
Disputes in keeping secrets contend

35. So the heart is empty of blame and
Reproach on them crowds in me

36. O Lord, grant me wakefulness when they sleep
And justice in affection when they are unjust

37. And allow my soul to preserve the soul of the son of Job's mother
For that is not difficult in brotherhood

38. Dawn shone on me in surprise
And walked the heights with steps

39. Righteousness and my allotted share from the children
Of my mother are disloyalty, and from my father, orphanhood

40. So the heights supported me with
A helping hand, a sword, and piercing blades

41. And he stood in front of me, neither using the spear violently
Nor the sharp sword crushingly

42. His soul and nature refused
To take legal proceedings or demeaning debts

43. And dignified freedom went with him
While man is where honor casts him

44. Neither reckless nor intolerant when people are hostile
Of a group who are thankful when given

45. Or think good thoughts when deprived
Strangers to the world who make its harshness

46. Homes that picks cannot soften
All old but strong, gathered,

47. With heads impenetrable to picks
A man does not control eating his companion

48. Nor does resolution relieve his camel of mange
They built their homes on their glory

49. And glory does not build to collapse
Neither from you were the paths of its visitors severed

50. To follow their traces and gather them up
Nor was the virtue missed that the heights

51. Testified you had, that you were their son
And the days met you healing

52. Past wounds, and clinging together
Baring the aspects of fortune that

53. Were shy yesterday, veiling themselves
The Nile pleads their crime to your pardon

54. So forgive even if the crime is great
And accept my guarantee, for after today they are

55. For you, in what you seek, servants
And listen briefly to one who has long

56. Tales, ancient days
Time delayed them from reaching their

57. Aspirations, and worry whose ambitions died
And misfortunes that squeeze the heart when

58. Tongues fall silent at their setting
And words are harvested from hearts, for when

59. The heart's blood recedes, speech falters