1. I saw, did tears bar your eyelids
Seeking shade at al-Muhassab or Ukadh?

2. It followed the winds though it asked clearly
About its dwellers, so it spoke twisted

3. It scowled, if your eyes discerned
The whims of your heart that want you distracted

4. The epochs of the beloved receded
So its wild beasts can securely be hunted

5. As if the sitting elders of Hai
Were like the hump of al-Thagham

6. And you may count but do not count in vain
For you, in its remnants, rocks were scattered

7. Your lifetime is cold and blamed
While others plunder their living headlong

8. And you have protection from the shadows of youth
A shadow for your lifetime when the veil was patched

9. The two journeys of beauty, if they put on
Eyes that examined the cheap goods

10. It waved if busyness shook its branch
The sand dune behind it ordered it to turn back

11. It frowned so every fault was pardoned in its view
What was not exonerated by youth sifted

12. No truth of his love remains for you
Except the imagination, denial and impudence

13. And I wondered, though obstacles were many
That she found deliverance to me

14. She knocked and the darkness enveloped her so she confided
Something and the trinkets slept, so she sneaked

15. Why did I allow my luck to slip
Into the heedless and sold my resolve permitted

16. And time expands me when I disobey it
For a moment, then deprives me, lashed

17. Indeed, the gray hair of my head sufficed as a lesson
And decay evidences that we are trimmed

18. So I will ride the steed of escape
A stallion, when the skilled rider raced

19. Delighted by the ghosts of Fayfaa, his gaze
Is not comforted by a repeller to diminish

20. It stamps the ground roses and picks leaves
From what it wore as dust and assumed

21. Seeking guidance and fulfilling it
Where the piercers do not scrutinize

22. Amongst youths who exchange their souls
For the truth when it appeared, sparkling

23. And their forearms are marked, their customs
Are smoothed by the tips of spears and are carved

24. They followed my passionate or pretentious love
And held onto me joking or sincere

25. And when you reach an advisor or flatterer
What you seek, he has obeyed you if he refused

26. A repulsed nature complains about my character
And yet I am more inclined to rapport

27. My soul pours though I have not found
An intimate whose affection quenched my thirst except sipped

28. I used to seek a trick from my enemy
And now I seek sincerity from my friend

29. How many a boon companion encountered affliction
When he saw me in dire straits

30. He did not detect a fault and regarded his honor
Yet he fled from me with his faults and impudence

31. Account the son of Ayyub and accept my manners you accept
Retracting from others, spontaneous

32. I spent all the affection I gained
Extravagantly and went with it hoping

33. Amongst a group who set out to their needs
Thirsty, its extent made them gulp

34. From every articulate one, if he befriends
Eloquence or direction from him flows

35. Inheriting through it sublimity, so one proceeds
And another stops, following him, telling tales

36. Their sweetness was born while they were not
Born before the staff of the wise was tapped

37. Generous ones who their generosity endeared to me
For fancy does not extend except to specialize

38. Through Muhammad, events were turned back
From my field, retreating

39. He gave so he enriched, extravagant, exceeding
His eased generosity and sincere affection

40. And I experienced a people before him and experienced him
So I knew the master of the sword from the slave of the staff

41. The soil of your feet redeems an incomplete summit
You obtained the banner, a sultan, and contrived to climb

42. Forbidden leadership as a youth, he took it
As an old man, so it was like marriage after menopause

43. When you sat and he stood displaying his width
The effort of tallness did not find for you a gap

44. If what harmed were dispraised
The blemished one would not diminish to be pelted

45. And I am the one who pleased hearts and vexed them
I have not told you extrapolated or summarized

46. And the poets threaten my incisive attributions
While the embers protect itself from being snatched

47. And you employed me, so I exposed you permitted
Beyond desire and bestowed from cheaper