1. Though passion is but one of life's vanities,
Your stature has grown until it reached its zenith.

2. Your face shone brightly for those who blamed you
Until they saw how difficult it was to blame.

3. Yet I have not seen eyelashes more deadly than yours
Though I'm quite familiar with eyeliner.

4. You lined them with a fatal passion
And said that the ruin of passion is in kohl.

5. And though I pretend to be experienced,
I know full well how to string a rope.

6. I do not question your eyes about me,
But about the pact of acceptance - what happened?

7. I have not seen a more impossible pursuit
When it is denied by a deadly fortune.

8. The stars of turmoil or the stars of nightfall
Could water you, even with my blood.

9. The stars of the sky have lied to me
Or the Taurus on their behalf has lied to Aries.

10. I see that love begins with desire
Unleashed or an infatuation that is toyed with.

11. And it ends with a chronic illness
Which is death or something like it.

12. I yearn for the days of my exuberant youth
When your glances in them were afflictions.

13. And I yearn for a glance at the sand dunes
When I gave my love through it what he asked.

14. Youth refused to return to me
While passion and poetry returned.

15. And you reached the flirtations after old age
Stratagems that fall short of overcoming them.

16. I rationalize you with what cannot be
And I congratulate you on what I have not attained.

17. Is there not a fair judge between us
Even if he is my lifetime that has not been fair?

18. Would he be fair to you while you are life
And unfair to you while you are death?

19. But you have persecuted me when I was weak
Why not fulfill while there is room for tolerance?

20. O the one I missed between bygone friends
And solitude that parted and youth that departed

21. And my peers envied me for my excellence
Their hearts like the hearts of foxes

22. Their glances cut me off
So the winds of the roads cannot reach me

23. If they see me they do not speak
And if I am absent they clamor “Alas!” and “Woe!”

24. And they get angry if the highborn ask about me
To you - and excellence did not befit you

25. And he knew glory, no doubt
But neglected it so as not to wilt

26. He wished me well in my request
And singled me out for the job

27. We split fortunes and I appointed him
To glory – he set out at a run and got ahead

28. So I became like the bright star on the forehead
And he became like the splash under the shade

29. I will prepare you when the virgin gets up
Dead in determination, alive in hope

30. He hesitated so when glory raised him
He poured in his obstinacy or was laden with it

31. None can match his glory
Even if he is in its extended meadows

32. I see time has not known me since I knew it
While I taught it what it did not know

33. I vow I will not demand it
Except by the sword of the eternal Prince

34. Those eyes have been cleared of it
Wavering between hills and mounds

35. And a death called the French disease has circulated
Debilitating its body as if it did not mature

36. And the souls of the whole world poured over it
Making it more intricate than it tangled

37. Like the tattoo of a young maiden on a cheek
When it appears, diffidence mixes into it

38. Its exterior wanders into jewelry
While its interior is infected with unemployment

39. The sun has its sultanate at sunrise
Be it beautiful at dawn or in origin

40. Joy may laugh after pleasure
About beauty among trinkets and garments

41. But it leaned toward it before
Even if they mixed it with the saliva of kisses

42. Emaciation depicts it to the eyes
When the eye arises from whom it descended from

43. How many a friend have I skipped over
Who would have reconciled if deciding one day

44. These terms may require
Meanings beyond what sentences can encompass

45. If you reconcile one day with the notable tribes
Or else excellence has not reconciled

46. Does death discard him or repeal him?
So whoever wills gains prominence and whoever wills is debased

47. O horseman of steeds and war, it is assumed
Either fame or an assumption to be taken

48. And death rolled up its sleeve
As you calculated from its laziness

49. And war clarified its situation
So the coward died and the hero lived

50. And white glimmered in a cheek
From death, diffusing until it departed

51. It quenched the earth more than its irrigation
While having no moisture within

52. And eclipsed the sun from its horizons
Beaming, but finding no shade in it

53. To restore the peninsula it demolished
To a state whose cycles it worshiped

54. You set out to it with the notable tribes
Yet you were most worthy of precedence

55. A group of people turned away from kindness
But they were created hasty

56. You made way while the intention was unfamiliarity
The journeys there are too narrow for travels

57. And I knew when I sensed its approach
With what powerful, glorious this renunciation was done

58. It is seriousness, not the heedlessness of kings
Between purposefulness and haste

59. Nor their confusion in the depths of impossibilities
Seeking rescue – perhaps or maybe

60. Good fortune has been granted to those who request you
Even if the buyer sulks or pulls back

61. And you are the one the panegyrists praise
Of various interests and various paths

62. You have taken the high ground with the swords
Time has granted it or been stingy of it

63. You appeared to them like the rise of death
So they let go of the reins of demise and failure

64. With determination twisting if they implicated it
It fulfilled and if they tasked it, it carried

65. Its money gets divided among the impoverished
So if there is surplus, then the surplus is his

66. And its swords wreak havoc among the enemies
So if they are thirsty, then the afflictions are upon it

67. Ask the sea about its generosity when it raged
And its shores about its violence when it lurked

68. It manifested between both its states
So ask it, has it seen a sea or a mountain?

69. And it used to recognize it out of ignorance of it
But when it saw it, it foretold or recoiled

70. And it deliberately avoided its extent for it
Either to be valued or to see who is debased

71. Abu Bakr, repay those debts
For time has caused harm beyond what lingered

72. You sought the heights in the shadows of spears
As staves have been lacking in the shadows of turbans

73. And guard the sanctity of the kingdom from violation
Especially for kingdoms to be debased

74. I see that every army loves conquest
So from where has the man fallen short?

75. I thanked you with the gratitude of lively meadows
That you have frequented between softness and firmness

76. I have alleviated the sorrow of the envious by mentioning you
If he died it would neither increase nor diminish

77. My illness walks slowly during my times of weakness
Which are humiliation while it sees them as laziness

78. Abu Bakr secured the lives of Muslims
For oppression had trickled down upon them and overflowed

79. You were entrenched in the ways of magnanimity
Of vast overtures and an immense abode

80. So time stood by you, aromatic
And generosity walked with you the course of an exemplar