1. He captured the hearts' affection for the sake of that one
Every lovelorn youth called him "my love"

2. Yet Joseph did not attain the delight of his beauty
Though he is the lord of sublime beauty

3. Where are the women cutting their palms
And the rending of Ibn Muzn's chest rending the enamored

4. A lonely pearl not polished by a guardian
Its manners do not belong to people

5. It says, I am the illiterate looking at the tablet
And my Lord taught me in the realm of spirits

6. When its prose splendor shines through
Tumbling, rippling in the lake

7. Are its foes stacks of firewood
That did not sigh the tree's sigh when it hurt

8. Or is it the boulder - the boulder submitted when it appeared
But the mute foreigner did not submit surrender

9. So ask the day of Badr when its stars shone
A sun without blemish that did not become tarnished

10. With every fetus that was in its mother's womb
It learned to be fed and sustained by blood