1. The university quarters detained me
Its rain clouds doubled the downpour

2. I renew my pledge of passion
And pursue my affairs despite the blamer

3. Passion moves me, desiring her
In her signs, my tranquility spends the night

4. Oh you, who will convey my greeting
To the beloved neighborhood beside her abode

5. I forgot my family and stayed with them
For a time I fear while they fear me

6. And passion fed me pure honey
The leaves of joy rustled on the branches

7. I wander when I hear Layla’s night longing
To me, so let go of Layla’s longing for me

8. And live near her homestead
The greeting of an obsessed in her delusion

9. Return, my dear, to me, the remnants
Of a heart hostage in her dwellings

10. Al-Ammari’s madness circles at times
And I cloak myself in passion’s madness at night

11. Amira is in that beloved neighborhood
We competed there in shedding tears

12. Her love crept steadily in my head
As slumber crept over my eyelids

13. Her anklets remind me of clinking cups
Her clinking of precious pearl

14. And they resemble in their brilliance
The gems with which Ibn Ja’far paid my debts

15. Her praise, laud, traits
And guidance to the path of certainty

16. And I extol and beautify her praise
And sing her name for years

17. Does anything sound sweeter than praising an unmatched
Sublime, peerless individual?

18. Rich, exalted, above depicting limits
Obeyed in authority, empowered ruler

19. Learned, reaching in every science
To the breaths of the Trustworthy Spirit

20. Knowledge overflows from a deep, gushing sea
And it is spent from a concealed treasure

21. Virtues have adorned you with glory
Eyes weaken to look upon you

22. You climbed the ladder of the chosen kingship
Sword of faith and right hand

23. How many misguided hordes
Drape their mantles over rugged folly

24. Whose caprices portray safety
Passing through hearing like wails

25. So Abu Hassan faced them with an army
Brandishing fierce lightning bolts

26. And sheathed in their skulls a sword
Wielded by the lion of the lair

27. A sword in the ferocity of carnage
Reciting "O fire, be coolness and peace" over their horsemen

28. There lie their men, slain and captive
Dragged in the plains and lowlands

29. He besieged their fortresses until they became
Mounds calling "Where are the fortress dwellers?"

30. O you whose loftiness the cosmos praised
And news of whom the clear method related

31. I hoped in you and your brother Moses as a helper
For my religion through which I live and my faith

32. But the times came between me and your brother
Oh what a lightning bolt is the stroke of death

33. And time left you for me as a shade
A shelter from its afflictions protecting me

34. For you is the clear precedence in all glory
On the racetracks of ancestor generations

35. I thought well of you, so do not disappoint
And fulfill, O Master, my hopes

36. To you - longing diverts me from me
Let me be, if I have hope, let me be

37. As a boy and grown man, I inclined
Toward you, in my hopes, my reliance