1. The mature one is not bothered by the beautiful woman,
He is like foam above the water,

2. He frolics without being tempted when the doe-eyed women and the wild deer appear,
By my life, when a girl falls in love,

3. She would sacrifice her life for him if he was the caliph,
She loves the delicate youth of sincere affection,

4. Like the rain loves arid land.
How not when he obtains bliss from her,

5. With a bliss that increases on the dunes.
Her charm captivated him and his charm captivated her,

6. They are equal in love like the air is mingled.
Not like a lover who halted at my tent

7. Without a bucket to draw water from the well,
He watches the water longingly while he is far from it,

8. Humiliated while in the state of yearning.
Every century prepares a short sword

9. For the fated meeting which it betrays when they meet.
So it is wise to be a cowardly

10. Samaritan who seeks seclusion.
How strange! I have seen protected money

11. And hearts plundered by the hands of women.
If the resolute man kept his money,

12. It is more deserving that he keeps his strength.
So men are equal in this,

13. The insane and the wise ones.
What good is it for a father to have sons

14. If he flees from them on the day of reckoning?
The pious guided virtuous one among them

15. Is non-existent like hearing the mute.
If the educated one was distinguished among them,

16. He would drag his robes out of arrogance,
And would scorn the elders and object to the opinions,

17. Out of ignorance with the breaths of the vile.
A severed tail, by your life, is better

18. Than a long one dragged in the mud.
And it is a loss to abandon the eternal abode

19. And dwell the abode of extinction,
And to busy oneself with Fulana and Lubna

20. And be distracted from the discourse of the houri.
And if the night of my old age becomes a morning,

21. And grey hair creeps up to the beautiful one.
Indeed my returning to love her is tough

22. And my heart is like an unsheathed sword.
I fulfill my desire and quench

23. The worker of the spear with the blood of the maiden,
And I am the delight of my friend’s eye

24. And a speck in the eyes of the enemies.
The turns of fate have refined me until

25. I became like reunion after long separation.
So my ship sails with the best wind,

26. Not with a weak and devious wind.

27. With Ali son of Toba my cup is victorious
And my ambition turned towards success.

28. Congratulations to us and to the just religion,
The judge is like it, learned in judicial rulings,

29. He settles matters with politics and justice
Like the settling of swords with the enemies.

30. If Eias met him he would confess:
The describers have erred describing me as intelligent.

31. If the cunning ones of every era
Knew him, they would acknowledge his cunning.

32. If Ahnaf or the forbearing Ahlam
Saw his forbearance, they would not belong with the forbearing ones.

33. If the fair ones saw the sea of his munificence
They would consider Hatim among the misers.

34. He is more loyal than mountain rabbits in keeping a promise
And he still loves loyalty.

35. He gives life to the sad one, shyly, if
His palm was slow in bestowing gifts.

36. The scholars testify in every discipline
That he is like a shooting star among scholars.

37. And the judges of the time are mere land to him
While he is above them like the horizon of the sky.

38.
I attempted to eulogize him so it was as if

39. I was throwing pebbles at the sea.
So I am overwhelmed that my horses

40. Cannot compete in the racetrack of poets.
His glory dressed me in a garment of pride

41. That dragged so long I pulled it behind me.
And if I were fair to him that would be too little,

42. My cheek would be like a shoe to his foot.
So I am his slave and that is my pride,

43. My beauty among all people and my splendor.
My praise is dedicated to him and my gratitude