1. Has he not crept humbly while the guiding star has set?
And warriors of battle ignite for him

2. He has spent the night vigilantly
With the night he wakes without trace

3. I play with a mad ghoul whom fate directed
Chewing at us and importing

4. When I woke and did not find her
I woke with my heart set on her

5. I turn a worry over her crouching
And eyes whose flock was sleeplessness

6. So what sorrow after the jinniya
With necklaces and prostration upon her!

7. What a liver from which we have no drink
And with her I have no hand!

8. Except my eyes yearning for her face
And that when she goes I shrivel

9. I weep from the sickness, the sickness of love
For her, and I have no one to make me happy

10. And she promised a prisoner tomorrow
How often did she promise you and not fulfill?

11. And verily despite her frequent breaking of faith
I hope for loyalty and do not resent

12. If the people break my expectations of her
And she has an appointment tomorrow

13. I am patient with the divorce of her signs
And the patience of the youth is habitual

14. No day has stinted with the sickness of love
When the morrow gives drink to a lover

15. By an unlucky night, Jumada
When its wind blows, it chills

16. We lodged our guests
Not every day for them is a lodging

17. And verily, when a howler howls
And my sea roils, frothing

18. I cast curses through which crows suffer
And chicks, nor are they blissful

19. Ahmmad! You are not of our equals
And you are a man they claim brings honor

20. It amazes and surprises me that I see you speak, O raven
I never reckoned one whose sickness was like yours would speak and not perish

21. You sat on the mat after protection
And woke up in a grave you excavate

22. And competed with a people you emulate
How strange is time, it does not run out!

23. Why do you not take cover sitting
By the genius and gain advantage?

24. Your father is Shabir, so honor through him
And in your stock is a return for whoever you host

25. Your mother is of women whose concern
Is white hair and parted hair that freezes

26. If asked she would not be miserly
But melts and does not freeze

27. Nights if her home is not visited
She remains remembering whom she enshrouds

28. When drink presents its vessel
You lurked to bow down to their vessel

29. And worship a head for which you pray
As for God, you do not worship!

30. You show love for the prophet of guidance
While you disbelieve in him, you claim

31. And associate on the night of the fasting month
As lawful as the blinkers saw

32. Your daughter, you peeled her shell
Debauched as the engraver engraves

33. And covet the women, contending with them
While your care is the black snake

34. If a glimpse were afforded, you took it
As the nude swimmer plunges unfaltering

35. And if it is said “pray” for the call is given
You hesitated as the cripple hesitates

36. And if war rose as a curtain
You sat and goaded whoever sits

37. And if one day you came to a slip
You ate as the ape eats

38. And if a secret were concealed you spread it
A gossip as the hoopoe told

39. So you are wretched and you it is
Who by what I have recounted and recount

40. Will know, if my summer showed itself
Upon you and the singer sang of you

41. I blame the son of Nahiya for he
Loves reclining and does not recline

42. How can I blame a man for his weakness
Feeble from the sickness that is not lost?

43. The son of Nihaya disobeyed me, so be distant from him
As the knotted snake slithers away

44. When he attains great prestige beneath him
As the long snake creeps

45. And gives you humiliation when you please him
As the lizard cowers before the step

46. And takes the evil of his brothers
Profiting as the most distant takes

47. You are far that I did not censure his mother
But as for repeating, it will not be done

48. His twigs have wound in her weakness
As the peeled wand wound