1. My heart was cured of Salma though my youth had passed
And I have shortened except some of what I remember

2. And I did not attain her until my youth turned away
And the Hashimi who gets fooled forbade me

3. So if I bid farewell to Ammar erect
And my maturity guided me, the Imam who makes insight

4. Laughter on her, redness in her whiteness
With which the eyes are delighted and beauty is redder

5. So O wars! Youth has passed and my need for them
Between the eye and the heart continues to burn

6. I say and I have shown to pleasure my vigor
Perhaps I may play and my honor guarded

7. Leave what has passed, speech is not about the past
But about what the counselor has guided you to

8. Did not the African warn you from me insistently
And said "Beware of Ri'bal you are exposed"

9. And you did not stop until a death brought you
To its sister, what is the source of death?

10. And you caused to stumble who the steed to vulgarity was
Abu Hassan and the driver made the Arabs stumble

11. Abu Hassan, you do not know what was in my madness
And in the people is one who guides and does not ponder

12. Do you water me with poetry until the enemies
From me took cover and I went respected

13. So if you are insane, with me is its treatment
And if you are a jinni, your grandfather is more unsteady

14. You brought war upon yourself, then you feared it
So you began hiding sometimes then appearing

15. Like a meat thief so its smoke gave her away
And the simmering ashes disgraced her

16. And the people of goodness did not diminish, but its people did
And you missed it while evil amongst people is more

17. Abu Hassan, why are you the son of a non-Arab
So you fell into my days and your pride is hollow

18. So no patience, I am collared to the son of Hurrah
Tomorrow so recognize me and the firmness when I lose composure

19. He called the layers of evil so you two were equated with it
As if you both are threshing between you the chaff

20. You will know that my shooting does not wear out
And that the son of the African is behind you burning

21. Abu Hassan your mother has defamed you with her name
And stingy in her vulva you are more destitute