1. I see the people, so look beneath them. Are they really the people?
And this herd, so look among them. Are they really the Arabs?

2. So if you see the gazelles, then beware
For how often did they pray for the hard adversity?

3. And abstain from the range of glances with a glance, for they are
Treacherous if they make a covenant and warring if they make peace

4. Wolves when the male wolves sniff them from their eyelids
The young men have gotten used to beating them before beating them

5. Swords and their glances are swords
So these have no loyalty and those do not forewarn

6. And as long as that living one is a neighbor to our living
Then beneath the veil of the heart is what the veils have concealed

7. Our loved ones, whether in union with you or separation
Hope and fear wandered between which afflicted the heart

8. And I do enjoy evasion in love
And I see as branches what vicinity has branched

9. That separation does not come between us
Except that your tormenting me with it in love is tormenting

10. And I had given love my bridled passion
And my blamers were angry, so did love approve?

11. Except O you mounted traveler with purpose
Whom the greeter and open space have called

12. I see you desired convention from where you desire it
So convention has guided you to where the riders are guided

13. To a beloved they did not know the difficulty of the journey
To where the son of Mahmoud, their praiseworthy friend, has erected monuments

14. To where the curly-haired generous one sips the dew
With what neither Ma'n nor Ka'b have attained

15. To where the peaceful commander, who the tough skulls
And clubs have submitted to him,

16. To where the dew, if the clouds poured his generosity on the land
Drought would not be mentioned in its plains

17. And he scorns the awe which if embodied as war on the land
Its enormity would not bend the war

18. A young man descended from Qahtan in glory, whose stars
The east and west have yearned for

19. And the generations are nothing but lightning
For this revolving dome, of which he is the axis

20. And the family of Abi Duwad, it suffices you that they
When called to war or when the clouds gather

21. Or when they request they give, or when pardoned they pardon
Or when roused they rise, or when called they come hastily

22. Their palms are generous and their honor zealous
And their dreams are lofty and their wealth plunder

23. And their faces joyous, but their swords
When unsheathed destroy with their dominance the defeats

24. Suns that when they rise on the land
It is as if it has a horizon and the east when they rise is west

25. Their youth have the patience of elders and their old have
For every serious matter they undertake exalted ranks

26. And loftiness and benevolence are born in them
So they rise as they rise and love as they love

27. And the intermediary of the Yemeni necklace in munificence
Is Hamid son of Mahmoud, and its ripeness is plentiful

28. O a refuge for the weak that called you, one whose
Resources are scarce and days lean

29. And from everything a man's gratitude for blessings has diminished
Its extent, the tongue with praise of you is moist

30. I left the Levant pledged to glories
Which those meadows and hills have illuminated

31. So if only it could, it would come to you and its people
For yearning for your abode has cracked it from love

32. But it bears from yearning a protected wound
From sighs whose fires have not died out

33. So it sends you in pairs as a gift
As water and vegetation exchange gifts