1. I wept for a lightning that flashed with his name on my lips
So my eyelids, not the clouds, were filled with rain

2. By passion, if not for the harmony of my tears
My heart would not blame, in the downpour, the one who blames it

3. I concealed the secrets of love in my heart
So my tears sprouted for the one I was hiding it from

4. And who can restrain their eyelids while they are clouds
When the lightnings of his smile flashed

5. My dear ones, you have blamed me
And pained my heart with what does not suit it

6. It is as if I am an innovator in befriending passion
And none before me was a passionate lover wandering astray

7. You attempt to divert my heart out of ignorance
Of what I know of the secrets of love

8. How can I be diverted from the one I befriended
While we are intimate friends, adorned with amulets

9. God watered my days in Mecca and youth
With clouds that unfold the light of youth

10. And vivified the spring of passion in Suwayqah
With a downpour of tears pouring forth

11. Nights I fall asleep in the shades of gladness
While the sleeper in me is not roused by the events of fate

12. There, neither does the slender gazelle flee
Nor does the one who severs the rope of connection sever it

13. I let loose my train in the meadows of youth
And my youthful garden blossoms with soft branches

14. The full moon visits me when its light is complete
Veiling it from the dark night with its fervor

15. And how many a night it met me suddenly
And I spent it with him until the morn, regretting

16. I removed from him my garments and modesty
And he spent the night with my pillow as his bolster and brace

17. And he inclined from my kisses, removing his veil
And none but me spent the night with the kissing moon

18. So we spent it as passion wished us wrapped
In love and devotion - its sanctities cannot be violated

19. Until the breeze of dawn roared
Dragging its train in the gardens with its breezes

20. And the morn unsheathed its sword upon the night
So the doves of the branches started clamoring against it

21. Then we got up with no suspicious glance of a critic
Nor did the whispers of a slanderer speak of us

22. Yes, that union was pure and it was forgotten
But the traces of passion and its landmarks do not vanish

23. To you, Nasir al-Din, I complain with anguish
Passion's cold and poison have afflicted me

24. And had I not believed you to be true in friendship
I would not have told what I do not want others to imagine

25. By my life, you are the truthful loving one
Who believes me in what virtuous qualities I claim to possess

26. You are unique in an age in which
Its educated have become mute Arabs and non-Arabs about good

27. So I turned away from them folding up the train
Of my love so that its preciousness may be humiliated

28. Sufficient for me, O Nasir al-Din, in this world is your support
Against its injustices, should it carve them against me

29. Indeed, through you my hands have attained glorious deeds
Its openings are praiseworthy and its closings sublime

30. A penetrating man of wisdom, a daring hero
Whose efforts are decisive and resolves firm

31. He possesses a character that spreads fragrance like a garden
And his blossoms reveal the buds of hidden vices

32. He is the ever-young, the eternal one
Who sees the withering of all withering ones

33. His minister's hand holds the reigns of leadership
And the throne of glory is supported by its pillars

34. When he contends with heroes you will see a contender
Whose swords exceed Mars in domination

35. And if the scribes vie, you will find a scribe
Mercury in the art of writing, its servant

36. When the expanse of the desert is filled by its herbage
He encompasses the distances faster than the one delineating them

37. So he ridicules the prose of the best prose composer
And belittles the verse of the best versifier

38. Through him the steeds of Persia gave birth to a Persian knight
Its superior horses and battle standards preceded him

39. The foremost at the limit acknowledged his precedence
And the greatest of tribes revered him

40. He built for them a lofty house of glory
Its nobility elevated and its pillars towering

41. Attributes shining like suns were revealed through him
From every dark night its obscurities were dispelled

42. So to God belong those sublime qualities
They are the signs of hidden greatness and its emblems

43. And to God belong those praiseworthy traits
The sweet breezes of its spreader surrounded them

44. A poem came to me, O Nasir al-Din, from you
The epochs of time cannot equal its like

45. My quarters were perfumed by the pure fragrance of its prose
And its beautiful passages diffused their aromas over us

46. As if the essence of pure musk was its ink
And the soft basil its pen

47. You manifested in it the coolness of youth upon a man
Whose right upon you no blamer can turn you away from

48. He treats you with a sincere love that if you mixed
To its sweetness bitterness, it would turn sweet for the drinkers

49. And promises you an unbreakable covenant
Even if the utmost effort were made by the one who severs it

50. So be confident in me with the firmest assurance
Loyalty accompanies me in it and I accompany it

51. For I am not like one whose words are sweet in friendship
Yet the bitterness of whose actions disappoints me

52. If you wish, inform me in every situation
You will find the honest sword standing, not failing you

53. The treachery of betrayal has refused to blemish me
My lineage lengthened branches whose sinfulness was immense

54. He attributed it to Alia, son of Ghalib
And Abd Manaf, the exalted, and Hashim

55. And Shaybah, the praiseworthy, by whom
His clans strode over the plateau and its chiefs

56. And the glorious Abdullah, most generous father
To the most generous son his nobilities nurtured

57. And Ahmad, best of messengers, and his elite
Ali, solace of my soul, and Fatima

58. And her blessed immaculate sons
By them God perfected His religion and sealed it

59. They are masters of the world and its rulers
So who dares envy their merit and contend against it?

60. Upon them is God's peace, whenever an adversary appears
And whenever a lightning flashes in the dark clouds attacking them