1. It watered those plateaus and sands
The rain clouds poured heavily

2. And Allah brought life with the downpour
I pastured the gazelles and fawns with it

3. It was a land I dwelled securely
And feared no ruin would befall it

4. When the tips of its spears were shaken
Its men shook their tall, slender spears

5. By your life, the archers of its people
Are not blinder than its winkers with glances

6. Among them is one with a radiant forehead
Exposing a tender neck, openly flirtatious

7. She mocks the shy gazelle, head turned
And cloaks the soft, supple branch

8. She lifts her veil from her full moon face
A crescent appearing over her temples

9. I envy the winds when they tilt
Her swaying figure one day sideways

10. She faces them when they blow from ahead
And wraps herself when the north winds blow

11. What eye has not been tempted by love
Of a beauty beyond reach, never to be attained

12. My eyelids forgot their sleep in order to
Be with her image in dreams continuously

13. When I seek union with her, I am not
The first lover to ask the impossible

14. I envied the caravan when they rode off
Bearing such beauty amid their beauty

15. I said to my friend when she appeared
Radiant, unique, no equal to be found

16. The horizon shone and he said no,
When were her abodes ever in ravines?

17. And many a blamer whose hearing
I have wearied with perpetual blame

18. They blamed her separation after loving her
Knowing no separation or union themselves

19. If I could repay them someday
I would make their cheeks her footstool

20. How I tried to be patient in passion for her
But she said to me, give up and resign