1. Whether you call us from afar or bring us near
With your affection or your estrangement call us

2. If the dwellings are brought near after distance
Then with the estrangements we are already pleased

3. Oh you doe with slender neck gently
For the doe glances have ravaged us

4. Safety from your glance and coyness
And passion that has stirred sorrows in us

5. By my soul whoever I entrusted my soul to
The heart has thus fallen into her custody

6. A beauty whenever she fluttered eyelids
The heart was found to have denied tranquility

7. She appeared and swayed so I was rend asunder
Above rending I inhaled protected teeth

8. They called to us at dawn so we said
Come give us your cheek and make our day

9. Her face shone revealing a garden of beauty
The roses crowned jasmine

10. Her forehead's brilliance made me see a sun
Can the radiant dawn be called a forehead?

11. Beauty traced a dot of musk on her cheek
So the thin eyebrow became a noon

12. None like her mouth have I seen mim a meem
Nor like the lovely mole seen a seen

13. No calligrapher traced a letter like her sad
Her glances match each other as eyes

14. No wow like the wow of her cheek's curve
No aleph like her neck's tender branch

15. I said to her as she walked away coquettishly
Stop before parting and call us

16. I cannot endure this distance
Unless I see the trusted protector

17. The trusted noble state in what
It builds its affairs of life and religion

18. The trusted virtuous state were it not
For his trust he would not be called trusted

19. Clement in knowledge you do not find
Except the right opinion a companion to him

20. Ally of insight, intelligence of mind
And thought that prevents heavy eyelids

21. And courage, resolve, care
And awe covers the eyes

22. Peerless in his virtues unique
His perfect traits ennobled affairs

23. To earn glory what his hands possessed
As though settling debts he gave

24. Attributes comprising honor
And clothing the envious in shame and lowness

25. And manners of generosity and clemency
Thus his stream became refreshing water

26. With his wisdom he clarified for us knowledge
We took from its subtleties diverse arts

27. Aristotle related to him solemnity
And management though not the medicine of Ibn Sina

28. For him in every complexity and adversity
A remedy that heals chronic disease

29. He possesses the trait of perfection which brought him praise
Morning's scent made it clear

30. He possesses the generosity of traits which showed love
To people's hearts he sneaked in

31. Through him Beirut was ennobled so
Its neck was adorned with a precious necklace

32. Through him the ranks of highness became mighty
And attained its might an impregnable fortress

33. With divine guidance he attained happiness
As Mount Sinai gained good fortune

34. Oh you who yearn to see him
And has become disheartened and weary

35. Calm yourself you shall see from him a sun
By its light we will be joyous

36. Do not despair if he is absent from us
And let his praise and poetry about him remain in us

37. It is the way of celestial bodies to disappear for a time
And shine joyously upon you for a time

38. He went away and our lands were jubilant
And left behind in our inner selves pining

39. Above the sea I saw from him a sea
A right hand, it is the most dewy right hand

40. He worked for what would lead
The affairs of thesubjects to success and prosperity

41. His efforts did not cease being virtuous
And God remained for him a helper