1. A moon spent the night between my magic and slaughter,
And the steeds of tears flowed with a veil.

2. So how many times did my tears separate
What was between his mouth and what was between my mouth.

3. My anguish in life is from the fear of distance,
And my crying during union is from the fear of abandonment.

4. By the life of the beloved, the beloved of the soul
Is more delicious to the soul than Umm Amr.

5. And he ransomed an estate on the Nile alone,
Each quarter for the family of Mayyah is empty.

6. Never has an elder cat traveled, and the riding animals
Of passion did not embark except to Egypt.

7. And the desire of my soul is to me a charming gazelle
Who returned as a full moon though he lacked the teeth of a full moon.

8. We have not heard of the full moon completing in ten days,
Nor have four come after ten.

9. I am slipping in patience from him,
And my heart is plucked from youthfulness.

10. And if the Lord of the night of union prevented me,
I will return from its brightness the night of the full moon.

11. My night was not grazed by the dawn of life,
Rather it is grazed from it at noon.

12. So we drank from the wine twice over,
Which purified the heart from the burning of every vein.

13. I was drunk from his saliva and his eyes,
So when I drank it, my drunkenness went away.

14. So I got healing from my intoxication, and it was said:
The cure for intoxication is drinking wine.

15. I guarded the wine of union in a cup of an eyelid,
In it there is breakage; indeed I brought magic.

16. O commander over hearts, when will you
Look into my story and uncover my matter?

17. For you is my description, my blame, and for the most virtuous,
My master of mankind, my praise and thanks.

18. In you I spent some of my composition, and I
Am spending in it all of my prose and poetry.

19. A king whose name is Ali, but
His cunning in his wars is the cunning of Amr.

20. He does not cease between violent killing and conquest
When he alternates between blade and victory.

21. His face is the full moon in wars, and do not
Be surprised if his day is the day of Badr.

22. He mixed valor with benevolence, so you see fate
Flowing from him with benefit and harm.

23. His day for whoever hopes in him
Is a feast of breaking fast, and in fighting is a feast of sacrifice.

24. He captured the covered in blessings with grace, so wonder
At a captive between grace and captivity.

25. So his enemies are shackled, and his loyalists
With two chains of iron and gold.

26. Acceptor of the kingdom and youth, so there is no boredom
Of a youthful kingdom and life.

27. The kingdom settled with him for a rest,
And the faith took refuge with him for a home.

28. So he is for the kingdom a repeller of every affliction,
And he is for the faith a mender of every fracture.

29. Every kingdom vanished to his kingdom,
And every power crouched to his power.

30. His face is the most auspicious of faces for the faith,
Just as his time is the best of times.

31. And if his resolve vanquished every valor,
Then his age surely prevailed over every age.

32. The heavens of sublime qualities were adorned with him
With stars of merits blossoming.

33. And his magnificent kingdoms were illuminated by him
With the full moon of glory and the lion of strategy.

34. He sits in power and his gifts
To people and lands are flowing.

35. I am one to whom it flowed and crossed
Every righteousness and traversed every sea.

36. It called upon me every night with morning
And came to me in every hardship with ease.

37. His mention of me despite the distance is sublime;
My status in the wilderness is certainly sublime.

38. And the matter demanded from him my poetry, so I sent
To him according to the demand my poetry.

39. Every praise in it, so you I mean,
And with the names of whom I praised I signal.

40. You guided me to you, but you confused
My thinking in praising you.