1. No! By the land of hearts with cracks
And the sky of eyelids that turn back

2. I see no heart filled with joy or comfort
After the people who once gathered are gone

3. Stars that severed my rope - I'm not surprised
When a star comes to sever

4. Their beauty conversed with my eyes
And I saw their faces with my hearing

5. With the caravan an ostrich shaking off fatigue
A wonderful creature - death holds no novelty for it

6. Thirst of the heart is the thirst of twenty and twenty
Not quenched in a full or new moon

7. An Arab by ancestry who knows no tenderness
Due to his grammatical inflection and declension

8. His curly hair is the origin of my love - never before
Have I heard of a branch traced back to a root

9. Lord of a night in which I stayed my course
His hair is my night and his cheek my candle

10. Gentle roaming is my relief, and kissing lips
My raisins, and the sweet smile my fruits

11. That was an age now past, and a time now concluded
And days now gone - beautiful in making

12. So my pact has expired and my measure lightened
And my columns have dissolved and my crops cleared

13. What was healing to me is now harm to my face
My hold became confinement, and - by God - my armor

14. How can another eye be added to the blood of my eye?
I shed my blood - so why is it said I shed tears?

15. My fortress became like a weakened encampment
Just as my wellspring turned into a puddle

16. Though I am split by fate, the son of Abdurraheem
Will mend my crack, should fate cast and pull me down

17. What people are more deserving of serving him than I?
And whom is he more deserving to uplift and protect?

18. From the horizon I emerged, so the gleam
Of the rising moon hid my shine in a blink

19. From his nest I stepped forth, so the raptor
Thought to swoop down on me as I walked

20. From his soil I grew, so the towering tree
Has risen, and my roots and branches lengthened

21. Through his father my station was exalted
And the crescent seemed diminished next to my expanse

22. Through his father I was alerted after slumber
And through him was I raised from lowness

23. And from him I learned what I recited
In my poetry praising him with rhyme and meter

24. My custom was to mend my fracture through him
If fate had cast me down and torn my riches

25. Then when he passed on I clung
To Ahmad the hoped for, for aid and protection

26. The most glorious one, who possesses mighty generosity
He attained it through effort and nature

27. Bestower of thousands after thousands in gifts
To a pauper whose wealth he doubled in half a moment

28. Leave every place and travel to his pavilion
For the refuge of benevolence is in that land

29. He has brought us from favors a sequence
And he brings from bounty one after another

30. How endless are his benevolence, generosity and favors
Miracles and divine currents ever streaming

31. His gifts never poisoned with reproach
Many a gift returned with blame as refusal!

32. A pure nature and noble character
And brilliance that sears enviers with burning

33. Joining piety and youth - were it not for him
Such harmony would never have convened

34. He attained before twenty what none attained
Beyond ninety in years and in strength

35. Most knowledgeable of people and situations
And aware in the war of these times and cunning

36. I see the idea that is fire
Destroying foes with bursts and sparks

37. Everything he says is prose of jewels
And what comes after is rhyme and embellishment

38. A wonder it is when he writes words
Of essence yet of form cut like timber

39. Indeed, Abdul Hameed can be counted as a female servant
If measured next to him among the entourage

40. Do not blame one who sees his novel meanings
When faced with vulgarity, shrugging it off

41. O lord, whom all who come to see grow weary
And all who stand before tire and bend

42. I hope - and you are my dawn - that a night in which I have hid
May be brightened, and my foe and enemy see

43. My side honored, my truth nurtured
How I've tasted brine, and others nearly

44. Drained oceans dry down to the last gulp
If I've thirsted and hungered, in your comforts

45. Quench and feed me, for my relief
When you remain true to me, I will exchange

46. My tight existence for a capacious life