1. My torment from your folds of torment
So has approval mediated at the beating?

2. The affectation of one who feigned affection for you
Seekers of drink from a mirage

3. You are attributed to beauty though in you is distance
Beauty has lent you to the veil

4. Yet my passion for you is without shame
As the slanderers claimed, it bears no blemish

5. What your cheek contains is without artifice
What your youth betrays is to be shunned

6. And my praise judging generosity is most high
And least in munificence of the clouds

7. For even if you shun me, my soul ransoms you
Sweeter to me than the comrades' bond

8. A youth in whom is erudition and sublimity
Who has gathered Arab and foreigner alike

9. He is joyous when he declaims in speeches
And eloquent when he orates in discourse

10. Elucidating the ambiguous of every knowledge
When all doors to it are shut

11. And revealing all darkness and injustice
With opinions created from rectitude

12. You cast your foes in fierce war
With the likes of oceans of destruction

13. So souls took flight above the Pleiades
And heads sank beneath the soil

14. It suffices me that I sought loftiness
In that my lineage traces back to your love