1. The sea has shown its brilliant green,
And eyes rejoiced at its beauty.

2. Beauty has adorned it with jewelry,
And creativity has woven into its softness.

3. As if it and the sun have deposited
Her green rays in its depths.

4. The edges of the waves were embroidered
With emerald green over its blueness.

5. It reminded me of a time past for us
On the shores of Tetouan.

6. In a garden trained on a hillside
Which beauty has taught with its bending.

7. Whatever you wish of light and darkness on
Green emerald competing in its greenery.

8. And of branches the life has watered,
So they frisked from its wine.

9. The flowers have embroidered it with yellow
Describing the green softness in its bend.

10. And red resembling the cheek of the one
Who made me crave to see him.

11. Where wishes reveal him like the moon
Keeping the gloom of sorrows from his face.

12. Neither estrangement nor longing to ignite desire
And incline the heart to its burning,

13. But his aloofness which is in his nature,
For the aloofness of the gazelle is in its nature.

14. It becomes lost then what it sees of my love
Returns it from its aloofness.

15. So I said when I saw him lost,
“Be content, my love, with me.”

16. “And do not torture me with the fire of estrangement,
O you who has the life of passion in his grip.”

17. So he smiled, how far the pearl is from his mouth!
And how far the fragrance of musk is from his scent!

18. And how far the full moon is from his face!
And how far the flash of lightning is from his cheek!

19. He shook with wonder at my submission to him,
And how far the flexible branch is from his swaying!

20. What crescent in the staff of the watchman
Did the bright star illuminate from its curvature?

21. I embraced a branch from his stature
As I plucked the roses from its buds.

22. I did not sober from my drunken infatuation
Except by my shredding it because of our separation.

23. What time has passed quickly!
O it puzzled my breath in its speed!

24. I did not awaken from the dream of its bliss
Except with my longing for its nightfall.

25. O would that fate might help
The ardent fulfill his goal.

26. Will the sunset after departure draw near?
So I may pick hopes from its ruins?

27. Will I see those full moons that
Adorn the horizon upon its rising?

28. Yes, join me with them promptly,
It is easy for the Merciful in His power.

29. How great is God's ability to restore one
Whom separation has cast to his comrades!

30. So O breeze from their quarter blow,
I sensed the fragrance of musk in its blowing.

31. How is the meadow, the valley, the soft sand,
The river, and the garden on its shore?

32. My pledge to them is the pasture of all flock
Time has not overgrazed in its spinning.

33. And how are my loved ones, and have they known
My longing in which I was wrecked?

34. Fate has bent me with their separation,
I complain to the Merciful of its bending.

35. I have become passionate in the Maghreb, not missing
A longing in which I melted from its burning.

36. Were it not for the son of Abdul-Mumin the Chosen
Who cured my heart from the affliction of its torment.

37. I made him my destination, a excellent one
For man to seek in his estrangement.

38. The unique scholar, whose habit is
To save the anguished from his torment.

39. And to console one whose destination
The steeds of wishes missed or swerved from its course.

40. I anchored my hopes in him, so they breathed
A fragrance from his gentle blowing.

41. If you ask the loved ones about my lodging,
Plucking the pure wishes

42. In the shadows of knowledge in his presence.
He has burdened me with righteousness until indeed

43. I am incapable of escaping his grasp.
What fault of his except he overlooks the likes of me

44. In my shortcomings?
And assists the seeker in his pursuit,

45. And gratifies the desirous in his desire.
His integrity in knowledge, time has not prevented

46. From its integrity.
He has taught us the knowledge of religious obligations in

47. The quickest measure his steps carried in his walk.
From his lesson comes the prose he composed,

48. A masterpiece of what was written of its kind.
He enumerated the principles of the craft integrally

49. And connected them elegantly in his composition.
Not to mention the poem and the poet

50. And the eloquent, the requirement of his wisdom,
Clarifying what was ambiguous in its phrasing

51. And solving what was difficult from its knot.
What can one say in his praise?

52. For time has exhausted itself in serving him.
The sun has bestowed its rays upon him

53. And the moon adorned him with its ornaments.
Glory has shaded his court

54. And the sea of generosity flooded in its expanse.
Full moon of guidance and knowledge, O you whose

55. Eulogies bow down in your direction.
Take them despite the hostility courting

56. Candor has clad it in its gown.
Poems that when they heralded you

57. Glory wrapped in its coat.
How many with high ambitions have cast it

58. Yet no ear turned to listen to its address?
The daughter of Ibn Zakour, so his origin

59. Is Fes, and people of merit are his family.
Her extravagant dowry is your acceptance of her,

60. He did not consider it too high in his intention.
So overlook him and accept his gift,

61. And pardon with forbearance his lapse.
You remain of repute, hostility is ugly.

62. No one of dignity lowers himself to his soil.
And God keeps you an Imam of guidance

63. As long as the dove coos on its perch.