1. I sought respite from her relationship in my sobriety
She aimed the arrow of her glance intentionally at me so I was struck

2. I thought of a valley growing lotus trees and myrtle
Ask the garden where the oleander and cypress grow

3. When water plays in its shadows
The bending branches seem to dance in it

4. Stubborn is he who contends with destiny fiercely
It left him nothing but his sighs of anguish

5. It’s no wonder I'm infatuated, for through a sister of affliction in love spread the infatuation
I appeared uncouth, though I did not spurn; and the uncouth may spurn etiquette if he dwells in the desert

6. I admired a bedouin girl whose abode is the open country
Who summers in Najd and winters in Huzwa

7. Accustomed to capturing souls and killing them
She has never confronted an army or known a raid

8. Except that she is of the noble Mudar tribe
Who fears the braves whose morning raid is destruction

9. When she comes out of her tent or turns about
Neither the bright full moon nor the delicate branch are more beautiful

10. The eyelids of passionate hearts obey her eyes
As if she has power over her own dominion

11. The landmarks of her guidance went astray, then straightened
By its guidance to sincerity and turned towards righteousness

12. I passed by the ruins of loved ones, weeping,
As my tears flowing copiously watered them

13. The stars gathered and life was delayed
So I complain of a torrent from them that terrifies the frightened

14. If my tears were like the violent rainclouds
They would see in them no ebb and flow

15. It's as if vessels from my eyelids were emptied
So it's no wonder they don't recognize the emptying and the bucket

16. The rain watered the flanks of Udhayb and Barraq
And quenched the thirst of my loved one wherever she wished

17. My vows desire to break their pledges
How could that be when desire has flooded whom I desire

18. I reconciled destiny and old age as is its due
By God, a purposeful bowing in prayer makes amends for heedlessness

19. Among what saddens me is a night bird warbling
As it stretches its melodies to me in the darkness, listening

20. It recalls me under the darkness repeatedly
Making me hear its song and me making it hear my lament

21. Though I am bold when battle flares up
Terrifying in separation when it is intended

22. And I like to blame the one I love
So that the sincerity of passion can be distinguished from pretense

23. I must praise bounty and dew
For they continue to nourish me with satisfaction

24. Bestowing hands held back what I feared
So I do not accept any limit in praising them as recompense

25. It deemed me shallow while it surges like an ocean
So its currents drowned me and there was no escape

26. Just so, one who foolishly aims for the sky
His desire leads him away from ascension

27. The flint I strike with thoughts praising her excellence upon excellence
Has become cold, kindled by her gifts coming unasked

28. The sweetest hands are those that came willingly
Spreading purity, however much discord occurred

29. Thus days bring purity out of bitterness
From a reviling drunkard and a swimming woman gracefully gliding

30. Indicating thereby her voluptuous undulating gait
And her lofty nobility rising high

31. However she wills, she possesses charm and a gait
That puts the fast she-camels to shame when she runs

32. Her breed was once among the steeds of Himyar for a while
The Himyaris kept it distinct, enveloping it

33. The haughtiness of the steed refused shelter in its essence
Not leaving its rider any shelter

34. She kept away from strangers, so she is unique
Rising high, and honor her with high regard

35. Through granted land, my shoulder bore
An obligation, so my thanks strive to repay it

36. How many gifts conferred wealth on my hand
To a nation that made my bosom its haven

37. Gifts the generous one gives unstintingly
That exhausted the steeds of poetry when it expanded

38. It saved me from complaining of fate and blaming it
So I have nothing left but inability to thank it

39. Felicity took me to the highest horizon
And the presence of Yahya the Desired is the highest horizon

40. I embarked upon the sea though its waves foamed
Aspiring, but it flowed back from reaching it

41. I dwelled splendidly in it as an honorable man
And was granted a dwelling in the garden of the abode

42. My life flourished therein and its growth began
So no era's storm or harm harmed it

43. The days fulfilled a debt which they undertook
And the debt of death, in the precinct of truth, cannot be deferred

44. An imam succeeded his father and grandfather
Thus every imam in succession remains his successor

45. He is humble in humility and mighty in majesty
If royalty lies in the adornment of a king, then marvel!

46. To him belong religion and worldly life, glory and sublimity
Health and remaining life, righteousness and piety

47. He is happily forgiving when they commit sins
To be profusely pardoning whenever they are profligate in passion

48. If the sanctity of religion is violated in the land
His steel sword that subjugates extends to the transgressor

49. Through him the valor of religion which prevailed and ascended
So you see in it no villainy or empty ostentation

50. Blessed is what he conceals and declares, established
In the responsibilities of God's cause both openly and in secret

51. Obviously in what is undertaken he is insightful
Nullifying what others dictated and related

52. Destiny guaranteed victory for his standard
If he wished he would not have needed the cavalry

53. Nor would his arrogance have taken upon itself
The swarthy fierce and the whitish wave

54. His might alone suffices to subdue Arabs and non-Arabs
No wonder the lion captures the evasive gazelle

55. His brilliance like a full moon dawned on the kingdom's horizon
And the magnificence of authority illuminated the regions

56. Looking out over the realms, watching for their conquest
As a vigilant victor looked out from a high vantage point

57. Whenever the excited army lines up its ranks
He moves towards it until he annihilates it completely

58. And turns the steeds of his munificence to retreat
So they recoil in fright backwards in hasty flight

59. It's as if his gifts are hosts that guaranteed
To provide generously for whoever the calamities address

60. His rule directs the course of fate among the people
If he is guided aright he surely thwarts misguidance

61. The east and west of the country yield to him
So that his dominion reaches wherever it extends

62. There is Tlemcen, Miliana, and Tripoli
Terrified anew, their pasture restored

63. Lands where the tyrants drank deep the cups
Of their deaths, a punishment for oppression

64. In his words their wretches became happy
And their furthest reaches settled joyously

65. Congratulations on the rise of the imam of justice's state
For which days excitedly sway

66. A new year dawns, auspicious, with good omens
The scrolls of victory in it unfold and do not close

67. And may the heir apparent continue pleasing you as regent
Just as the tender moon took the radiant sun's place

68. Without you two, rectitude and guidance would not be protected
And without you two, clear judgment and eloquence would not be known