1. Are you still my friend after the estrangement,
Or has the rope of friendship with Salma been severed?

2. I used to conceal my desires and keep them hidden
Until when will this burning passion remain concealed?

3. Umma said, "He is lovesick like a traveling companion
As if he is spellbound by the dark night's sorcery."

4. As if the scent of musk on her pillows
Has made her drunk with yearning and desire.

5. Imagination kindled the wants of the lovesick one
Such that passions almost burst out from within.

6. An ailment befell us walking with unease
In the waist and in the hips indigestion.

7. You were greeted by a frequent visitor of our abodes
With Indian musk and ambergris perfumed.

8. Oh my friend, this guide found his way to us
While the darkness of night was piled up.

9. Did he come straight walking the length of his night?
Or lost from the path of purpose confused?

10. To the frightful places of death he ventured
Where horrors and calamities determination emboldened.

11. How to speak to a caravan made anxious
By the howling winds whose echoes confuse?

12. It casts them from the dark places of death for honor
When confusions of straying ignite.

13. Disheveled camels, ruins upon a journey
On which sandals and patches abound.

14. An uproar, pots - its locusts
Become leaves and its battles confused ideas.

15. We traveled to you on mounts we tasked
With the journey of day and night's roaming.

16. We traveled to you, our mounts Syrian
With no warmth in their armors from their breezes.

17. It makes the old man unshelter his turban
While snow upon the highest peaks lies piled.

18. It suffices the Caliph that Allah has robed him
In the raiment of kingship with which outcomes are hoped.

19. He whom amongst you Allah gives, gives extra
And whom He deprives today, deprived.

20. O House of Marwan, Allah has preferred you
With an ancient preference and in striving, uprightness.

21. A people whose father was Abu Al-‘Aas and bequeathed them
An inherited leadership which no leaderships can equal.

22. He has attained the highest pinnacle so seized it
A towering ascent when the climbers scramble.

23. He protects his protege with warriors for him of sternness
By whom the earth from their strength in it trembles.

24. Thirsty they came but his buckets quenched their thirst
From a sea in which whales splash about.

25. Kingship will not transfer from you to anyone
Nor will your exemplary building be razed.