1. You appeared to us with no forewarning
As though your eyes were the executioner's blade

2. They glanced, so hearts came alive, but were not
Except the vanguard passing through the regiments

3. An Arab woman you are, not Abyssinian
Sword of the clan of Yazin upon her return

4. With might and clemency, O Saad, and exemplar
To the sons of Umayya or sons of Abbad

5. Or does Arab honor incite you
Having gathered the peoples of earth in Baghdad

6. Do not make its defender its butcher
And by you the rightly-guided and al-Hadi took refuge

7. Glances of your eyes are a copy taken
From command of a sultan to people of the land

8. As though the horses of Abu Ubayda came
To conquer my Qarah and innermost being

9. So grant security to one captive in your bondage
Your eyes, two captors of the debauched

10. By God, I do not complain for I know
I was created for these shackles

11. You have rewarded me as I wronged and wronged me
Wrong is acceptable from peers

12. How many coquettes glanced at me disdainfully
With a glance with which censors look on hunters

13. And the fragrance fills her garment as though she were
Flower of temples in the prime of holidays

14. So I possessed a pure heart and deprived it
Of my kindness and softness after the pliancy of leadership