1. O Hind, greet the heroes
When they witness the battle, smiling

2. Your greeting in return is nothing but
Like the breeze that greeted the jasmine

3. Be well, O daughter of the free, a soul
For the loved ones have returned victorious

4. And every morning I bid farewell
To your fearless young men

5. Did you not smile, O Hind, when
You saw your knight raise his forehead

6. And his soul shone in his eyes
Showing you determination mocking the years

7. And he said, while in his chest was a heart
Like a slumbering formidable lion guarding its lair

8. Let me ride the dangers alone
Are you not loving towards the glorious?

9. When my generosity flows with melodies
With kisses that the right hand recalls

10. And sing, O beauty, to the young ladies
His poems that rang with melody

11. And say, O redeemed hero
May God protect you from the harm of the envious

12. I recognized you as the master of poets
And today you are the most faithful lover

13. Do you not remember our evening when
We melted in ardour? Do you not remember?

14. And your heart is like a gentle bird
Confiding its love to my sorrowful heart

15. And in your eyes are lights that show me
Chastity that hides the precious secret

16. And from the beads of your necklace hung
A cross that guards the precious treasure

17. I try to extend my hand sometimes
But awe returns me from you at times

18. And I spent the night remembering my family in the red sands
So I melted into their melodies yearning

19. And remained asking the spirits about them
Inhaling their perfume as you inhale

20. And the waves around us roar
Repeating the farewell of those who left

21. I remembered the fever so I turned my face
To the homeland in which we were raised

22. There are thousands of painful memories
That your knight will preserve and you will preserve

23. The beauty of the rosy shore in the morning
Reminds us of the meadows if we forget

24. And the darkness saddens you at times
With the lights of the planets to befriend the lost

25. A radiant star shone and we
Extended our right hands towards its rays

26. And your female companions mourned you
So I remained returning their laments

27. And the scent wafted from the train of a breeze
Laden with the greetings of those who left

28. By the life of your father, O Hind, remember me
And do not forget the affection while we live

29. And if destiny parts and I die, then cry
Tomorrow for your honest, affectionate friend

30. Come kiss me on the forehead
In front of all the enemies gathered

31. Perhaps their hearts will split from rage
So I praise what you have done and you praise

32. For have you seen a brother as loyal as I am
And as generous when you experience many?

33. Between my wings, O Hind, is a heart
From which love overflowed that you do not know

34. The virtues gathered around it
So it became, below them, an impregnable fortress

35. And I am but twenty years old
So how will it be when I reach forty?

36. By your life, each day of my life
I prefer over living for hundreds of years

37. Come let us listen to the murmurs of the night
And traverse the storms mockingly

38. And if you fear any evil, do not worry
For the rest of the heroes are among us

39. Stay with God and entreat us a little
And with the smiles of your mouth provide us

40. For its smiles are but rays
That explain hopes to the captives

41. Entreat if you do not trust my words
About the news for which you yearn

42. Perhaps after you ascertain it
You will tell us about the evident victory

43. Thus if we live, we live honorably
And if we die, we are called immortal

44. For we are in the lands but passing stars
Brought near by the eyes of those staying up night

45. And we are in the graves nothing but perfumes
Whose scent pleases those who inhale

46. Are you sprinkling carnations on the tall foreheads
And when you see them wilt into stars

47. Do you shed tears over the tombs?
And your two eyes which poured me

48. I will strike my enviers until they soften
And I will darken the idol worshippers until

49. They say today we have become believers
And I will remove every infertile tradition

50. And every myth of early times
And I will break every chain and shackle

51. So that the hands of writers extend
And I carry the banner of reform until

52. I see the youth marching behind me
And without fear I will destroy formidable

53. Edifices built by the ancients
And over them I will build a new palace

54. So that tomorrow my poetry will have strong foundations
I am Victor Hugo amongst my people

55. If the son of Ta'ama is delighted, you are delighted
O sister of beauty, why don't you come, my opponent,

56. And say to him, we have defeated the aggressors
And there is no pride in our victory, but

57. We wanted to be well-mannered
So he knows that we are youths of honesty

58. Who ardently heed chivalry
We have vanquished every stubborn tyrant

59. And we were not boasting about that
And if we compose poetry of honesty

60. We compose it for a people who are poetic
And if we shed the light of truth

61. We shed it for a people who see
We twitter with rhymes

62. To delight the refined elite
And we do not care if a pearl is lost

63. To our minds blinded with bigotry

64. For poems have a beautiful influence
On a heart that harbored melody and softness

65. Ask the envious when they saw us
Running around like frightened rabbits

66. When do they deny our might the day we met?
And we were saying and doing

67. And we were carrying the banner of honor
That shaded and protected our loved ones

68. When it willed, it saw us yearning
For the trial of resolves

69. So people may know which of us is a coward
When the eyes of witnesses stir

70. But my invitation to the opponent is shameful
For I do not consider him a peer

71. He repeats my poetry like an echo so I grieve
For a poetaster leading the claimers

72. He has plotted evil and temptation between me
And the prominent masters of my people

73. I am one of them and they are like me, honorable
So we are not envious and hateful

74. Reform or righteousness we are known for
And we were not corrupt or corrupting

75. Is there a place for him amongst the bones
If they come to me in surrender?

76. And virtues have greeted you with smiles
For I have told them the certain news

77. Is it not enough pride that my poetry
Has ambition for you and I was coveting it?

78. And your companion, the gallant young man
Is a leader among the reformers

79. You see the lofty ambition in him
When the generous ascend, struggling

80. Place your palms in his hand, and say
You are truthful, so be the leader of the finest

81. We were created for the earth, so dismount it
And leave our opponents stumbling

82. Have you not seen how the eagle of the air ascends
And the arrows of hunters have missed?

83. And how the wandering planet runs
While the minds of observers are confused?

84. And how the sun rises each day
Upon our wicked and righteous?

85. We were born in our nature great
Thus the Lord of the worlds has willed