1. The sweetest love for lovers is its bitterness
And most beneficial for the lover is its harm

2. Don't you see the beloved's coquetry and flirtation
Tastes sweet to their lover, bringing them joy

3. I would sacrifice for a gazelle whose face
Is like a gazelle, his mouth like blossoms

4. Killing the lover, in his sorrows
Is a sacrifice, slain on the day of Eid

5. When I looked at him, he struck me
With a glancing blow that cannot be cured

6. Between his eyelids lies the path of love
Where the slain are left and revenge is taken

7. Don't you see the blood flowing from my eyelashes
Yet staining his cheeks red?

8. By God, his cheeks, my heart and love
Are all embers fanned into flames

9. My body wastes away in passion, and his kindness
My tears' pearls in love for him and his slaughter

10. The king of beauty has conquered the king of love
With the army of those glances, his victory

11. A victory from Almighty God in her opening
An imminent opening whose secret cannot be grasped

12. No pearl can match the Khansa's love
For her brothers whose rocks have melted from fervor

13. My noble brother covers Virtue in modesty
Far be it from a noble whose worth is exalted!

14. A master honorable, lofty in ambition
Sublime in station, generous, free in spirit

15. Chaste of dress, pure of heart
Good traits, and sincere in secret

16. Deeply rooted in noble lineage, honored
Perfect in noble lineage, from highborn roots

17. Keen of thought dispelling the dark night of error
With shining light, the dawn of truth

18. He has risen to leadership of the ministry
Gaining the glory of high office, strengthening its ties

19. Everything led by the noble becomes ennobled
Like a river gaining breadth from its course to the sea

20. Difficulties become easy under his leadership
When his command is obeyed in them

21. The reins of fate yield to his will
As he knows its inner secrets

22. It is he who has ruled the land with his palm
For he contains what would confine another's heart

23. His thoughts almost materialize before the eye
If his vision could be seen by the physical eye

24. Despite people's different stripes and hues
His praise and thanks make them all one

25. The air is perfumed with mention of him
His fragrance wafts on the breeze

26. When a scent-laden breeze blows
Bearing the fragrance of his praise unfurled

27. It has made the meadows of bliss bloom
Quenching the flames of care like a flood

28. The age is serene under the shadow of its prince
His power making its hardship easy to bear

29. Good tidings to Egypt for gaining a noble son
Whose glory raises its pride to the heights

30. Adorned with the jewelry of sublime deeds, humble
Where the exalted, through him, ascend in greatness

31. Reaching perfection, shining on the horizon of loftiness
A peerless full moon, so people say

32. His excellent traits shine, limitless,
His blossoms, people say, beyond number

33. Virtues whose renown is praise of them
More eloquent than speech is their diffusion, like musk

34. O greatest scion of Muhammad, your flowers countless!
O ocean of merit, your pearls beyond measure!

35. You are the noble one, as you are named, and for us
Your name's mention is enough ennoblement