1. The fear of a lover spread the darkness of poetry
The next morning after meeting, the night kept the secret

2. But when she came close, she smiled
And our secret spread from the radiance of her lips

3. She wept when separation was certain, she shed tears
With which she watered red anemones that turned yellow

4. But when I cried over the loss
My cheeks were dyed red from my red tears

5. My cheeks became rosy from the fire of her beauty
And it's amazing that the rose blossoms in embers

6. When the coals of my cheeks burned, they became more radiant
But they wither when drenched with freely flowing tears

7. Blessed is He who created beauty, it
Defies the laws of nature, if you know

8. For the weakest aspect of beauty captured us
Lovers of passion, blameless in love

9. Sick eyelids dominate during passion
Healing the lovesick with murder and captivity

10. And those black slaves of all alluring eyes
Killers of free men without blame

11. And those slender waists bent by love
Stab the heart of the lover from within the chest

12. And what do you think is the patience of lovers with them
When the war of Badr erupted in love

13. They attack with arrows from eyes
Eyebrows and glances with white and brown

14. And patience exists only in hearts, so when
The first one hit was the domain of patience

15. I saw the coquettes commanding and forbidding
Not like the prince's commands and prohibitions

16. For every prince ruled by the sword and spear
But praise the prince who ruled by glory and pride

17. Who controls men's necks by his gentleness
Apart from his inherited right since ancient times

18. A man whom the coquettes cannot entice with their beauty
Though they may entice him when he shines like the full moon

19. With his ink, he was self-sufficient without the curl of hair
And content without the lips with prose and poetry

20. Dark hair did not dye him, for he
Became distracted from black hair with poetry

21. He clarifies the subtle meaning with his delicate words
Like pure wine clarifying wine

22. And he creates meaning intoxicated while sober
And awakens by it from immersion in drunkenness

23. Oh distant one, there is no emigrant
And how excellent is the land after emigration

24. I see you near, though you are far
Your image passing by my eye whenever it desires

25. I have compensated for what my ear missed of your talk
By repeating it to myself constantly

26. An era passed in which I did not waste
Your company, for to me, that was the prime of life

27. By it I was an infant, satisfied by your union
And I was weaned from union, but in childhood