1. تريك الصبح في الليل البهيم

    إذا ابتسمت عن الثغر النظيم

    She shows you dawn in the pitch-dark night

    when she smiles, revealing her finely arrayed teeth.

  2. من السمر الرشاق لها قوام

    به تسمو على الغصن القويم

    Among the slender, dark-skinned beauties, she has a figure

    that rises above the upright bough.

  3. تضاهي المسك في لون ولكن

    تفوق على شذاه بالشميم

    She matches musk in color, but

    surpasses its fragrance with her own scent.

  4. لها ردف الكثيب وقد غصن

    وسالف شادن ولحاظ ريم

    Hers are a sand dune's hips and a bough's figure,

    a young gazelle's neck and a white gazelle's glances.

  5. تشوق العين والاسماع وصفا

    بحسن الدل والصوت الرحيم

    She enchants the eye and ears in the telling,

    with her lovely coquetry and gentle voice.

  6. تبدت في الخمار فخت بدرا

    تجلى تحت استار الغيوم

    She appeared in her veil; I thought her a full moon

    shining beneath the veils of clouds.

  7. منعمة حوت معنى وحسنا

    الم تسمع بأصحاب النعيم

    Pampered, she possesses inner grace and beauty;

    have you not heard of the people of bliss?

  8. يجلو حديثها ورضاب فيها

    غنيت عن المدامة والنديم

    Her talk and the nectar of her mouth bring brightness;

    I have no need of wine or a drinking companion.

  9. اهيم اذا سمعت لها حديثا

    وأغنى بالحديث عن القديم

    I am enraptured when I hear her speak,

    and her fresh talk leaves me no need of aged wine.

  10. بمرشفها يتامى الدر اكرم

    فخير البر اكرام اليتيم

    At her lips I honor the orphan pearls,

    for the finest kindness is to honor the orphan.

  11. بسيف الجفن قلبي كلمته

    فيا ويل الصحيح من السقيم

    With the sword of her eyelid she wounded my heart;

    woe to the healthy at the hands of the ailing!

  12. ولي ثعبان ذاك الشعر القت

    فصحت من الجوى يا للكليم

    And she cast the serpent of that hair toward me,

    so I cried in anguish, "Help, O God's interlocutor!"

  13. ومن عجب بأن ادعى سليما

    وما انا من هواها بالسليم

    And how strange that I am called "sound,"

    when love for her has left me far from sound.

  14. تصارمني وعبدي ليس ترعى

    وهل ترعى العهود ظبا الصريم

    She breaks with me and does not tend my servant;

    and do the gazelles of the thicket keep pledges?

  15. اعوذها وقد زارت بليل

    برب الناس من واش نموم

    I invoke protection for her, now that she has visited by night,

    with the Lord of humankind, against a slanderous tale-bearer.

  16. يلومني العذول على هواها

    ومن بصغي لشيطان رجيم

    The faultfinder reproaches me for loving her,

    and who would listen to an accursed devil?

  17. وحق قوامها لا كنت ممن

    يضل عن الصراط المستقيم

    And by her figure's sanctity, may I never be among those

    who stray from the straight path.

  18. وكيف يضل من قد راح يرجو

    عليا صاحب القدر العظيم

    And how can one stray who has come to place his hope in

    Ali, the man of mighty standing?

  19. جواد قد زكا اصلا وفرعا

    كريم في كريم في كريم

    A generous man, pure in root and branch,

    noble, born of the noble, born of the noble.

  20. وصلت بحبله في المدح حبلي

    وصلت به على جيش الهموم

    I joined my cord to his in praise,

    and through him I charged the army of cares.

  21. تهلل بالحيا وجها وثغرا

    وما هو غير نائله العميم

    He beams, face and mouth, with life-giving rain,

    which is nothing but his all-embracing bounty.

  22. عطاياه لنا جاءت فكانت

    بمنزلة الحياة من الجسوم

    His gifts came to us and were

    as life is to bodies.

  23. اذا عد الكرام فكان فيهم

    كبدر طالع بين النجوم

    When generous men are counted, he stands among them

    like a full moon rising among the stars.

  24. فيا مولى لنا قد عم جودا

    وخصصنا نداه بالعموم

    O patron of ours, whose generosity embraces all,

    and whose universal bounty singles us out:

  25. قلني حر نار جحيم فقري

    وقاك الله من نار الجحيم

    spare me the heat of poverty's hellfire;

    may God protect you from the fire of Hell.

  26. وجد لي بالعطا منا وخذ لي

    بانصاف من الزمن الظلوم

    Give generously to me as a favor, and secure for me

    justice against oppressive Time.

  27. فقد اخنى علي بكلكليه

    ولا زمني ملازمة الغريم

    For it has crushed me beneath its twin chests,

    and clung to me like a creditor.

  28. وأورث خطبه جسمي نحولا

    فكن عوني على الخطب الجسي

    And its calamity has left my body wasted;

    so be my aid against this grave calamity.

  29. فلا زالت رياحك ذاريات

    وهاتيك الحواسد كالهشيم

    May your winds never cease to scatter,

    and those envious ones be like dry stubble.

  30. ولا برحت صلاتك واصلات

    على رغم اللوائم واللئيم

    And may your gifts never cease to reach us,

    despite the reproachers and the base man.

  31. ودمت منعما في ظل عيش

    مدى الايام في عز مقيم

    And may you remain in comfort beneath life's shade,

    through all the days, in lasting honor,

  32. عليا ما نوى ركب حجازاً

    وزمزم بين زمزم والحطيم

    exalted, as long as a caravan sets its sights on the Hijaz,

    and chants between Zamzam and the Hatim.