لئِن حُجِبَت نُجلُ العُيونِ وحورُها
ففي كلِّ جسمٍ سقمُها وفتورُها
If the stars of beautiful eyes were veiled
In every body is its sickness and languor
محاسنُ فيها وهيَ من كلِّ عاشِقٍ
مساوٍ وكلٌّ جاهِدٌ يَستَعيرُها
Beauties in it that are equally
From every lover striving to borrow them
شَكونا إليها السقمَ وهي سَقيمةٌ
فما بالُنا مما بنا نستَجيرُها
We complained to her of illness while she was sick
So why are we suffering what we asked her to save us from
وإنا لأولى بالنفورِ من الظّبا
وما حُمِّلَت منه ففيمَ نفورُها
And we have more right to shy from the gazelles
And she was not charged with that so why is she shying
ولما قَسَمنا الليلَ قِسمَينِ قرَّبا
مَزارَ التي شَطَّت عنِ العينِ دورُها
And when we divided the night in two halves
The dwelling of she who swerved from the eye its turn
سُرىً وكَرىً إما بِهذا تَزورُها
إلى حيثُ كانَت أو بِذا تَستَزيرُها
To the right and to the left, either visiting it hereby
Or taking comfort thereby where it was
وممنوعَةٍ بالصوم في كلِّ حجَّةٍ
ثلاثينَ يَوماً ثم تأتي شُهورُها
And forbidden with fasting every month
Thirty days then her months come
تهيم بها نفسُ الفَتى وهي ضرَّةٌ
فيا عجباً من ضرَّةٍ لا تُغيرُها
The soul of the youth craves her while she is harmful
So strange is the harmful one it does not change her
وحرَّمَها نصُّ الكتابِ فجاءنا
بتحليلِها نصُّ الهَوى ومُديرُها
And the text of the Book forbade her then we came
With making her lawful the text of passion and its guide
وأقبلَ شوالٌ بها فافرِجُوا لها
وإن كان مَحظوراً عليكُم عُبورُها
And Shawwal came with it so make way for it
Even if crossing it is forbidden upon you
أرى نائِباتٍ نابِياتٍ شفارُها
وما كفَّها إلا العُلى وأميرُها
I see deputies, wishing, her lips
And only the Most High and its Emir curbed her
وسيرةُ قومٍ في الندى تغلِبيَّةٌ
لكل زمانٍ منهم من يَسيرُها
And the conduct of a people in dew, Ghulibi
For every time one of them who leads it
وللدولة الزهراءِ نورٌ مطنِّبٌ
من الأفُقِ الأعلى وهذا مُنيرُها
And for the brilliant state light bundled
From the highest horizon and this its illuminator
فتىً يَسبِقُ الفتيان من كان قبلَهُ
فأولُ فتيانِ المَعالي أخيرُها
A youth preceding the youths who were before him
So the first of the youths of glories is its last
أبوها ابنُها فيما أرى وكبيرُها
على حُكم تاريخِ السنينَ صَغيرها
Her father is her son in what I see and her elder
By the date of the years her younger
كأن أبا الهَيجاءِ لما اكتَنى بها
أبوه أبو الهَيجاءِ حين يُثيرُها
As if when Abu Al-Hayja sufficed with her
Her father was the father of Al-Hayja when he rouses her
له في العُلى فِعلانِ إما يجرُّها
إلى حُكمِه فيها وإما يُجيرُها
He has great deeds in the Most High, either pulling her
To his rule therein or protecting her
أخو حضرةٍ لا يدخلُ الهزلُ شِعبَها
ولا يُمكنُ القولَ الذميم حُضورُها
The brother of the Presence which frivolity does not enter its borders
Nor does vile speech possibility attend its presence
ولا صَدَرت عنها العُفاةُ فلم تُعد
حقائبَها مملوءةً وصدورُها
And the churls did not emanate from it so it did not prepare
Its burdens filled and its chests
خلائِقُ لولا حسنُ صورة وجههِ
لأعوزَ في الدنيا عَليها نظيرُها
Attributes if it were not for the beauty of its face
It would lack in the world a peer
