أَلا عُج بِالمطيِّ عَلى المقامِ

وَبثّ بسوحهِ شرح الغرامِ

Oh wonder and saddle the steed at the abode

And spread through its plains the tale of love

وَقبّل تربهُ واِسكب رهاماً

عليهِ منَ المدامعِ كالرهامِ

And kiss its soil and pour showers upon it

Of tears like heavy rain

سعاد منهُ بانَت بل حذام

فَسائل عن سعاد وعن حذامِ

Saad appeared from it, rather Hutham

So ask about Saad and about Hutham

بهِ بينَ السلام يلوحُ منه

سماة كالوحيّ على السلامِ

With it, peace waves from it

Pure like revelation upon peace

هناكَ لوشمهِ يبدو وشامٌ

لناظرهِ حكى رجع الوشامِ

There its tattoo appears, and a beauty mark

For its viewer, he told the return of the beauty mark

وَقَد أنسَ النعام بهِ وأضحت

مَعالمهُ مَجالاً للنعامِ

And ostriches became accustomed to it and its

Landmarks became grounds for ostriches

أمنتضد الرخامِ فَما أراني

أَرى سمة عليك سوى الرخامِ

Do you lie down on marble? I do not see upon you

Any mark except for marble

عَليك سلامنا وعلى سعادٍ

وَإِن ضنّت علينا بالسلامِ

Our greetings unto you, and unto Saad

Though she was stingy to us with greetings

فَتاةُ أسقَمتني من سقامي

بِأعينها الصحاح من السقامِ

A girl who sickened me with my sickness

With her eyes, healing from sickness

وَتزعم وَصلها أبداً حراماً

وليسَ دمي عليها بالحرامِ

She claims her love is forever forbidden

Yet my blood upon her is not forbidden

تلاحظُني وترشُقني سهاماً

فيؤلم مهجتي رشق السهامِ

She notices me and shoots me with arrows

So my inner self aches from being shot with arrows

زمام القلبِ في يدِها فأضحت

تقودُ القلبَ منّي بالزمامِ

The heart's reins are in her hands, so she became

One who leads the heart from me with the reins

حَكى جِسمي هلال النقص لمّا

حَكَت في حسنِها بدرَ التمامِ

My body told the tale of the crescent's loss when

She narrated upon her beauty the full moon's perfection

فَعام وصلها عندي كيومٍ

وَيوم فراقها عندي كعامِ

A year of her company to me is like a day

And a day of her remoteness from me is like a year

إِذا لاثَ اللثام بوجنتيها

رأيت النورَ من تحتِ اللثامِ

When she moves her veil with her cheeks

I see the light from under the veil

تَرى وسطَ الخيام لها شعاعاً

كأنَّ الشمسَ حلّت في الخيامِ

You see amidst the tents for her a brilliance

As if the sun lodged itself in the tents

أَضامرةَ الحشا رقّي لصبٍّ

إِلى ماءِ الوصال لديك ظامِ

The doe of the gardens, my love sick one

To the water of connection for you is thirsty

كئيب ليس يردعهُ ملامٌ

وَإِن نصح الملوّم في الملامِ

Gloomy am I, blame does not deter him

Even if the blamer advises with blame

أوامي منك فَاِنتفلي برشفٍ

أبلّ ببردهِ وهج الأوامِ

My dear one, so honor me with a gulp

To undo with its coldness the fire's embers

وردّي في المنامِ عليَّ نومي

لعلّي أَن أراك لدى المنامِ

And bring me back in sleep, my sleep

Perhaps I may see you during sleep

وَذارعةَ الموامى عنتريس

تجوبُ بدرعها عرضَ الموامِ

The knight lady Intisar tours

With her armor the breadth of prairies

أَطلت بها المسيرَ إِلى فلاح

سليل المحسن الملك الهمامِ

I journeyed long with her to Falah

Scion of the benefactor, the noble king

فلمّا جئتهُ أعلى محلّي

وَأَغناني نداه عن اللئامِ

So when I came to him, the highest is my status

And his voice's echo made me needless of blames

وَقرّبني بدارٍ منه حتّى

ظننتُ دخلتُ في دار السلامِ

And he brought me near a house of his until

I thought I entered the House of Peace

تبسّم برقُ عارضهِ فأضحى

ملجّاً في بكاءٍ واِبتسامِ

The lightening of his cheek smiled, so it became

Shelter for crying and smiling

وَأسحم كالغمام له غمامٌ

فعقّب فضله فضل الغمامِ

And he was generous like clouds, clouds for him

So his generosity followed the clouds' generosity

سَما فَوق السما حتّى تساما

وحتّى جلّ جلّ عن المسامِ

It ascended above the sky until it transcended

And until it surpassed transcending the utmost

كأنّ رجاءَ راجيه سوامٌ

وفيض نداه روض للسوامِ

As if the hope of its hopers are meteors

And the outpouring of his gifts a meadow for beasts

فَما كعب يماثله نوالاً

وَلا أوس بن حارثة بن لامِ

So neither Kaab matches him in bestowal

Nor Aus ibn Hajar in nobility

أباعثها مسوّمة عتاقاً

تدافع بِالكماة إلى الزحامِ

I unleash them as ransomed freed slaves

Repelling with valor unto the crowds

إِذا اِشتدّ اللطام وصار كبش ال

كتائبِ خائضاً بحرَ اللطامِ

When the fighting intensifies and becomes a ram

Wading into the sea of fighting

وَلاحت كالكواكبِ في الدياجي

واِشتبك اللوامع في القتامِ

And they shine like stars in the darkness

And the flashes intertwine in the darkness

وشبّت في الوَغى نار لها في

تغيّظها ضرام كالضرامِ

And in the fray a fire kindled for it in

Its fury embers like embers

وَأظلم بالدياجي لي وألقى

ظلاماً حالكاً قبل الظلامِ

And for me it darkened in the darkness and cast

A deep darkness before the darkness

فكنتُ على العِدا قدراً متاحاً

تُطالعهم ببأسٍ واِنتقامِ

So I was upon the foe a prepared pot

Looking at them with might and vengeance

فلمّا جئتهم ورأوكَ أضحَوا

سكارى ذاهلين بلا مدامِ

So when I came to them and they saw you

They became drunk, confused without wine

أَريتهمُ الحمام فكم حمام

لخوفك قد رأوا قبل الحمامِ

I showed them the pigeons, so how many a pigeon

From fear of you they saw before the pigeon

وَكَم زايلت في أعداك هاماً

فأصبحَ هامُهم أفراخ هامِ

And how many aspirations I vanquished in your enemies

So their aspirations became like hatchlings of ostriches

إِذا سجدَ الحسامُ هناك أضحت

جباههمُ مساجدَ للحسامِ

When the swords bow down there, their foreheads become

Prostrating places for the swords

لكَ الدنيا أَطاعت واِستقلّت

فَخُذ ما رمتَ منها من مرامِ

For you the world obeyed and submitted

So take what you desired of its desires

وَصار لجامُها بيديك حتّى

قهرت الرأس منها باللجامِ

And its cup came into your hands until

You subjugated the head from it with the reins