قوامك تحت شعرك يا أُمامه

لحسنك حاملٌ علمَ الإمامهْ

Your figure under your hair, O beauty

Your beauty bears the sign of leadership

أما وصراط فرقٍ مستقيمٍ

لقد قامت عليَّ به القيامهْ

As for the straight path of the creek

The Resurrection has risen against me

بروحي منك قدًّا هزَّ رمحاً

فسلَّ الجفن أيضاً حسامهْ

With my soul, he shook a spear from you

So the eyelid shed blood as well

وخدّ شاهدٌ بدمي وإلا

بأن وراه من ريق مدامهْ

And a witness cheek with my blood, otherwise

Behind him from the saliva of wine

يشفّ من الإضاءة عن رحيقٍ

تخال الخال من مسكٍ ختامهْ

Heals from the illumination of meadows

Like moles from concluding musk

تأخر يا غلام وخلّ خالاً

ينادمني على خدِّ الغلامهْ

Delay O boy and leave a mole

Console me on the cheek of the boy

لشامته يقول إذا أديرت

عليّ مدام ريقته بشامهْ

For his gloating, he says when I turn

His saliva wine stains me

ألذّ بظلمها لي حيث لذّت

به فأفرّ من كشف الظلامهْ

I indulged in its injustice to me wherever I indulged

So I flee from revealing the darkness

إلى أسد لها نسبٌ ولكن

محاسنها إلى آرام رامهْ

To a lion related to it but

Its beauty belongs to the Aramean seeks

أطعت بها الغواية والتصابي

وعاصيت النَّصيحة والملامهْ

I obeyed temptation and temptation

And disobeyed advice and blame

وقلت لعاذلي لا كيد يمشي

لمثلك في هوايَ ولا كرامهْ

And I said to my critic, no plot goes

For the likes of you in my love and no dignity

زمان اللهو مبرور الليالي

ووجه الأنس وضَّاح الغمامهْ

The time of playfulness, the passing of nights

And the face of intimacy, the clouds cleared

ورب حمامة سجعت فهاجت

خفايا مهجةٍ لي مستهامهْ

And the lord of the doves cooed so they were confused

Secrets of a breast that craved me

فما ورق الحمامة حين أبدت

خفا شجني سوى زرق اليمامهْ

So the pigeon leaf did not fade when it secretly displayed

My torment is nothing but the blue of violets

لقد حاكيتها وجداً وحيداً

عليه لحية النعمى وسامهْ

I simulated it with real passion

On which the beard of bliss and the mark

فما يبلى جوايَ ولا أنادي

عليّ لي ولا طوق الحمامَهْ

So my love does not wear out, nor do I call

No necklace for turtledoves can help me

سقى دنيا عليّ كما سقاني

فواصل كفّه صوب الغمامهْ

The world watered me as it watered me

So the palms of his hands were towards the clouds

وزير ما ترى الفضل بن يحيى

سواه ولا الحسين ولا قدامهْ

Minister, do you see Al-Fadl bin Yahya

Apart from him, neither Hussein nor Qudamah

عيان الفضل دع خبر ابن قيس

ورأس الجود دع كعب بن مامهْ

Leave the news of Ibn Qais visible

And the head of generosity leaves Kaab bin Mamah

تعالى الله ما أندى حياه

لدى رجوَى وما أوفى ذمامهْ

Come on, O God, his life is not good enough

In my hopes and his responsibilities are not enough

بدا ويدُ الزّمان قد استطالت

فأخمد ظلمه ومحا ظلامهْ

It appeared and the hand of time had lengthened

So extinguish its injustice and erase its darkness

ووفى الملك ما شرطت عليه

تكاليف الكفالة والزّعامهْ

And the king fulfilled what I stipulated to him

The costs of guaranty and leadership

وداعي الجود يروي عن رباحٍ

وداعي اليأس يروي عن أُسامهْ

And the caller of generosity narrates about Ribah

And the caller of despair narrates about Ossama

وكأس الحمد في يمناه يملا

بممزوج اللّطافه والشهامهْ

And the cup of thanks in his right hand he fills

With the blended delicacy and boldness

وملك صلاح دين الله يزهو

بأفضل فاضل فيه إقامهْ

And the kingdom of the religion of God flourishes

With the best distinguished resident in it

فأمَّا أصله فإلى قريشٍ

وأمَّا سرّه فإلى كتامهْ

As for its origin, it is to Quraish

And as for its secret, it is to concealment

له قلم تقسّم ريقتاه

شهاد فم المحاول أو سمامهْ

It has a pen whose saliva is divided

The testimony of the mouth of the long-tongued or poisonous

مكين في الندى والبأس إما

لهامٍ في المصالح أو لهامهْ

Firm in dew and might whether

Obsessed with interests or infatuated

وما الّلامات تحمي الجيش إلا

إذا ما خطَّ فوق الطرس لامهْ

And reproaches do not protect an army

Unless he drew his banner above the saddlebags

وما الروض النضير له نظير

إذا أدراجه مزجت كلامهْ

And the small garden has no equal to it

When its lanes are mixed with his speech

وما الدّرّ اليتيم ربيب بيت

إذا لم يعتمد يوماً نظامهْ

And an orphaned pearl is not a child of the house

If one day he did not rely on his system

علاء الدِّين ما أشهى للثمِي

ثرى قدميكَ أجعلهُ لثامهْ

Supreme glory, how delicious for the thirsty

The soil of your feet, I make it a wrap

أتيتُ الشام بعد سنين جدبٍ

فكان العام حين أغثت عامهْ

I came to Syria after years of drought

So the year was when I watered its year

وواليت الندى مالاً وجاهاً

إلى أن جانس الكرم الكرامهْ

And I ruled the dew money and status

Until it rivaled generosity and generosity

وعدتَ عزيز مصرَ وكلّ مصرٍ

سعيداً في الترحُّل والإقامهْ

And you returned the dear Egypt and every Egypt

Happy to move and settle

وقالوا سارَ قلبكَ يوم سارت

ركائبه فقلت مع السَّلامهْ

And they said, your heart traveled when

Its mounts traveled, so I said goodbye

ففي دارِ البوار الآن شخصي

وقلبي الآن في دار المُقامهْ

So now my person is in the land of distance

And my heart is now in the house of dwelling

إليكَ أبو الخلائف من قريشٍ

سؤال سامه أملي وحامهْ

To you, O Father of the Caliphs from Quraish

An asking of high aspirations hopes and protects

أذكّر جودك الوعد المبدَّا

وقد أخمدت من سغبي ضرامهْ

I remind your generosity of the promise

And my branches have been extinguished

جعلت الجسم منِّي بيت لحمٍ

وزدت وظائفي أيضاً قمامهْ

I made my body a house of flesh from me

And also increased my jobs as a pitcher

وما أدري أتوقيعي بمصرٍ

وإلاَّ بالشآمِ فلن أُسامهْ

And I don't know if my signature is in Egypt

Or in the Levant, so I will not despair

إلى التوقيع قد طرب اسْتماعي

وحارَ دقيق فكرِي في العلامهْ

To sign, my hearing was disturbed

And my mind was confused with the mark