كيف ألفت الصدَّ والهجرا

عمدا ولم تحتقب الأجرا

How did you get used to estrangement and abandonment

Deliberately, without expecting any reward

في عاشق يجني عليه الهوى

فيجتني من صبره الصبرا

For a lover who is afflicted by passion

And reaps nothing but patience from his patience

يظلمه كل غرير له

مؤزَّر حمّله الوزرا

Every deceiver wrongs him

Burdening him with the burden

ومقلة قد خلقت فتنة

أجفانها تختلق السحرا

And a coquette created as a sedition

Whose eyelids fabricate magic

على كثيب أم على ديمة

فوق قضيب زرّه زرا

On a mound or on a plain

On a twig which he made flourish

أحبه إن شاء قتلى وإن

أساء او لم يكشف الضرا

I love him whether he kills me or wrongs me

Or does not uncover my distress

وفر كف الحسن ردفا له

مكملا واختصر الخصرا

The palm of beauty supplies him

Completing and shortening the waist

وخط فوق الورد من خده

آس عذار أوضح العذرا

And lining above the roses on his cheek

Clear justification that justifies

لم أنس تقبيلي قبيل النوى

والبعد منه ذلك الثغرا

I have not forgotten kissing him before sleep

And being far from that mouth

وبيننا من عطر أنفاسه

نشر نسيم عطر العطرا

And between us from the scent of his breath

The breeze spread the scent of perfume

والروض مخضر وأوراقه

قد حملت من طلها درا

While the meadow is green and its leaves

Carried pearls from its dew

وشملة الظلماء قد أسدلت

صيانة من دوننا سترا

And the cloak of darkness has been lowered

Shielding what is beyond us a veil

والزهر كالزهر وقد أصبحت

مجرّة الأفق لها نهرا

The flowers are like flowers and have become

The horizon for them a river

والبدر يحكي وجه من وجهه

بدر ندى يخجِّل البدرا

And the moon tells from its face

A full moon that shames the full moon

وجه عبيدالله ذاك الذي

إحسانه يستعبد الحُرا

The face of Ubaydullah is the one

Whose kindness enslaves the free man

ذاك الذي أصبح ثغر المنى

منا بما أولاه مفترا

The one who has become the mouth of wishes

Mocking us with what he has squandered

أقسمت بالبيت الذي يغتدي

زواره شعثَ سرى غبرا

I swear by the house that transgresses

Its disheveled visitors covered in dust

إن أمين الدين برًّ بمن

يسومه الإحسانَ والبِر ا

That Amin Al-Din is righteous to those

Who give him favor and righteousness

ثرى ترب المجد ذو راحة

إذا اعتفاها معدم أثرى

Soil that cultivates the soil of glory

If it enriches those who have no trace

أغر ما فرّ الغنى من يدي

راج إلى نائله فرّا

How strange is what the wealth escaped from my hands

Yearning for its obtainer to escape

ترى المنايا السود جندا له

إذا اغتدت بيض الظبي حمرا

You see death's black soldiers for him

When the antelope's whiteness turns red

وأروع تعرك أقلامه

بخطّها الخطيّة السمرا

And the most wondrous is the friction of his pens

With their typographic dark inscription

سترت أحوالي من جوده

ببحر جود يفضح البحرا

His generosity concealed my conditions

With an ocean of generosity that shames the ocean

أحبه الله فداك امرؤ

قد فركت راحته الوفرا

May Allah protect you man

Whose rest his generosity has made abundant

يواصل المعروف حبا له

ويهجر الفحشاء والهجرا

He upholds goodwill out of love for him

And abandons vulgarity and estrangement

يا شرف الإسلام يا منعما

حلى نداه عيشنا المرا

O honor of Islam, O comforter

Whose munificence sweetened our lives

عشت فكم أعربت من لبسة ال

إفلاس مضطرا ومعترا

I lived so how much I complained about a garment of

Distress, destitute and blameworthy

من يوم عبَّرت غدت مقلتي

ساهية ساهرة عبرى

Since the day I crossed over, my eyelids became

Forgetful, wakeful, tearful

ترعى لك الشعرى وحق لها

إذ كنت من يرعى لها الشعرا

They look after poetry for you, and that is right for them

When you were the one who looked after poetry

فمن لصب بأياديكم

يا ذا الأيادي مغرم مغري

So who was saturated by your hands

O you of hands, infatuated, infatuating

قد ضاع منه صبره واغتدى

صاع التنائي عنده كرّا

He lost his patience from him and transgressed

The measure of longing with him became ample

قد كان لا يصبر يوما فقد

صار يعد اليوم والشهرا

He used not to be patient a day, so he has

Become counting the day and month

يحب ان يقرأ من كتبكم

نيابة عن قربكم سطرا

He loves to read from your books

As a substitute for your nearness, a line

ويبصر الأثواب محمولة

عشرا إلى أبوابه عشرا

And to see clothes carried

Ten to his doors, ten

لا زلت تقري ضيف شعري الذي

بمثل إحسانكم يقرا

You still host the poetry guest who

With your kindness prospers