كحلَ العيونَ بمرودٍ مِن عسْجدِ

فيه الذوائِبُ واللَّمى كالإِثمد

With kohl of the eyes with smoothness of youth

In it the glances and the softness like blackness

فرأَى وعاينَ وجْهَه في جنَّةٍ

تُجلى فتَجلو نور عين الأَرْمَدِ

So he saw and examined his face in a paradise

Revealed so its light of the bright-eyed is revealed

ورأَى بها المشْتاقُ صفرةَ لونِه

مثلَ الخَلوقِ بقُبلةٍ في مسْجِد

And the lover saw in it the yellowness of his complexion

Like the polished with a kiss in a mosque

بأَبي وأُمِّي من يكونُ المكتِفي

بجماله لجماله كالْمُقْتَدِي

By my father and mother whoever is satisfied

With his beauty for his beauty like the guided

مستوحشٌ متفردٌ في حسنهِ

لا تعجبنَّ لوحْشَةِ المتَفَرِّدِ

Lonely unique in his beauty

Do not be surprised by the loneliness of the unique

وكأَنَّه من دلِّهِ وحيائِه

غيداءُ لكِن في شَمائِل أَغْيدِ

And it is as if from his hanging forelock and shyness

A young gazelle but in the traits of a young mountain goat

ومع الحياءِ يُريك عيْنَيْ ماردٍ

بالفَتْكِ لكنْ بيْن صُدْغَي أَمْردِ

And with the shyness he shows you the eyes of a resistant rebel

With killing but between cheeks of coral

ووراءَ نَدِّ الْخالِ في وجناتِه

ماءُ الجمال يجولُ في جمْرٍ نَدي

And behind the mole on his cheeks in his dimples

The water of beauty wandering in heated redness

وقَفَتْ صَبَابَاتِي بِبُرقَةِ مَبْسِمٍ

في فِيه لا صَحْبي بِبُرقَةِ ثَهْمَد

My youth stopped with the smile of a blossoming smile

In which there is no whiteness of withered old age

كم ليلة قد بات صدري مَلْعَباً

بالضَّمِّ يَعدو فيه ظَبْيُ بَني عَدِي

How many nights has my chest been a playground

With joining the gazelle of the sons of Adyan ran in it

وظَلِلْتُ فيه بشعره وجَبينِه

طوراً أَضِلُّ بِه وطَوْراً أَهْتَدي

And I shaded in it with his hair and forehead

Sometimes I am misguided by it and sometimes I am guided

جرَّدتُه لكن ذوائِبُ شَعْره

جَعَلَتْه إِذْ سَتَرتْه غيرَ مُجرَّدِ

I stripped him but the locks of his hair

Made him when they covered him stripped

وغدَتْ قلائِدُه تَعُوق عِناقَه

فنزَعْتُها عَنْه وبَاتَ مُقَلِّدي

And his necklaces prevented his embrace

So I took them off him and he spent the night wearing my jewelry

وسرقْتُ مِنه قُبلَةً في سُكْرِه

فسرقْتُ درّاً تحت قُفْلِ زَبَرْجَدِ

And I stole a kiss from him while he was drunk

So I stole a jewel under the lock of chrysolite

حيَّا الحَيا تِلكَ الجِباةَ وطِيبَها

وسَقَى العهودَ عهودَ ذَاك المعْهَدِ

Long live the living that army and its goodness

And he watered the covenants, covenants of the made covenant

وجزَى الإِلَهُ نَدَى الوزيرِ فإِنَّه

أَرْوى صدايَ بِه كَمَا أَغْنَى يَدِي

And may God reward the dew of the minister, for he

Quenched my thirst with it as he enriched my hand

مَنْ ذَا يُطيقُ سِوَى الإِلَهِ جَزَاءَه

عَنِّي على نِعَمٍ تَروحُ وتَغْتَدِي

Who can bear, besides God, rewarding him

About me for blessings that come and go

بيْنَا أَقولُ لعلَّها أَن تَنْتَهي

مِمَّا خَجِلْتُ بها أَراها تَبْتَدِي

While I say maybe it will end

What I was embarrassed by I see it starting

ذاك الكريمُ ابْنُ الكريمِ المُقْتَنِي

طيبَ الثَّناءٍ بطيبِ ذاكَ المَحْتَدِ

That generous son of the generous patron

Good praise with the goodness of the rightly guided ancestor

ورثَ المكارِمَ كابِراً عن كابرٍ

ورَوى السَّيَادَةَ سيِّداً عن سَيِّد

He inherited generosity growing from generous

And he quenched authority a lord from lord

فطِنٌ بِخَلاَّتِ الكرامِ يَزيُدُها

أَنَّ الفَطانَةَ مِلْكُ رِقِّ السُودَدِ

Clever in the traits of generosity he increases it

That cleverness is the possession of thin flexible branches

لبس الحُليَّ به العفاةُ لأَنَّه

تَهمِي غَمامَةُ كَفِّه بالْعَسْجَدِ

He wore the jewelry in which the destitute wore because it

His palm's cloud comes to him with smoothness

وكَفَى سُؤَالَ المُجْتَدِي بِنَوالهِ

وحَمَى فكُفَّ المُجْتَدِي والمُعْتَدِي

And his appendage sufficed asking the supplicant

And he protected so the appendage and the aggressor were restrained

فنوالُه جمعَ العُفَاةَ وبَأْسُه

قَدْ شَرَّد الأَعْدَاءَ كُلُّ مُشرَّدِ

So his appendage gathered the destitute and his might

Scattered the enemies each scattered

وإِذا نَظرتَ مِن العُفَاةِ لمصْفَدٍ

مِنه نظرتَ مِن الْعِدا لِمُصَفَّد

And if you looked from the destitute to a shackled one

From it you looked from the enemy to a chained one

دَسُت الوَزارَة ضَاءَ مِنْه بمشرقِ ال

وَجَنَاتِ وَضَّاحِ الجبين مُمجَدِ

The ministry he assumed shone from it with the rise of

Gardens and the illumination of the glowing forehead glorified

ومظفَّرُ العَزماتِ منْصورٌ على

الأَعداءِ مِقدِامُ الجَنانِ مؤيَّدِ

And the victorious of resolves victorious over

The enemies the bold of heavens supported

والفعلُ منه أَوحدٌ في حُسنه

ما أَوْحَد الأَفْعَال غيرُ الأَوْحَدِ

And the action from it alone in its beauty

None made actions more unique than the One

والضَّغْنَ يقتله بعفوِ تَغَمُّدِ

والفَقرَ يُعدِمه بقتلِ تَعَمُّدِ

And distress he kills with forgiving enveloping

And poverty he eliminates by killing deliberately

ويزينُ منه السحرَ عينُ محلِّلِ

يَسبي النُّهى في اللَّفظ غيرَ مُعَقَّدِ

And he adorns from it sorcery an analyzer's eye

That captures prohibition in speech unrestricted

مَلكَ الملوكَ برأْيهِ ورُوَائِه

فهمُ وقد عَبدوه مثلُ الأَعْبُد

He possessed the possession of kings with his opinion and integrity

So they while they worshipped him were like the most devout

وهمُ إِذا وَصَلوا إِليه تَراهمُ

من ركَّع تَجْثو لديه وسُجَّدِ

And they when they connected to him you see them

Bowing down kneeling prostrated to him

ليسَ اليراعُ بِكَفِّه وسُطورِه

إِلاَّ حبائِلَه لصيدِ الأَصْيد

The keeper is not with his palm and lines

Except its ropes to hunt the hunted

يُردِي أَعادِيَه بأَسْودِ نَقْشِه

أَوَما سمِعْت بنفْثِ سَمِّ الأُسْودِ

He hurls his enemies with the lions of its carving

Or haven't you heard the spitting of poison of aswad

وأفاك شهر الصوم يا أوفى الورى

أجراً بأيمن طائر وبأسعد

And farewell the month of fasting O most loyal of people

Reward with good omen bird and most fortunate

وافاكَ مُشتاقاً لما عَوَّدته

من قُربةٍ وتِلاوةٍ وتَهَجُّدِ

And farewell yearning for what you accustomed

Of nearness and reciting and night vigil

ما زلتَ فيه وفي سِواه صَائِماً

لله من لَهْوٍ يَشين ومَوْرِدِ

You have not ceased in it and in other than it fasting

For God from vanity that disgraces and lack of restraint

وأَنَا الَّذِي في كُلِّ يوم مِنْه لِي

عيدٌ فإِنِّي صَائِمٌ كمُعيِّد

And I am the one who for every day of it for me

A feast though I fast like one celebrating

عندي بأَنْعُمِكَ الَّتي آلاَؤُها

مَا أَن تَغِبَّ تَذَكُّرِي وتَفَقُّدِي

I have with your blessings which its favours

Do not disappear my remembrance and checking

كم نعمةٍ لك قد نعمتُ بقُربها

بعد الشَّقاءِ وكَمْ بذلِكَ مِنْ يَد

How many blessings for you I enjoyed nearness

After misery and how much with that of hand

يا ليتَ قوْمِي يعلمُون بأَنَّنِي

أَدْرَكْتُ من كَفَّيكَ أَقْصَى مَقْصِدي

O if only my people knew that I

Reached from your palms the furthest goal

ورقيتُ حتَّى لَمْ أَجِدْ مِنْ مُرْتَقىً

وصَعَدْتُ حَتَّى لم أَجِدْ مِنْ مَصْعَدِ

And I climbed until I could no find ascent

And I ascended until I did not find ladder

وجعلتُ رَحْلِي فَوْق ظهرِ المُشْتَري

ووضَعْتُ رجْلِي فَوق فَرْقِ الفَرْقَدِ

And I made my saddle above the Pleiades

And I placed my feet atop Aldebaran

أَنْسَيْتنِي أَهْلِي ومَرْتَعَ مَعْشَرِي

ومحطَّ رَاحِلِتي وموضِعَ مَوْلِدي

You made me forget my family and dwelling of my clan

And destination of my she-camel and place of birth

قَسَماً لقد أَسْلَى حُضورِي عندهُم

سَفَرِي وأَنْسانِي مَغِيبي مَشْهَدي

By God your presence made me forget

My travel and made me absent from my scene

كَم وُلَّهٍ حَزِنوا عَليَّ ولو دَرَوْا

حَالِي لسُرُّوا بَلْ لَصَاروا حُسَّدي

How much they grieved over me and if they knew

My state they would be happy nay they'd envy me

إِنَّي أُحِبُّكَ لا لأَنَّك مُسْعِفي

بالصَّالحات ولاَ ِلأَنَّك مُسْعِدي

I love you not because you give me

Righteous deeds nor because you make me prosperous

إِلاَّ لأَنَّك خيرُ مِنْ جَازَ العُلاَ

من مُتْهِمٍ في العالمين ومُنْجِدِ

Except that you are better than the most high

Of anyone accused in the worlds and granter

ولأَنَّ حُبَّك عقد كل محصَّلٍ

ولأَن وُدَّك فرْضُ كُلِّ مُوحِّد

And that your love knots every earner

And that your love is duty of every monotheist

وأَنا الطَّليقُ رجعتُ فيك مُقَّيداً

حبّاً ومَدْحي فيك غَيْرُ مُقَيَّدِ

And I am the released, I returned in you restricted

In love and my praise in you unrestricted

تفْنَى الأَنَامُ وما تَزالُ مُخَلَّداً

بِمَدائِحي وسِوَاكَ غيرُ مخلَّدِ

People will perish while you remain immortalized

By my praises and except you none are immortalized