1. Nights have passed while my heart bewildered, anxious
Like a boat in the river, the stars trouble its course

2. Or a traveler in a desert, thirsty
The journey made the camels tired and made him tired

3. I cannot attain what I love and seek
And I attain what my soul does not desire

4. I am surprised by one who said I forgot you
Who was in the heart, how could the heart forget them

5. If yesterday I did not descend to your dwellings
Then a bird perches with its wings folded

6. So no yearning brings it near to a river
Nor do its eyes roam in the meadow

7. It does not complain or cry fearing that
Its lamentations would hurt the one it loves

8. I wonder how we are deceived
By parables and metaphors from the truth

9. And if a man builds a palace and decorates it
We congratulate him and praise him

10. Yet he only built his palace to veil from
Our sights within its corners his sins

11. We praise a man for the quality of his clothes
Yet those clothes his hands did not weave

12. And if a brother of wealth rivals us
With scraps we hope for him and fear him

13. Yet gore may be fresh within his treasures
Blood we spilled or effort we spent

14. Think not glory what your eyes have seen
Or what you possessed, it is not might and fame

15. Wealth makes you owner of what you grasped in greed
So spend it in good and you will be its master

16. As long as your heart holds mercy for a brother
In need, then you are a man, in your heart is God