1. Wishes were that for me whiteness is dye
So youth is concealed as time makes hair grey

2. Nights beside the white one are tempting for me
Boasting which boasting with me is a disgrace

3. How can I blame today what I desired before
And complain of what I bemoan when I'm called

4. Beauty has vanished guiding every course
As sunlight's radiance is concealed by mist’s drape

5. A soul within me doesn't age with its aging
And if what's on the face from it is but a harbinger

6. It has a nail if no nail do I own
And a tooth if no tooth in my mouth remains

7. Time may change me but not it
And I reach my life's edge while it’s still potent

8. I'm a star, my company is guidance
When clouds obstruct the stars’ tablature

9. Independent of homelands, I'm not lured
To a land I traveled from without return

10. And not to blame maidens’ coquetry
Or they meet from me wrath and pain

11. I make do without water though I'm thirsty
And the sun up on peaks has ample shine

12. A secret part of me cannot be known
By a companion or revealed by wine

13. An hour with the cheek then we are parted
By desolation till we again entwine

14. Love but greed and craving
A heart exposing itself then anguish finds

15. Another heart for flirts is like an easy prey
And another waist for glass is soft and fine

16. We leave the canal's edges every wantonness
Remaining but to toy with them and pine

17. We turn it to stab atop chests
Wherein from it bits and pieces intertwine

18. Most precious place in the world is a rider’s saddle
And time’s best company is a book fine

19. A sea is Abu Musk the profound
Above all seas with surge and clouds high

20. Exceeding praise until it is as though
Critiqued when best praise of it is applied

21. And enemies overcame it then addressed it
As white swords overcame necks in battle's tide

22. Oft faced Abu Musk with humiliation
When naught but iron clothes one's form and pride

23. Broadness met him of chest and endurance
Stabbing, spearing, ahead swords collide

24. His rule, when ordained, most effective
Kings of earth from it rage and terror abide

25. Obedience of people to him led by his merit
Even lacking both gain and agony's guide

26. O you lion in body but pig in soul
And how many lions in souls are curs in hide

27. Taking your fair share of fortune
The like of you gets his right and is dignified

28. For us with time a right it obscures
Reproach has waned and blame became wide

29. Days may breed in you an aura
And eras rejuvenate which are debris

30. No king but you and kingship is surplus
As if you're a sword and it but a scabbard's side

31. My closeness grants me a eye serene
Though a closeness blemished with distance's tide

32. Does it benefit that veils lifted between us
When between what I hope from you a veil resides

33. I give you greetings of concealed love
And silence so no response can abide

34. In the soul needs, in you insight
My silence clarifies and words collide

35. I don't force love a bribe
Feeble in passion, to be swayed by a prize

36. I just wanted to show off my lover
That my view of passion for you is right

37. And tell a people who differed and gloated
I was victorious and they were contrite

38. Consensus was broken but in you alone
You're unique, a lion, while kings are parasites

39. And if you are weighed you are lions
Misread by a reciter who said but flies

40. While people's praise is truth and lies
Yours is truth without falseness inside

41. If I gain your affection wealth is easy
All above dust to dust is allied

42. Without you I'd be just an émigré
Each day a home and friend beside

43. But you make the world beloved to me
So, save to you from you there's no guide